“I consider pulling back the curtain on violence against women a strong feminist statement,” Doyle says. Artwork by Tess Powell. In her flash fiction collection, The Missing Girl, Jacqueline Doyle spotlights stories usually relegated to the back pages of newspapers. Her eight disturbing and vivid tales reveal the vulnerability of women to violence in our […]

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Decades of volunteer labor, advocacy, and efforts from local organizations have built today’s network of trail systems linking San Franciscans with their green spaces. Illustration by Shruti Sharma. When Bob Siegel moved to San Francisco some forty years ago, the Bay Area Ridge Trail through San Francisco was mostly mapped on city streets, because that […]

Daniel Burnham’s approach to city planning can help us recognize the potential of the Great Highway. Photograph by Kevin Hou. Perhaps the ghosts of Playland had gotten to me in those final moments before sunset.  Or maybe it was just the public-space possibilities of the Great Highway, expansive and clearly on display in every direction. […]

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Illustration by Amanda Legge The Rolling Stones, the English classic rock band, are named after the Muddy Waters single “Rollin’ Stone.” Belle and Sebastian, the Scottish indie-pop band, are named after a French novel by Cécile Aubry—“Belle et Sébastien.” Pass By Catastrophe, the Palo Alto–based indie-rock band, are named after an urban myth that holds […]