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30 Jan 2025

Netflix’s February Lineup: Japanese Reality Dating Show and Romantic Crime Drama

Netflix offers a range of romantic and non-romantic titles for February, including reality dating shows, K-horror classics, and films exploring themes of love, family, and environmental activism.

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30 Jan 2025

Noir City Festival’s Opening Night Promises Ten Days of Dark Cinema

The Noir City Film Festival kicked off with a double feature of “The Narrow Margin” (1952) and “Hell’s Half Acre” (1954), setting the tone for ten days of thrilling noir cinema.

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30 Jan 2025

Maxxie LaWow: The Drag Super She-Ro You’ve Always Wanted

Maxxie LaWow, a new film directed by Anthony Hand, combines drag culture, superhero arc, and fantasy elements, blending humor, dance numbers, and meaningful themes, and is currently showing at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco on February 8, 2025.

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29 Jan 2025

How 32 Goats Saved East Bay Homes from Fire

A herd of 32 goats and 4 sheep owned by East Bay Goat Grazing played a crucial role in limiting the impact of the Oakland Keller fire by creating a defensible space, which helped firefighters stop the fire at the ranch.

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29 Jan 2025

SF Cannabis Hero Survives Shooting, Kicks Death’s Ass Yet Again

Martin Olive, owner of the oldest dispensary in San Francisco, has survived two near-death experiences, including a recent shooting, and is currently recovering.

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28 Jan 2025

Best Bay Area Events 1/28-2/17

Bay Area Artist Kota Ezawa’s Here and There — Now and Then Remember the eerie sight of the COVID-stricken Grand Princess cruise ship entering the Bay in early March 2020, before statewide stay-at-home orders were issued? Or the powerful images of canoes paddling around Alcatraz in 2019? Artist Kota Ezawa brings these

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28 Jan 2025

Why Grimes’ Love of SF And Elon’s Hate of It Are Caused By The Exact Same Thing

Elon Musk has made a name for himself in a number of ways, he’s a tech entrepreneur, a geriatric shitposter, and most recently, a Sieg Heiling Trump supporter, but long before he and his supporters used autism as a defense against allegations of Nazism, he was an outspoken hater of

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28 Jan 2025

Is China’s “deepseek” Going To Derail San Francisco’s AI Dreams?

It’s not a secret that San Francisco has been betting big on AI to pull the city out of its post-pandemic slump, but while OpenAI’s ChatGPT has made waves, a competitor has recently emerged out of China that has effectively turned the entire artificial intelligence industry on its head. And

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