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Time's a wastin', but Craigslist Casual Encounters can help you go out with a...
(Actual sign made by actual Craigslister. They're available!)Think you've outfoxed the apocalypse because it's almost noon on 12.21.12? Sorry to burst your bubble, but the Mayan armadoomsdaypaclypse...
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Emily Savage's Top 10 Albums and Shows of 2012
I dug Terry Malts.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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Honoring Edward Kennedy for defying and defeating political censorship in WWII
The campaign to award a posthumous Pulitzer Prize to Edward Kennedy, the Associated Press reporter who defied political censorship to break the story of the German surrender on May 7, 1945, was given a...
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The screams of dead children -- everywhere
The screams of a thousand dead children wail through my mind. Children in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and Libya killed by empires’ drones; thousands of young men of color America killed by white...
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Haley Zaremba's Top 10 Concerts of 2012
Guardian music writer Haley Zarema dug Amanda Palmer at the Fillmore.For our annual Year in Music issue, I asked local musicians, rappers, producers, and music writers to sound off on the year's best...
View ArticleA Christmas story for our time
The annual holiday card arrived from Jess Brownell and Sbirley Conlon, longtime Guardian friends from Milwaukee. As usual, their message was timely, relevant, and laden with insights. B3 Dear Friends,...
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Synthesis 2012 Festival marks Mayan date with a creative contribution
Local Mayans appreciate the large Ascendance stage that volunteers built for the Synthesis Festival and a community offering.Steven T. JonesThe Synthesis 2012 Festival near Chichen Itza, Mexico got off...
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Appetite: More tantalizing sweet spots
Well hello, Sift CupcakesLast week, I indulged my sweet side with a romp through several notable new candy stores and dessert offerings -- here are several more to dive into:While we await the menu...
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The Performant: How Grinches save Christmas
Jeff Garrett and Will Franken overcome holiday saccharine.Is that a collective sigh of relief in the air as another frenzied holiday season winds down to its usual end and whatever apocalypse was...
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City College's new divide
Students and teachers rallied to support Prop. A, but they aren't benefitting much from its passage.Ara BloombergDespite recent voter approval of Proposition A, the parcel tax expected to bring $14...
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The new board president
Chiu: Can he go for three?The last time the San Francisco supervisors elected a new board president, the progressives got a swift kick in the ass. David Chiu, who had been elected to the top slot two...
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Manhattanization forgotten, Transbay Tower moves without the trains
Times in San Francisco have changed since the battles in the ‘80s against increased high-rise development and the “Manhattanization of San Francisco,” which peaked in 1986 with the passage of Prop. M...
View ArticleDick Meister: Good news for our neediest workers
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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Nite Trax: Comedowns are for losers! 2013
Okrrrr.Anybody can go out to any fabulous party on New Year's Eve. But how long can you survive into the dawning of 2k13? Below are the best parties happening on Tuesday, New Year's Day -- how low can...
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Help Blissdance stay on Treasure Island
Blissdance, the 40-foot-tall sculpture of nude woman built to dance at Burning Man in 2010, became a beloved, iconic local art installation when it was placed on Treasure Island later that year. What...
View ArticleOff to Pompei's Grotto for our 26th anniversary New Year's Eve dinner
In a couple of hours, the former Jean Dibble and I will be going to the delightful Fisherman's Wharf restaurant we have frequented for the past quarter century on New Year's Eve.Twenty-six or so...
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New Year's Day special: How to watch the Nebraska bowl game!
Herbie Husker, the University of Nebraska logo, 1974-2002I emailed my relatively reliable Nebraska source to get an inside line on the big Nebraska vs. Georgia Capital One bowl game on New Year's Day...
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The Performant: One for the road
Baxtalo Drom's happy trails -- and the Performant's faves of 2012With 2012 finally behind us, apocalypse thwarted, we have to get back to the business of preparing for a future we were told not to...
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Appetite: 12 reasons to love Nevada City and Grass Valley
Imagine if the Wild West collided with a European village. There might be winding, narrow streets through neighboring towns, plotting through pine trees. Old West saloons, wood sidewalks and columns,...
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The rent is too damn high
You look at numbers like this and you go: Whoa. The rent really, really is too damn high. Median rent in San Francisco is now over $3,000 a month. WHo can pay that? Seriously.The federal government...
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