The martini has always been iconic. As the legend goes, in the late 1800s, a miner traded fistfuls of gold for the gin-and-vermouth cocktail made by Jerry Thomas, the father of American mixology at...
Sitting in an advisor’s office, looking over your degree progress report — it’s hard to ignore the perpetual anxiety of uncertainty. A missing credit or taking the wrong classes can set a student...
By 8:30 a.m., Mason Zimmerman has already placed his faith in two things: a banana and the fragile promise that today, somehow, the city won’t kill him.
He rolls out of Embarcadero Station in a...
A new pair of boots. A trending jacket. A late-night online order that promises personal reinvention with two-day shipping. Overconsumption feeds on the quick emotional reward of something new which mirrors...
On a rainy morning in a sleepy part of the Oakland hills, Dave Hodges, founder and pastor of Zide Door — an Oakland-based church of entheogenic plants — sits in the living room of what he calls the...
Wearing thick polarized sunglasses and a “guess who has a boner” shirt, Jimmy Sundays stood in his room as America’s next success story, building generational wealth and having fun doing it.
“I...
Playing violin in front of a sold-out-crowd and flying thousands of miles in the sky to capture the perfect photo — there may not be two more differing jobs to have. But for SF State music professor...
Students occupying SF State’s administration building, new departments emerging and tuition being “essentially free” — this was SF State’s reality in 1968 during the height of the flower-power...
On any given night in San Francisco, the inviting atmosphere of independently owned venues provides locals the space to come together, listen to music and enjoy community. At Bottom of the Hill, a live...
Drinks that could be mistaken for cocktails, conversations that circle the room and a night that stretches on — just without alcohol. Across San Francisco, Gen Zers are gathering in spaces built around...
Before Safariii Camp was founded in 2023, finding an affordable space for Adeeb Haidari to make art meant constant uncertainty. Haidari was working full time while trying to fit photography into his schedule...
