SF Bay Area

10 Sep 2020

How the DNA Lounge is Keeping SF Weird During the Pandemic

The club has significantly upgraded its webcast technology, and has transformed itself into a de facto television studio, for broadcasting live events from its stage to the world.

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10 Sep 2020

Ikea is Filling Mid-Market’s Haunted Mall Space

You know that very strange mall they tried to build directly next to the other mall we already had on Market street?  The big glassy building with escalators that made an ‘X’ in between the 6 stroies of retail space.  The mall that called itself ‘6X6 San Francisco’, and billed

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07 Sep 2020

Americans Need to Take More Personal Responsibility

A version of this originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City column for the San Francisco Examiner The Right uses the term “personal responsibility” as a weapon. They use it to demonize poor people for being born into a system that keeps them poor. They tell middle-class people that their taxes

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04 Sep 2020

North Beach First Friday Art Walk Relaunches Tonight w/Safety Precautions

Here’s something to be excited about: an outdoor, socially distanced, art walk is going down in North Beach tonight (9/4)! Working with the City, the folks from North Beach First Fridays have secured permits to partially close Grant Avenue and Green Street for tonight’s event from 5pm-9pm. As Romalyn Schmaltz, one of

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04 Sep 2020

How to Make Sure Your Vote is Counted in These Broken times

Here’s how voting will work this year, during the pandemic. And here’s how the Internet can help you get it done.

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03 Sep 2020

Gov. Workers Use Gyms and Politicians Can Get Haircuts Indoors, Why Can’t We?

Due to shelter in place orders, indoor use of gyms as well as hair salons and barbershops have been banned since March for the public, but not for government employees. This week we saw a very vocal ‘shelter in place’ advocate on the national political stage, caught getting her haircut

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03 Sep 2020

How They Name Fires in CA, What CZU, SCU, LNU Lighting Complex Mean

Firefighter explains how fires are named in California, and what the acronyms, and the ‘complexes’ are about.

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02 Sep 2020

Covid Conspiracies Are a Deadly Matter

Just to clear up any confusion, the 2019 novel coronavirus is a serious health threat. There’s no debating that fact if you look at the global impact of what we’ve come to call Covid-19. However, if you’re of the QAnon persuasion or ascribe to conspiracy pushers of the same ilk,

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