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15 Jul 2025

Silicon Valley and the Gentrification of Eugenics

Silicon Valley loves solving “problems.” Whether it’s self-driving cars or lab-grown meat, there’s always a startup or a billionaire trying to optimize something. Lately, a handful of tech elites have turned their attention to what they see as the next crisis: not enough babies. This movement, called pro-natalism, is picking

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10 Jul 2025

The Clowns Have Come to Save us from AI! Interview with Sara Toby Moore

The Mechanix, a new production from Thrillride Mechanics, is a soulful and magical realism show that explores the theme of identity and enchantment.

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10 Jul 2025

Breaking the Mold of the Jukebox Musical: ‘& Juliet’ at the Orpheum

Oops, they did it again. The latest jukebox musical, & Juliet arrived at the Orpheum Theater on July 3rd… The show posits the question: ‘What if Juliet didn’t stab herself after discovering her dead Romeo?’ The character named ‘Anne Hathaway’ played by the talented Teal Wicks is the wife of William Shakespeare

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08 Jul 2025

Best Bay Area Events 7/8-7/28

Lucha Libre & Brazilian Music at the Excelsior Night Market! Join us at the monthly Excelsior Night Market for a night of food, fun, and community vibes! It all kicks off this Friday 7/11 with Lucha Libre from Wrestling For Charity featuring Salvadorian luchador Kaka Meng. And there’s live Brazilian percussion, electronic, dance, music from Batuki. Free with RSVP! Kiss Off by Vanessa Gil, Arts &

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01 Jul 2025

Best Bay Area Events 7/1-7/21

Summertime by Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor The City provided another beautiful and sunny Pink Saturday in Dolores Park this past weekend. What a wonderful Pride making new memories with friends & family in San Francisco. I’ve been reenergized and am ready for the rest of these summer events. Podcast

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01 Jul 2025

We Wanna Send You to the Alameda Rock & Roll Flea Market on 7/26 at Faction Brewing!

We Wanna Send You to the Alameda Rock & Roll Flea Market on 7/26 at Faction Brewing! Enter to Win a pair of tickets to the Alameda Rock & Roll Flea Market, PLUS two entrees from Satay By The Bay, and two beers from Faction Brewing! (21+ w/ I.D.) Rock

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01 Jul 2025

All of your AI-Girlfriends live in San Francisco

The male loneliness epidemic has been a common topic of discussion since the term was first coined a few years ago. Technology has gone from something that existed on the periphery of society into an unavoidable augmentation that is essentially required to exist in the modern world. The earliest indications

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28 Jun 2025

Know Your SF History: SFPD Raids Drag Ball

Before the riots at New York City’s Stonewall Inn in 1969 and at the Compton’s Cafeteria at Turk Street in San Francisco three years prior, San Francisco’s LGBT community experienced a pivotal moment in which they had to fight for their rights in the face of police harassment and intimidation.

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