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Riot Games Sets Its Sights on Global Domination
By Devon Wojcik Over the last decade, Riot Games has become one of the most relevant and globally influential companies in the computer gaming industry. Though their “League of Legends” hit might seem inconsequential to some here in the U.S., the grueling 10 years of thought, love and care into the
It’s Bernie or Bust for the Busted Masses
By Ian Firstenberg Sanders offers the only jolt to our collective body politic that will save us from extinction. The Bay Area has served as a petri dish for technocratic liberalism over the past two decades. What started with a tech buzz eventually became a bubble that burst a few
Goodbye, ‘The Good Place.’ Thanks for Not Being NCIS.
There’s an old Yiddish joke about restaurants I like. It varies depending on who’s doing the telling, but basically it goes like this. A married couple comes out of a restaurant, both disgusted by the meal they just ate. The husband says, “Can you believe that? The food was terrible!”
Oakland Beer Bar Selling Micro Loans to the Community
A company called the SMBX, which dubs itself “the world’s first Small Business Bond marketplace”, quietly opened for business, and quickly helped the beloved San Francisco-based knife shop Bernal Cutlery raise $140,000 to fund its expansion.
As If You Know – Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh, the author of four books and her fifth Death in Her Hands coming in April 2020, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and a fiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, spoke on Monday at City Arts and Lectures. The air
How Drag Pageants Have Changed! The 1990’s to the Digital Now
By Eddie Jen The last time I competed in a drag pageant, it was in the nineteen hundreds. The very late nineteen hundreds. And on my third try, I won the tiara. Afterward, one of the contestants stabbed me in the shoulder. OK, she pricked me. But it was intentional. That’s the
Trump Represents All That’s Flawed with America…but There’s Hope For Change
Well, it’s been three years. Three whole years since the Divided States of America inaugurated the sorriest excuse for a human many of us have ever witnessed.
New Store Opens in Oakland Completely Lambasting Consumerism
A very popular new store opened in Oakland this week, but the goods stocked on the shelves are not quite what you’d expect. Val-U-Mart is a new interactive art installation at Pro Arts Gallery offering a playful exploration of money, values, and consumerism. Seventy-five Bay Area artists came together to make