Grant Bonham
Staff Writer
In an otherwise normal house off of 20th and Mission you can take a trip like no other, with a man whose stories speak volumes of American counter culture in a room filled with his priceless artifacts. Among walls covered in picture frames and shelves overflow- ing with records I met Mark McCloud, the curator of this virtual time machine known colloquially as San Francisco’s LSD museum. Continue reading ONLY IN SF: AN LSD MUSEUM
This past Tuesday, voters in San Fran- cisco and Oakland passed two measures that would increase the minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour over the next several years. With this increase, San Francisco will have the highest minimum wage of any city in the United States by 2018. Fifteen dollars is more than double the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, and five dollars more than the rest of Cal- ifornia. Until now, San Francisco enjoyed praise for its $10.74 minimum wage, still far superior to those around the country. However, this increase does not ad- dress the wage gap like it should and more should be done to stop the exo- dus of the poor from this increasingly gentrified city. Continue reading HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE AIN’T THE ONLY SOLUTION
If you are planning on riding the 14L bus this week, keep your eyes open for the newest ad taken out by Pamela Geller, founder of the American Freedom Defence Initiative. In response to the recent Islamophobia surrounding ISIS, Geller depicts Muslims as a radical group of extremists showing how one’s devotion can only be measured by their radical acts of aggression. Geller’s ad deserves the triple crown for not only being polarizing, but also for being uninformed and mistargeted as well. Continue reading Collateral Damage
