By Steven T. Jones Originally published as “Partying Down the Apocalypse” on the weekly newsletter Scribe’s End Notes. Times are tough, but take heart: it’s the golden age for beer, booze, and marijuana. So things could be worse — at least we’re not facing The End sober. We in California

This week is all about the cool, the cunning and the cannabis. We’re diverging from the national news update in order to leave your stomach in tact for California’s first legal 420. You can thank me later. Trees here, trees there, trees everywhere In case you live under a rock,

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

Over 10,000 people descended on Hippie Hill this year for one of San Francisco’s favorite holidays, 4/20. From mid morning until dusk, they shared munchies, hawked their cottage cannabis goods and smoked what must have been more than a metric ton of weed.

Saturday, April 17th is Record Store Day 2010 — YAY MUSIC!  Taking place the third Saturday in April every year, Record Store Day was created in 2008 to laud all the awesome independently-owned record stores that are still around.  Why this means fun times for you and me:  Musicians generally

Golden Gate Park is 1,017 acres of a good time; in fact it is 174 acres more of a good time than Central Park in New York. And guess what, most of it is free. Feel like smoking a bowl and playing Frisbee? Head to the park. Wanna go for