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22 Jul 2019

Arty Horror Films, Spiders From Mars, & Other Offbeat Movies Coming to the Bay

August may be the month of summer’s dog days.  Lazing in the sun may seem preferable to being in a darkened theater.  But some of the offbeat films coming in the next few weeks might very well inspire re-thinking of that position.  The coming weeks sees a drag queen pageant

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19 Jul 2019

What it Was Like The Night the Warriors Lost

After the sun goes down in San Francisco, Karl the Fog is King. His billowing presence sets a mood in the City by the Bay, one that lurks over every person and every footstep that hits its streets.

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18 Jul 2019

SF ART BOOK FAIR SPOTLIGHT: LEE OF MODLITBOOKS

The 2019 San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF) is multi-day festival of artists’ publications. This event is free and open to the public and will feature artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and artists’ multiples.  Learn more about one of this weekend’s exhibitors, Lee Reymore of modlitbooks and his

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18 Jul 2019

Commonwealth to Close, Following Rent Hike

The Michelin-starred Mission eatery will close in August after almost a decade of preparing fresh, locally sourced and interesting tasting menus in San Francisco.  Their landlord doubled their rent to $9k in April, and Chef Jason Fox & partners couldn’t negotiate them down.   If you’re interested in taking over the

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18 Jul 2019

THIS SHOW IS CANCELLED!!! We wanna send you and your bae to see Talib Kweli on the Summer Soulstice Tour!

The Brooklyn-based rapper earned his stripes as one of the most lyrically-gifted, socially aware and politically insightful rappers to emerge in the last 20 years. His travels around the globe as one of rap’s most in-demand performers combined with his conversations with political activists and his genre-straddling work with Idle

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18 Jul 2019

We wanna send you plus one to see Pixx @ Cafe Du Nord!

A playful, performative record, The Age Of Anxiety borrows its title from a phrase found in a notebook given to Pixx (the moniker of 21 year-old musician Hannah Rodgers) by her brother, Luke. It is the title of W.H. Auden’s final long poem, charting one man’s quest to find substance and identity

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18 Jul 2019

We wanna send you and a friend to the San Francisco Lamb Jam competition!

Don’t miss this epic gastronomic experience and culinary competition that brings together 16 of some of San Francisco’s most talented chefs to vie for the title of Lamb Jam San Francisco Champion, and celebrate the 80,000 family operated farms and ranches raising lamb across the nation. Your San Francisco Lamb Jam ticket

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17 Jul 2019

Yes, It Is Ethical and Appropriate to Call Trump a Racist

A large chunk of the country is up in arms about recent tweets and public comments made by the president that seem to project a, well, super racist tone. In a recent swarm of posts, he’s dubbed a group of four Congresswomen the “squad” and has called on them to

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