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26 Jul 2018

All the Best Times Trump’s Hollywood Star Was Destroyed

Since Trump has taken office his Hollywood Star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame has been vandalized and micturated upon in all sorts of delightful ways.  Sometimes the installations were artful, sometimes brutish, and sometimes just gross.  In any case, we rounded up the best bouts of vandalism involving protests against Trump’s

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25 Jul 2018

We wanna send you plus one to see Tinariwen, The Rebels of the Desert

Tinariwen is one of the latest musical phenomena of truly universal calibre, and not an event to miss. The new album by Tinariwen could well have been called Exile on Main Street. But other people have already thought of that. It also could have been called A la recherché du

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25 Jul 2018

We wanna send you and your bae to see Weezer and Pixies!

“Spastic electro-pop outfit Sleigh Bells will add some extra texture to an upcoming North American tour headlined by Weezer and Pixies, two bands who already made this trek a unique melding of alt-rock royalty.” – Consequence of Sound [promosimple id=”d3c3″]

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25 Jul 2018

Little Choices, Big Difference: How to Give A Crap About the Environment

Have you ever gone to a bar and tried to ask for a drink without a straw?  The bartender looks at you like you are crazy. And if you try to explain that you don’t want a straw because it needlessly wastes plastic, that look intensifies.

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23 Jul 2018

We Wanna Give You a 2018 Oakland Beer Passport!

Step into a world of adventure with the Oakland Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore Oakland than to literally drink it in. The Oakland Beer Passport is amazing, you get 28 beers at 28 bars for $35. It honestly doesn’t get much better than that, unless you get one

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23 Jul 2018

Alt-Right Frat Boys Descending on Oakland Tonight. Local Businesses Fighting Back.

The Proud Boys, everybody’s favorite Alt-Right frat boys, have planned a meet-up in Uptown Oakland tonight. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center the Proud Boys are anti-muslim misogynists, and that “rank-and-file Proud Boys and leaders regularly spout white nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists.” Don’t they just sound lovely?

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23 Jul 2018

As San Francisco Goes, So Goes Oakland

The last time San Franciscans talked this much about Oakland was in 1906. The City was ablaze and 100,000 residents fled across San Francisco Bay, many never to move back to San Francisco. They say the population of Oakland doubled in roughly 72 hours. 

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23 Jul 2018

NYC Drag Queen Of The Week – Sherry Pie

There is no shortage of drag queens in NYC. You can’t throw a rock without hitting some twink in a dress thinking 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

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