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A Plane Crashed While Trying to Land at SFO Airport
At 11:27 Saturday morning, Asiana Airlines flight 214 coming out of Seoul, South Korea, crashed during its landing at San Francisco International Airport.
Recognizing Your Ex-Girlfriend in Porn
Sex is arguably the most intimate physical act. Seeing a woman I once loved plunge her hands inside another woman inverted that intimacy, making it alienating and public.
The Unhealthiest Restaurant in San Francisco
Deep in the health-conscious heart of San Francisco stands a monument to the inner fat kid we abandoned to go live in the Bay called Butter. Known to the gentrified locals as “two turntables and a microwave," since 1999, it has a sticky, faded menu...
Hit Me Baby One More Time
Six years ago today, I was hit by a car while walking across the intersection of Sunset and Yorba in San Francisco. Since then, I’ve had six surgeries, one skin graft, a three-week hospital stay, four casts, approximately 6,000 painkillers, and a...
Social Work in the Tenderloin Will Kill Something Inside of You
My friend Lorian is a social worker in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, a neighborhood containing seven of the ten most violent crime plots in the city. Homelessness, public drug use, and prostitution are said to be as common there as the liquor stores and...
Oscar Santos Is All About the Surface
The San Francisco-based photographer Oscar Santos isn't interested in photography in classical terms. To him, it's all about surface and light. So basically, he just likes taking photos of hot women doing drugs.
Jason Nocito Has a Distant Lover
Our bearded photographer-genius friend's new series, entitled "I Heart Transylvania,"shows how great it is to love someone and how much it sucks when he or she lives far away.
Kicking and Screening
Soccer is back, football is boring, hockey is staring a labor dispute in the eye, and some baseball player who was busted for testosterone made a fake website so everyone would think that the banned substance he took was some sort of supplement he...
Hey, SF - There’s a Thing Happening
You would have to be some sort of brain-dead maroon to miss the opening of Sandy Kim's new solo show.
Our House
The view of the San Francisco Bay from at the top of a 100-foot coastal redwood is just as panoramic as, say, that from a high-rise apartment in the city's posh neighborhood of Russian Hill.
Erotic Fiction, Puritan Censorship And Gynaecological Detail
Jack Fritscher, the award-winning author of hundreds of stories and articles and 20 books, is about as informed as anyone on the history of erotic fiction, its importance, and the state of erotic publishing today.