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22 Sep 2014

The Dodos + Dylan Shearer @ The Chapel

The world adapted to the radio sounds of folk powerhouse bands with hand claps, glockenspiels and taiko drum appropriations. I can’t be the only one that yearns for new music, but that shakes the core like my go-to tracks collecting dust in their near obsolete jewel cases. With Dylan Shearer’s

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22 Sep 2014

Win FREE Tickets to see Thievery Corporation @ Fox Theatre OAK

In 2002 I was 21-years-old and living under a perpetual state of underground hiphop. With the exception of my mother’s Beatles albums slipping in the mix while I got stoned with my Home Depot co-workers, Living Legends, Hiero, BDP, Aesop Rock and Atmosphere were pretty much on continuous loop. But,

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22 Sep 2014

Why Everyone is Freaking Out About Facebook Messenger

In 2014, using Facebook is about as exciting as your flossing routine: idle, half-assed, and embedded in life’s daily humdrum. On your increasingly predictable feed, even that one insane girl you went to second grade with has ceased to be entertaining. Where there were once titillating overshares, there are now

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22 Sep 2014

Local Legend of the Week: Paul Madonna, Creator of SF Chronicle Series ‘All Over Coffee’

Paul Madonna writes and draws the weekly series All Over Coffee, which is published in the San Francisco Chronicle, He is the author of two books, All Over Coffee (City Lights 2007), and Everything is its own reward (City Lights 2011), which won the NCBR Recognition Award for Best Book in 2011.  The man has a gift for

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22 Sep 2014

The Secret History of Sign Painters Screening at New York’s Type Directors Club

After watching Sign Painters, the film directed by Faythe Levine and Sam Macon which documents the history of hand-painted signs, one can’t help but find irony in the withering crop of these sign artisans and their fading works of art. The journey in Sign Painters begins in the Midwest, where

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22 Sep 2014

Win FREE Tickets to see DJ Snoopadelic aka Snoop Dogg!

  No need to shove a bobby-pin in your ear to remove the wax, you heard right. We are offering a pair of FREE tickets to see his royal high…ness, formerly Snoop Lion, formerly Snoop D.O. DOUBLE. G, and recently…DJ Snoopadelic. Don’t front and act like you don’t want these.

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19 Sep 2014

Win FREE Tickets To Attend Dance Hall of Beautiful and Radiant Things @ Verdi Club!

  ‘Tis a real life, old school, 1920s dance hall complete with taxi dancers. Don’t know how to dance the dance or not be a wallflower? Luckily for you, there will be dance lessons on hand including how to use a dance card. You know, for those of us who

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