Columns

13 Jul 2017

Taking Food from the Rich & Feeding the Poor in the Bay Area

As the Bay Area, and many other parts of America, slide into a Late Roman Empire school of excess, the rift between the haves and the have-not’s grows greater by the day. In a world where people sleep on the streets in front of multi-million-dollar homes, trying to find a

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12 Jul 2017

We wanna send you to the Mad Alchemy Trip Tour with LSD!

LSD and the Search for God hit the Northern California coast in 2005––seemingly from another place and time––dosing audiences with hypnotic performances built upon swirling guitar sounds, otherworldly drones, fuzzed-out pop melodies, and dreamy vocal harmonies. As reviews of their first shows drew comparisons to My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Yo

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12 Jul 2017

Bay of the Living Dead: Daphne DuMaurier At the Movies

Welcome to Bay of the Living Dead, a twice a month column about the horror genre. In the recently released film My Cousin Rachel, Oscar winner Rachel Weisz stars as a mysterious widow who may have bumped off her husband for his loot. My Cousin Rachel is based on a novel by Daphne du Maurier, who

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12 Jul 2017

I’m Willing to Endure Hell on Earth for a Dozen Krispy Kreme Donuts

My father once told me that there is no reward without risk. There is no glory in playing it safe; champions are the product of being willing to put it all on the line. I didn’t completely understand what this meant until I found out that this Friday, July 14th,

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11 Jul 2017

Growing Up Without a God. Diary of a Religious Tourist

By Hannah Harkness I had an unusual situation when it came to religion growing up. Both my maternal and paternal grandparents were in interfaith marriages. I had met kids in elementary school with one Christian parent and one Jewish parent before, but I still to this day haven’t met someone

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11 Jul 2017

Lessons from the ‘Cougar Ball’ in San Francisco

Reporting from the cougar dating scene in North Beach. The dating dynamic of mature ladies mingling with younger men in San Francisco.

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11 Jul 2017

We wanna send you plus one to see Nicolas Jaar!

Nicolas Jaar was born in New York to Palestinian-Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar and French-Chilean mother Evelyne Meynard. Nicolas is a Chilean-American composer and recording artist based in New York. Among his notable works are the albums Space Is Only Noise (2011), Pomegranates (2015) and Sirens (2016). He is known in the

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10 Jul 2017

New Haight Street Art Center Champions Poster Art and Education

Guest Post by: Gail Barnes Poster artists have always struggled to survive. A new poster artist collective that includes a print shop and gallery in the heart of Haight aims change the name of the game. Serving not only the Lower Haight, but the city at large with educational programming, the

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