Things Worth Noting
Downtown San Francisco faces a drug zombie apocalypse, with fentanyl-laced drugs fueling a crisis of addiction, homelessness, and urban decay. The Tenderloin and Union Square are hotspots, where open-air drug markets and encampments thrive, driving crime and overdose deaths—806 in 2023, 635 in 2024, and rising in 2025. Fentanyl, often mixed with meth or heroin, […]
Alcatraz Island, known as “The Rock,” sits in San Francisco Bay, a historic landmark with a rich past. Originally a military fortress during the Civil War, it became a federal penitentiary in 1934, housing infamous prisoners like Al Capone and Robert Stroud. Its maximum-security design and cold waters made escapes rare, though the 1962 breakout […]