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09 Mar 2017

Weird & Wonderful Ep.8: Talking to Weirdos at Madrone

Wow, we are at Ep.8 of Weird & Wonderful w/Broke-Ass Stuart! This has been such a cool adventure so far. In this Ep Sonny and I take our show on the road. We set up at Madrone Art Bar on Divisidero on a Tuesday afternoon and talk to a whole

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09 Mar 2017

The Honey Bear BART Bandit of San Francisco: fnnch

The “Artist You Should Know” series highlights local artists before they exhibit their work somewhere awesome, it’s our way of supporting the creative community and helping to keep San Francisco a strange and wonderful place. Meet fnnch, BART’s unofficial artist in residence… You may have seen fnnch’s work around town, he’s

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09 Mar 2017

SXSW is BullSX!T

SXSW jumped the shark long ago, so be glad you’re not attending the Doritos-sponsored Spring Break for corporate America that’s getting underway in Austin, Texas. SWSW calls itself a “music, film, and interactive festival”. What in the Hello Fresh is an “interactive festival”? It’s where the normally cool city of

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09 Mar 2017

We wanna send you to see Symphony Silicon Valley perform Chamber of Secrets Live!

John Williams has composed film scores for most of our beloved films: Jaws, the Star Wars series, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the Indiana Jones series just to name a few. Here is your chance to hear one of his film scores live, as he has scored three of the Harry Potter

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08 Mar 2017

“I Want a Dyke For President” Poem Posted in Castro District Front Yard

My friend Aubree sent this to me earlier today. She saw it posted in the front yard of a house on Ord St. between Market and 17th Sts. Written in 1992 by Zoe Leonard an artist, activist, and member of the queer women art collective Fierce Pussy, “I want a Dyke for President”

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07 Mar 2017

We wanna send you to see A Wilhelm Scream!

  A WILHELM SCREAM formed in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 2004 out of the momentum of founding members Trevor Reilly, Nuno Pereira and Nicholas Pasquale Angelini’s previous band, Smackin’ Isaiah. They’re still having the time of their lives playing and writing music that they really love to labor over. New

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07 Mar 2017

We wanna send you to Nef The Pharaoh as seen on Noisey!

Zach Goldbaum stands out in the crowd. He’s timid and white. He’s standing in a large group of young black men, who are just hanging out in their South Vallejo neighborhood. They’re conversing, smoking, shooting the shit. Nef The Pharaoh is one of the young men in the group who says, “…it’s

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07 Mar 2017

How Con-Men Rule America’s Middle Class

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” – John Steinbeck When I was younger my family was too broke to take a vacation to Universal Studios. We had never been, and all really wanted to go. My

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