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Riley Curry Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance Will Restore Your Faith In America
Another day, another newsfeed full of racist Donald Trump quotes, terrifying gun violence stats, and Chris Brown still somehow having a viable music career. It can be tough, these days, to remember...
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The SF City Attorney is Threatening to Sue Over Bieber Graffiti
Justin Bieber — a puppy you sort of thought was cute once a long time ago but then he followed you home and wouldn’t stop whining, chewing on the furniture, getting DUIs, sleeping with supermodels and...
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This Time It’s Personal: Why Losing David Bowie Means Something Different to...
It is 1997, I am 13 years old, and I have the house to myself. This is a situation people relish at any age — but when you are 13 years old and confused all the time and spend most of your days in...
View ArticleIt’s Official: Neil deGrasse Tyson and B.o.B Are In a Rap Beef About the...
Today’s science lesson, kids: Don’t pick a rap battle with a scientist — especially if he has a rapper for a nephew. Ok, so where to begin? If you turned on the radio at all in 2010, you were probably...
View ArticleSerial’s Adnan Syed Gets Second Chance in Court Next Week
Serial’s second season may have started, but all anyone can talk about is how it doesn’t hold a candle to the greatness of the first season. That is, when they’re not talking about all the recent...
View Article“Happy Birthday” Lawsuit Settles, Song Will Enter Public Domain
In an excellent GQ profile out today, Justin Bieber took the time to remind us all of his birthday, March 1. The perpetually remorseful pop star will be turning 22 next month, but if you want to...
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Hollywood So White: Margaret Cho, Other Bay Area Locals on the ‘Epidemic of...
Anthony Lucero has too many trophies to carry at once. The writer-director’s first feature film, East Side Sushi, about a Latina woman who aspires to become a sushi chef, has been racking up awards...
View Article10 Songs To Get You Through Tax Day
It’s Friday, April 15, and across these great United States, that loud thump you’re hearing is the sound of hard-working Americans’ foreheads hitting their desks in the universal sign for “Goddammit,...
View ArticleGoing To See Dave Chappelle In SF Tonight? Read This First
Ed. note: This review of a Dave Chappelle standup show was originally published by the San Francisco Bay Guardian online. (The newspaper was shut down less than a month later — but is in the process of...
View ArticleWatch D’Angelo’s Emotional Tribute to Prince, With Help From Maya Rudolph
Thought you were done being emotional about Prince? Not so fast. D’Angelo, whose progressive, eclectic blend of soul, funk and R&B owes a tremendous debt to Prince’s influence — he’s said as much...
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You Can’t Kill the Revolution: Davey D on Tupac’s Mother, Afeni Shakur
Ed. note: Afeni Shakur, a onetime Black Panther, lifelong political activist, and the mother of famed rapper Tupac Shakur, died May 2 at her home in Sausalito. KQED Pop reached out to DJ, hip-hop...
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The Castro Holds a Kiss-In, While #TwoMenKissing Floods the Internet
Of all the sickening details that have emerged in the days following the horrific hate crime in Orlando on June 12, one sound bite, perhaps the most simplistic — and most simply infuriating — tells...
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Stressed About Brexit? Distract Yourself With These Witty Reaction Tweets
In case you’re living under an asteroid, Britain has voted to leave the E.U, shocking the world and themselves. Prime Minister David Cameron has announced his resignation. The pound has taken a...
View ArticleLudacris To Play Gitmo’s Fourth of July ‘Freedom Festival,’ Irony Officially...
First, a confession: I love Ludacris. I love Ludacris to a degree I cannot really defend, other than to say I am the right age for loving Ludacris, which is to say I was 16 years old when the song...
View ArticleBREAKING: Judge Vacates Murder Conviction of Serial’s Adnan Syed and Grants...
Do you hear that dull roar in the distance? That’s the sound of Serial fans — myself included — losing their minds over the news that, after a long legal process and 16 years behind bars, a Baltimore...
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Bay Area Rap Veteran Mistah F.A.B. Responds to Police Shootings With ‘6 Shots’
In the last 48 hours, two different black men in two different American cities have been shot to death by police officers, with both killings captured on horrifying, heart-wrenching video. Their names...
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Snoop Dogg Just Held a Press Conference With the LAPD (and Other Musician...
The past three days have been brutal ones in the United States of America, and it’s no secret that people are hurting. We want action, visible change, in times like these — and if we can’t take to the...
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SFPD Issues Pokémon Go Safety Tips, Like ‘Do Not Run Into Trees’
I’m not sure if you guys have heard about this — it seems like maybe it’s been covered a few other places? — but there’s a game that many people are currently playing called Pokémon Go. Most of these...
View ArticleBeyoncé, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Chris Rock and More List ’23 Ways You Could Be...
In the days since last week’s horrific violence, we’ve seen many celebrities speak out to express anger, solidarity, or prayers for peace. Now, a who’s-who of A-listers have come together for a video...
View ArticleNintendo to Produce Tiny Retro NES, Because Nostalgia Is an Oil Well That...
Are you a person who is currently one age, but used to be a different age? Do you remember things that happened when you were different ages, like maybe, say, those years in which getting on the...
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