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10 Jun 2016

Hillary Gets the Nomination, But Bernie Won, Too

It seems like Hillary has sewn up the nomination, but in a lot of ways, Bernie also won. Anything could happen, in this strange election cycle, but it appears that—barring unforeseen circumstances—Hillary Clinton will be the first female president of the United States. It’s about time we had a woman

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10 Jun 2016

On Moving Away from San Francisco

Guest post by Marina Javor San Francisco was different when I moved here as a college freshman in the fall of 1999. San Francisco, as I first experienced it, is bigger and brighter in my mind’s eye than when I look at it now. I remember the first time I

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10 Jun 2016

How to Celebrate World Gin Day on a Budget & in Style

Oh gin. What a beautiful boozy thing you are. Unfortunately, most people fuck their gin cocktails up and never truly understand the taste of the stuff. One of my favourite places in the world is this little gin join in Bath, England, The Canary Gin Bar. Simple name, biggest mother f’ing

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09 Jun 2016

Stop Calling for Bernie to Quit – It Could Backfire

Guest Post by Reed Martin As the Democratic Primary winds down and we’re near the end of the election, the calls for Bernie Sanders to drop out to unify the party are strong. But this isn’t 2008, where the ideological differences between Obama and Clinton were minimal, and it was

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09 Jun 2016

How To Crash All of Apple’s Best WWDC Parties For Free

Apple’s big, fancy WWDC conference is next week, and you’re not going. But you can go the afterparties, even if you’re not registered for this $1,600-a-pop developer conference June 13-17 in San Francisco. Several startups are busting out other people’s money to throw their various branded afterparties and soirees, so

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08 Jun 2016

Kitchen Story Wants to Make You a (Bacon) Millionaire

So you may be wondering…”WTF is a (bacon) millionaire?” Well, those in the (bacon) know may have gathered that it’s some sort of Millionaire’s Bacon reference. And thankfully, they’d have gathered right.

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08 Jun 2016

Searching for History and the Good Life at the Barbary Coast

Why, I wondered, would someone as cool as Termeh throw her goodbye party at The Barbary Coast in North Beach?

Then I got to the entrance and it sucked me in again, dammit. It gets me every time.

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07 Jun 2016

We’d like to send you to see Lyrics Born for free!

  Amongst the dusty records of UC Davis’ KDVS college radio station, Tom Shimura, who currently makes records as Lyrics Born, found too much to love. Sandwiched between gatefold LPs, 12-inch singles, dub versions and white-labels was a reservoir of inspiration that he would draw on for the following decades.

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