Hi there! I grew up in Santa Cruz and graduated from UC Berkeley in 2018 with an English major and Spanish minor. After teaching ESL for a few years, I joined the Secret Media Network as a Staff Writer. I love to write about California history, hidden gems, museum exhibitions, and local wildlife.
“Samin’s Summer Pie” features Calabrian chiles, confit tomatoes, and garlic ricotta. Award-winning chef, cookbook author and TV host Samin Nosrat is a huge name in the nation’s cooking scene. She...
Enjoy this characteristic Filipino ingredient in everything from horchata to cheesecake. Kapwa Gardens, a new Filipino outdoor event space in SoMa, is back this weekend with an awesome culinary event! Yum Yams will pres...
Catch a free ride from July 3 to July 5! If you’re thinking about how to get around the City on July 4th weekend, the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District has announced free rides for all passeng...
“You know what we all need? More boats.” Back in May, the San Francisco Bay Ferry announced that it would return July 1st for a total of 136 daily transbay trips, which is 30% more than before…...
San Jose has just passed 2 new gun control measures that the nation has never seen before. At the end of May, the Bay Area was rocked by a mass shooting at a VTA maintenance yard in downtown San Jose, that left 10 peopl...
Vermont Street in Potrero Hill may be the real “crookedest street in the world.” We all know Lombard Street. You know, that famous red-brick street in Russian Hill that attracts 2 million tourists per year (...
“I had a crush on this guy at work until I saw him throw away too many water bottles.” Overheard San Francisco is a wildly popular Instagram page that you have got to follow if you don’t already. It&he...
The town of Hillsborough will pay owner Florence Fang $125,000. Surely you’ve seen it when driving up 280. This bizarre home has perched on a hillside in Hillsborough since 1976, and its resemblance to the cartoon...
Starting in July, Bay Area residents can attend SFMOMA for free on the first Thursday of every month. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is an iconic SF museum that’s worth revisiting each time they put o...
Sequoia Park Zoo in Eureka revealed this brand new Redwood Sky Walk last year, and it’s still blowing us away! The breathtaking pathway is suspended from the redwood trees themselves, hanging at a whopping 100 fee...