San Francisco

18 Sep 2017

Pour Beer at Oktoberfest, Get Free Stuff, & Help a Non-Profit

OneBrick.org is a really rad nonprofit that offers free, fun, social outings while trying out different ways to give back to the community. It’s a great way to earn some badly needed karma points without longterm commitments. One of the big things they’ve got coming up is the opportunity to volunteer

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18 Sep 2017

Dinner & a Circus Show: Keeping San Francisco Strange

The Golden Gate Dolls are great friends to the site so I let them share a little bit about their fantastic new show. I’ve seen their other performances and they are doing a wonderful job of keeping SF strange. Get your tickets here before they sell out. Every once in

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15 Sep 2017

Former Hunger Strikers to March from SF to Sacramento to Protest Police Violence

The #Frisco5 are back! Well at least some of them are. Members of the #Frisco5 will be marching from San Francisco to Sacramento to protest police violence. If you recall, in April and May of 2016 five people sat in front of the Mission polices station in San Francisco and

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14 Sep 2017

New Oakland Murals Celebrate California’s Extinct Icon, The Grizzly Bear

By Steven T. Jones Grizzly bears went extinct in California in 1924, although the majestic grizzly still graces the state flag and seal. Now, California grizzlies are being painted into a series of murals in Oakland as part of a national campaign to save endangered species and reintroduce them to

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14 Sep 2017

SFCentric History: When Houdini Escaped His Way Around San Francisco

San Francisco is an old, iron safe filled with gold, glory, disaster, and secrets. SFCentric History is a new column, by SF writer V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi, that digs in the vaults of local history and shares the sensational people, places, and things that rocked San Francisco. Harry Houdini (born Erik

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14 Sep 2017

Ask a Tenant Attorney: What Tenants Need to Know When their Landlord is Selling their Building – PART 2

Ask a Tenant Attorney is your chance to learn how to survive as a tenant in San Francisco. Each month Tenant’s Rights Attorney Daniel Wayne addresses a different issue for residential tenants. This month: A continuation of last month’s post on Common Questions When Your Landlord Is Selling Your Building. For more information about Daniel

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13 Sep 2017

How Charlottesville and Gamergate are Completely Related

Guest Post by Xennial-in-Chief Breathe. This is for your own good. James Damore said, “I do not support the alt-right.” He said this in response to the revelation that alt-right groups supported him after his firing from Google for writing and posting a 10-page memo on the company’s discussion board. In

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12 Sep 2017

We wanna send you plus one to see Ween!

Formed by Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, Jr. in New Hope, PA, Ween has taken on a cult-like status with legions of devoted fans around the world. Beginning with six self-released cassettes in the 1980s followed by 11 studio albums, 6 live albums and a smattering of EPs through the

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