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What Life Is Like When You Retire from the Circus
Please listen to this newest podcast and share it. Also, make sure to subscribe. Links are below: itunes Google Play Soundcloud Oh man! We’ve got yet another fantastic episode for you! This week we have former circus performer, and current stage performer and writer, Genie Cartier. Genie talks about growing up

New Hip-Hop Song “Housing Crisis” Takes Unflinching Look at SF’s Huge Problem
I received this press release a little bit ago. As I’m doing a million things before I have to run to work I’m just gonna paste it below. That said I know many of you will really appreciate the message in this song. He calls out lots of folks who

When a Work Email Chain Goes Very Very Wrong
by Devin Holt Editor’s note: Most stories are made out of paragraphs that lead to the next paragraph. This fictional account of an email thread gone very, very wrong uses a slightly different format.

Dope and depressing news for the week of Feb. 23 – March 1
It’s been a week of political upheaval, gun control and sticking it to the ICE man. Let’s unpack a few key stories impacting the Bay and beyond. Schaaf sticks her neck out for immigrants Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf got an early tip on an ICE raid across the Bay Area

What The Fresh Hell Is This Facebook Face Recognition?
Facebook showed you a vaguebooking post this week entitled “Introducing Face Recognition for More Features.” Facebook, which these days is 90% wannabe viral videos that you can’t scroll past fast enough, announced in a post that showed up once (and only once!) on your timeline earlier this week that “We’re

New Musical with Songs from the Go-Go’s Will Flip Your Corset
With Elizabethan clothes, Broadway Pros, and music from Go-Go’s, HEAD OVER HEELS looks like a lot of fun! Created by the award-winning visionaries that rocked Broadway with HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH…

A Beautiful, Black Panther, Thank You Letter from its Director
Director Ryan Googler’s thank-you letter to Black Panther fans is a beautiful, heart-warming, hopeful end to Black History Month

Forget the Walk of Shame, take a Stride of Pride
This originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City column for the SF Examiner. I’ve never quite understood why it’s called the “Walk of Shame.” I mean, I guess there’s some patriarchal bullshit involved, intimating that it’s shameful when a woman does it. But for as long as I can remember, the