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Norm Macdonald’s Greatest Talk Show Appearances
What Letterman, Conan, & Myers had to say about Norm, the greatest deadpan comedian of all time.

Oakland’s Strange & Delightful “Troll Trail”
Deep in Oakland, imaginative trolls await you along the Bridgeview Troll Trail bringing the fun of art and creativity back into your life. What started out as just a way to bring in some fun during the all-consuming sadness of 2020, has turned into a collective art project.

Anonymous SoMa Group Fights Permanently Housing The Homeless At The Panoramic Apartments
It seemed lovely news all around back in mid-August when the city of San Francisco announced plans to buy four hotels and convert them to housing for people experiencing homelessness. This will not solve San Francisco’s homelessness problem, which at last count was more than 8,000 unsheltered people, but 368

Why SF Weekly Shutting Down is so Awful
By now you’ve probably probably heard: SF Weekly is shutting down indefinitely. When I first learned about it, I was somehow both shocked and unsurprised at the same time. Shocked because I can’t imagine San Francisco without an alt-weekly. Unsurprised because I know how broken the business of local, independent

They’re About To Put More Outside Lands Tickets On Sale
When Outside Lands tickets went on sale in April, they sold out in less than two hours. But if you are one of the many, many, many people who wanted Outside Lands tickets and didn’t get them, you have another chance. The festival just announced they are putting more Outside

Gavin Looking Good As Recall Fails Spectacularly
The Recall Gavin Newsom election was such a blowout loss for the recall that the neworks all called the election a mere 37 minutes after the polls closed. They’re still counting votes, though, and according to the current numbers from the California Secretary of State, the recall failed by a

Want Separate Checks at the Restaurant? Here’s the Deal.
I’ve got a dirty little secret and it’s an unpopular opinion for most servers to have: I am a fan of separate checks. Let me clarify. As a server, I’ve had several credit cards tossed in my general direction at the end of service with customers assuming I have kept