Mike & Goran met on Grindr. A few weeks later, fate complicated their relationship. How is living together after less than a month going?

In describing Grammy-winning recording artist and activist Melissa Etheridge as a "Lesbian Rock Goddess," it's a title she likes. "That's perfect!" she replied. "But, I think people would be surprised to know I am just a girl from the Midwest."

San Francisco’s trash cans have problems. From debris littering the streets around them, to the — more often than not — broken recycling compartments, these green garbage receptacles are past their intended life span. In 2022, San Francisco is nearing the end of a years-long replacement process designed (in part) to clean up San Francisco’s streets, and years of corruption.

In a small church a few blocks away from the Castro — during the height of the AIDS epidemic — a much lesser-known activist was fighting to provide comfort to a dying congregation of LGBTQIA Christians.

I really didn’t intend to steal from BART. I’m car-less—like many Bay Area residents—and I am a big supporter of San Francisco’s great public transit system(s). I could have waited for an agent I suppose, but I would have certainly missed my train and my Mother was waiting for me at the airport.

If you’ve driven around San Francisco recently, you may have noticed a fleet of white Jaguar SUVs with spinning gadgetry on top and lots of other tech sticking off the back and sides. If you pull up next to one of these, you might notice that even though a person is sitting in the driver’s seat, they aren’t really controlling the car.

After not opening at all in 2020, California’s Great America and it’s employees are back. For KALW’s series At Work, Christopher Beale talks to someone on the safety team, whose experiences during the pandemic changed her perspective on work.

There have been a few trolls on the bridge over the years, but the legend of the first Bay Bridge troll begins in 1989.

His congregation, many of them healthy young men, were dying from a terrible disease. There was no cure, there still isn’t. One thing helped with the pain, marijuana, but it was illegal. The true story of how a San Francisco pastor changed the definition of “communion,” and committed felonies to comfort his flock.

It was my honor and privilege to produce a" “voxpop” for Snap Judgment.

Meet Rae, a gender non-binary person who has learned to treat coming out as a process the length of a lifetime. Plus, Chris shares how he got caught in the act and forced out of the closet in high school.

Meet Bambina, a trans wrestler making her way in the Bay Area independent wrestling scene.

The first week of March 2020 was the last “normal” week here in San Francisco and much of the world. It will go down in history as one of those “remember where you were?” moments, like 9/11 or the Kennedy assassination. The Saturday night before the region-wide shelter-in-place orders, my boyfriend Reagan and I stayed up later than usual. My best friend Todd invited us out to dance at The Stud, San Francisco’s oldest and arguably most iconic queer bar.

Here is a throwback to an earlier era some of you may remember. For decades there was a phone service in Northern California that would read you the time and date if you dialed POP-CORN, the letters that represented 767-2676.

How did this region become famous for wine? The temperate Mediterranean climate would be good for growing all types of crops. How did wine come to dominate here?

I spent 20 years as a commercial radio personality, this is my final demo from that chapter of my career.

There are so many bay windows in San Francisco, Oakland and other cities around the Bay Area, it would be easy to assume they were invented here.

But were they?