SF News Adoptly, The 'Tinder For Adoption,' Keeps Insisting It's Real [Update: It's Not] "Swipe right to parenthood with Adoptly, the world’s first adoption app," declared a highly suspicious pitch to SFist last week. Vaguely outraged at the illegal-sounding idea of adopting children through an app
Arts & Entertainment Editors From Medium And Former Bold Italic Kickstart 'Anxy,' A Magazine About Mental Health It can be difficult to find the words to discuss mental health, but that's just what designer Indhira Rojas hopes to do with her new print magazine project. "Nearly half of American adults
Arts & Entertainment Former Googlers/Twitterers Kickstarting Icebreaker Card Game Socializing is difficult, and personally, I try to avoid it. When I do find myself — however accidentally — at a gathering with others, I start in with the usual pleasantries. A bit about my
SF News The Humanity! Backers Who Kickstarted Bay Area Card Game Allege Fraud Careful what you Kickstart. 692 individual backers who pledged a total of $13,168 last March to bring a Bay Area version of Cards Against Humanity to life haven't received their decks and
Arts & Entertainment Video: Upcoming Doc 'Northwest Passage' Explores One Teenager's Unhealthy Obsession With <em>Twin Peaks</em> Filmmaker Adam Baran (Jackpot) says that when he met Travis Blue back in 2005, at an LGBT film festival, "We quickly bonded over our favorite films and TV shows: Twin Peaks, My Own
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Will Finally Be Rendered As Pixel Art The pixel pushing digital art collective eBoy, based in Vancouver and Berlin, has turned its attention to San Francisco. With our city a natural for the 8-bit digital art treatment, the only question
SF News Coming To A Skate Park Near You: Real-Life Hoverboards If Back to the Future Part II is right, it's in 2015 that we can expect the appearance of the hoverboard.* And what better ground to hover over than San Francisco's: turf that
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Kickstarter Song Everyone should be able to relate to this little ditty, sung by puppets, about the frustration of friends asking you repeatedly to donate to their Kickstarter projects. This comes to us from one
Arts & Entertainment We Want This Bay Area RISK Board! Finally, Palo Alto and Menlo Park can finally admit how much they hate each other and nothing lies between Muir Woods and the Richmond but the merest sliver of bridge. In this version
Arts & Entertainment Video: Tron Bicycles Will Soon Take Over the Mission Jeff Bridges in Tron, 1982: he won us over with his raffish charm and weird bodysuit. Now Mission Bicycle wants his sweet lightbike, too. The Valencia Street purveyors of bikes for city cruising
Arts & Entertainment Sigh: Photographer Insists On Meeting All Of His Facebook 'Friends' "We all have these so-called friends out there..." begins twee, earnest photographer Ty Morin in his Kickstarter pitch for an art project we hope none of you gave money to. "So I thought,
Arts & Entertainment Roxie Theater Hits $60K Fundraising Goal, Upgrades On The Way Good news for film buffs: the Mission's Roxie Theater announced today that it's surpassed its $60,000 Kickstarter fundraising goal, with the total amount raised currently hovering at $61,533. According to the
Arts & Entertainment Help Make This Tom Hanks Statue A Reality! Wonderment Consortium, who describe themselves as "An Oakland Based Arts Collective Concerned With Uplifting Oakland Public High School Students Everywhere," have started a Kickstarter campaign that pokes a little fun at the types
Arts & Entertainment Local Singing Treasure Veronica Klaus' Kickstarter Needs Your Eyes, Wallets Not to get all NPR pledge drive on you, but... listen up: It's safe to say that Veronica Klaus' stints at The Rrazz Room have proved to be some of the most searing,
