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Jennifer Wadsworth on July 31, 2013
In case you haven’t heard, Russia’s a pretty terrible place to be if you’re gay–or even an ally. President Vladimir Putin just signed a law that makes it a jail-worthy offense to tout “gay propaganda,” which can be something as innocuous as wearing a rainbow T-shirt. In July, four Dutch tourists were…
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San Jose native Derek Jameson is known for songs that fuse hard beats with naked emotion. One of the biggest weaknesses of club music is its tendency toward dehumanized, assembly-line blandness, but Jameson turns this blueprint for mechanization on its head with the passionate sincerity of his lyrics. He has an unusual…
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Matt Miller on June 13, 2012
For Steven Sheehan, the San Jose bartender who won the Palm Springs Summer Splash Cocktail Challenge, bartending is really just a side job. He’s teaches English as a second language and is currently a University of San Francisco student studying organizational behavior and leadership.
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