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Eddie Kim

Eddie Kim reports on San Francisco news — including politics, crime, commerce, social conflict, and everything in between.

He was a longtime features writer at the critically acclaimed men’s magazine Mel, and has contributed to major publications including Vice, Slate, The Guardian and Paste Magazine. He began his career doing hyperlocal journalism at L.A. Downtown News, where he won multiple awards from the L.A. Press Club and California News Publishers Association.

Sideshow showdown by SFPD traps 200-plus drivers at Pier 30

Videos posted online depict a unique operation to crack down on reckless drivers next to Oracle Park

May 15, 2025

Another year, another Portola Festival ticketing disaster

Event promoter Goldenvoice gave diehard fans a collective heart attack on Wednesday with its glitched-out presale. What gives?

May 14, 2025

Scott Wiener is embroiled in (another) false controversy over sex crime legislation

A trio of bills under debate has inspired a storm of trolls and conservative opponents spreading absurd untruths and dangerous rhetoric

May 13, 2025

City’s controversial window-replacement policy finally gets a change

Changing old windows and frames to newer, more eco-friendly options used to be a giant pain. After years and years of complaints, City Planning debuted its new policy this week

May 9, 2025

Charlie Kirk’s right-wing takeover of SF left me so, so bored

The Christian nationalist pundit brought out a nominal fandom at San Francisco State University on Tuesday. Turns out, fascism creep feels a lot like a shitty debate club

May 7, 2025

Footage from a Tenderloin nonprofit shows potential abuse of an unhoused person

CCTV footage shows a worker at a GLIDE facility harassing a sleeping figure in 2024, and the organization won’t answer our questions about what happened

May 1, 2025

The biggest perps in the Embarcadero are dogs at the Ferry Building

The facility has an explicit policy prohibiting dogs, but lawlessness reigns supreme. Here's our investigation

April 29, 2025

Up all night in the Tenderloin

We spent a full night in San Francisco’s alleged heart of crime and misery, and lived to tell this epic saga of the streets

April 25, 2025

Mr. Tan goes to Washington… and the battle over ‘Little Tech’ is heating up

Silicon Valley leaders, regulators, and elected officials came together earlier this month to debate the future of small startups, but the issue is more divisive than it seems

April 17, 2025

No one really knows what the huge police RV at 16th and Mission is being used for 

The mobile command center’s influence on shifting street conditions is unclear — and SFPD won’t tell us how much it costs to run

April 14, 2025