by Jessie Schiewe | Mar 20, 2019 | Lifestyle, OK Whatever, Recent
A lymphoma survivor investigates disease scamming — a growing trend of faking health tragedies to rake in donations. OK Whatever Most people didn’t know that I had cancer. They didn’t know why I stopped going to school or why I was suddenly absent from basketball...
by Jessie Schiewe | Feb 28, 2019 | SF Weekly, Weird
SF Weekly It was the night of Valentine’s Day and I was sitting next to my boo at Oracle Arena watching the Grammy-nominated singer Charlie Wilson. Flanked by four back-up dancers in light-up L.E.D. suits, Wilson had just finished singing the song, “Charlie, Last Name...
by Jessie Schiewe | Nov 7, 2018 | Arts & Culture, Cover Stories, Music, News, SF Weekly
The story of how four friends turned a barbecue in Golden Gate Park into a dance music empire. SF Weekly (Cover story) I’m standing in the center of a party bus, clinging to a stripper pole. Deep, molecule-rearranging bass music vomits out of the speakers, drenching...
by Jessie Schiewe | Jul 9, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Favorites, SF Weekly
There’s just something about riding in a vintage Volkswagen van that makes taking a tour of San Francisco so appealing. SF Weekly A vintage Volkswagen van covered in psychedelic, S.F.-centric paintings idles on the corner of Jefferson and Hyde streets, its doors...
by Jessie Schiewe | May 22, 2017 | News, SF Weekly
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers recently sued nine venues around the country for playing members’ music without paying. The Grand Nightclub in San Francisco is one of them. SF Weekly We’re living in a golden age for live music....
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