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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.

Neighbors dealing with a spike in Richmond District garage burglaries turn to a simple solution from small-town Kansas

When Kansan Liz Shepherd started selling garage door latch shields, she never guessed San Francisco would become her biggest market

July 19, 2024

The City’s most ‘Bomb-Azz’ tacos are sold from a Mission District garage

Luis Gutierrez is the latest in a dynasty of Mexican restaurant proprietors to discover the joy of feeding people

July 12, 2024

Gaming the system: Ranked choice voting has become a tool for the city’s most powerful political groups

TogetherSF and Neighbors for a Better San Francisco are teaching voters how to kill Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s odds of a surprise win.

July 9, 2024

Disgruntled parents criticize SFUSD’s ‘broken’ process for choosing which schools to close

Language barriers, fear of racial disparities have marred community outreach efforts, but district is pushing to move forward

June 21, 2024

Can Hulu Wa break the Castro’s retail curse?

Family-owned Chinese bistro struggling despite great food, in storefront that’s seen high turnover

June 14, 2024

Mayoral debate was a scripted snoozefest except for these few funny moments

Breed battles protestors, Farrell’s Market Street delusions, Peskin’s favorite bar… we watched the live stream so you don’t have to!

June 13, 2024

District 3 supervisor candidate steps out of race after domestic violence accusation 

JConr B. Ortega, an activist and well-known gadfly at city meetings, was running on a platform of supporting businesses and cleaning up the city through law and order

June 10, 2024

Lawsuit against Urban Alchemy alleges assault, sexual harassment, drug dealing in Sausalito

Complaint says employees were involved in meth sales and sexual exploitation of unhoused women

June 6, 2024

Garry Tan’s mudslinging against SFMTA Chief Tumlin is a bizarre battle over the ‘tech singularity’

One of SF’s loudest activists is trying to get Tumlin fired, but it’s bigger than cars, buses and trains — he’s talking “deceleration,” e/acc, and the paranoid fight for human evolution

May 31, 2024

Campus anti-war encampments may have birthed a new generation of Bay Area activists

The tents are down and negotiations are on pause, but these student protesters say the pro-Palestine encampments have had a profound impact on their beliefs, tactics, and ambitions

May 24, 2024