Monday, May 4, 2020

Chrissie Hynde Remembers the Kent State Shootings

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It's 50 years today since the Kent State shootings, when the National Guard shot 67 bullets at college students, injuring nine and killi...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

RIP to the Heavenly Shirley Knight

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The accomplished, sensitive, and exquisitely beautiful actress Shirley Knight has died at the age of 83. Knight appeared as Heavenly Fin...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

SF Mayor Recommends Netflix and Chill for 420 Revelers

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If you're going to San Francisco Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair... But not this year. And don't smoke your flowers the...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

Top 20 for 4/20 Women and Weed Movies (Part 2)

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I don't like many of the "Stoner Movies" that people like to list: I much prefer a good movie that has a pivotal scene involvi...
Friday, April 10, 2020

Top 20 Women and Weed Movies (Part 1)

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It's somehow fitting that this April, when the whole month is 4/20, we should be forced into being couch potatoes while safely shelterin...
Friday, March 27, 2020

Mark Twain, Fannie & Fred, and Hasheesh Candy in Old San Francisco

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RICHARDS & CO., a San Francisco pharmacy that advertised Hasheesh Candy in 1872, was on the corner of Sansome & Clay streets on th...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Opera's Carmen, The Gypsy Drug Smuggler

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A Elina Garanca as Carmen with Roberto Alagna as Don José at the Met s a treat for those of us (almost everyone, it seems) who are "...