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We wanna send you plus one to spend NYE with Mayer Hawthorne!
GRAMMY nominated singer, musician and DJ, Mayer Hawthorne makes that timeless, soulful, baby-making music. It’s what people listen to when they want to get sentimental. Raised by hippie parents in Ann Arbor, Michigan, smack between the Hash Bash and the car factories – Hawthorne’s old man taught him to

We wanna send you and a friend to see Hot Snakes on NYE!
Hot Snakes streamlined Jehu’s complex compositions and emerged as bona fide downstroke warlords. They made 3 studio albums of high-velocity, slash-your-face, piss-punk: 2000’s Automatic Midnight, 2002’s Suicide Invoice and 2004’s Audit in Progress. Now, after a 14-year hiatus from the studio, Hot Snakes have kicked down the door back into our lives

Ghost Ship: Demolition and a Long December
Wednesday’s news that the Ghost Ship warehouse may be soon headed for demolition prolongs an already emotional month for the family and friends of the 36 people who died there. Dec. 2 marked the two-year anniversary of the Oakland warehouse tragedy that has become simply known as the Ghost Ship

London Breed Uses Mayor Power to Request Brother’s Prison Release
San Francisco Mayor London Breed wrote Gov. Jerry Brown a letter that has people questioning her use of power. The fact that she has a brother doing time in prison isn’t the problem, it’s only human to have a complicated a family story. It’s not wrong that she wants her

Thank You, Penny Marshall
This is my personal take on an amazing broad (that’s a compliment) that changed our lives for the better. I won’t profess to be some expert in the field of all things Penny Marshall – I didn’t follow her life and achievements like a fan girl, dissecting her mood through

How to Safely and Effectively Report Domestic Abuse
I recently saw a friend ask Facebook how he could report domestic abuse if he’s a person who does not feel safe involving the police i.e. someone from a marginalized community. The holidays are a time when we reconnect with loved one’s and get a glimpse into what or who,

Package Thieves Sprayed w Glitter and Fart Smell Bomb
Almost everyone has had a package stolen from their doorstep these days, it happens all the time. You see that something you ordered online was sent, but it never arrived. Now a hero, and former NASA-JPL engineer and Youtuber Mark Rober, has done something about it! As you’ll see in the video