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  • California teens are ditching office jobs — and making $100K before they turn 21

    08/23/2025 9:24:26 AM PDT · by DFG · 32 replies
    sfgate ^ | 08/22/2025 | Summer Maxwell
    It’s noon on a Thursday, but the day’s lunch break is already over and the cement building in Concord is once again full. Class is in session. A dozen students — most dressed in gray canvas button-downs and baseball caps — sit with rapt attention facing the whiteboard at the front of the room. But the topic of today’s lesson isn’t biology, math or literature. It’s how to fabricate drawings for pipe fitting. The students here are apprentices with United Association Local 342, a union that trains and represents workers in the pipe trades industries. They’ll complete a five-year paid...
  • San Francisco's 'Luigi: the Musical' shot me through the heart

    07/19/2025 2:58:20 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 27 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | July 18, 2025 | By Summer Maxwell
    I didn’t expect the highlight of my Tuesday night would be watching an actor portraying Luigi Mangione sing a ballad about hash browns, followed by a tap dance number featuring his cellmates Sean Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried (who happen to be falling in love). The plot is totally outrageous, but as “Luigi: the Musical” goes on, it becomes cathartic to sit in the warm haze of the Independent with over a hundred strangers and laugh, groan and marvel at the spectacle American life has become.