A talk with Australian born Photographer Kate Seabrook about transit, typography, and the aesthetics of train stations.
Cities
Halfway Great: A Short History of the BART System
You want to know about the BART system? Here is it in five minutes.
Last Days of Berlin’s Abandoned Spreepark
Behind a chain-link fence on a corner of Planterwald in East Berlin, Spreepark is a sprawling tangle of dilapidated amusement rides.
Top Ten Things to do in Oaxaca City
Best things to do in the city of Oaxaca, all within walking distance of Centro.
Not Yet Lost: Golden West and the Craft of Sign Painting
Golden West Signs in Berkeley keeps a vanishing craft alive.
Magic, Terror, and San Francisco
In “Season of the Witch,” Salon.com founder David Talbot takes us through the turmoil, activism and passion of modern San Francisco’s violent birth in the 60s and 70s.
Streets of Oakland: Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Martin Luther King Jr Way has a stillness and a golden light all its own: from the corner stores and vacant lots to art studios and community gardens.
Does Anybody Know What It Was About?
Three people were shot a block from my Tenderloin apartment earlier this week. My neighbor said it was about drugs.
The Occupation of Silver City
After two months of marked tolerance towards the Occupy Los Angeles camp, L.A. joined the trend of raids and evictions in major cities.
Saints in the City of Angels
Dealing in candles, incense, herbs, and effigies, the botánica exists in that blurred region where rigid definitions of religion and culture no longer reign—like Los Angeles itself.
Los Angeles Drives Itself
Driverless cars are closer than you think, and nowhere are they going to have a bigger impact than in Los Angeles.
Finding Chinatown
A conversation with Bonnie Tsui, author of American Chinatown, on the changing dynamics of the urban neighborhoods she explored.
Art in Storefronts and Storefront Art
The second annual Art in Storefronts event merged with the unique textures and elements inherent to Mid Market: porn shops, neon signs, old businesses, grand buildings, active street corners and the artery of trains, taxis and buses.
Facebook and the Late Night Train
In the Bay Area, there’s an online clamor for late-night hours on BART, one that’s gained the attention of the media and BART leadership—but what will the results be?
Urban Lions
Last year, a mountain lion was encountered, then killed, on the streets of Berkeley. Why was it there?
The Year of the Metal Cat
A New Year’s celebration to ring in the Year of the Metal Cat in San Francisco’s Little Saigon neighborhood.