If you’re local, the Sonoma Valley Visitor’s Bureau has a list of hotels offering special rates for evacuees and the Sacramento Bee has a list of ways for local people to help.

There is an explosion of fun, artsy events happening in San Francisco this time of year.  5 weekends of art fairs, artist hosted parties, as well as music and literary themed festivals.   It’s October in SF, so it’s time to get out there and mix it up with thousands of artists, makers, movers and

Another home grown, American terrorist, used high powered firearms to murder an incredible amount of innocent people.  The death toll as of this morning is 59 people, with some 520 injured and in the hospitals of Las Vegas, making it ‘the worst mass shooting in American History’.  Obviously after Sandy Hook

A new podcast is asking people ‘what would you do if you were given a basic income’, ie if you didn’t HAVE to work?  The project by upstreampodcast explores that question by asking people they find all over the bay area, including economic experts and basic income recipients.  In upstream’s words:

Why is that when a black person criticizes America, they are called “ungrateful”, “unpatriotic”, & “spoiled”? But when an orange person criticizes America, they are “telling it, like it is”, they are “standing up for what is right”. they are “speaking truth to power”. Why is that when Nazis and

From Market St. to Ocean Beach, the San Francisco ‘Wiggle’ is a wonderful bike route that avoids all the hills and passes through some of the city’s most beautiful spots.  I personally love to take this route on Sundays because that’s when Golden Gate Park closes some of its roads to cars so that bicycles and pedestrians get free rein. Sunday is also the day that delightful characters hold a roller disco dance party, Lindy in the Park has an all day swing dance sessions, and Park Chalet typically has live music on display.

Remember back in the 80’s when ‘trading cards’ were kind of a big deal?  Back when magazines and VHS ruled the day and Garbage Pail Kids could be found under every child’s bed?  Next to a sling shot, some Halloween candy, and an old Playboy with half the pages ripped out?

It’s an ‘instrument petting zoo’ with free classes and jam sessions at San Francisco oldest music school