Illustration by Karen Chan by Steven Kakowski “Voyeurs” is an excerpt selected and edited by Kakowski, from his short story “Feral.” I first spotted them on a warm, early spring day while I was eating a sandwich on a veranda of a building in the Financial District. She was wearing an off-white dress that billowed […]
Illustration by Amanda Legge San Francisco is a city rich with natural beauty, significant history, and LIES. Sure, everyone likes to have a few “fun facts” up their sleeve, but if you believe everything you hear, it’s only a matter of time before you’re at a work dinner telling your boss’s husband about how if […]
Illustration by Amanda Legge I’m waiting in line to get some eggs and coffee at a cafe in the Mission. It’s one of those younger businesses on the outskirts of gentrification, the forward guard. The line stretches far out the door, but it moves fast. Nevertheless, I overhear fifteen minutes of a strained conversation between […]
As a resident of the Richmond district in San Francisco, I’d be an idiot not to embrace the Asian flavors around me. My neighborhood faves include Dim Sum, Sundubu-jjigae (soft tofu soup), Tea Leaf Salad, and banh mi. In spite of San Francisco’s vast vegetarian and plant-based population, it can be difficult to eat adventurously, […]
Photograph by John Cuniberti Hyde Street, near Turk, looks like most Tenderloin blocks. Old market on the corner, a Chinese restaurant. Grit, noise, smells, but a little better than it used to be. Unless you look at the ground, you wouldn’t know 245 Hyde Street was anything special. If you do look down, at the […]
Photograph by Diaspora Arts Connection Listen to the curated playlist that accompanies this piece to hear the women of Let Her Sing. “In some ways, it’s the most natural, most legitimate thing, for a woman to sing for her child. And some countries will take the voice of a woman away,” Nazy Kaviani told me. […]
The San Franciscan is a fiercely independent magazine that celebrates the diverse subcultures of San Francisco and the Bay Area through humor and criticism, but always with utmost sincerity and pride. The covers below represent designer Amanda Legge’s visual concept for a year of monthly issues of The San Franciscan. Our full inaugural print issue […]
Getting a physical copy of our first issue is the only way to see it all. Amanda Legge, the creator and publisher of The San Franciscan, holding a copy of the Summer 2019 issue (limited edition). The publication includes work from 22 extremely talented creatives, including 13 writers, 6 artists, and 3 photographers. The magazines […]
We are always looking for good people (talented writers, first-rate artists, meticulous proof-readers, and punctilious fact-checkers) and, of course, good stories. Hit us up at [email protected] if you have an idea for a story or want to contribute to the next issue! Full transparency: We don’t have the resources to compensate contributors right now, but […]
My job as an editor is to peel back layers of skin, to remove dead tissue—to do no harm, but to ensure that the heart of a piece beats right on the surface of the page. And so I wonder about San Francisco—if we peel back the layers, if we turn the city inside out: […]
Photo by Maddy Fraioli As a resident of the Richmond district in San Francisco, I’d be an idiot not to embrace the Asian flavors around me. My neighborhood faves include Dim Sum, Sundubu-jjigae (soft tofu soup), Tea Leaf Salad, and banh mi. In spite of San Francisco’s vast vegetarian and plant-based population, it can be […]
We are always looking for good people (talented writers, first-rate artists, meticulous proof-readers, and punctilious fact-checkers) and, of course, good stories. Hit us up at [email protected] if you have an idea for a story or want to contribute to the next issue! Full transparency: We don’t have the resources to compensate contributors right now, but […]