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Here’s What Bay Area Rappers Are Eating (According to Their Lyrics)
A brief look at some of the Bay Area’s most notoriously hungry rappers — and the foods they’ve lyricized about.
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5 New Mysteries and Thrillers for Your Nightstand This Spring
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The Oakland Library's Main Branch to Close for Six Months for Repairs
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How Low Key Became the Coolest Skate Shop in San Francisco
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A white man with a red beard stands outside a shop front wearing a green windbreaker. Another man, with long half-bleached hair, stands to his right with his back turned. He is wearing the same windbreaker. It says 'The Tenderloin.'
Ticket Alert: Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Are Coming to San Francsico
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It’s a Wild Ride to Get to the Bottom of What Everyone’s Hiding in ‘A Better World’
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Dr. Akilah Cadet poses while sitting at KQED studios and holding a copy of her book, 'White Supremacy Is All Around: Notes from a Black Disabled Woman in a White World'.
The Chronic Pain Of White Supremacy
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Rightnowish Presents: Immigrantly’s Conversation with Musician Meklit Hadero
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Zoë Boston, the Artistic Alchemist
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Beyoncé Fans Reflect on Election Year Concerns at San Francisco Drag Show
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Pro-Palestinian Jewish Artists Withdraw from Contemporary Jewish Museum Exhibit
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What’s Going on at San Francisco’s Mexican Museum?
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5 New Mysteries and Thrillers for Your Nightstand This Spring
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A white man with a red beard stands outside a shop front wearing a green windbreaker. Another man, with long half-bleached hair, stands to his right with his back turned. He is wearing the same windbreaker. It says 'The Tenderloin.'
How Low Key Became the Coolest Skate Shop in San Francisco
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Ticket Alert: Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Are Coming to San Francsico
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Illustration of the rapper Larry June in an SF Giants cap, holding a crab cracker in one hand and a fork in the other. In front of him is a whole lobster on a plate.
Here’s What Bay Area Rappers Are Eating (According to Their Lyrics)
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You Can Get Free Ice Cream on Tuesday — No Catch
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Samosas aren’t from India…Wait, what?
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Illustration of the rapper Larry June in an SF Giants cap, holding a crab cracker in one hand and a fork in the other. In front of him is a whole lobster on a plate.
Here’s What Bay Area Rappers Are Eating (According to Their Lyrics)
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The Dancer Who Helped Start the Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program
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The Pregnant Teen Who Captained a Clipper Ship in 1856
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The Eccentric Saloon Owner Beloved and Defended by 19th-Century Sailors
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5 New Mysteries and Thrillers for Your Nightstand This Spring

These thrilling new books will take you from murder in present-day Texas to cryptography in Cold War Berlin.
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A woman in a white sweater sits in front of a group of children reading a book.

The Oakland Library's Main Branch to Close for Six Months for Repairs

The 74-year-old building on 14th Street in downtown Oakland will close from May 27 to November.
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Illustration of the rapper Larry June in an SF Giants cap, holding a crab cracker in one hand and a fork in the other. In front of him is a whole lobster on a plate.

Here’s What Bay Area Rappers Are Eating (According to Their Lyrics)

A brief look at some of the Bay Area’s most notoriously hungry rappers — and the foods they’ve lyricized about.
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A white man with a red beard stands outside a shop front wearing a green windbreaker. Another man, with long half-bleached hair, stands to his right with his back turned. He is wearing the same windbreaker. It says 'The Tenderloin.'

How Low Key Became the Coolest Skate Shop in San Francisco

In 2019, an architectural designer and a guy named Turtle opened a tiny Tenderloin shopfront. Its impact was immediate.
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Ticket Alert: Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Are Coming to San Francsico

Presale code information and other details for Charli XCX and Troye Sivan's 'Sweat' tour.
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It’s a Wild Ride to Get to the Bottom of What Everyone’s Hiding in ‘A Better World’

A sinister thriller with a dash of science-fiction, Sarah Langan's novel is as entreating as it is timely and humane.
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In ‘The 50,’ Incarcerated Men Become Mentors

How a new approach to trauma helps incarcerated men guide the younger generation — and heal themselves.
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