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26 Jan 2024

Last Bart: The Song About Late Night Bart Rides We Can All Relate to

A late-night BART ride is not for the faint of heart. You’re transported between point A and B in the weird, twisted world of Bay Area Transit. There’s no telling what you’ll see onboard – a used joint, wild creatures from the unknown, left over food or even your classic

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25 Jan 2024

The Circus is Back in Town, So Bring Out the Clowns!

We strolled onto the damp, January asphalt a block or so from Warriors Stadium, and were immediately contacted by a clown. “Bonne soirée,” I said.  He feigned to be impressed by my French, made an elaborate bow as onlookers laughed, and gave me a clown nose for my efforts. Right

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24 Jan 2024

The Time I Had to Deal with a Vaccine Denier While Getting a Vaccine

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been used to the idea that vaccines simply are part of life. The youthful fear I may have indulged in as a toddler notwithstanding, I’m pretty sure that before I was ten I found that their practical application made sense. Moreover, on more than one occasion throughout my life, my mother related her experience of catching scarlet fever as a very young girl in the 1940s, back when such a thing was commonplace. In fact, her older sister, who was infected at the same time she was, nearly died of the disease.

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24 Jan 2024

Mutiny Radio is Closing its Mission District Station

After 13 years of holding court at the corner of 21st and Bryant Streets, Mutiny Radio is shutting down operations of the station/studio. While Mutiny Radio will remain as a brand that does five open mics around San Francisco each week, it will no longer be a storefront internet radio

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24 Jan 2024

Is Dre Greenlaw Still Running Around Levi’s? Your 49ers NFC Championship Preview

Now that it’s Wednesday afternoon and my heart rate has finally subsided to its normal pizza and chicken wings resting rate, we can unpack some things about last weekend’s Niners’ game. Dre Greenlaw single handedly put an entire region, let alone the city of San Francisco, into what can only

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23 Jan 2024

Monkeybrains: The Bay Area’s Anti-Corporate, Anti-Monopoly Internet Service

They have been a local, independent internet service provider since 1998 and have developed a rabid following because, quite simply, they rock. And I’m not just saying this because they’re giving me money to do so, I’ve been a very satisfied, paying customer of theirs for over seven years now.

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23 Jan 2024

Best Bay Area Events 1/23-1/29

Bonnie Ora Sherk at Fort Mason Center Now – Sunday, March 10th | Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames Since 1970 Bonnie Ora Sherk is a bit of an eco-art legend in the Bay Area, and was decades ahead of her time. Sherk’s pioneering projects in 1970s San Francisco, including Portable Parks I-III and Crossroads Community (the

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