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Snooping Around Nicolas Cage’s San Francisco House
Could I learn more about my favorite actor by poking around his old Victorian mansion? OK Whatever I know a lot about Nicolas Cage. I know, for example, that he has a fondness for flamboyant jackets. He’s worn zebra-striped blazers on dinner dates and gold leather...
The Drug That Makes You Spend All Your Money
Abilify treats depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, but it can also lead to compulsive gambling, shopping, eating, and sex. OK Whatever Last week, Fareed Khalil* bought a figurine for $150. The week before that,...
It Costs A Lot to Own A (Kind of Terrible) Britney Spears Painting
How Robin Leach, for the sake of charity, spent more than he expected on art his granddaughter could have made. OK Whatever Britney Spears is painting on the veranda of a very large, ivy-covered house. Grecian columns and a tiered fountain buttressed with hedges loom...
“They Put My Face On Sex Toy Batteries”
How modeling photos a Canadian woman took as a teen have continuously popped up in unexpected places over the last 15 years. OK Whatever “Shhh. Don’t tell anyone. This is our little secret.” That’s what the image of Lauren Gulyas seems to be saying, her pointer finger...
Why Would You Fake Having Cancer?
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...
I Was Talking With a Ghost
What’s it like hunting for spirits in a 134-year-old Victorian house. OK Whatever It’s almost 10 p.m. on a Saturday night and I’m sitting in pitch-black darkness inside a Victorian house in East Oakland. There’re about 15 other people here — each of whom paid the...
The Rise and Fall of Snortable Chocolate
Coco Loko was poised to become the next fad, but then the FDA intervened and it’s since disappeared from the internet. OK Whatever When Legal Lean started selling a snortable chocolate called Coco Loko in 2017, it made sense. The three-year-old Orlando,...
Going to a Witch Dance on Halloween
How a sect of politically active, feminist neopagans try to make the world a better place, one night a year. OK Whatever The setting was incongruous. They were in a midcentury auditorium in Richmond, California, with wooden flip-up seats and the faded lines of an old...
Feeding S.F.’s “Heart-Smart,” Low-Sodium Foodies
Planning daily meals for hundreds of seniors is no easy task. SF Weekly It’s lunchtime at Rhoda Goldman Plaza, an assisted living community in Pacific Heights, and the 45-table dining room is in full swing. Uniformed and name-tagged waiters zig-zag around the L-shaped...
Throwback on Wheels
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 wide...
The Music Industry Hates Trump
A look at the myriad of songs that have been released since the Commander-in-Chief entered the picture. SF Weekly Los Angeles rappers YG and Nipsey Hussle spearheaded the trend of anti-Trump songs when they released their boom-bap track “Fuck Donald Trump” in March...
Grooving With Rockin’ Jim
For more than four decades, the KPOO DJ has been spinning '50s and '60s tunes on nighttime radio. SF Weekly It’s a little before 8:30 p.m. on a Monday night, and Jim Rigsbee is sitting in the studio at public radio station KPOO, shuffling through a stack of CDs and...