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FREE School Supplies for Green Educators
Via – THE EAST BAY DEPOT FOR CREATIVE REUSE It’s that time of year again… It’s the Back to School Giveaway for Green Educators! August 3-11th our Green Educators can pick up 2 grocery bags full of materials & supplies for their classrooms FOR FREE! In addition to traditional teaching

DRAWN FROM THE CITY: Barbara
DRAWN FROM THE CITY: Illustrations and Interviews of SF’s Best is a series about fascinating artists & creators during the height of SF’s most recent tech boom and demographic change. We liked the work so much we asked Crystal if we could run them again. The series originally appeared in The Bold Italic back

It’s the Guns, Stupid. Not Violent Video Games or Mental Health
There have been more mass shootings in the USA, than days in 2019. The most recent mass shootings in El Paso and Daton have politicians, again, struggling to find words to explain these tragedies. They have even fewer words to explain what they are doing to stop it. As of

Activists Held a Block Party to Abolish ICE. The Cops Raided It.
The actions being perpetrated by ICE are unconscionable. The Trump Administration’s policies of “zero tolerance” and “family separation” are pure evil. How these people sleep at night is beyond my comprehension. I’m not the only one who feels that way. Hundreds of thousands of people across the country have protested

Hooray! The New Oakland Beer Passport is Here!
Step into a world of adventure with the Oakland Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore Oakland than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing, you get 26 beers at 26 bars for $40. It honestly doesn’t get much better than that. How does the Oakland Beer Passport work? I’m glad you asked.

The New “Lion King” is Everything That’s Wrong With America
I was compelled to write this after a matinee viewing of Disney’s new CGI-tastic Lion King with my mother-in-law, who kindly treated me to a movie and popcorn on a recent visit. We caught a 4:30pm showing of this seemingly harmless family film together and ended up sitting uncomfortably through

Europe Has Glow-in-the-Dark Bike Paths, Why Don’t We?
Parts of Europe have glowy bike paths. In a town in Poland they glow because they have a material in them called ‘phosphor’ that absorbs sunlight during the day and emits that stored light at night. According to the engineers who installed the lanes in Lidzbark Warmiński Poland, “The material

Art Events, Screenings, & Performances in August
As another August in the Bay Area rolls around, get ready for these artsy events, screenings, performances, and the annual return of Outside Lands Music Festival. Get outside to watch some sort of creative event– there are tons of free concerts happening before the festival, too. MISSION VOICES OPENING Southern