by Jessie Schiewe | Dec 11, 2023 | Eventbrite, Lifestyle, Recent
Evenbrite We’re crouched on rubber mats, our legs apart, knees bent, and butts shaking as “Twerk” by City Girls and Cardi B blares through a set of speakers. A pulsing mass of nearly 100 women of all ages, shapes, and sizes, we’re gathered together on a Sunday morning...
by Jessie Schiewe | Mar 23, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Favorites, OK Whatever, Recent, Weird
Google Maps is meant to look up addresses, but it can also provide a window into the lives of the recently deceased. OK Whatever Three years after her grandparents’ deaths, 19-year-old Luisa Hoenle looked up their old house on Google Maps. Feeling nostalgic if not a...
by Jessie Schiewe | Mar 23, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Favorites, OK Whatever, Recent, Weird
How Robin Leach, for the sake of charity, spent more than he expected on art his granddaughter could have made. OK Whatever Britney Spears is painting on the veranda of a very large, ivy-covered house. Grecian columns and a tiered fountain buttressed with hedges loom...
by Jessie Schiewe | Mar 20, 2019 | Lifestyle, OK Whatever, Recent
A lymphoma survivor investigates disease scamming — a growing trend of faking health tragedies to rake in donations. OK Whatever Most people didn’t know that I had cancer. They didn’t know why I stopped going to school or why I was suddenly absent from basketball...
by Jessie Schiewe | May 7, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Cover Stories, Favorites, News, Recent, SF Weekly
Three decades after its release, the 67-year old San Francisco musician’s debut album finally enters the limelight. SF Weekly (Cover Story) Doug Hream Blunt was watching TV in his first-floor, Visitacion Valley home when the phone rang. It was the middle of...
by Jessie Schiewe | Apr 23, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Favorites, Profiles, Recent, SF Weekly
For more than four decades, the KPOO DJ has been spinning ’50s and ’60s tunes on nighttime radio. SF Weekly It’s a little before 8:30 p.m. on a Monday night, and Jim Rigsbee is sitting in the studio at public radio station KPOO, shuffling through a stack...
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