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On a street where no buses burn: Where to hide from the Super Bowl
Why can't all Niners fans be like six-year-old Sarah Redden?STILL FROM 'KAEPFORNIA GOLD" VIDEOIt was my fault for working on my laptop behind the plate glass window of a 24th Street cafe when the...
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Live Shots: Wovenhand at Bottom of the Hill
Although the notoriously devout David Eugene Edwards would probably be appalled to hear it, attending his shows is about as close to a religious experience as I ever get.The ferociously intense...
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Nina Hartley mash notes, PETA gets naked, crafty vibes: Your week in sex events
Check out letters to Miss Hartley through the ages at the Center for Sex and Culture (Fri/1)IMAGE VIA CENTER FOR SEX AND CULTUREEveryone survive the bused-in loads of pro-lifers prancing down Market...
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Today in gun deaths
I have friends in the Gun Left, and even a few in the Gun Right, who firmly believe that they have to have a large collection of dangerous weapons so that when the Forces of Repression or the...
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PG&E union turns to Change.org to attack renewable energy program
As the issue of climate change heats up again on the national stage, a local program seeking to provide San Franciscans with the option to purchase 100 percent renewable energy has come under attack by...
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Bay Area fashion set celebrates release of Liz Caruana's photo book
Photographer Liz Caruana has put Bay Area fashion designers on the other side of the lens – and they look pretty damn good. Select photographs Caruana shot for her new book, The Bay: Creators of Style...
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Developer hypes art; screws artists
The door to artist Richard Bolingbroke's studio, in Building 101 at Hunters Point ShipyardGuardian photo by Rebecca BoweIt's late afternoon in Building 101 of the Hunters Point Shipyard artists'...
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America's new Progressive Era?
By Jeffrey D. SachsJeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also Special...
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The Performant: Sexcapades, no ice
"SPANK!" and "Sex and the City: Live!" heat things up a littleThe Regency Ballroom is awash in estrogen and vodka martinis, overrun by neatly-coifed former sorority sisters sheathed in tasteful rayon...
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Guerrero gallery bites Zero Graffiti convention
Look familiar? Guerrero Gallery copped the design from an anti-graff convention for its new exhibition."The difference between art and vandalism is permission." So said Dwight Waldo, retired San...
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Don't just stand there -- squat!
Leave a nice place empty and maybe someone will move in!You know I love this story. I love it so much I am going to be following it for weeks, and I hope for years. A homeless guy takes over a $2...
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Sunday parking, free -- for some
If you drive your car Sunday morning to a restaurant for breakfast, or if you go to a Yoga class, or if you're going to work or shopping, you have to plug the meters now, or you'll get a pricey ticket....
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Activists slam hollow report on SFPD-FBI spying
Police Chief Greg Suhr refused to elaborate on SFPD-FBI activities during the Jan. 23 Police Commission hearing.The San Francisco Police Department continues to resist meaningful oversight of its...
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'United in Anger' reveals ACT-UP's surprising intricacies
One of the outspoken women who fought to redefine AIDS to include women's HIV illnesses.In the end, it was the women who saved us -- and we, in turn, helped save them.As a gay man, this was one of the...
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More unregulated cabs on the street
So the state regulators have decided that it's just fine for companies that pretend not to be taxi operators to operate taxis in San Francisco. That means Lyft and Uber can keep picking up passengers,...
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Harvey Milk and Cesar Chavez
Ammiano: "It's the same old tired bullshit."The Chron continues its jihad against Harvey Milk Airport today, arguing that the price tag airport administrators came up with -- $4 million -- makes the...
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Stallone, Walken, zombies, Oscar shorts, and more: new movies!
'Bullet to the Head,' axe to the throat.Photo by Frank MasiYes you can find time to see a movie this otherwise football-y weekend. The ongoing Noir City and Sketchfest still have a lot of great...
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Hello, nudity ban: activists arrested outside City Hall for being naked
"All you have to do is strip naked to find out if public nudity is political in San Francisco," nudist activist Gypsy Taub said into a bullhorn outside City Hall today, where a nude-in was being held...
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American Idol, Steven Tyler in Drag edition
This shit's getting so strange that you start to wonder if singing alone is enough to keep the Idol franchise going. In Oklahoma City, (thankfully) the last stop before the real action begins in...
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Police gear up for round two on Tasers
On February 4, the San Francisco Police Commission will hold the second of three planned community meetings to gauge support for a pilot program to arm 100 SFPD officers with Tasers. The controversial...
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