How Reggae Fest Is Bringing Authenticity Back to Nightlife

Eventbrite The party scene is an ever-evolving, ever-changing beast.  But the basic ingredients for throwing a successful soirée are fairly consistent: good music, good drinks, and lots of dancing.  CJ Milan, the founder and mastermind behind Reggae...

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Derrick Knight’s Grand Plan to Perform on the Moon

LA Weekly On a Friday night in May, a smattering of people hangs around outside the Moon Pad, a peach-colored house-turned-hostel in Boyle Heights. I have been invited to a party here by Derrick Knight, the Moon Pad's 28-year-old founder and manager. He promised a...

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Visiting Dead Relatives on Google Street View

Google Maps is meant to look up addresses, but it can also provide a window into the lives of the recently deceased. OK Whatever Three years after her grandparents’ deaths, 19-year-old Luisa Hoenle looked up their old house on Google Maps. Feeling nostalgic if not a...

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Will the Original Bob Ross Painting Please Stand Up?

In the market for a genuine piece of artwork by the iconic artist? Good luck. (You’ll need it.) OK Whatever Bob Ross was a mythical unicorn. From his perfectly coiffed and permed hair to his gentle demeanor and ASMR voice, there was nobody else like him on TV for...

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The Cartoonification of Florida Man

A daily comic series inspired by the antics of Florida’s zaniest denizens — and the bizarre headlines they help create.  OK Whatever Everyday is “Florida Man Day” in Florida.  Translation: People regularly do crazy and headline-grabbing things in that...

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Throwback on Wheels

There's just something about riding in a vintage Volkswagen van that makes taking a tour of San Francisco so appealing. SF Weekly A vintage Volkswagen van covered in psychedelic, S.F.-centric paintings idles on the corner of Jefferson and Hyde streets, its doors wide...

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Doug Hream Blunt’s Funk Revival

Three decades after its release, the 67-year old San Francisco musician's debut album finally enters the limelight. SF Weekly (Cover Story) Doug Hream Blunt was watching TV in his first-floor, Visitacion Valley home when the phone rang. It was the middle of 2015, and...

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Grooving With Rockin’ Jim

For more than four decades, the KPOO DJ has been spinning '50s and '60s tunes on nighttime radio. SF Weekly It’s a little before 8:30 p.m. on a Monday night, and Jim Rigsbee is sitting in the studio at public radio station KPOO, shuffling through a stack of CDs and...

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Dank Digits

Incorporating weed into nail art is the new way to show your love for the plant. SF Weekly Walk into any nail salon and chances are you’ll be greeted with the smells of rubbing alcohol and acetone. But a new trend is sweeping the nail-art world that might introduce...

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Berkeley Rapper Rexx Life Raj is Feeling Like A Dad Right Now

SF Weekly On a recent Saturday night, upwards of a hundred millennials gathered in an Emeryville warehouse to gleefully chant "Got me feeling like a dad right now." Leading the chorus was a 6-foot-3 man with chest-length dreadlocks flecked with gold beads, dressed in...

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Two Semi-Charmed Hours With Stephan Jenkins

The Third Eye Blind frontman dishes on the band's next album, trolling Republicans, and becoming 'a whole person.' SF Weekly Interviewing Stephan Jenkins is like herding cats or trying to get my very untrained dog Mischa to do a trick. He evades questions, changes the...

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