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22 May 2025

The Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n Roll Adventures of SF Eccentric Edwin Heaven

Edwin Heaven’s memoir, The Night I Got David Bowie Laid (sorta), shares his experiences in sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll in San Francisco, giving readers a glimpse into the city’s vibrant past.

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22 May 2025

BAMPFA Resilient in Face of Trump Budget Cuts

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive lost $260,000 in funding due to Trump’s cuts, but held a successful gala to honor artists Trevor Paglen and Cheryl Dunye, who’s works explore themes of race, gender, and sexuality.

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22 May 2025

BAVC Media: Home to Bay Area Filmmakers, Artists, and Activists Since 1976

BAVC Media, a non-profit founded in 1976, continues to serve the community with programs such as MediaMaker Fellowship, Climate Warriors, Reel Stories, and free audiovisual preservation services, despite the recent federal arts and culture funding cancellations.

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21 May 2025

The US Government Once Built Beautiful Public Housing…Yes, Really.

by Eran Ben-Joseph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) In 1918, as World War I intensified overseas, the U.S. government embarked on a radical experiment: It quietly became the nation’s largest housing developer, designing and constructing more than 80 new communities across 26 states in just two years. These weren’t hastily

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21 May 2025

New Law Could Make Pornography a Federal Offense

The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, introduced by Senator Mike Lee and co-sponsored by Rep. Mary Miller, aims to broaden the definition of obscenity and grant the Trump regime the power to enforce a uniform standard for defining obscenity, potentially leading to the criminalization of adult content and free speech.

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20 May 2025

Best Bay Area Events 5/20-6/9

Count Me In by Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor BottleRock is finally here! I am looking forward to a weekend rolling on my own schedule, good music (Remi Wolf, Cage the Elephant, Rebelution…just to name a few), tasty foods, the fashion, sunshine, and running into old friends & acquaintances. Of course,

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20 May 2025

Rookie SFPD Officer Drunk Drives, Crashes Car, Injures Five

I imagine when cops drive drunk, they probably think to themselves, “who’s going to pull me over? The police? I am the police!” precisely as their car gets permanently pulled over by a light pole.   This is precisely what happened in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset on Saturday morning. Except the

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