If you’ve never eaten at a restaurant with a gift shop, are you even a San Franciscan? — In terms of number of filled seats, I suspect that Applebee’s, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., IHOP, and the Hard Rock Cafe are some of the most popular restaurants in San Francisco. …

The owner of Moxie Parlour works mostly with women with hair loss — Getting a haircut is an intimate experience for anyone: you’re sitting there being touched by another person whose head is inches from your face for long spans of uninterrupted time, often while you watch them in the mirror, for a transaction in which you entrust them with your outward appearance…

Yes, it’s possible — Back when I was editor in chief of The Bold Italic, Broke-Ass Stuart published an article about the best lunch in San Francisco you could get for under $5. “Can we go lower to — dare I say — four dollars?” I thought. Our writer Shikha Kaiwar was up to…

Local servant bots will whip you up a drink or a snack. Are they worth the money or merely novelty? — Remember that time Silicon Valley invented “co-housing”? And then it turned out that that was really just roommates rebranded to sound more enticing? Or what about the time when Silicon Valley invented “ridesharing”? The concept sounded way cool: sharing a ride with just a normal driver and paying way less…

You haven’t really worked till you’ve worked from the DMV — Anyone who works remotely knows how boring it gets being in your house all day, every day. …

By Saruman the White — The Sauron regime made a deep descent in December. The inability of Sauron’s forces to locate the halflings bearing the One Ring, the appointment of senior Nazgul of lesser experience, and the abandonment of Mordor allies who fight beside us all defined his rule down. It is well known that…

Burning Man became a festival that rich libertarians love because it never had a radical critique at its core. — BY KEITH A. SPENCER The weeklong Burning Man festival takes place once a year over Labor Day weekend in a remote alkali flat in northwestern Nevada. Two hours north of Reno, the inhospitable Black Rock Desert seems a poor place to create a temporary sixty-thousand-person city — and yet that’s…

Hello, sweet search engine referral cash! — Everybody loves “Stranger Things,” the renowned Netflix series from the Duffer Brothers that stars some very fine child actors. Did that first sentence sound convincing? I haven’t actually seen the show, but my boss told me that I had to write an article with a headline about season 3, which…

The annual Halloween conundrum: you really want to go to all these Halloween parties, because costuming is a cathartic means of temporarily escaping the feeling of being a cog in a capitalist machine week after week, year after year — yet because you are said cog, you don’t have free…