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03 Mar 2018

What Life Is Like When You Retire from the Circus

Please listen to this newest podcast and share it. Also, make sure to subscribe. Links are below: itunes Google Play Soundcloud Oh man! We’ve got yet another fantastic episode for you! This week we have former circus performer, and current stage performer and writer, Genie Cartier. Genie talks about growing up

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02 Mar 2018

New Hip-Hop Song “Housing Crisis” Takes Unflinching Look at SF’s Huge Problem

I received this press release a little bit ago. As I’m doing a million things before I have to run to work I’m just gonna paste it below. That said I know many of you will really appreciate the message in this song. He calls out lots of folks who

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02 Mar 2018

When a Work Email Chain Goes Very Very Wrong

by Devin Holt Editor’s note: Most stories are made out of paragraphs that lead to the next paragraph. This fictional account of an email thread gone very, very wrong uses a slightly different format.                                

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01 Mar 2018

What The Fresh Hell Is This Facebook Face Recognition?

Facebook showed you a vaguebooking post this week entitled “Introducing Face Recognition for More Features.” Facebook, which these days is 90% wannabe viral videos that you can’t scroll past fast enough, announced in a post that showed up once (and only once!) on your timeline earlier this week that “We’re

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01 Mar 2018

New Musical with Songs from the Go-Go’s Will Flip Your Corset

With Elizabethan clothes, Broadway Pros, and music from Go-Go’s, HEAD OVER HEELS looks like a lot of fun! Created by the award-winning visionaries that rocked Broadway with HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH…

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01 Mar 2018

A Beautiful, Black Panther, Thank You Letter from its Director

Director Ryan Googler’s thank-you letter to Black Panther fans is a beautiful, heart-warming, hopeful end to Black History Month

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28 Feb 2018

Forget the Walk of Shame, take a Stride of Pride

This originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City column for the SF Examiner. I’ve never quite understood why it’s called the “Walk of Shame.” I mean, I guess there’s some patriarchal bullshit involved, intimating that it’s shameful when a woman does it. But for as long as I can remember, the

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28 Feb 2018

Making Ways: The Unexpected Path That Lead to Creating Broke-Ass Stuart

I was recently on the Making Ways podcast talking about the unconventional path I took to end up where I am doing this whole weird experiment called Broke-Ass Stuart. I’m really stoked on how it came out because it gives great insight into what it took to build this thing

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