New Surfboard Design Faces Uphill Battle in SF
San Francisco’s lust for design innovation stops with its surfers. That’s unfortunate since Thomas Meyerhoffer, a San Francisco-area surfer and inventor, has designed a surfboard...
View ArticleMaker Faire: More Than Meets The Playa-Jaded Eye
“WE’RE DOOMED” reads the user pic for Live Journaler mrneutrongodeon. And in an attitude befitting his avatar, he skewered this year’s Maker Faire for having...
View ArticleVideo: Will San Francisco’s Bison Herd Survive The Recession?
San Francisco’s aging bison herd is threatened with extinction. Only five remain after one of the pack was euthanized in April due to disease and...
View ArticleVideo: Owe The City Money? Working It Off May Be Harder Than You Think
In some counties, citizens who can’t pay off the debts they owe their city end up in county jail. San Francisco’s Superior Court, however, has...
View ArticleVideo: Chinatown Residents Fight Off Eviction
Seventeen Chinese American families who won a pitched battle in June with their landlord, San Francisco City College, to remain in their apartment building was...
View ArticleSFJFF Video: Rachel
As reported by the JTA, the atmosphere at Thursday’s SFJFF screening of controversial documentary “Rachel” was an emotionally charged affair. The story of Rachel Corrie,...
View ArticleVideo: SF Veterans Feel Slighted By Poor Parade Turnout
Year after year after year, I’ve watched as people replace the three magic words with various saccharine substitutes: “Support the troops. Bring them home”, “dissent...
View ArticleBay Area News Project Editor’s Meet And Greet: The New Breadline
When Jonathan Weber took the job of editor-in-chief of the Bay Area News Project a few weeks ago, 200 resumes lay waiting for him. I’m...
View ArticleNew Tool Could Enable California’s Journalists To Report Better Than Ever —...
Despite the many innovations of San Francisco 2010, a lot of public data is still hard to access, siloed within individual city departments and time-consuming...
View ArticleVideo: The Battle For An Accurate Census In SF
The census may be, on any given day, the best way to compare huge swaths of society – say, blacks to whites, Oakland’s population to...
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