Hope Corrigan

Why is Walgreens really closing stores in San Francisco?

Walgreens Boots Alliance recently announced it will close five stores in San Francisco due to what the company says is ‘organized retail theft.’ Theft in the Bay Area has risen to five times the national average for Walgreens stores in the past few…

Who doesn’t want the USPS to bring banking back to the post office?

As the United States Post Office continues to be plagued by shipping delays and increased prices, agency officials are looking for ways to boost revenue and ensure financial stability. And that’s why, for the third time since 2008, there is serious…

New books will be hard to come by for the rest of the year

Book buyers, beware: New books will be in short supply for the rest of 2021. Publishers are warning sellers and consumers that supply chain issues have forced a major slowdown in book production and threaten a shortage of certain titles for the rest…

The Best Bed and Breakfasts in San Francisco, California

| © Greg Urquhart / Alamy Stock Photo While many accommodation options in San Francisco are grand luxury hotels or hip, modern boutiques, there is a host of options for those looking for a more intimate stay. Whether you’re after a traditional room…

The Best Airbnbs in San Francisco, California

Naturally, Airbnb’s birthplace has a seemingly endless supply of gorgeous homes ready to be shared with travelers from around the globe. For those looking for a local, immersive experience in a wide variety of neighborhoods, from Outer Richmond to…

The Best Luxury Hotels in San Francisco

| © Yuval Helfman / Alamy Stock Photo Whether you’re looking for grand, polished hotels atop hills or hip downtown spots preferred by tech-savvy travelers, California’s Golden Gate City has a hotel for you. Here we’ve rounded up the top luxurious…

The 7 Best Hotels in Nob Hill, San Francisco

San Francisco’s upscale neighborhood has long been home to some of the city’s swankiest accommodations, best restaurants and most expensive real estate. Culture Trip reveals where and how to experience the glamorous side of the city, including Grace…

Photos: Clear skies and roaming wildlife abound in some of the world’s most populated places

Around the world, pollution and greenhouse gas levels have taken a dramatic dip as travel has come to a halt. Fewer cars on highways, planes in the sky, and people commuting to work has resulted in clear skies in many of the world’s smoggiest…

“There is no plan at all:” Nurses battling coronavirus face deteriorating work conditions

Last week, the largest nurse’s union in the US urged hospital employers to increase safety measures to protect nurses from the growing Covid-19 pandemic, which is pushing all hospital workers—but especially nurses—to operate with minimal…

Coronavirus risk looms large for America’s elderly and sick prison population

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) this week sent a letter to the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Prisons calling on the agencies to immediately release incarcerated individuals, who are either elderly or have chronic health…

Incarcerated people tasked to make hand sanitizer to fight coronavirus are banned from using it themselves

New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced this week that incarcerated individuals at the Great Meadows Correctional Facility will be making alcohol-based hand sanitizer to combat state-wide shortages due to the rapidly growing number of Covid-19…

Will clean water be our biggest source of conflict in the future?

If you had to imagine what we will be obsessing over in 50 years, what would top your list? We put versions of that question to dozens of entrepreneurs, scientists, academics, and artists, including Richard Branson, Temple Grandin, Ian Bremmer, Ann…

The damaging double standard behind intermittent fasting

Jack Dorsey doesn’t eat anything in the morning. Instead, he meditates for two hours, he takes an ice bath, and drinks a lot of water. He doesn’t eat anything for lunch, either. After subsisting on water all day, Dorsey consumes a dinner of proteins,…

Today’s bachelorette parties have everything—except budgets

The bachelorette party has escalated. Referred to in the UK as “hen parties,” modern-day bachelorette parties evolved out of their male cousin, the bachelor (or “stag”) party. Up until the 1960s, the female equivalent of this male rite of passage was…

Top 10 Things To Do in North Beach, San Francisco

The Saints Peter and Paul Church is a focal point in Telegraph Hill | © jonathan nguyen / Alamy Stock Photo Situated along San Francisco Bay between Fisherman’s Wharf and Chinatown, North Beach is a charming and lively neighborhood packed with local…

The 8 Best Bookstores in San Francisco

| © Andrew Lloyd / Alamy Stock Photo From a landmark store that’s an icon of the Beat Generation to a tiny community shop nestled blocks away from the beach, San Francisco has plenty of bookstores that offer a vast selection of titles, genres and…

How to Spend a Week in San Francisco

San Francisco, California | © Simone Anne / Culture Trip San Francisco is a city small in size at just seven miles wide by seven miles long. But, despite its compactness, there are countless sights to see and many years of history to take in. Here…

The 10 Must-See Neighborhoods in San Francisco

Nob Hill has long been home to old San Francisco money | © Marek Slusarczyk / Alamy Stock Photo It’s difficult to choose the top 10 neighborhoods in San Francisco, because practically every nook and cranny of this colorful, charming city has…

Best Vegetarian Restaurants in San Francisco

San Francisco is part of the Bay Area’s historical farm-to-table movement and at the forefront of mindful living, so it’s no surprise the city is home to a variety of vegetarian restaurants. The eateries here go beyond açai bowls and green juices,…

How To Spend 24 Hours in the Castro, San Francisco

The Castro is home to a large LGBTQ community | © Diego Grandi / Alamy Stock Photo One of the most authentically San Francisco neighborhoods in the city, the Castro was the hub for several history-making decades of the LGBTQ rights movement.…