Music

22 Nov 2019

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Hosting Benefit for Victims of Castro Fires

Join the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Grand Duchess Migitte Nielsen, and Oasis on Thanksgiving Eve to help provide assistance to all friends & families who got affected by the recent fires in the Castro. A large fire broke out across from the historic Castro Theatre early Saturday morning, injuring two people

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21 Nov 2019

The Carefully Calculated World of K-Pop

by Kate Brunotts In October of this year, global superstars BTS broke another world record by becoming the fastest account to gain 1 million followers on the social platform TikTok. It took the group well under 4 hours. Clearly, K-Pop groups have taken the world by storm and amassed an

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19 Nov 2019

Ghostbusters & More at the San Francisco Symphony!

Boasting an unforgettable theme song, proton packs, and one of the greatest comedy trios of the 1980s, Ghostbusters is at the SF Symphony this November!  Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Sigourney Weaver, star in this super fun comedy classic about an eccentric band of paranormal investigators waging battle

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18 Nov 2019

How to Crash All the Best Dreamforce 2019 Parties For Free

Open bar and appetizers paid for by Corporate America await you as Dreamforce 2019 swallows up SoMa and downtown all this week (Nov. 19 – Nov. 22). The world’s largest software conference is also the world’s largest party-crashing opportunity, with oodles of cash-negative startups throwing insanely opulent parties all over

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15 Nov 2019

How the Spotify Algorithm is Ruining My Work Life

Algorithms increasingly seem to be running our lives. They’re used in courts, hospitals, and banks. The use of the algorithms bring up a lot of concerns about bias, privacy, and the kind of content they share. I have a much more basic problem with them: they’re stupid.

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12 Nov 2019

We wanna send you and a friend to see Circa Waves

Circa Waves was formed in Liverpool in May 2013 by guitarist and singer Shudall, who had decided to “knuckle down” and commit fully to music after spending years in a succession of no-hope garage bands. Known for their nervy, melodic indie rock, Britain’s Circa Waves first gained buzz in the

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12 Nov 2019

We wanna send you plus one to see Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes!

“I turned thirty and I was like, ‘What do I want the rest of my life to look like?,’ “ says Brittany Howard. “Do I want to play the same songs until I’m fifty and then retire, or do I do something that’s scarier for me? Do I want people

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11 Nov 2019

Famous Blue Hoodie: An SF Version of a Classic Leonard Cohen Song

Over the weekend I got to read at the SF Leonard Cohen Festival. I recited a few different things including my poem Italian Girl in Dublin. But I also put together something new for it! If you’re a Leonard Cohen fan, then you know the song “Famous Blue Raincoat” but

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