Street artist (and often times prankster) Banksy, famously rigged a stencil of his to shred itself in case it was ever resold.  And it did just that directly after being auctioned off in London in 2018.  You can watch a video of the auction, once the gavel came down and

Outside Lands is back after a long hiatus, 2020 was the first year Outside Lands was cancelled since the festival began in 2008.  Now the music is back this Halloween weekend and punters are excited about seeing Lizzo, The Strokes, Tyler the Creator, Tame Impala, and much much more (see

The Vallejo born, Bay Area rap mogul, E-40, aka Charlie Hustle, aka 40-Watter, aka Earl Stevens has started a sausage company.  That’s a real sentence, that you just read. 40’s new Vallejo-based sausage company ‘Goon With The Spoon‘ did not pay us to rep them, we just love 40’s bravado

There’s no harm in telling a little white lie on occasion. Most of the time, we use these simple non-truths as a way to make things easier for ourselves. Like when a friend proudly shows up to a party wearing a brand new pleather jumpsuit in leopard print and asks

San Francisco Mayor London Breed and actor Edward Norton on Friday helped the city’s oldest brewery launch a new water recycling system — capable of saving the city 20 million gallons of water per year. The historic Anchor Brewing Company is set to begin using a new water reuse system

The Controversy  There has been tremendous backlash in the  LGBTQ communities, as well as an unnerving silence from a range of Comedians in regards to the heated controversy around Dave Chapelle’s latest Comedy special The Closer.  Where is the appropriate line in “comedy” — from low brow humor to the

There is a right way and a wrong way to leave your restaurant job. The right way is to submit a formal, written two-week notice. You then offer to train whoever it is that will be taking your position. Finally, you finish out your shifts with maturity and a sense

Thirty years ago today was pretty unremarkable in the East Bay. It was a breezy Saturday, hot by Oakland’s standards at about 83 degrees. By all accounts, it was a beautiful day to be out. We didn’t know then that there was a monster lying in wait.  There had been