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04 Oct 2022

How I Ended Up Starting a Cooking School for Kids

We teach kids not only at our studio location but also at almost a dozen schools around town. We also expanded to hosting corporate cooking experiences both in person and virtually. I have a competent, dedicated, and happy team of culinary educators, event planners, and chefs. I

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04 Oct 2022

Las Los & Surprise Chef bring lovin’, soulful and jazzy vibes to The Bottom of the Hill

There’s something about live music that you can’t feel it just by listening to an album, especially when they have incredibly talented musicians like Las Los and Surprise Chef, both bands are playing this Wednesday, October 5th at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. Surprise Chef is a

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04 Oct 2022

Sideshows Are Here To Stay So Stop Complaining

If you can’t handle sideshows, you can’t handle life in the Bay Area. I know that may sound harsh, and I get that sideshows are unsafe and can be incredibly annoying, but they’re not going anywhere, so what’s the point in endlessly complaining about them? At least once a week

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03 Oct 2022

All The Great Stuff Coming To Netflix In October 2022

October sees Netflix truly getting into the Halloween spirit.  There are new horror series from directors Mike Flanagan and Guillermo del Toro.  Animator Henry Selick teams up with Jordan Peele for a new film.  Even “Nailed It” makes a nod to this spooky month. For those who want something more

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30 Sep 2022

The Crucible: Oakland’s Inspiring Art School

Anchored in West Oakland, The Crucible is a nonprofit industrial arts school that is known to specialize in welding, glass blowing, woodworking, and blacksmithing classes. First established in Berkeley in 1999, The Crucible moved to its current location 4 years later to Oakland in 2003, nearly 20 years ago. Within

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29 Sep 2022

SF’s Bondage Specialist, Sexologist & Performance Artist : Midori

Midori is a bit of a performance art and kink legend in San Francisco, she does dynamic, shocking, and methodical spectacle, that never fails to ask the audience to think for themselves, or change their perspectives

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29 Sep 2022

A Witch, That Makes Art, Out of Death

It’s not every day you get to meet a witch.  But when you’re at a 220-year-old Victorian Manor & Museum in Oakland, I suppose such things can happen.

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28 Sep 2022

What Were People Willing to Riot for at Riot Fest?

When you think of a festival, especially a very sizable one (40-50k fans a day), you don’t usually expect the progressiveness – or for them to be a community-involved non-profit – that we see from Riot Fest. With that said, plus all of that is going on in this world,

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