by Jessie Schiewe | Dec 7, 2024 | Cover Stories, News, SF Weekly, Weird
SF Weekly (part of the “Toilet Issue”) Ah, the bathroom: one of the most important, but least loved rooms in a house. We never stay in it for very long — the toilet website MaP Testing found that most people use the restroom six to eight times each day for...
by Jessie Schiewe | Dec 7, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Cover Stories, SF Weekly
SF Weekly (cover story) It’s an unusually warm Sunday in October, and half a dozen women mill around the Chabot Space and Science Center in East Oakland, in a room designed to look like a Mission Control. Dressed in black latex, metallic fabrics, and colorful wigs,...
by Jessie Schiewe | Apr 22, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Cover Stories, News, SF Weekly
The unlikely music factory at Pinole Valley High School SF Weekly (Cover Story) The lunch bell rings at Pinole Valley High School, and hordes of teenagers swarm out of squat, rectangular bungalows. Since the fall of 2013, Pinole Valley’s 1,200 students have...
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 | May 7, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Cover Stories, Favorites, News, Recent, SF Weekly
Three decades after its release, the 67-year old San Francisco musician’s debut album finally enters the limelight. SF Weekly (Cover Story) Doug Hream Blunt was watching TV in his first-floor, Visitacion Valley home when the phone rang. It was the middle of...
by Jessie Schiewe | Mar 18, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Cover Stories, News, SF Weekly
The history of San Francisco’s most iconic music venues SF Weekly (Cover Story) From techno warehouses to indie-rock taverns, San Francisco has no shortage of music venues. We’re especially lucky to have a few that are over a century old, having weathered fires,...
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