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01 Dec 2018

Ordering Weed is Finally Just like Amazon Prime

It’s crazy how easy it is to get cannabis delivered to your door these days.  Far from the shady and unreliable ways you used to ‘score pot’ back in the day, before it became completely legal in CA, remember?  Meeting some guy in a parking lot, or having to drive

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30 Nov 2018

This Website Has the Ultimate List of Holiday Events in SF

I love the holidays. I love San Francisco. But both can be hard: The consumerism, stress, and family drama then the rent, more stress, and a feeling that the high you’re getting from this city is transitory or illusive (and I say that as a native San Franciscan).

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30 Nov 2018

The Bizarre Backstory of the “Can You Feel It” Amazon Commercial Song

That awesome “Can You Feel It” Amazon commercial song in the awful “Singing Boxes” holiday commercial is so catchy that you figure there’s no way an Amazon ad person wrote it. They did not! That song was written by Michael Jackson himself (along with brother Jackie), and has a fascinating early

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29 Nov 2018

UC Berkeley Changes Could Provide Road Map to Political Civility

Inside Higher Ed just gave University of California, Berkeley a pass for civility, namely political civility, on campus. Calling the university civil is a sharp turn from allegations of First Amendment oppression in the wake of the Milo Yiannopoulos debacle that left the campus scarred, literally and theoretically, a little

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21 Nov 2018

Now That the Election Is Over, Lets Talk Dollars and Sense

By Ryan Smith Most of the straggling election results have finally worked themselves out, so now it’s time to take a look at how our local and state votes will really impact our pockets. A lot happened at the ballot boxes all over the country and across the state.  The

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20 Nov 2018

Mezzanine Forced to Close, Replaced By Commercial Offices

In a sad and surprising turn of events, the largest, female-owned music venue in SF is being forced out by building owners and developers Colton Commercial & Partners Inc.  The Mezzanine has been going strong in SF for the last 15 years, offering great programming by a rare and talented all-female booking staff

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19 Nov 2018

How to Help Glide For Thanksgiving

San Francisco’s most uplifting Thanksgiving tradition is Glide serving more than 5,000 Turkey Day meals to people in need, and Glide is on a last-minute blitz to prepare the hundreds of turkeys and hams, 1,500 pounds of potatoes, 950 pounds of fresh vegetables, and 312 gallons of stuffing necessary to

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18 Nov 2018

Forty Years from Jonestown: Lest We Forget

A little over a year ago, I joined a team of other journalists at San Francisco State University with a mission to understand how Jonestown could have happened, but along the way we realized the most important part of the history was the people themselves. Many of them were local,

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