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Going to a Witch Dance on Halloween

How a sect of politically active, feminist neopagans try to make the world a better place, one night a year. OK Whatever The setting was incongruous. They were in a midcentury...

A 68-Year-Old Woman Attempts to Set a World Record Playing Solitaire

It was lunch hour on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 47th and the intersection was teeming with people. A Prêt-A-Manger employee proffered brownie samples to passersby on a...

Jennifer LeBarre Makes Sure That Oakland Students Get A Healthy Lunch

The bell rings— a prolonged buzzing signaling the end of class. Attention students: lunch is being served in the cafeteria, announces a female voice over the intercom. Lunch is...

After Oakland Hills Fire, Residents Build Off-The-Wall Homes

--Published on OaklandNorth.net on October 19, 2011--   Robert Pennell shifted the gear to neutral and parked the car along the side of the road. “There,” he said, pointing...

Salt Room Therapy On Shifty Ground

--Published in The Los Angeles Times health section on August 2, 2010-- It's 1 o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon, and Heidi Kling is reading in an all-white room. She's shoeless,...

Time For A Typewriter Renaissance?

Salon IT WAS 4 P.M. ON A THURSDAY, two hours until the end of Jesse Banuelos’ workday. He was standing behind the front counter of Berkeley Typewriter, his trademark green apron...
Going to a Witch Dance on Halloween

How a sect of politically active, feminist neopagans try to make the world a better place, one night a year. OK Whatever The setting was incongruous. They were in a midcentury auditorium in Richmond, California, with wooden flip-up seats and the faded lines of an old...

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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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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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I Wore Pasties At EDC And It Wasn’t That Bad

LA Weekly It’s easy to make friends when you wear pasties at EDC. I would know. I did it last night. I didn’t plan for this to happen. When I packed for the festival, I chose regular clothes—shorts, tank tops, a sundress. You see, I’m not a raver and I’d never been to...

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The Breakfast Club’s Angela Yee Serves It Hot

Wesleyan Magazine "Don’t screw this up,” Jay-Z joked when he bumped into Angela Yee ’97 in the hallway. She laughed—she’d known Jay-Z for years and was used to his quips—but still, he was right. Oh man, she remembers thinking, the pressure is really on now. It had...

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The Party That Never Ends

The East Bay Express It's Saturday night at The Layover and the bar is close to maximum capacity. People of all ages are crammed onto the tiny dance floor, their foreheads glistening with sweat as they shake and bob to the music. A gaggle of girls start twerking in a...

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After Oakland Hills Fire, Residents Build Off-The-Wall Homes

--Published on OaklandNorth.net on October 19, 2011--   Robert Pennell shifted the gear to neutral and parked the car along the side of the road. “There,” he said, pointing out the open window to a cluster of houses across the street. “That one is modern and the...

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