Tag Archives: COVID-19
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Insert Foot: What celebrity would you isolate yourself with during COVID-19?
From Candy Loving to the Queen, these are all the people Tony Hicks has wanted to be isolated with over the years. I once swiped one of my stepdad’s Playboy magazines. It probably happened (a lot) more than once … when I was a kid … not lately. I’m…
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Opinion: How to get your air travel refund in the time of COVID-19
Frontier Airlines jet. Courtesy: Tomas Del Coro. I was going to miss SXSW by a week anyway, but then SXSW was canceled, sports were canceled and concerts were canceled, and it was best to cancel my family’s April vacation to Austin. I had a reservation with Frontier Airlines, and…
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BREAKING: ALT 105.3 lays off music director Aaron Axelsen
Aaron Axelsen performs at Live 105’s BFD 2017 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View on June 10, 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF Entercom Radio on Thursday announced companywide layoffs, furloughs and pay cuts. The company operates numerous radio stations in the Bay Area and in 2017 purchased ALT 105.3 from CBS…
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Metallica to donate $350,000 to various COVID-19 relief efforts
Metallica performs at the All Within My Hands concert and auction at the Masonic in San Francisco on Nov. 11, 2018. Courtesy. Metallica on Thursday announced that it would be donating a total of $350,000 through its All Within My Hands Foundation to four relief efforts as the world…
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INTERVIEW: Allan Rayman opens up about life in quarantine, ‘CHRISTIAN’ and the masks he wears
Allan Rayman, Courtesy: Steph Verschuren. It’s March 20, and most of the U.S. and Canada is a week into COVID-19-induced quarantine. Nerves are fraying, the toilet paper is noticeably low, and … enigmatic Toronto singer-songwriter Allan Rayman is just living his normal life. CHRISTIAN Allan Rayman Republic Records, April…
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INTERVIEW: Fantastic Negrito on finding peace with fan-sourced COVID-19 video for “Chocolate Samurai”
Fantastic Negrito performs at the UC Theatre in Berkeley on Oct. 14, 2017. Karen Goldman/STAFF. Two-time Grammy winner Fantastic Negrito is spending the quarantine with his fans. Not literally, of course. The musician, whose name is Xavier Dphrepaulezz, put out a call to his fans to send in videos…
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Tame Impala reschedules tours, including SF stop
Tame Impala performs at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Sept. 2, 2016. Photos: Diana Cordero Tame Impala has rescheduled several tours and will now perform at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sept. 21, after the original March 13 show was canceled two days prior due to San…
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BREAKING: John Prine hospitalized in critical condition with COVID-19
John Prine, Courtesy: Eric Frommer Americana and country singer-songwriter great John Prine has been hospitalized since Thursday with COVID-19 and is now in critical condition and being assisted by a ventilator, his family shared to his Twitter account on Sunday. “So many of you have loved and supported John…
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Insert Foot: Stop talking (and breathing on me) and listen up
Insert Foot practices COVID-19 social distancing. During these strange COVID-19 times of lining up with hundreds of other breathing consumers so you and their germs can avoid grocery stores for a week, it’s fantastic to have an Internet for distraction and insight. For example, I discovered Pornhub is one…
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G-Eazy and Larkin Street Youth Services to feed San Francisco at-risk youth for a month
G-Eazy performs at The New Parish in Oakland on Jan. 26, 2019. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. Bay Area native G-Eazy and his Endless Summer Fund are partnering with Larkin Street Youth Services to provide meals to local at-risk youth in San Francisco every day for an entire month. “The Bay is…
