Alex Mak - Managing Editor

25 Mar 2016

Easter Big Wheel Race is On!

I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the resurrection of the big JC than watching a bunch of adults riding big wheels down a crazy windy street. While I am not hardcore enough to throw myself down said hill on a child’s play thing anymore, but I am

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25 Mar 2016

Gary Shandling Films ‘It’s Great That Gary Shandling is Still Alive’, & then Dies of Heart Attack

Gary Shandling was what they call ‘an envelope pushing’ comedian.  He contributed a lot to the development of American comedy on television.  He was best known for his HBO series ‘The Larry Sander’s Show“, a show unlike anything before it.  A show about making a show, it really laid the foundation

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22 Mar 2016

Mills College Adjunct Professors Win Best in Nation Job Protections

Via – Nato Green (Oakland, CA) – Mills College adjunct professors ratified their first ever three-year agreement on Friday, March 18. The new agreement makes significant progress in job security, recruitment & retention of quality professors, and fair compensation. Among the major gains in the three-year contract: *Best-in-the-nation gains on

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21 Mar 2016

Elizabeth Warren Is Destroying Trump on Twitter Right now (Updated)

The revered Senator from Massachusetts has been asked by many to be the Democratic candidate for President.  She’s declined thus far and has refrained from endorsing any candidate.  Today she weighed in on one candidate in particular, the presidential candidate who has had 4 of his businesses declare bankruptcy in the past,

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18 Mar 2016

Activists from Black Power Network Shut Down Economic Development Summit

Via- April Thomas Oakland, Calif. — Today a group of activists took over the Oakland Chamber of Commerce’s annual Economic Development Summit with a message for Mayor Libby Schaaf: the Oakland housing crisis is an emergency for Oakland residents, not an opportunity for profit. Activists from groups including the Black

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18 Mar 2016

Growing Up, & Out of San Francisco

To look back at San Francisco is to see my father and a long history. I never knew the Dot-com Boom,
but in understanding its progeny I can see the traits, genetics, and make a mold of its
predecessor.

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17 Mar 2016

Artists Taking Over Bus Benches in Oakland

Art instead of empty advertising. Check out the artwork on our public benches & roadways in Oakland

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15 Mar 2016

Bringing Music Education To SF’s Homeless Children

It’s no secret that learning music at an early age is good for your brain.  It enhances spatial-temporal reasoning, and helps develop speech, hand-eye coordination and creativity.  Blue Bear School of Music outreach is helping to spread that kind of education to every corner of San Francisco. The Little Bears Music Program sends professional

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