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The Hemlock Tavern is Trying to Kill You
Socrates died from drinking hemlock. He was too smart for his own fucking good, and they killed him for it. Those in power tried him and sentenced him to death by drinking a beverage laced with that poisonous plant.
What to Do If You Win the Lottery
Have you ever thought about winning the lottery? I don’t mean the weird gonzo shit you’d do, like hire a marching band to follow you everywhere playing Rock’n Roll part 2 while you strut down the street (tell me that doesn’t sound awesome). I mean the actual mechanics of how to
Roy Choi & Daniel Patterson Bring Fast Food Alternative to East Oakland
I feel like I have been waiting forever for a Locol – Roi Choi and Daniel Patterson’s affordable and healthy fast food alternative venture announced at MAD 4 in 2014 – location to finally open up; or maybe I just feel like we’ve been talking about this shit forever.
This Week’s Events | San Francisco + New York
Rad Upcoming SF Events THE CANDY RAIN: HIP HOP + RNB DANCE PARTY THU. 1/7 | 11:00PM @ HARLOT The Candy Rain, the world’s last no frills straight forward dance party returns to harlot this Thursday. ADMISSION: FREE BEFORE 11 W/ RSVP SHIBA SAN FRI. 1/8 | 10:00PM @
Children’s After School Arts, featured in This American Life, on Display @ SOMArts
This town was once coined as the “cool, grey city of love” and yet, every day one wakes up to yet another action that would contradict that sentiment: a young man blown away by trigger happy police, waterlogged shanty towns under the freeway, a capricious mayor threatening to slash city
An Open Letter to City Hall in Support of the Bike Yield Law
Dear Mayor Lee and the Board of Supervisors, We ride bikes in San Francisco as our main form of transportation, and we write to you as constituents who care about making San Francisco a livable city for everyone. This is why we support the Bike Yield Law proposed by Supervisor
Dub Mission Moves To Friday, Starting Tonight With Jahdan Blakkamoore
Your favorite Sunday night reggae club is now your favorite every-second-Friday reggae club. Dub Mission officially moves to second Fridays with tonight’s show featuring INTA!-national reggae superstar Jahdan Blakkamoore plus your resident Dub Mission faves DJ Sep and Vinnie Esparza at the Elbo Room. The legendary dancehall dub club night has
We’ve Got Tickets to Warpaint’s Jenny Lee @ The Chapel! Enter to win!
Written slowly over the course of the past few years, Jenny Lee’s ‘Right On,’ is the culmination of a lifetime of collected ideas ghosts of relationships past, stories of reckless abandon, escape routes disguised as reasons to dance. Coproduced in Los Angeles by long time friend and collaborator Norm