Katy Atchison
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Oakland, CA, United States
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Massive Layoffs Pummle Tech Companies As The Storm Rages
This past week was an absolute bonkers way to enter into the new year. The wackadoodle vote to find a leader for The House of Representatives could have been enough craziness in the news but we were graced with added bonuses. Additional layoffs were announced by tech giants with close → Read More
People Who Hate The Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge is iconic. It’s a legend, a thing of beauty, the star of the show, a marvel, and everything in between. When I lived in Boston for a short period of time for college, I would come home from college and swoon every time I’d see that → Read More
Discover The Building With a Kaleidoscope Roof: Vertical Panorama
Let your thoughts drift away in this newly built kaleidoscope of a building tucked away in Sonoma. If you’ve been in the one-way color tunnel integrated into the bridge within SFMOMA, you’ve experienced the beautiful art installations created by Berlin-based artist Olafur Eliasson. Another one of his gorgeous installations is → Read More
Artist You Should Know: Simply Antarctica
Every Summer and Winter, Keri Nelson travels from her home in San Francisco all the way back to Antarctica (also known as “The Ice”) to work at a United State research base, Palmer Station, on the Antarctic peninsula. Her husband, Alex, stays behind to work his tech job and watch → Read More
Who Will Win? The Farmer’s Market vs. The Elite High School
This week, a private battle between Outer Sunset Farmers Market & Mercantile (OSFMM) and a private high school, St. Ignatius College Preparatory(SI), became very public via a letter published online by OSFMM. The permit for The Sunset’s popular and well-trafficked farmer’s market will expire on August 13th and, while the → Read More
70,000 Truckers in Legal Limbo: Protest Planned
On Monday July 18th, local truckers plan to protest a recent Supreme Court decision that impacts over 70,000 truckers who operate within California. Last month, on June 30th, The Supreme Court denied The California Trucking Association’s petition for a hearing over the state’s Assembly Bill 5 (commonly known as AB5). → Read More
This Oakland Chef is Rewriting What American Food is
Geoff Davis is challenging our idea of what we think American Food is with his new restaurant Burdell; featuring modern soul food. Davis has been in the industry for over 15 years and has worked for many high-end restaurants such as Aqua, Fifth Floor, Cyrus in Healdsburg, and was the → Read More
Most Significant Overturning of Rights in Our Lives
After 50 years, abortion rights have been taken away. The Supreme Court has overturned Roe vs. Wade in a decision that has rocked the nation today. Protests are already underway in many cities and you can expect that there will definitely be some today in The Bay as well. Organizers → Read More
Can You Afford a Shack in The Bay Area?
Probably not. Well, maybe? For years many people have felt priced out of buying a home in The Bay Area. We talk about it with a tone of defeat. We feel stuck and wonder if being priced out of The Bay means there isn’t a place for us here. Scouring → Read More
What I Miss Most When Traveling Outside of The Bay Area
Traveling outside of the Bay Area for more than a weekend, you instantly start to find that you begin to miss home. Not because you’re not in a beautiful place or because you’re somehow unsatisfied with your vacation. You miss it because there’s no other place like it. Beyond the → Read More
Bay Area Ghost Stories To Tell During a Summer Campout
These Bay Area ghost stories are perfect to tell over a campfire. Coming into Memorial Day weekend and Summer in The Bay, many of us will go camping or glamping at least once this season. Even if you choose to tell these over your fire pit or on your sofa, → Read More
Stunning Bay Area Dog-Friendly Hikes You And Your Dog Will Love
When the weather is nice enough to go outside, the best thing I have felt I can do for myself is to get out there and see the beauty of The Bay Area from a trail with my dog, Jasper. I feel at ease when I change my perspective by → Read More
Unmistakable Traits of a Typical Bay Area Native
Anytime I step out of the Bay Area, I’m struck with one simple fact; you can take the Bay Area native outta the bay but you can’t take away my weird Bay Area quirks. It’s fun to ask yourself “What qualities give a Bay Area native away when we are → Read More
We Found SF’s Hidden Ball Pit & Indoor Swing
During the height of the pandemic, we all had to hit pause on any amount of fun for a moment while we sat inside waiting for the world to reset. The toll that took on us was huge. Since then, I’ve been bopping around the Bay Area finding the places → Read More
Fun & Unique Bay Area Date Ideas You Probably Haven’t Thought of
I was at the movies on a double date watching that new flick “Everything Everywhere All at Once” when I thought to myself, “this is totally that quintessential date night activity”. While you can’t really beat those tried and true date ideas, you can do better than a typical date → Read More
In Response to Ongoing Droughts, California Senate Votes to Limit Our Water
Each time we have some rainfall in the Bay Area, I always have a small glimmer of hope that we could be out of drought season. Is California still in a drought? The short answer is that we may always be in one. Knowing the California drought is likely here → Read More
Administrative Errors Help 40,000 Get Out of Their Student Loans Entirely
This week, NPR released an article about how folks may finally get help getting rid of their student loans. In some cases, people will be forgiven entirely for their loans. At least 40,000 borrowers will have their student debt entirely wiped clean due to major administrative errors within the Department → Read More
Canine Circus School in Oakland makes dog clowns into ringmasters
What happens when you enroll your dog in circus school? You learn party tricks, build a bond, have a whole lot of fun, and also go through some rigorous behavioral training. My Scottish terrier, Jasper, has been clowning around at Canine Circus School in Oakland: training under ring-leader Francis Metcalf; → Read More
You Can See the Northern Lights in SF During Daytime!
The northern lights be visible in the Bay Area sky today SF Gate also says it’s maybe happening. Ben Burress, an astronomer at Oakland’s Chabot Space and Science Center said ,”Typically, this colorful phenomenon can only be seen in the Arctic and Antarctic regions surrounding the planet’s magnetic poles.” But → Read More
The Sexy, Risqué, Rocky Horror Circus in SF
The Great Start theatre has been acting as a big top for Rock Horror Circus Show by The Vespertine Circus. You'll see the sexiest circus performances in The Bay Area. → Read More