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06 Nov 2017

How To Crash All The Best Dreamforce 2017 Parties For Free

Open bar and appetizers paid for by Corporate America await you as Dreamforce 2017 swallows up SoMa and downtown all this week (Nov. 6-9). The world’s largest software conference is also the world’s largest party-crashing opportunity, with oodles of cash-negative startups throwing insanely opulent parties all over our fair city.

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05 Nov 2017

BFF.fm: Keeping SF’s Creativity Alive Through DIY Community Radio

I’ve been a big fan of BFF.fm since they launched and have been a guest on a number of their shows. Then starting a few months ago Sonny Phono and I began recording our podcast Weird & Wonderful with Broke-Ass Stuart there. Because I love what they do, and as

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05 Nov 2017

SURVIVING A THIRD THANKSGIVING IN SF ON A BUDGET

OFF MENU IS SPONSORED BY BENDER’S BECAUSE THEY ARE BADASS. DROP BY AND MAKE SOME BAD DECISIONS WITH SOME GOOD PEOPLE! THIRD ANNUAL SURVIVING THANKSGIVING ON A $40 BUDGET In 2015’s Thanksgiving in SF on a $30 Budget, I showed you how you could create a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for you and your friends who are

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04 Nov 2017

Meet Tenor, Teacher & Opera Star Michael Fabiano

he has been compared to Luciano Pavarotti, performed at leading opera houses around the world (including the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro Real, Opéra National de Paris, and La Scala), and in 2014, he was the first person to win both the Richard Tucker and the Beverly Sills Artist awards in the same year.

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03 Nov 2017

Slumber Party to End Homelessness

Ok, the name of this is actually “Sleep Out to End Homelessness” but i used some poetic license. The fine folks at the Coalition on Homelessness are throwing a Sleep Out to End Homelessness at the Powell Street Cablecar Turnaround during Homelessness Awareness Week. As you know, we have an

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03 Nov 2017

How To Win A Facebook Fight

By Rachel Fogletto  If you google reasons not to argue online, you’ll come across many cartoons, memes, and quotes about arguing with idiots. For instance, Mark Twain once said, “Do not argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” Or maybe he didn’t because a

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03 Nov 2017

12 Reasons You Should NOT Support Broke-Ass Stuart Ever

This post is made possible by Citizens Against Broke-Ass Stuart. Apparently Broke-Ass Stuart has started a Patreon page so that the website can be sustainable, and so he pay his writers better, keep supporting progressive causes, and continue creating what he calls “dope shit”. We hear he’s even giving out

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02 Nov 2017

This Week’s Events | San Francisco + New York

Rad Upcoming SF Events DAY OF THE DEAD SAN FRANCISCO THU. 11/2 | 4:00PM @ THE MISSION Day of the Dead San Francisco is a community event that has been happening for over 30 years. There are many organizations and people that contribute to the richness of this event, The Mission really

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