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Louis Dunn: So long, Spain!
Guardian artist Louis Dunn salutes Manuel "Spain" Rodriguez, the iconic underground artist who died of cancer at his Bernal Heights home on Nov. 28 with his daughter and wife at his bedside. He was...
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By Dick MeisterBay Guardian columnist Dick Meister, former labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom, has covered labor and politics for more than a half-century. Contact him through his...
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Live Shots: SantaCon sleighed SF
Photos by Bowerbird PhotographyA city wide pub crawl wearing santa costumes. How could San Francisco not be thrilled for this annual event, the city where everyone loves to dress up and drink! (Well,...
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Tycho's Top Bay Area and Bay Area-Affiliated Acts
Tycho dug Sam Flax.For our annual Year in Music issue, I asked local musicians, rappers, producers, and music writers to sound off on the year's best songs, album releases, shows – pretty much anything...
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Michael Krimper's Endless Desire List
SFBG writer Michael Krimper dug Frank Ocean.For our annual Year in Music issue, I asked local musicians, rappers, producers, and music writers to sound off on the year's best songs, album releases,...
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Calling these guns what they are
We spent a trillion dollars and almost 5,000 American lives trying to root out non-existent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We fret about Iran getting a WMD, and we worry that North Korea already...
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The Mountain Goats unify a contemplative crowd at the Fillmore
The Mountain Goats, totally not at the Fillmore.PHOTO BY RAWK BLOG/CREATIVE COMMONSBy the time the audience had gathered in the Fillmore on Friday night to see the Mountain Goats, news of the school...
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San Francisco Film Critics Circle's 2012 awards!
THE MASTER image courtesy of the Weinstein CompanyOscars and Golden Globes are one breed of animal — critics' groups are another beast entirely (hopefully, of the more free-thinking, out-of-the-box...
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Golden Gate Park magic mushroom finally classified, just in time for high season
Psilocybe allenii: "Go to Golden Gate Park in December, you will see hundreds of hippies looking at the wood chip landscaping"PHOTO BY ALAN ROCKEFELLERHurray for science! Thanks to it and people who...
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Pitting before dinner: Trash Talk, MellowHype, Sabertooth Zombie, and Antwon...
By Greg Weissel All photos by Matthew Reamer A half hardcore, half hip-hop bill at 6pm on a Monday in San Francisco. What could possibly go wrong? Nothing, in fact, did go wrong – and the writhing...
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Grass Widow's Hannah Lew: Top 10 Everything
Hannah Lew dug Hunx's 'Hollywood Nailz' show.For our annual Year in Music issue, I asked local musicians, rappers, producers, and music writers to sound off on the year's best songs, album releases,...
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Waiting for the end of the world (1)
The castle at Tulum is the main archeological attractionTULUM, MEXICO -- The Yucatan is filled with Americans and Europeans who have come for the Dec. 21 end of the Mayan Long Count calendar and/or the...
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Was it a great year?
At noon Dec. 19, a group of about 50 housing activists led by the Housing Rights Committee gathered at 18th and Castro, next to the giant Shopping Season Tree, to discuss the wave of evictions tenants...
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Louis Dunn comments on the shootings in Newtown
"Pupils were all shot multiple times with a semiautomatic, officials say." New York Times Sunday edition (December 16, 2012). Guardian artist Louis Dunn comments. Click on the artwork to view the...
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The Performant: Unsilent is the night
Conspiracy of Beards: Nothing like a Leonard Cohen cover band to get you jingling.PHOTO COURTESY CONSPIRACY OF BEARDSRing the bellsObservant or not, there’s no escaping the Festivus Chrismakwanzakah...
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On the Om Front: Where to breathe deeply this holiday season
All over the world, people will be greeting the Mayan shift with meditation. Where will you be?PHOTO VIA UNITYDo you feel like the world is always about to end? I do. Maybe it’s because we’ve been in a...
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Waiting for the end of the world (2)
TULUM -- So rather than taking the 2:45pm bus today from Tulum to Chichen Itza for the Synthesis 2012 Festival and tomorrow's end of the Mayan Long Count calendar as planned, my sweetie's bout with...
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A moratorium on progress
My friend Johnny, who lives in Seattle, tells the story of the day years ago when he saw an older woman standing on a hillside near his house, watching while bulldozers knocked down trees and tore up...
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Hot sexy events: Library sexcapades and the new kind of bang
It's never too late to unleash the best strip club ad of 2012.IMAGE VIA GOLD CLUBWe were beyond impressed when we we heard about Cal sex columnist Nadia Cho's rocket to Internet notoriety via her...
View ArticleDick Meister: Michigan is just the beginning
By Dick MeisterBay Guardian columnist Dick Meister, former labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom, has covered labor and politics for more than a half-century. Contact him through his...
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