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26 Mar 2015

Tiny Baby, Tiny Apartment (Part 3): Essential Infant Products for City Life

The baby industry is a total mind-fuck. You love your baby so buy our stroller, they advertise. But somehow they come off more like Buy our stroller or your child will drop out of high school and join Al-Qaeda. So you register for everything. Feels excessive, but you’re vulnerable. Maybe

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25 Mar 2015

Win Artsy Shower Curtain by Victoria Smith!

  SF based rock photographer – Victoria Smith – designs a line of goods consisting of: throw pillows, clocks, duvet covers and shower curtains. All under the name Big Vic Smith. We’ve decided we want you to have one of these shower curtains. And when we’ve announced the winner, you’ll

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25 Mar 2015

New Watch Has Live Ants Crawling Inside It

You thought you had seen it all, but clearly you had not.  Watch designer Analog Watch Co out of Philadelphia is set to release a watch that comes with an ant farm kit.  As they put it, “Now you can carry the miracle of life, wherever you go.”  This presents an interesting philosophical

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25 Mar 2015

I Drive SF: From Rideshare to Taxi

It’s inevitable.  Now that I drive a taxi, I regularly field the inquiry:  “So… have you thought about driving for Uber?”  When I tell my passengers that I did the Lyft and Uber thing before switching to taxi driving, they’re usually shocked.  “Don’t you make more money with Lyft and

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25 Mar 2015

Win a FREE Signed Copy of “The Deception Artist” Fayette Fox’s Debut Novel

Eight-year-old Ivy has a vivid imagination and tells lies so that people will like her. With her brother, Brice, in the hospital, life at home feels unsettled and things become even more strained after her father loses his job, along with his sense of purpose. Ivy’s parents might divorce and

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24 Mar 2015

Win Tickets To Dash Improv @ Un-Scripted Comedy Theatre!

  Un-Scripted Theater Company®’s Saturday late night show, DASH, mixes games and scenes into a seamless, spontaneous and continuously morphing spectacle of excitement and laughs. Over the course of this hour-long show, the cast incorporates audience ideas and suggestions throughout, from the ridiculous to the hilarious. Anything can (and probably

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24 Mar 2015

Win Tickets In Our ‘TV On The Radio’ Giveaway!

TV on the Radio are an American indie rock band formed in 2001 in Brooklyn, New York. The TV on the Radio guys are the type of people who go on hiatus and focus on music. They may take time between albums for their other endeavors, but they know when it’s right to

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