UPDATE (8/17/2020, 5:05 p.m.) — .UPDATE (8/11/2020, 7 p.m.) — After speaking with the organizer behind the Floating Boat Cinema, who insisted the event is “in the pipeline,” we felt obliged to add the word “Probably” to this headline. A longer story is still forthcoming.After learning about a potential plot to gather contact information from an report, we’ve retracted our previous article about “floating cinemas,” which were (supposedly) set to take place in the Bay Area this September.Based upon our research it seems highly likely that the event was never going to happen. We are...…UPDATE (8/17/2020, 5:05 p.m.) — .UPDATE (8/11/2020, 7 p.m.) — After speaking with the organizer behind the Floating Boat Cinema, who insisted the event is “in the pipeline,” we felt obliged to add the word “Probably” to this headline. A longer story is still forthcoming.After learning about a potential plot to gather contact information from an report, we’ve retracted our previous article about “floating cinemas,” which were (supposedly) set to take place in the Bay Area this September.Based upon our research it seems highly likely that the event was never going to happen. We are...WW…

When Mira Manickam-Shirley got a job as a naturalist in the Marin headlands, she found herself living by the beach for the first time in her life, and she wanted to learn how to surf.She remembers a running bit she had with one of her first surf buddies there. “He was always like, ‘Yeah, just look for me, the blonde dude in the water.’ The joke was like, everyone’s a blonde dude.”But in Manickham-Shirley’s experience, it is a joke that rings true. She’s always been one of the only women and people of color in the lineup — where surfers wait for breaking waves.The stereotype is somewhat...…When Mira Manickam-Shirley got a job as a naturalist in the Marin headlands, she found herself living by the beach for the first time in her life, and she wanted to learn how to surf.She remembers a running bit she had with one of her first surf buddies there. “He was always like, ‘Yeah, just look for me, the blonde dude in the water.’ The joke was like, everyone’s a blonde dude.”But in Manickham-Shirley’s experience, it is a joke that rings true. She’s always been one of the only women and people of color in the lineup — where surfers wait for breaking waves.The stereotype is somewhat...WW…

When COVID-19 shut down restaurants across the nation last March, Bamboo Asia co-operators Hannah Wagner and Sebastiaan Van De Rijt were faced with a difficult decision.Prior to the pandemic, the husband-and-wife duo had sworn off third-party delivery apps like DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats at all four of their Bay Area locations. In an industry where the average profit margin is, it simply didn’t make sense to work with services that charge a on every order.But when take-out and delivery became the de facto business model, Wagner and Van De Rijt knew they only had two options: Partner...…When COVID-19 shut down restaurants across the nation last March, Bamboo Asia co-operators Hannah Wagner and Sebastiaan Van De Rijt were faced with a difficult decision.Prior to the pandemic, the husband-and-wife duo had sworn off third-party delivery apps like DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats at all four of their Bay Area locations. In an industry where the average profit margin is, it simply didn’t make sense to work with services that charge a on every order.But when take-out and delivery became the de facto business model, Wagner and Van De Rijt knew they only had two options: Partner...WW…

People are leaving San Francisco. Since the onset of the pandemic, which has significantly diminished so many of the amenities that have long convinced renters to pay top dollar for comparatively small living spaces, this flight has been observed in the many moving trucks criss-crossing the city. It has also been borne out in the falling median price of one- and two-bedroom apartments — both of which are going for than what they commanded a year ago. Now another metric underscores the trend.According to United States Postal Service data obtained by , change-of-address requests originating...…People are leaving San Francisco. Since the onset of the pandemic, which has significantly diminished so many of the amenities that have long convinced renters to pay top dollar for comparatively small living spaces, this flight has been observed in the many moving trucks criss-crossing the city. It has also been borne out in the falling median price of one- and two-bedroom apartments — both of which are going for than what they commanded a year ago. Now another metric underscores the trend.According to United States Postal Service data obtained by , change-of-address requests originating...WW…

Gay bathhouses could have an easier time returning to San Francisco, after the board of supervisors approved an ordinance that would ease restrictions for adult sex venues on July 21 with a unaminous vote.This will amend the Heath Code, requiring the Director of Health to “adopt minimum health and safety standards” for commercial adult sex venues. It will also remove decades-old policies that required these businesses to monitor sexual activities and prohibited private rooms and locked doors.These regulations were put in place , when the AIDS crisis was devastating gay communities in San...…Gay bathhouses could have an easier time returning to San Francisco, after the board of supervisors approved an ordinance that would ease restrictions for adult sex venues on July 21 with a unaminous vote.This will amend the Heath Code, requiring the Director of Health to “adopt minimum health and safety standards” for commercial adult sex venues. It will also remove decades-old policies that required these businesses to monitor sexual activities and prohibited private rooms and locked doors.These regulations were put in place , when the AIDS crisis was devastating gay communities in San...WW…