The Urban Legend

Get to know Chef David

Tulin Chang-Maltepe, Managing Editor • October 7, 2021

As Urban kicked off its 2021 fall term, students rushed to the Oak Street Campus awaiting servings of Flik food in a line that winded all the way through the Salkind Center Gym. Chef David Laboa and the...

Alum Hannah Dreier Reflects on Her Experience Reporting from Venezuela

Sophia Vahanvaty, Editor-in-Chief of Newspaper • February 6, 2018

You know you have won Urban when your high school research paper is assigned reading for Dan Matz’s History of South Asia class. Hannah Dreier’s (‘04) research paper she wrote as an Urban junior...

Getting to know the newest faculty members: A profile series

Emma Draisin, Editor-in-Chief of Newspaper • October 24, 2017

As the San Francisco fall sets in, the new Urban School teachers settle into their new roles at the school. The Urban Legend interviewed three of these newcomers to give the students and faculty a better...

Mark Salkind: The man behind the building

Emma Draisin, Staff Writer and Features Editor • February 8, 2017

“If you had asked me when I was 14 years old, would I end up being a high school principal, I would have looked at you and said, ‘are you kidding?’” Head of the Urban School of San...