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16 Aug 2016

We wanna send you to see Roseanne Barr!

Roseanne Barr is a comedy superstar, award-winning actress, best-selling author, recent presidential candidate and the original domestic goddess and she continues to amaze. After 9 years, 224 episodes and 4 Emmy awards, you couldn’t blame Roseanne if she wanted to quietly slip away, able to take solace in the fact

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16 Aug 2016

A Map of San Francisco’s Street Art & Murals By Neighborhood

Not only has SF Mural Arts digitally mapped out all the incredible murals in San Francisco, they have credited and cataloged them by both artist & location.  This is particularly great because when you come across a mural you dig, you can then find all that artist’s other work across the city and on your phone.

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16 Aug 2016

Bay of the Living Dead: A Shout Out For Scream Factory

Welcome to Bay of the Living Dead, a twice-a-month column about horror movies and TV, past, present and future. Scream Factory, Shout Factory’s wonderfully sublime horror label, brings four fondly remembered B chillers from the early 1970s to Blu-Ray. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) and The Dunwich Horror (1970), both from the drive-in mavens

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15 Aug 2016

How Many Lives Is A Gold Medal Worth?

Since the 2009 announcement of the XXXI Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over 22,000 families–upwards of 77,000 humans–have been relocated out of their communities in the name of redevelopment and good ole’ fashioned competition. Communities were torn down to build Olympic Village, but after the excitement of the Olympics

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15 Aug 2016

What Mónica Puig’s Gold Medal Means to Puerto Ricans

Mónica Puig wins the gold for herself, she won the gold for la isla, she won the gold for mi gente. Unfortunately, with my people…it can never be just about you. Sorry, Mónica. I don’t give a fuck about sports. Which means I could give two shits about the Olympics. But, when

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15 Aug 2016

10 MORE Food & Drinks that Shouldn’t Exist

Perhaps you recall my earlier article titled “10 Food & Drinks that Shouldn’t Exist”. Well lucky for you, the universe hasn’t finished with us yet. It continues to crap out ungodly creations that are theoretically edible.

But point of fact, lots of things are theoretically edible like paper…or humans.

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15 Aug 2016

FREE Materials and Classroom Supplies for Bay Area Teachers

No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, we can all agree that the people who are educating future generations of Americans don’t get paid enough money. On top of that, many of the schools they work for don’t have the money to furnish educators with all the supplies

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12 Aug 2016

Teaching Kids About Money in a Debit/Credit World

My daughter is going to the third grade and over the summer, I’ve been working with her on her math skills. Her second grade teacher gave students a math packet to work on and hand in on the first day of school to their new teacher. I appreciated her teacher

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