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17 Jan 2019

Oscar the Grouch’s Viral #10YearChallenge, Ends in Hurtful ‘trashtalk’

The first major social media fad of 2019, #10yearchallenge, went viral around Facebook, Twitter & Instagram this week with millions of social media users posting side by side photos of themselves taken 10 years apart.  One photo from 2009 and one photo from 2019.  By far the fad’s most popular #10yearchallenge

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17 Jan 2019

All the Artsy Fairs, Parties, & Pop-ups this January

If your January wasn’t as eventful as you had hoped it would be, here’s a list of the big fairs, launches, marches, fundis, parties and all around art happenings.  Start the weekend at one or two of the art fairs happening we’ve heard about in San Francisco, then make your

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15 Jan 2019

Smokey the Bear Now Driving Uber to Get Through Shutdown

As the longest government shutdown in US history continues, many government employees have been forced to look for other sources of income to pay the bills.  On Friday, hundreds of thousands of Government employees went without paychecks, in fact, paychecks are on hold for some 800,000 federal employees forced to go

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14 Jan 2019

Why I Miss Life Before Smartphones

This article originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City column for the San Francisco Examiner. I lived above Caffe Pergolesi in Santa Cruz for a couple years in college. Pergs, as we called it, was housed in an 1886 Victorian that had a wrap-around porch, where people would sit around all

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12 Jan 2019

Tay and the JangLahDahs Debut Stunning New Video

Tay and the JangLahDahs specialize in mixing colorful, harmonic blends of Folk, Rock, Soul and Psych into a ‘timeless, freak-folk spirit of advice’.  Their new music video, ‘Wise Words’ was filmed at Pyramid Lake and Lake Tahoe, and it’s full of stunning, rich visuals as well as artful composition, check it out…

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10 Jan 2019

Tired of Voting for Middle of the Road Democrats? Change it.

By Hae Min Cho, Steering Committee of Progressive Democrats of America Do you ever feel completely fed up with voting? Do you ever feel like it never seems to matter who you vote for–that no matter who you pick, the neoliberals and moderates (who call themselves progressive in SF) wage

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10 Jan 2019

AT&T Park Renamed With New Terrible Corporate Name

The San Francisco Giants’ ballpark is getting its fourth different name in 18 years, and you better believe it will once again be named after a horrible corporation. The San Francisco Chronicle broke the news around 6 p.m. Wednesday night that AT&T Park is being renamed Oracle Park, and they’ll

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