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11 Oct 2020

Cast of Dazed and Confused Reunite to Help Progressive Voter Initiatives in Texas

I was obsessed with Dazed and Confused as a teenager. It’s up there with The Goonies as one of the movies I’ve seen most in my life. Like if we put the movie on, I can probably recite every line. So you can see why I’m SO excited about this! Just

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09 Oct 2020

Heads of Hip-Hop is the Free Poster Collection You’ve Always Wanted

Jimmy Love began drawing his favorite hip-hop legends and making the posters free for the community to download and print.

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09 Oct 2020

New Company Seeks to Keep Oakland Shop Owners Alive

Every now and again a company comes along that actually looks like it will do good in our immediate communities. It’s a company that simply wants to help locally owned shops, sell their wares online, and it’s called ‘Keep Oakland Alive‘. With the pandemic on, our local shops are being

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08 Oct 2020

SF’s 87 Public Monuments & What We Should Do With Them

You have seen them all all around our city, maybe you leaned against one during a walk through Golden Gate Park, or maybe you saw one on the news getting taken down with a crane.  Maybe you meet next one every year at 5:12 a.m. on April 18th, along with

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07 Oct 2020

4 Things Your Server Wants You To Know About Dining Out During COVID

Cruising into our seventh month of living through a pandemic, everyone is still adjusting to the new normal and wondering if we will ever have the old normal back again. Each day brings more adjustments we all have to deal with, but there are few things restaurant workers would like

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06 Oct 2020

Thomas, Alito Signal Same-Sex Marriage Rights Could Be Undone

Get ready for the undoing. It was February 12, 2004 in San Francisco when then Mayor Gavin Newsom officiated the country’s first same-sex marriage ceremony, helping legally tie the knot for Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, a couple who’d already been together for 50 years. In the month that followed,

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05 Oct 2020

There’s SO Much Great Stuff on Netflix in October!

On Netflix, October’s first half brings such expected scary shows as the new season of Mike Flanagan’s “Haunting” series and a film about monster-hunting babysitters.  But who would have expected a German series mixing beer and violence?  Or seeing an acclaimed film about imagining the filmmaker’s father’s death?  Or even

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05 Oct 2020

The November 2020 BAS Voter Guide

Primarily researched and written by Stephen Torres with help from Stuart Schuffman. We stand at the precipice of one of the most polarizing federal elections that has ever occurred in this country. Each day brings another dash of chaos, and yet here we are, once again sifting through another labyrinthine

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