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15 Dec 2017

Amy Farah Weiss Announces She’s Running for SF Mayor

Amy Farah Weiss just announced that she is officially running for mayor of San Francisco. If you recall Amy, Francisco Herrera, and I ran on a ticket of 1-2-3 to Replace Ed Lee in 2015. The idea behind it was that with ranked choice voting one of us could actually

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15 Dec 2017

Funeral for the Mission District This Weekend

I just got this press release today and figured I’d share it with you all. A few years ago Morgan Fitzgibbons and I talked about doing a Funeral for San Francisco to protest all the shady shit the greed mongers had done to this town, but we got sidetracked by

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15 Dec 2017

10 Homebrewing Gift Ideas for The Holidays

Whether new or experienced when it comes to homebrewing, it can be difficult to find the right holiday gifts for your favorite brewster. The equipment sounds like something that should be in a mechanic’s shop or a mad scientist’s lab, and the ingredients, while slightly familiar, are often beyond the

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15 Dec 2017

Keeping Christmas Creepy, One Tradition at a Time

Growing up, my mom collected nutcracker dolls. She had a couple that looked like Santas, some that looked like toy soldiers, one commemorating the 1988 winter Olympics, and two that were truly special. They were large. At four feet, they were about as tall as I was as a kid.

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14 Dec 2017

You Can Help Stop Unfair Evictions

Come help stop unfair evictions in SF! Join us on Saturday at 11AM at 350 Alabama at 16th for a signature-gathering mobilization for No Eviction without Representation! Folks have been showing up in droves, but we need YOU if we’re going to get all 17K signatures we need to make

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14 Dec 2017

How Bad Is Stormtrooper Aim? A Statistical Analysis

A frame-by-frame examination of the existing canonical Star Wars films yields a true assessment of what comically poor aim the stormtroopers really have. We went through all of the Star Wars movies in which stormtroopers appear and compared their shots fired to their number of actual hits. While we have

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13 Dec 2017

Artists Move to Install ‘Majestic Fountain’ on top of the Salesforce Tower

San Franciscans are acutely aware of the massive tower Salesforce built on their skyline.  Some local commentators have complained about the new building, calling it a symbol of greed and excess from Silicon Valley, others just bemoan that it is the tallest and most expensive building ever put up in San Francisco,

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11 Dec 2017

Who Killed Oakland’s Electric Streetcars?

Progress isn’t always progress. When you sit in traffic tomorrow morning wondering how much it’ll cost to get your bashed-in rear window fixed, or how you’ll find a spot near work, just remember— it wasn’t always like this. The East Bay used to be home to streetcars, trains, and ferries

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