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Angry About the MTA? Let’s Talk About SEPTA
By Hannah Harkness This summer is being referred to as “The Summer of Hell” by MTA riders. Line closures, derailments, fires and late trains are making everything insane for public transit riders. But as I look at the images of giant throngs of stranded riders popping up on my Facebook

Hollywood’s Bisexual Closet: Queer Film Historian Boze Hadleigh Kicks the Door Open
A small crowd of around a dozen people gathered at the GLBT History Museum in the Castro recently for Hollywood’s Bisexual Closet: Marilyn Monroe and More, a talk given by openly gay Hollywood historian and author Boze Hadleigh. Hadleigh’s books include Conversations With My Elders and Hollywood Lesbians. Many

Maya Angelou, San Francisco’s First African-American Female Streetcar Conductor
By V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi The first African-American to pen a best-selling nonfiction book. The first African-American and first female to read a poem at a Presidential Inauguration. The first African-American female director. It seems that Dr. Maya Angelou was destined for a life of trailblazing firsts. Perhaps the initial, yet

We wanna send you to Eat Drink SF’s Grand Tasting!
San Francisco’s premier food, wine, beer, and spirits festival. Eat Drink SF (fka SF Chefs) returns for its ninth year to celebrate the Bay Area’s world-class culinary community. Each Grand Tasting features delicious bites from more than 30 different top restaurants (160 restaurants are featured throughout the entire festival weekend!) and

Weird & Wonderful: Rappelling Down Skyscrapers & Building Skateboards
Weird & Wonderful is back and this time it’s hella outdoorsy. Who doesn’t want to hear about rappelling down skyscrapers and upcycling old skateboards?

White Nationalist Rallies Coming to SF and Berkeley
Let me start off by saying that, if it were up to me, there would be zero press about these rallies and zero protesters would show up. That way it would be a sad group of 200 people chanting “Make America Great Again” at each other and then going home

Pranksters Hijacked Mike Pence’s ‘Official’ website
The satirical Mike Pence site is now by far more popular than any other related site, reminiscent of what Dan Savage did to Rick Santorum in the past.