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02 Nov 2020

5 New Protest Songs from Bay Area Bands to Fuel the Revolution

Well, it’s time for the most divisive, tumultuous, and significant presidential election in modern American history, we’re in the midst of a massively destructive global pandemic, fires are still burning across the state, and we still can’t get smoke-free air in the Bay. So, needless to say, you’re stressed out

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02 Nov 2020

Why Your Favorite Restaurant Menu May Have Changed During COVID

If you’ve managed to overcome your stifling fear of being around other people during a pandemic, you may have gone out to eat in a restaurant recently. And when you were there, you probably noticed some changes on a menu even though you thought you knew that menu like the

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02 Nov 2020

All the Best Stuff Hitting Netflix in November

Netflix is starting to beat the holiday rush by rolling out the first bunch of Christmas romance movies. But over here, the interesting stuff being shown in the first part of Netflix’s November range from a TV series classic, to a heist caper that launched a franchise, to some classics

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02 Nov 2020

All The Bay Area Election Events and Protests

Well it’s here. The day we’ve all been waiting 4 years for. Take a deep breath and then let it out. I’m sure you’re as anxious and stressed about the upcoming election as I am. Hopefully Trump will be overwhelming defeated and will not contest the election. If that’s the

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31 Oct 2020

Trump Chicken Dressed like Coronavirus for Halloween & is Touring San Francisco

You’ve seen the Trump Chicken multiple times over the past four years at various protests and rallies. Now the the Police State Poultry is dressing up for **hopefully** one last hoorah! Here’s what they have say: Come and see the Trump Chicken in his Halloween costume: the coronavirus! We’ll be

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30 Oct 2020

Mike Tyson Mysteries: The Absurdist Masterpiece You Need Right Now

Somehow we, as a society, have been sleeping on a cartoon gem that stars Mike Tyson as an eightiesque cartoon leader of a crime solving mystery team. The world has been crumbling, we were stuck inside for 3 months, and yet we missed out on scenes where Mike Tyson has an existential crisis because he keeps inadvertently killing astronauts. 

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30 Oct 2020

Beloved Underground Art Space, The Secret Alley, Needs Your Help!

I have spent many glorious nights and days at The Secret Alley. From Berlin style ping pong parties to wild Halloween events to teaming up with Sonny Phono for the the Weird & Wonderful Podcast at BFF.FM (which is headquartered at The Secret Alley), I have a long history with

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30 Oct 2020

Vinyl Nation: An Uplifting and Fun New Doc on Resurgence of Vinyl Records

  Vinyl Nation, a new documentary by Christopher Boone and Kevin Smokler, opens at a record store in Kansas City. A huge crowd of people is lining up early in the morning. It’s Record Store Day, an annual event when record stores see “record” business. The crowd is upbeat. All are

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