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.Connect
Making SF’s Cash Not Drugs program work will be a lot harder than its proponents want to admit
Last month, SF announced a plan to offer county welfare recipients $400 a month to stay off drugs. The city’s most vulnerable residents wonder if it’s really meant for them
How to leave behind a pop legacy, with Sabrina Carpenter and Grace Jones
A one-two punch at Outside Lands’ biggest stage left city reporter Eddie Kim daydreaming about the blueprint of pop timelessness
A country star for the country haters among us at Outside Lands
Alaska’s own Medium Build captures the heart of the underdog, right in the thick of an unprecedented showing of country music at Outside Lands
Glimpsing the future of pop music at Outside Lands
SF native underscore and ascendant DJ Knock2 went back-to-back at the east end of Outside Lands. They ought to be – and just might end up – the next big things in popular music
The rise of the rave sprouts
What a little clip-on decoration says about the legacy of dance music at Outside Lands
Dirty business: Janitors’ union locks in new contract, heading off strike fears for San Francisco office buildings
5,000 workers won gains, including a $6/hour raise spread out over the next 4 years
Plot twist: Brooke Jenkins is a ‘woke DA,’ according to a bunch of racists
Eddie Kim unpacks a Daily Mail headline on SF’s DA — and how nonsensical, and virulent, a culture war against Black people and the City can look
Abuse, disease, and near-slave labor: Protesters lash out at conditions in ICE detention centers
Activists crowded the sidewalk outside of San Francisco’s ICE office on Wednesday, calling for essential care and the end of privately-owned immigrant detention centers
Great Highway closure protests attract a Who’s Who of anti-woke culture warriors
San Francisco wants to turn a road into a park. Protesters against the plan have included January 6th insurrectionists, among other fringe right-wingers
San Francisco janitors are flooding downtown SF streets this week in fight for better wages, protections
Some members of SEIU Local 87 say they’ve been forced to work in sweltering heat when buildings turn off the AC at night