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Melissa Tan
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/31-6/6
This week, get your food on at the Old Mint Building, learn how to write the perfect press release, get crafty at Workshop SF for the Divisadero Art Walk and Indie Mart at Thee Parkside, and celebrate all things queer…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/24-5/30
This week, Monday gets more tolerable with cocktails and local art at Make My Monday, Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher takes over El Rio, demystify the history of the Wiggle with ThinkWalk, and celebrate National Masturbation Month at the San…
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Notable San Francisco, this Week: 5/17-5/23
This week, wood block prints, films about farms, have a nerd-gasm at Cory Doctorow’s EFF reading at 111 Minna, see suspense-master Palahniuk at the Swedish American Music Hall, and get queer at RADAR’s fundraiser with Michelle Tea and Heklina. Monday…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/10-5/16
This Week: The May Monthly Rumpus! Have some Lit&Lunch at 111 Minna, Bawdy Storytelling, an extra Rumpus-y Literary Death Match, and crazy drunken San Franciscans in varying degrees of nudity: it’s Bay to Breakers! Monday 5/10: It’s time for the…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/3-5/9
This week, San Francisco flaunts its artistic side with free museum admission on First Tuesday, the 17th Annual MoMA Warehouse Sale, SoEx’s 2010: Space Odyssey fund raiser, and ReFrame: Making Sense of Waste at ARC. Full up on traditional cultural…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/26 – 5/2:
This week, show some skin for Boobquake!, shake your booty at ODC’s free dance classes, and get hotter than Georgia asphalt at the x-rated 20 year anniversary showing of Wild at Heart. Monday 4/26: Ladies, participate in a global experiment…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/19-4/25
This week, celebrate Earth Day, National Poetry Month, and San Francisco’s spectacular art scene. Also, feel smarter with Ransom Stephens, and pay homage to the Reubenesque figure at Hot.Fat.Femmes! Monday 4/19: Get smart! Head over to Atlas Cafe where Ransom…
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Tune of the Day
Artists: Grand Hallway Song: “Blessed Be, Honey Bee” Related: “Indie Bands Take Back the Internet.”
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/12-4/18
This week: The Monthly Rumpus rocks the Makeout Room yet again, The Believer presents You’re a Horrible Person, but I Like You, San Francisco’s Cinematheque society has a neat film party at the Victoria Theater, and feel better about not…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 4/5-4/11
This week, get your literature on at Mission-famous events by Quiet Lightning, Sister Spit, and Literary Death Match, celebrate all things female at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, party for civil rights at the 10th annual César Chávez Day…
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Indie Bands Take Back the Internet
Tomo Nakayama is small, almost hidden completely by the beautiful guitar in his lap and the Jameson on the rocks he holds in front of his face. Instead of a stage, he is sitting in the corner of a cozy…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/29-4/4
This Week, Get ready for next week’s Monthly Rumpus with a Yellow Dress show, check out emerging writers at USF and established ones at Grow the F*ck Up! at the Hemlock, get your nerd on at Wondercon, and celebrate a…