Q+A with Maira Kalman
In honor of Presidents’ Day, check out this Q+A with Maira Kalman, illustrator, contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker, and, most importantly, staunch lover of Abe Lincoln. As someone...
View Article8: Marriage Equality Goes to Hollywood
On Election Day 2008, I found myself on Divisadero Street in the middle of a spontaneous mob scene celebrating Obama’s victory. Sloppy grins poured out of every doorway and hung out of every window....
View Article7 Songs You Don’t Know You Love (Spring Fling Edition)
Weeding through all the new music out there can be a harrowing, not to mention time-consuming, process. Luckily for you, I’ve compiled a handy list of all the songs you don’t know you already love....
View ArticleThe Creators Project: Art and Technology Go Steady
I usually have plans on Saturdays. Maybe a boozy brunch, some quality time with my cats, or napping much of the day away next to a plate of Pop Tarts while a Winona Ryder movie I’ve seen way too many...
View ArticleKaraoke Survival Guide: 10 Commandments
There are certain things in life you can’t control: growing old, embarrassing yourself at holiday parties, kissing all the wrong people, ordering three éclairs at Tartine and pretending that two are...
View Article7 Songs You Don’t Know You Love (Suddenly Summer Edition)
Weeding through all the new music out there can be a harrowing, not to mention time-consuming, process. Luckily for you, I’ve compiled a handy list of all the songs you don’t know you already love....
View ArticleFrameline Festival 36 Preview
If the ubiquitous rainbow flags didn’t tip you off, it’s officially the month of the gays. And with that comes Frameline, San Francisco’s 36th Annual International LGBT Film Festival. For eleven whole...
View ArticleThe Best of Nora Ephron
Late afternoon yesterday, I read somewhere that Nora Ephron was gravely ill. So the obvious thing to do was stock up on enough Mexican food, Kit-Kat bars, and whiskey for at least three people; set up...
View ArticleBreakup Survival Guide: 15 Songs for the Brokenhearted
Certain things in life are inevitable. Buying a box of girl scout cookies to share, but accidentally eating all of them by yourself. Hitting the open bar at your cousin’s wedding a smidge too hard....
View Article7 Songs You Don’t Know You Love (Back 2 School Edition)
Weeding through all the new music out there can be a time-consuming process. Luckily for you, I’ve compiled a handy list of all the songs you don’t know you already love. CAT POWER: RUIN There are...
View ArticleVideo Exclusive: An Interview with Lauren Conrad
Reality superstar Lauren Conrad, best known as the heroine of The Hills and the best friend in your head, is proving her haters wrong with an ever-expanding empire. We caught up with her at a Books...
View ArticleBuilding Stories: Chris Ware’s Antidote to Our Distracted Times
Did you hear that, according to a disappeared tribe who knew a thing or two about a solid cliffhanger, the world is totally going to end in a few weeks? As cinematic as all of us waiting to be...
View ArticleThe Very Best Music Videos of 2012
MTV might have ditched music videos for sloppy tan people long ago, but that doesn’t mean the medium is dead! Far from it actually. 2012 was a great year for music and that carried over to its visual...
View ArticleYouth Literacy Nonprofit 826 Valencia Expands into Tenderloin
826 Valencia is expanding. The Mission district-based literacy nonprofit, which has promoted creative writing in students ages 6 to 18 for the past 13 years, secured a 15-year lease in the Tenderloin,...
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