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Alison Piepmeyer, the managing editor of Oh Happy Day, lives in a one- bedroom apartment with her husband, Zachary. They decorated their Lower Haight home with a tight budget and smart ideas — including a nursery in the closet! Here’s a peek inside… LIVING ROOM Sofa: West Elm. Pillows on sofa: Serena & Lily, West Elm, CB2 and Target. White side table : thrifted and painted white, similar. Wooden chair: Craigslist vintage, reupholstered with Britex Fabric, similar. Check pillow: Target, similar. Silver lamp: vintage, similar. Coffee table: thrifted, similar. Rug: Crate & Barrel. Artwork: Etsy. On budget shopping: When we moved in, we developed a budget for each room (so if we wanted a particular couch, it meant we could only spend this much on all the other things). We would be like, ‘Okay, by March we’ll probably have saved enough money to finish this room, by July we can finish this room…’ For the bigger pieces, I would first go to five vintage stores around the Mission — ...

Mark Henriquez found an escape at the same time his mom slipped back into drugs. While she was out getting high, the then 11-year-old turned inward, listening to hip-hop in his room and drafting raps about his dreams of success. Fourteen years later, their once divergent pursuits have come together in a compelling rap video they made about conquering addiction. “All for You” has been viewed nearly 6 million times on Facebook since May. Mark Henriquez, 25, posted a video of himself rapping about his mom, Ruby Lanz’s, meth addiction. She has been sober for 12 years. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Mark Henriquez, 25, posted a video of himself rapping about his mom, Ruby Lanz’s, meth addiction. She has been sober for 12 years. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) Mark Henriquez, 25, posted a video of himself rapping about his mom, Ruby Lanz’s, meth addiction. She has been sober for 12 years. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG) “...

On a Sunday morning in July—specifically the middle Sunday of Wimbledon, when the players rest and the trampled lawns recover— Serena Williams awoke from one of those vivid dreams that are a common feature in the hormonal rush of pregnancy. In it she was competing, except that she wasn’t at Wimbledon or even on a tennis court. Instead this was the Williams Invitational, the mock-seriously titled (but very real) dance tournament that Serena and Venus Williams have mounted each spring for the better part of a decade and that, Serena explains , has gone from fun to serious to Broadway to Vegas in short order. In the dream, Serena was suspended from the ceiling, twirling inside a hoop attached to a long ribbon. (True story: Williams has an aerial-dancing coach in Florida and another in California.) Sequins and wigs may also have been involved, though the details are fuzzy. “What do you think it means?” Williams asks as her fiancé, Alexis Ohanian, 34, works on coffee and soft-scrambled eg...