We know it can be hard to keep up with everything that’s going on in the world, the country and your community. So here are five stories from the past week that you may have missed but really shouldn’t.

1. Welcome to the dark side of the moon

The most popular story on our site this week really rocks. It is unseen footage of Pink Floyd playing at the Filmore Auditorium in San Francisco in 1970. You have to check it out.

2. And the rest is (LGBT) history

California is set to become the first state in the country to use LGBT-inclusive textbooks in elementary schools after the State Board of Education approved 10 LGBT-inclusive history textbooks for kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms last week.

“The great things about these books is that they serve our students well,” says Tom Adams, deputy superintendent for the Teaching and Learning Support Branch of the California Department of Education.

“We know there are many students out there who are LGBT or whose parents are,” he says. “This is a reality that most of our students have in their schools and our instructional materials should reflect that reality.”

3. No volcano, but lots of history

You won't find any volcanoes in Volcano, California. But you will find a fascinating history dating from the Gold Rush to the Great Comet to the Civil War. Plus, it's got a pretty cool saloon.

4. Not all legal weed businesses are created equal

Come Jan. 1, 2018, it will be legal in California to sell cannabis for recreational use, and Oakland wants to make sure that the black entrepreneurs aren't left behind in the new green economy.

“Certain communities have been policed for the same activities because we know that white people use drugs and sell drugs at approximately the same rate that black and brown people do, but they don’t get jailed at the same rate,” says Darlene Flynn of Oakland’s Department of Race and Equity.

So now the city is trying to right that wrong through the Equity Cannabis Permit Program, which started in May. Through the program, the city will give permits to weed entrepreneurs who want to enter Oakland’s legal weed economy when it becomes legal to sell recreational cannabis in California next year.

And it will give priority to people who have been arrested and convicted for cannabis within city limits after Nov. 5, 1996. (This is the date when medical marijuana became legalized in California.) It will also give priority to those who, like Grant, have lived in neighborhoods with the highest number of marijuana-related arrests.

And speaking of weed, these Palo Alto ladies would like to invite you to "high tea."

5. Getting creative with climate change

Scientists tell us we should expect sea levels in the Bay Area to rise several feet by the end of this century. Thankfully, 10 design teams are floating some outside-the-box ideas for how the region could be redesigned to match its changing environment.

Before you go...

Winter is coming. Make yourself an authentic San Francisco Irish coffee while you learn about how the drink and the city became forever linked.