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All The Dope Summer Festivals in Detroit
By: Curtis Schabath Detroit Rock City, Motown and the birthplace of techno are all musical monikers for The D. Needless to say, just about everything you listen to has some sort of influence from the Motor City. Whether it’s your favorite music to which you shake dat azz, or the

Wet Hot Summer Sex Toy Horoscope
This post is made possible by the sex toy experts at Good Vibrations. To get 15% OFF any of their products use code “broke“ : ) Astrologically July is all about dialing it back. None of that Mercury in retrograde bullshit here my friends. No way. After the cosmic shit

Oscar the Grouch Evicted from SF Trashcan, Moves to Oakland Dumpster.
We got the news today that longtime San Francisco resident, Oscar the Grouch, has been evicted from his rent controlled San Francisco trashcan. Last week Mr. the Grouch came home to find an eviction notice on his trashcan lid. His landlord, David McCloskey (the man who famously tried to evict

Where are San Francisco’s Homeless People Supposed to Go?
Guest post by Kelley Cutler Human Rights Organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness I woke up that morning to a call from a woman who was living in a tent on the street. Through her tears I could hear the muffled voices of San Francisco police coming through the phone, telling

We want to send you to see Portlander Laura Gibson!
Multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter Laura Gibson grew up in a small isolated logging town called Coquille, in the South Coast region of Oregon, the daughter of the town’s kindergarten teacher and a forest ranger. Since the release of 2009’s Beasts of Season, which NPR called “nothing short of a masterpiece” and Mojo

Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
If you follow this site you probably believe in social justice and civil rights, and if that’s the case, you’re in luck. This Thursday City Lights Bookstore is hosting the release party for Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, a book that might be one of the most important works on

What to Do if Your Apartment has Mold
Ask a Tenants’ Rights Lawyer is your chance to learn how to survive as a renter in San Francisco. Attorney Daniel Wayne has a lot of the information you need to keep you in your home. This month’s topic: How to deal with mold growth in your apartment. For more