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This Artist Gives Natural Dye Tips & Where to Get Supplies in The Bay Area
Do you have a stove and eat avocados? Great! You’re halfway there. Natural dyeing is an activity that is amazingly accessible, and underscores ancient wisdom. The following is a quick primer on the basics and methodology for natural dyeing. It’s meant to pique your curiosity, stir an inner muse, and
Noise Pop 2023 Festival Highlights
Noise Pop, Music and Arts Festival is turning 30 this year, to celebrate it they brought over 160 shows to San Francisco and the East Bay. Here’s a few of our favorite gigs happening from today until the end of the Festival on Sunday, February 26. Thursday Feb 23: Bob
A New Talk Radio-ish Show w/ Broke-Ass Stuart & Reverend Lysol Tony-Romeo
By Reverend Lysol Tony-Romeo I’m proud to announce that Broke-Ass Stuart and I will be debuting a new livestream called Don’t Call It San Fran! It’s a natural combination, a journalist and Mayoral candidate teaming up with a drag queen and Reverend of a David Bowie church. What could be more
Where I like to Drink Wine in San Francisco
I like locally owned joints, with great people, great wine, and a great view doesn’t hurt either. That’s why we put together the San Francisco Wine Passport every year, so YOU, our fine reader can go to 23 of the best spots to hang in SF, and literally drink it all in without breaking your wallet.
California Says It Can No Longer Afford Aid for Covid Testing & Vaccinations for Migrants
by Don Thompson All day and sometimes into the night, buses and vans pull up to three state-funded medical screening centers near California’s southern border with Mexico. Federal immigration officers unload migrants predominantly from Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, and Peru, most of whom await asylum hearings in the United States. Once
Tucker Carlson Is From The Mission District?
I remember mindlessly scrolling on Facebook when I saw it: an SF Standard article about San Francisco’s ‘Nepo Babies.’ I thought to myself “Ahh, more rich people to hate,” and I clicked on the link. Many of the names and faces were ones I had expected to see. But one
Man Who Lost Leg On BART Awarded $9 Million In Lawsuit Settlement
A lot of bad things happen on BART, but most of the time, no matter how bad the experience, you make it to your destination in one piece. But, in the case of David Nelson, that wasn’t the case. And it ended up costing BART over $9 million. Nelson’s leg
Time traveling through The Compass Rose at Fort Mason
There is an incredible display of historic resonance in Gallery 308 at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC) these days, an exhibition of meticulously crafted sculpture along with video and sound works, by the self-described time traveler, Sunny A. Smith.