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STERN GROVE FESTIVAL IS BACK!
STERN GROVE FESTIVAL RETURNS WITH 2021 DATES! (no lineup yet) here is the official press release: — 84th annual outdoor music festival kicks off summer concert season on June 20 — SAN FRANCISCO, CA (May 20, 2021) — Mayor London N. Breed today announced Stern Grove Festival, the longest-running free outdoor
Millionaires Protest Outside Jeff Bezos’ Houses, Demanding He Pay More Taxes
In perhaps the first in person protest led by actual millionaires, a group called Patriotic Millionaires rallied outside Jeff Bezo’s $80 million Manhattan apartment building on Tax Day, with a big mobile billboard and a megaphone, demanding Bezos pay his ‘fair share of taxes’. Today @es_indivisible @mkink @PatrioticMills, @CleanupCarl and
Compassionate Alternative Responses to Homelessness in San Francisco
Op-Ed By Jennifer Friedenbach Jennifer Friedenbach is the Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. CoH organizes homeless people to fight for permanent solutions and human rights. SF CART: Statement on Mayor’s New Street Responses In January of 2020, the San Francisco Police Commission passed a resolution unanimously
The ‘$ASS Coin Crypto Billionaire’ & the ‘Shit Coin’ Movement
Crypto currencies have truly gone mainstream these days, with over 10,000 different coins being traded anyone can become a ‘coin billionaire’. There’s no market regulation, but there is a ton of hype. This week Bloomberg News (you know the global financial news site) ran the story: “$ASS Coin Billionaire: Tales
Scenes From The McDonald’s Strike Across The Bay Area, And The Whole Nation
McDonald’s workers went on strike Wednesday in 15 cities across the U.S., in a direct action coordinated by Fight for $15 movement that hopes to raise the federal minimum wage to $15. Low pay is the main reason that thousands of McDonald’s workers blew off work to demonstrate today, but
45 States Are Trying To Pass Laws To Eliminate Vaccine Requirements
You already know that Republicans are trying to restrict voting rights in pretty much every state of the nation, and their attack on abortion rights is in the news this week too. But there’s another scary — and deadly — Republican movement quietly slithering through state legislatures across the country,
SF’s Cheapest Michelin Star Restaurants, Ranked
San Francisco nightlife is back, and that means the return of Date Nights for all of us fully vaccinated hotties. If you want to buy your date a fabulous full-on Michelin Star dinner but you’re on a COVID-challenged budget, we’ve calculated the 5 cheapest Michelin Star-awarded San Francisco restaurants and
You Told Waiters To Get “Real” Jobs, So They Did…Now What?
It isn’t news that restaurants have been struggling to find staff and that some businesses are offering all kinds of incentives to come on board. Chipotle recently announced they are increasing the pay for its restaurant workers to an average of $15 an hour and claiming that it’s possible to