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A quickie with the man behind ‘Let’s Blow San Francisco’
‘Scooter’ hopped into a phone booth (really) to discuss his 40-page script for a Daniel Lurie-themed porno and his ongoing difficulty finding his leading mayor
Jung people these days
Plumbing the depths of the Mission’s C.G. Jung Institute, where symbols are interpreted and archetypes are interrogated
Founders from Down Under
Hyped up by AI and their own big ambitions, waves of charmingly-accented Australians are making a splash in San Francisco
Into the Garryverse
Y Combinator president and CEO Garry Tan has spent years (and hundreds of thousands of dollars) spinning a web connecting tech, politics, and money, placing himself at the center
The joy and sadness of ‘Cookbooking’
Debbie Berne poured her whole self into her second book. After her death, it’s up to her loved ones to share it with the readers
It happened here: When the American Front marched on Haight Street
How a posse of neo-Nazis and hipsters in San Francisco helped create today’s right-wing troll army
The circle of life
San Francisco’s municipal green waste program brings consumers into the food production loop, one carrot shaving at a time
Among the bird nerds
Birders flock across the Bay Area in search of fleeting, feathery moments of grace
Season of the rich: A Q&A with Jonathan Weber
For his new book, the veteran journalist and editor reveals how technology shaped San Francisco — and vice versa — over the last three decades
Save the Mothers Building!
The slow race to rescue an historic landmark at the San Francisco Zoo before its WPA-era art is overtaken by the sands of time
Fatiguing fascism
The outrage over Greg Bovino’s ‘Nazi chic’ outfit in Minnesota ignores the reality that in a society of the spectacle, we’re all fighting for stage time
Brewster Kahle’s Memory Palace
In a time when everyone from the Trump administration to the companies serving up your daily doomscroll wants to erase the past, the Internet Archive refuses to forget
Unmade beds: Inside the RESET Center rollout
Mayor Lurie wants to put the fentanyl crisis to rest, but is the new RESET center the best way to do it?
Print is forever
As AI rises, the Bay Area is awash in a full-on print revival, from magazines to books to this website’s own quarterly paper
