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28 Jan 2019

Hooray! The SF Independent Film Festival is Here!

Guest Post by Peter Wong Love independent film but too broke to head out to Park City for either Sundance or Slamdance?  Such local film-lovers are in luck, as the 21st San Francisco Independent Film Festival (aka IndieFest) returns to the Roxie and Victoria Theatres to bring both fun and

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27 Jan 2019

Ted Cruz Talks to MAGA Teen About Living with ‘Punchable Face Syndrome’

“I’m a survivor, you’re a survivor, God knows it wasn’t easy”.  Ted Cruz on living with PFS (Punchable Face Syndrome). Senator Ted Cruz of Texas reached out to the embattled MAGA hat wearing teenager Nick Sandmann Sunday to speak with him about the dangers of living with PFS, commonly known as ‘Punchable Face

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25 Jan 2019

8 Things Straight People Can Do to Support LGBTQ Folks Right Now

No one can deny that LGBTQ individuals have had a tough go of things under the current presidential administration. With the Supreme Court voting to allow a ban on transgender soldiers who have served their country bravely, the situation appears grim for those in the LGBTQ community and their allies.

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25 Jan 2019

Bankruptcy Forces National Valentine’s Day Candy Heart Shortage

Those colored candy Sweethearts with little sayings on them will be harder to come by this year. Their manufacturer Necco declared bankruptcy in May of last year, leaving the future of the iconic tiny candy hearts in limbo. Though competitor the Spangler Candy Company swooped in and bought up the

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24 Jan 2019

Bay Of The Living Dead: Beware The Stare Of Dracula: A Celebration Of Hammer Horror

Welcome to Bay Of The Living Dead, a regular column about the horror genre. For nearly twenty years beginning in 1957, England’s Hammer Films was the go-to studio for old fashioned Gothic horror. The company’s reign of terror began with The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957), a full color, blood and thunder re-imagining of

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24 Jan 2019

Highlights of UNTITLED and FOG Design+Art in SF

After checking out UNTITLED (at Pier 35) and FOG Design+Art (at Fort Mason), and seeing a lot of great artwork, I think that UNTITLED was the stronger art fair of the two.  Although FOG benefits SFMOMA and tends to get more hype leading up to it, the overall selections at UNTITLED were edgier

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24 Jan 2019

Trump to Hire Fyre Festival Staff to Promote/Build Border Wall

“We’re going to get the models, and the sand, and build a beautiful wall in the desert…and Kanye is coming” – President Trump on his new border wall campaign A month into the government shutdown President Trump announced that the border wall between Mexico and USA was going to be built without the help

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23 Jan 2019

Whiskey Thieves Announces It’s Closing

Paul Bavaro thinks San Francisco’s dive bar scene may not be long for this world. When he opened Whiskey Thieves at 839 Geary St. 15 years ago, it was the “first true whiskey bar” that at one point served up 275 varieties and although good whiskey does not come cheap,

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