Sam Mondros
Reporter at The San Francisco Standard
Contributor at Freelance
Arts and culture for @SFStandard | bylines in @nytimes @pointreyeslight https://t.co/KEOchVMowI | [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
sfstandard.com | Sam Mondros
Rudolph “Bong” Sigua’s under-the-radar warehouse has become a destination for some of America’s most dapper celebs. | Source: Kelsey McClellan for The StandardConventional wisdom says fashion trends circle back in 20-year cycles. But in the age of social media, they move at hyperspeed. Crocs are booming, Casio watches are back, and baggy jeans have gone so far we’re seeing a resurgence in JNCOs. Rudolph “Bong” Sigua has been ahead of these shifts for decades.
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4 weeks ago |
sfstandard.com | Sam Mondros |Joe Burn
A prospective buyer who was beaten out said the sale to a techie felt like, “bringing a Tesla to a hot rod meet.”A legendary Lower Haight beer bar has been bought by a crypto investor whose plans include launching something that sounds a lot like a meme coin and developing the bar into a global brand, a la Blue Bottle.
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4 weeks ago |
sfstandard.com | Sam Mondros
Small businesses in San Francisco are finding unexpected packages of amphetamines and other drugs—complete with fake invoices using their branding. When Lauren Legakis saw on Instagram last week that a handful of prescription drugs had been mailed to a shop in the Richmond, it felt like déjà vu. She flashed back to 2020, when she opened a yellow envelope marked “return to sender” to her small store, Sockshop Haight Street.
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1 month ago |
sfstandard.com | Sam Mondros |Ella Chakarian
With break-ins, shootouts, and shady late-night crowds, these spots finally got the boot. Here’s how the city shut them down. In a major crackdown on illegal activities plaguing San Francisco’s Mission, Excelsior, and Visitacion Valley neighborhoods, City Attorney David Chiu announced Wednesday the shuttering of five unauthorized gambling dens and nightclubs. Some of the locations had been hot spots for crime, ranging from robberies to shootouts.
Sam Altman's dramatic ouster delights SF's techie audiences in new play - The San Francisco Standard
1 month ago |
sfstandard.com | Sam Mondros
The techies who packed Pallas, a small gallery space in Civic Center, last Saturday night for the premiere of a play did not dress up, as is the norm for a theater opening. But this was no normal opening. In their finest sweatpants, tech-branded zip-up hoodies, and those slip-on sneakers popular among venture capitalists, the members of the crowd were there to watch a two-hour dramatization of a canonical event in recent AI history.
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When I reached out to Sam Altman about accompanying me to opening night, he responded at 5:30 the next morning. “its is a fun idea but im really busy :(“ https://t.co/BmjLUHGPfA