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Free the cell phones! Sign the petition
A San Francisco entrepreneur is trying to get the Obama administration to overturn a stupid anticonsumer law that protects cell phone makers and phone companies.Sina Khanifar, co-founder of opensignal,...
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Yee says Cal coach's shove was damaging and deserves punishment
Coach Montgomery shoves one of his players during Sunday's emotional game between Cal and USC.UC Berkeley basketball coach Mike Montgomery’s spur of the moment shove of star Cal player Allen Crabbe...
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On the Om Front: Bhakti by the Bay
David Newman (Durga Das) brings bhakti to the BayPhoto by Dazza GreenwoodSome people go out to bars and drink on a Friday. But, you want to know what I do for a good time? I chant. I chill in a room...
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Why do cops use hollow-point bullets?
Hollow-point bullets before and after hitting their targets.WikipediaA Board of Supervisors committee will tomorrow (Thu/21) consider a pair of proposals to regulate the sale of ammunition in San...
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The Performant: Love bites
Celebrating romance with power ballads, Spandex leggings, fancy pantiesAlthough there are about 364 days of the year when I can do without it—one day of the year seems custom-made to celebrate the...
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Pressure, two ways: Academy of Art and Project Runway at NY Fashion Week
While hyperbolic coverage of what many news pundits called the ‘storm of the year’ raged across the Tri-State area, Manhattan’s would-be-mammoth blizzard arrived in the Big Apple as a pint-sized flurry...
View ArticleSolomon: Congress: End endless war and stop 'becoming the evil we deplore'
By Norman SolomonNorman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning...
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Party Radar: Terracotta Warriors come out to plaaa-aay
I've dreamt of traveling to Xi'an, China and witnessing the ancient army of buried terracotta warriors practically my whole life. The uncanny legions frozen in fired clay, each individual's features...
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Nite Trax: DJ Sprinkles lays it out
The phenomenal house DJ and experimental musicmaker on mainstream visibility, transgender globalism, Bay Area queer culture, and the "shopping mall diversity" of the current dance music scene.Techno...
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The World's Best Artist©: Getting weird with Mitch O'Connell
Can you guess which of the 290 pages of Mitch Connell's jampacked new, puffy-covered-like-cheap-tablecloth art anthology he is most proud of? It is not the vaguely seedy Hanna Barbera art, commissions...
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Which Noise Pop show is right for you?
It’s all about choice, people. Noise Pop is a well-oiled festival machine at this point — now in its 21st year — cranking out dozens of concerts, nightlife happenings, film screenings, culture club...
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SF aims for the history books, filing its same-sex marriage brief with the...
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and his legal team today submitted written arguments to the US Supreme Court in the landmark same-sex marriage equality case it will consider this spring,...
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Look for a quick decision on D4 appointment
DCCC member Alix Rosenthal may have forced the mayor to actA Democratic Party resolution calling on Ed Lee to appoint a mother to the Board of Supervisors may have driven the slow-moving mayor to fill...
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Cell phone petition gets 100K signatures
Unlock it, Mr. PrezA San Francisco entrepreneur's petition to allow consumers to unlock their cell phones has gathered more than 100,000 signatures, and now the White House will have to offer an...
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Everybody likes Jerry; now what?
SF Examiner file photoFor the first time in many years, Californians seem to like their governor. Jerry Brown's approval rating is now above 50 percent; actually, it's closer to 60 percent. And the...
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Plan C, and the C stands for Condo conversions
No politically savvy San Franciscan has ever really bought the rhetoric espoused by the so-called “moderate” political action group Plan C that it's all about finding middle ground between what its...
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It's the year of the female water snake! Best ways to celebrate this weekend
HISS HISS HISS HISS HISSMystery, divination, revelation will all mark 2013 if you believe in age-old Chinese astrology. We've entered the year of the female (yin) water snake -- time to get over from...
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Party Radar: Mutant Beat Dance, Safeword, Matmos, Harvey, Frankie Knuckles
Harvey, havin' it allIn my weirder '90s paisley dreams, all clubs in Montreal look like this. In my weirder 2013 Tumblr dreams all clubs in New York look like this. But I will CERTAINLY take all clubs...
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Countdown to the Oscars! Plus: Cinequest and new flicks
'Bless Me, Ultima'Important: the Oscar broadcast starts at 4pm on Sunday on ABC. If tradition holds, the ceremony won'tactually beginuntil a little later, but if you want to soak up the full...
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Supervisors consider Western SoMa Plan, lots of new condos, and "the purple...
If "the purple building" becomes condos, nightlife advocates fear clashes with throngs of 11th Street clubgoers.Mike Koozmin/SF Newspaper Co.The fate of the “purple building” – which has become caught...
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