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Commonwealth to Close, Following Rent Hike
The Michelin-starred Mission eatery will close in August after almost a decade of preparing fresh, locally sourced and interesting tasting menus in San Francisco. Their landlord doubled their rent to $9k in April, and Chef Jason Fox & partners couldn’t negotiate them down. If you’re interested in taking over the

THIS SHOW IS CANCELLED!!! We wanna send you and your bae to see Talib Kweli on the Summer Soulstice Tour!
The Brooklyn-based rapper earned his stripes as one of the most lyrically-gifted, socially aware and politically insightful rappers to emerge in the last 20 years. His travels around the globe as one of rap’s most in-demand performers combined with his conversations with political activists and his genre-straddling work with Idle

We wanna send you plus one to see Pixx @ Cafe Du Nord!
A playful, performative record, The Age Of Anxiety borrows its title from a phrase found in a notebook given to Pixx (the moniker of 21 year-old musician Hannah Rodgers) by her brother, Luke. It is the title of W.H. Auden’s final long poem, charting one man’s quest to find substance and identity

We wanna send you and a friend to the San Francisco Lamb Jam competition!
Don’t miss this epic gastronomic experience and culinary competition that brings together 16 of some of San Francisco’s most talented chefs to vie for the title of Lamb Jam San Francisco Champion, and celebrate the 80,000 family operated farms and ranches raising lamb across the nation. Your San Francisco Lamb Jam ticket

Suspect in Nia Wilson’s Murder Cleared to Stand Trial
It was nearly a year ago when Nia Wilson, 18, was murdered and her sister Lahtifa Wilson, 26, was injured in a “prison-style attack” on the MacArthur BART platform. An Alameda County Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that the suspect in Wilson’s murder is mentally competent enough to stand trial.

Yes, It Is Ethical and Appropriate to Call Trump a Racist
A large chunk of the country is up in arms about recent tweets and public comments made by the president that seem to project a, well, super racist tone. In a recent swarm of posts, he’s dubbed a group of four Congresswomen the “squad” and has called on them to

Berkeley Bans Natural Gas Buildings
The city of Berkeley made a bold move at Tuesday’s City Council meeting by banning natural gas pipes in future building developments. The legislation makes the East Bay city the first in the state to pass such a strong anti-natural gas policy. There will of course be exceptions to the