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27 Apr 2022

On Tap this Week: Action, Activism, and Awesome Shows!

Every Tuesday our subscribers get this awesome roundup in their inboxes. You should sign up right here to make sure you never miss a thing. This week, we’re making a difference while we have some fun! With climate actions, rallies, and benefits on the calendar, you’re guaranteed to find something

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26 Apr 2022

We Wanna Send You to See HAIM!

We’re keeping it going with the epic giveaways – and next up, we’ve got two pairs of tickets to check out one of rock music’s tightest family acts… HAIM! Catch them at the Fox on 4/29 – the show starts at 7:30 pm (doors at 6:30 pm), so don’t be

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26 Apr 2022

How Elon Musk Buying Twitter May Affect San Francisco

So, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have heard about Elon Musk’s recent purchase of Twitter. If you haven’t heard, allow me to loop you in: Elon Musk, the dude who had a baby with Grimes and named it something absurd, now owns Twitter. You’re probably wondering why

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26 Apr 2022

Why Bart Needs To Go To Sacramento And The Central Valley

The San Francisco Bay Area is a prohibitively expensive place to live. Everyone knows that. What people don’t know is that the Bay Area is no longer considered a singular region anymore. It’s now a part of the larger Northern California Mega Region. The higher the prices get the closer

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25 Apr 2022

Elon Musk is Officially Buying Twitter

Elon Musk is buying Twitter, according to the company, which announced the transaction Monday. Musk will buy the company for $54.20 per share of common stock in a deal valued at about $44 billion. Twitter, which has its headquarters in San Francisco, will become a private company following the deal,

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25 Apr 2022

You Can Now Buy Psychedelic Plants in San Francisco

A few months ago I was wandering around North Beach for the First Friday art crawl and bumbled into a new store called Professor Seagull’s Smartshop. As someone who really likes mind-altering substances, I was amazed to see a bunch of psychedelic plants for sale. I remember saying something to

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25 Apr 2022

‘People’s Convoy’ Chased Out of Oakland by Kids Throwing Eggs

Well this just made my morning. On Friday afternoon the ‘People’s Convoy’, a far right caravan of truckers modeled after the Canadian truck protests against COVID-19 restrictions, fucked around and found out in Oakland. As Katie Dowd of SFGate points out, the People’s Convoy “has failed spectacularly at every turn.

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view of rolling hills of California
22 Apr 2022

In Response to Ongoing Droughts, California Senate Votes to Limit Our Water

Each time we have some rainfall in the Bay Area, I always have a small glimmer of hope that we could be out of drought season. Is California still in a drought? The short answer is that we may always be in one. Knowing the California drought is likely here

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