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11 Mar 2020

More Than a Dozen Bay Area College Campuses Cancel In-Person Classes

Several college campuses around the Bay Area have shut down in-person class instruction in an effort to reduce spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. Though most campuses have not reported any confirmed cases, administrations are understandably concerned for the student body, faculty and staff in confined, poorly ventilated,

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10 Mar 2020

We wanna send you and a friend to see Robert Reich in conversation with Astra Taylor!

Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, he has written fifteen books, including Aftershock, The Work of Nations, and Saving Capitalism. In The System, Reich shows how wealth and power have

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10 Mar 2020

We wanna send you to see Langston Kerman @ Punchline SF!

Langston Kerman is a LA based comedian, writer and actor. He stars alongside Lake Bell and Dax Shepard as ‘Brandon’ on the ABC series Bless This Mess from Liz Meriwether. Langston’s Comedy Central Half-Hour Special aired in September 2018 along with the release of his debut comedy album “Lightskinned Feelings.”

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10 Mar 2020

Coronavirus Cancellations Financially Devastating For SF Performers and Nightlife

The COVID 19 outbreak has already led to a ban on public events at SF city-owned properties, the sudden cancellation of SXSW, and Coachella was just postponed this afternoon. But those big-money, corporate sponsored events can take the financial hit. For performers, event organizers, and nightlife venues in San Francisco,

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10 Mar 2020

Local News Site Hoodline Acquired By Nextdoor

An interesting development has hit the San Francisco news scene, and it’s great if you prefer your news to be aggregated by robots, but troublesome if you want genuine, fact-checked news from human journalists. BrokeAssStuart.com has learned that the popular local new site Hoodline has been acquired by the neighborhood

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10 Mar 2020

Meet The Free, Public Hand-Washing Stations Popping Up Around SF

While the Trump administration stammers and golfs through the widening coronavirus outbreak, the city of San Francisco is offering a novel solution. Free and public hand washing stations have been placed on various street corners around San Francisco, like the one we saw above at Haight and Ashbury Streets, to

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09 Mar 2020

What Do Centennials Say About Living Such Long Lives?

by Limus Woods Recently, on February 24th, 2020,  the world’s oldest man died. His name was Mr. Chitetsu Watanabe, he was from Japan, and he’d lived to be 112 years old. I was like “Damn! Do I even wanna live that long??” I guess if I had a good life

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09 Mar 2020

Sex Workshops Should Be More Widely Available and Attended

by Kate Brunotts I recently attended my 3rd Babeland workshop, and I came out glowing as ever. Babeland, a feminist-founded sex shop, gives out free sex education workshops to the general public with great names like “Talk Dirty to Me” or “March into Pleasure.” In a short span of 3

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