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As Hotels Recover, Workers Fear Being Left Behind
After more than a year of unemployment, Tina Yu was grateful to get back to work as a housekeeper at the Hilton Union Square in May. But upon returning to her job of 28 years, she discovered her...
View ArticleHUF’s San Francisco Homecoming
The opening of HUF’s new retail location at 968 Valencia Street isn’t just an opportunity to hawk streetwear. It’s a homecoming. “This is a huge, monumental thing, because this is our roots, and this...
View ArticleVaccine Refusal: The Ultimate Party Foul
On this week’s episode of the SF Weekly Podcast we chat with our newest columnist, Stuart Schuffman — better known to many as Broke-Ass Stuart — and we discuss what is quite clearly the biggest party...
View ArticleSFMTA to Test Battery-Electric Buses
Keep your ears peeled for a new timbre of whirring and moaning on the streets of San Francisco. Around town, you may start to see — and barely hear — a new breed of Muni bus, completely powered by...
View ArticleSafe Consumption Sites Are Gaining Momentum. How Would They Work?
Last week, when Gary McCoy embarked on a hunger strike calling on the city to start a safe consumption site program to reduce overdose deaths, he expected it to last eight to 10 days. Instead, his...
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Balancing the Scales of Justice
In the runup to the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd, prosecutors and defenders alike were extremely concerned with seating a jury....
View ArticleKing Dream: ‘Living Like a Teenager’
If you’ve been looking for Jeremy Lyon — better known by his stage name, King Dream — he’s in the North Bay. In his latest video, it shows: Not only is the song performed with Bodega Bay’s Rainbow...
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Slug of Atmosphere Picks Top 5 Bay Hip-Hop Jams
Though they hail from Minnesota — a locale to which they have remained true over the course of their two and a half decades in the game — hip-hop group Atmosphere, the duo of producer Anthony “Ant”...
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BOSF 2021 Editors’ Picks
Every year, SF Weekly asks readers to pick their favorite bars, clubs, venues, restaurants, people, places, and fiendish thingies. And every year, without fail, we know-it-all media elites feel the...
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Survivors, Farewells & New Beginnings
Pandemic year two is as good a time as any to take stock of where we’re at as a city — mourning the beloved businesses that we’ve lost, celebrating the old-timers that have stuck around, and getting...
View ArticleThe Best of San Francisco 2021
Welcome to the second Best of San Francisco of the pandemic era. If this feels a little abrupt, that’s because it is. We published our 2020 “Best Of S.F.” poll in December, instead of May, as we would...
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Bay Area Celebrates Black Restaurant Week
Over the course of the pandemic, Dov Sims and his staff at Cali Alley in Berkeley “have been through all the motions, from popular to scared.” After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars during the...
View ArticleExit, Pursued by COVID-19
Like many Bay Area theater companies, PianoFight rode out the pandemic in a state of uncertainty. When the city’s mid-2021 vaccination rates were high enough that San Francisco was predicted to be...
View ArticleThe Bay Bridged to Close in October
Longtime San Francisco music blog and nonprofit The Bay Bridged announced last week that it will cease operations Oct. 1. “From the bottom of our hearts, thank you all for listening along with us and...
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Why Are There So Many Recalls in California?
There’s a virus spreading throughout California. It began by infecting mostly Republicans, but it’s quickly taking hold among the general population. People are especially susceptible when they’re...
View ArticleThe Great Resignation
For Jaryd Gallant, the pandemic was the push he needed to leave the restaurant and bar industry, nearly two decades after he first started washing dishes and bussing tables at the age of 12. The...
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An Ode to Oakland
From our current historical vantage, it’s easy to imagine that the cities of the Bay Area have always looked and functioned more or less the same. Buildings, streets, freeways and transit lines can...
View ArticleThe Eternal Sunshine of a Cluttered Mind
The Japanese poet Bashō once wrote that “the journey itself is home,” meaning that one’s destination is not some terminal point but wherever we find ourselves, both physically and metaphysically. San...
View ArticleCombo Chimbita: The Music Tells the Stories
It was five years ago when the four Colombia-born members of Combo Chimbita released their debut EP, El Corredor del Jaguar. At the time — and for a couple of years to follow — the group made a point...
View ArticleTake the Pleasure Back
Imagine a Black man. He is kneeling, hands bound behind his back, face wet with tears. He’s not to speak unless spoken to. His chest is scratched, bruised, and sore. A bottle of water has been poured...
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