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18 Dec 2017

Pondering Mayor Ed Lee’s Legacy and Discussing Affordable Housing

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! It’s Stuart’s birthday on this episode and we catch up heavily on the SF political landscape following the death of Mayor

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18 Dec 2017

Join Millions in Calling for Trump’s Impeachment

Tom Steyer, the billionaire environmentalist behind the $20M ad campaign calling for Trump’s impeachment sent this out through the Need to Impeach political action group. The goal is to get millions of people to all post on social media at the same time calling for Trump’s impeachment. By using Thunderclap you

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18 Dec 2017

Divisadero’s Mojo Bicycle Cafe is Closing

When Mojo Bicycle Cafe first opened, Divisadero was a rapidly changing street. The Western Addition had been seeing an influx of young white people for a number of years by that point and to reflect this, realtors started calling the neighborhood NoPa. When I lived in the neighborhood back in

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18 Dec 2017

Max’s Garage Press: Berkeley’s Hidden Treasure

Guest post by Amanda Davis  At the age of two Max Stadnik tripped and fell on a Tinker Toy, lodging a rod a few centimeters into his brain and practically taking out his eye. Little did he know that the $20,000 his mother won in a settlement against the toy

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15 Dec 2017

Funeral for the Mission District This Weekend

I just got this press release today and figured I’d share it with you all. A few years ago Morgan Fitzgibbons and I talked about doing a Funeral for San Francisco to protest all the shady shit the greed mongers had done to this town, but we got sidetracked by

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15 Dec 2017

10 Homebrewing Gift Ideas for The Holidays

Whether new or experienced when it comes to homebrewing, it can be difficult to find the right holiday gifts for your favorite brewster. The equipment sounds like something that should be in a mechanic’s shop or a mad scientist’s lab, and the ingredients, while slightly familiar, are often beyond the

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14 Dec 2017

You Can Help Stop Unfair Evictions

Come help stop unfair evictions in SF! Join us on Saturday at 11AM at 350 Alabama at 16th for a signature-gathering mobilization for No Eviction without Representation! Folks have been showing up in droves, but we need YOU if we’re going to get all 17K signatures we need to make

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14 Dec 2017

How Bad Is Stormtrooper Aim? A Statistical Analysis

A frame-by-frame examination of the existing canonical Star Wars films yields a true assessment of what comically poor aim the stormtroopers really have. We went through all of the Star Wars movies in which stormtroopers appear and compared their shots fired to their number of actual hits. While we have

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