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SF Mayor Is All Up in the News This Week and Its Not All Bad
Appointments here, apologies there. Mayor London Breed is busy sprinkling herself around, making her way into headlines here at home and across the international stage, not all good, not all of it bad. Let’s take a look at what she’s been up to. Public Defender Manohar Raju After Matt Gonzalez

Spotify Is Giving Premium Members Hulu…for Free!
If you’re a Spotify Premium subscriber, as of yesterday, you get a shiny, new perk: free Hulu. The rollout of this new benefit is pretty user-friendly. If you’re a current Spotify Premium member, you simply need to activate Hulu through “Your Services” found in account settings. Members who already subscribed

How You Can Help Save Vulcan Arts Lofts
Oakland’s historic artists enclave Vulcan Lofts has been an enormously influential springboard for the Bay Area arts community for more than 30 years. But more than 200 working-class artists are facing eviction, as the giant Fruitvale district live-work space has been placed on the market for a staggering $16.25 million,

Get To Know The Bearded Vampire Drag Queen of Brooklyn
There is no shortage of drag queens in NYC. You can’t throw a rock without hitting some twink in a dress who thinks he’s got what it takes to shantay down the runway just because he’s seen every season of Ru Paul’s Drag Race while practicing YouTube makeup tutorials. There’s a difference,

SF’s New Vietnamese Coffee Pop-Up, Kasama Cà Phê
Have you ever tried high-quality, Southeast Asian-grown coffee? We’re all familiar with the Bay Area’s abundance of third wave coffee roasters and cafes, but it’s time to get to know a new coffee pop-up, Kasama Cà Phê. Kasama Cà Phê is a cafe concept that’s all about sharing Southeast Asian

The Bay Area’s Roaming Musical Instrument Lending Library
There is a guy who wanders the Bay Area in a tricked-out truck handing out musical instruments like some kind of Pied Piper in a pinstripe vest. His name is Jason Cool. (Yes, it is.) His project is called the Musical Instrument Library. I met Cool for the first time

Little Boxes Theater Might be Hosting the Weirdest Shows in San Francisco
Guest post by Edna Mira Raia Literal sparks projected at someone’s bare ass, a crying cow in a tub of pink milk, nudists in an upside-down room, trampoline powder art, rope suspended angels, and girls eating noodles off of each other’s bodies – I’ve seen all this craziness sprout from

A Comedy Show that Interacts in Real Time with Tinder Matches, & it’s Hilarious
By Jonas Barnes Tinder is the undisputed king of online dating and comedian and author Lane Moore has managed to take this dating app and turn it into a live comedy show. In NYC, this is something that any producer should celebrate because comedy comes and goes here on a