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Musically Haunting: “Ghost Quartet” Gives us Life at Oakland Theater Project
If you could be any kind of dead person, what kind would you be? Spoiler: you want to be a ghost, the kind that goes “hoo hoo hoo all night long.” So says the lyrics in “Any Kind of Dead Person”, one of the many catchy tunes in Oakland Theater

I Didn’t Cry in the Bar When Trump Won This Time
Despite the disappointment of Trump’s victory, the we must continue to fight for the rights of working class people and push back against their exploitation by corporations and billionaires, as the GOP has already taken the White House and the Senate and is planning to take the House of Representatives.

Best Bay Area Events 11.5-11.25
Unstaged. First Thursdays. Live on Mid-Market Join us November 7th from 4-7 pm for the final UNSTAGED event of 2024. UNSTAGED is a free, interactive, live performance experience on Market Street between 5th and 6th. November’s UNSTAGED is going out with a bang, adding more new acts and welcoming back returning

California Companies Wrote Their Own Gig Worker Law. Now No One Is Enforcing It
California’s Industrial Relations Department has stated that it does not have jurisdiction to handle Prop. 22-related wage claims, leaving the state attorney general to enforce the law, which mandates better wages and benefits for gig workers.

Ghost Ship Warehouse Site to Become Low-Income Housing
Unity Council is planning to build a five-story apartment complex on the site of the burned-out Ghost Ship warehouse, which was the site of a deadly fire in 2016, in order to provide low-income housing for 58 households earning at or below 80% of the Area Median Income.

Broke-Ass Recipes: Johnny Marzetti
By James Conrad. The rich, creamy comfort casserole á la Johnny Marzetti was invented in 1896 by Teresa Marzetti, an Italian-born cook and restaurant co-owner then living in Columbus, Ohio, who named the dish after her brother-in-law. Before long, it became the flagship dish of the Marzettis’ namesake restaurant, and

You Can’t be Buried in SF and Other Things to Think About When You Die
We don’t bury people in San Francisco (any more). So where are the dead interred in the Bay Area? And why is Oakland’s Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium so goddamn beautiful? Content note: We might make some dark jokes in this piece. All due respect to the dead. Why Can’t

Impressions of Mary Cassatt’s 93 Works in San Francisco
These women are neither sexualized objects or symbolically placed on a pedestal of virtue. They are simply living their life. Fierce experimentation and subtle challenges to societal norms such as the “Modern Madonnas” series pepper the show. This exhibition gave me a new understanding and respect for Mary Cassatt.