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21 Sep 2021

Veteran Protester Gets Hauled Out of Bush Speech After Calling Him a Liar, War Criminal

By Ian Firstenberg  Former President George W. Bush joined celebrities and journalists alike on a speaking circuit when he was rudely reminded by an Iraq War veteran of the crimes against humanity he helped perpetrate.  Former President George W. Bush spoke in the Los Angeles area Sunday and Monday night as

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21 Sep 2021

Second Sky Music Festival Attendees Were Too Tired For This Years Festival Season!

While the excitement was high initially, Second Sky Music Festival attendees realized ever so quickly their bodies weren’t actually ready for festival season. As it turns out, one and half years of staying at home to shelter in place had made them too soft to stand.

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21 Sep 2021

Black Lips, Guitar Riffs and Cocktail Sips at The Chapel

By Patricia Colli After a long hiatus without concerts, indoor venues finally reopened this month in SF and I went back to the mosh pit, where I belong, to see The Black Lips at The Chapel, one of my favorite venues in the city with the best drinks, awesome sound system

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20 Sep 2021

Uber Staff In Revolt Because Their Stock Options Are In The Toilet

Imagine being the kind of employee whose main concern is not your impact on society or the world at large, or the things your company or business accomplishes — but instead, your main concern is how your stock options are doing. Yet that is the case throughout much of Silicon

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20 Sep 2021

SF’s First Spirit Halloween Store Of The Year Has Opened

In San Francisco, the “Holiday Season” begins in the last full week of September, a.k.a. Leather Week, which officially started with Sunday’s Leather Walk. And while preparations are now underway for this coming Sunday’s “Folsom Street Fair,” which this year is calling itself Megahood 2021, preparations are also underway to

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20 Sep 2021

PG&E Power Shut-Off Season Is Back

It’s the tail end of September, and you know what that means  — PG&E is shutting off power for thousands of California customers. About 14,000 customers in the East Bay lost their power on Sunday, and things will only get worse and more widespread on Monday, as the utility company

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17 Sep 2021

They Came, They Saw, They Stole Our Catalytic Converters

My girlfriend didn’t want me to write this article about the plague of thieves and criminals stealing catalytic converters from unsuspecting drivers around the Bay Area, which have boomed from an average of 108 per month in 2018 to 2,347 December 2020, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau. Always

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17 Sep 2021

How You Can Get Congress to Act on Climate Change

Climate change is real, it’s here, and it’s frightening. We need our government to step up and make major changes. Luckily there’s a petition going around to help make them do so. From hurricane damage to forest fires, natural disasters are devastating communities. Right now, The House of Representatives has

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