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Are the new ride-shares unsafe?
Interesting letter to sfist, which typically loves the new rideshare companies like Lyft and Sidecar. The writer, apparently a cab driver, makes clear why these unlicensed cabs are a problem:Taxi...
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Sundance 2013: the way of the gun
'Blue Caprice' tells the story of the 2002 Beltway snipers.Festival veteran Jesse Hawthorne Ficks files his third report from the 2013 Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals.Read his first two reports...
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High-rise risk
Board Prez David Chiu, who helped collect signatures against 8 Washington, encountered developer Simon Snellgrove on the street.The fate of 8 Washington, a luxury high-rise project planned for San...
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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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Low-key registration underway for Burning Man tickets
It's not like last year.After last year's big Burning Man ticket freakout, it's strangely quiet this year during the brief registration window now underway to buy tickets to this year's event. The...
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Party Radar: RainDance, Psychemagik, LA Vampires, Death on the Balcony,...
Amanda Brown is too cool, LA Vampires.Oh hey, how 'bout this week we all just shut up and dance?<!--break-->>>RainDanceOh hey, gung hay fat choy. It's time for Chinese New Year,...
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Celebrate Black History Month with four days of sf|noir food and drink
Learn about cocktails from the annals of African-American history with Phil Shell (left) and Damon White of Otis on Feb. 21.PHOTO COURTESY OTIS LOUNGEThis month, you can observe Black History Month by...
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Friends of London Breed
Got an interesting email invite: A group of the most pro-downtown, pro-landlord, conservative folks in town is holding a fundraiser for Sup. London Breed, who represents the most progressive district...
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BART could shed light on shady contest between rival developers for Millbrae...
The land surrounding the Millbrae BART station is becoming increasingly valuable.The BART Board of Directors will next week consider rival private development proposals for property it owns adjacent to...
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SF IndieFest, and a whole lot more: new movies!
YOU NEED SPEEDFirst things first: the San Francisco Independent Film Festival kicked off last night and runs through Feb. 21 at various venues (mostly the Roxie). Check out my interviews with local...
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Reflections on last Friday's Oakland Art Murmur
Scenes from Art Murmur: a bike drummer keeps the beat.Photo by Laura KerryI pictured writing a different sort of response to last Friday's Oakland Art Murmur and accompanying street festival. The fatal...
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Finally, a way to get toxics out of furniture
Mark Leno's six-year battle finally gets some resultsGov. Jerry Brown has finally done what the state Legislature refused for six years to do: He's eliminating the requirement that household furniture...
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SF Weekly dumps on transgender people, all of Tenderloin
Oh hey, isn't it funny to watch (possibly) transgender people get punched in the face and repost a video of it that calls them "trannies" insultingly, without comment? What a barrel of laughs to...
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Silents are golden
Be mine: Buster Keaton and Sybil Seely in 'One Week' (1920)The 2013 San Francisco Silent Film Festival isn't until July, but the fest's Silent Winter offshoot offers a day packed full of classic...
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Hearing called on America's Cup "fundraising fiasco" as Mayor Lee talks about...
Amidreports that San Francisco taxpayers could be on the hook for more than $20 million in America's Cup expenses because of anemic fundraising efforts by the America's Cup Organizing Committee, today...
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Mark Zuckerberg about to feel some heat
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg plans to host a fundraiser for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie at his Palo Alto home tomorrow, and Democracy for America has started a petition calling upon the...
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Beyond Frank Ocean: La Peña takes a deeper look at hip-hop inclusivity
The many faces of hip-hop: La Peña's rad lineup of hip-hop artists pushing the genre's boundaries.If I hear another journalist ask anyone involved in hip-hop incredulously, reverently, portentously...
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Sundance and Slamdance 2013: powerful docs
Faith and frustration: Slamdance standout 'Bible Quiz'Scroll on up Pixel Vision for Jesse Hawthorne Ficks' previous Utah festival reports.In recent years, Sundance has become well-known for its strong...
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The end of Joe the Rat
A message? What kind?I grew up in the Catholic Church, went to Transfiguration Carmelite School, got beaten with a ruler by the nuns, had a priest try to teach us sex ed, and was so turned off by it...
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S.F. County Jail inmates participate in global dance movement
S.F. County Jail inmate Bridget Cervelli will participate in the One Billion Rising dance performance from inside the jail.Photo by Rebecca BoweTo enter San Francisco County Jail No. 2 yesterday, I...
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