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This Week’s News: Pulitzers, Weed, and Snow…in Oakland
This week is all about the cool, the cunning and the cannabis. We’re diverging from the national news update in order to leave your stomach in tact for California’s first legal 420. You can thank me later. Trees here, trees there, trees everywhere In case you live under a rock,

San Francisco 4/20 Events Guide: It’s Legal Now!
Weed is legal, 4/20 is on a Friday, and this year’s San Francisco 4/20 will be more off the hook than any single-day marijuana event ever. We’ve got your chron-prehensive guide to every good 4/20 party, event, and dispensary discount happening all across town, to get you ‘ready to roll’ but still remember what time it is.

Patricia’s Green Has A New 50ft Glowing Art Installation!
In a rather delightful way, Burning Man keeps a storage space on Patricia’s Green in Hayes Valley. The San Francisco Arts Commission and Recreation and Park Department carved out a year lease for another sculpture that grew out of the Playa. Artist Charles Gadeken’s 50ft LED sculpture ‘SQUARED’ is now

Barbara Bush: “Beautiful Mind” or “Amazing Racist”? Maybe Both.
The matriarch of the Bush family dynasty died Tuesday night at the age of 92, surrounded by the very loved ones she fiercely protected in life. The tributes immediately began pouring in Wednesday morning from all ends of the political spectrum, many of which celebrated her strength – and no

We wanna send you to see Damien Jurado @ The Chapel!
Urban folk singer/songwriter Damien Jurado quietly built up one of the strongest catalogs on the indie scene, earning high critical praise yet somehow never quite getting his proper due. Nick Drake had a definite impact on much of his work, but Jurado modeled his career on more idiosyncratic, unpredictable figures

We wanna send you and bae to see Yasiin Bey!
Yasiin Bey, best known by his stage name Mos Def, is an American hip hop recording artist, actor, and activist. Best known for his music, Mos Def embarked on his hip hop career in 1994, alongside his siblings in the short-lived rap group Urban Thermo Dynamics (UTD), after which he

Tips for Having a Successful Garage Sale
If you’re like most people, you probably don’t wear the majority of what’s in your closet. In fact, your entire home (and any other storage areas you have access to) could be cluttered with items you don’t use on a daily basis or simply shouldn’t have bought in the first