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Live Shots: 'Dance + Diaspora' at ODC Theater
Strong drum beats, hip shimmies laden with bells and voices coming together in song. This show has it all. Presenting "Dance + Diaspora" two performances this Friday and Saturday -- pics above are from...
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A fine use for Larry's fine art
Golden samurai from the Edo eraA loyal reader contacted us with a great suggestion to solve all the fundraising problems of the America's Cup.This summer, it turns out, will be about more than racing...
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Staff of shut-down Mission dispensary opens SoMa's newest cannabis club
Manager Stephen Rechit oversees today's grand opening of Bloom RoomALL GUARDIAN PHOTOS BY CAITLIN DONOHUEToday was the grand opening for a new dispensary just steps from the front door of Mezzanine and...
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Nite Trax: 222 Hyde is closing :(
So long and thanks for all the acid house!PHOTO FROM THE50DATES.COMOh jeez, sad news this morning from EO, owner of great, actually-underground rave cave 222 Hyde. Due to a change in ownership of the...
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Watching models eat: On and off-runway shots at NY Fashion Week
"New York inspires me to be more ambitious and to push my work to higher levels," reflected Academy of Art University shutterbug Aldo Carrera on his recent trip to document his school's Fashion Week...
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Does Ed Lee think moms can't be supes?
Ed Lee/SF Examiner file photoAs I expected, Mayor Lee appointed a new supervisor before the Democratic County Central Committee had a chance to weigh in on a resolution suggesting he appoint a mother....
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Kacey Johansing goes walking with her 'Ghosts'
Kacey's busting out.Singer-songwriter (and former Geographer member) Kacey Johansing released her stunning sophomore album, Grand Ghosts, today. And how grand it is. Lush, moody, and dreamy, too. You...
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Light-up wonders, deep sea explorers, jelly apps: Marine biology at the Bone...
You don't have to travel far to enter foreign waters. Just a few miles off San Francisco shores lies a world more alien to us than anything dreamed up by the likes of Ridley Scott or James Cameron. And...
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Activists to government: SF should be more like LA
Is the Ethics Commission doing its job as a government watchdog? Woof.What sets San Francisco apart from Los Angeles? When it comes to city agencies that are supposed to keep politicians, lobbyists and...
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Sequestration cuts would hit the Bay Area's most vulnerable
Top city officials recently took the One Billion Rising pledge to protect women, but domestic violence shelters may face cuts.Tim DawWhile the looming federal budget cuts known as sequestration were...
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Wiener's dance mix: more DJs mixed with fines for "bad actors"
DJs could proliferate in San Francisco's bars, restaurants, coffee shops, and plazas under legislation that Sup. Scott Wiener introduced today to include DJs under the city's limited live music...
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Our 50 favorite San Francisco bars -- all on one page!
Drink time at the Royal CuckooGUARDIAN PHOTO BY ANNA LATINOFrom splashy dives to upscale classics (and everything in between) — our favorite spots to grab a drinkThis week's cover story in the paper...
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Localized Appreesh: The Dandelion War
The Dandelion War bands together.PHOTO BY KELLY NICOLAISENLocalized Appreesh is our thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay. To be considered, contact emilysavage@sfbg.com.Sigur Rós,...
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Bombay Ice Cream closed, no forwarding address
:(GUARDIAN PHOTO BY CAITLIN DONOHUEPerhaps it should have come as no surprise, given the ignominious location under the freeway where Mission favorite Bombay Ice Cream relocated in 2011, but this: I...
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Gentrification's simple math
Chuck Nevius is big into gentrification these days. He thinks it's a dandy thing and "no longer a dirty word," says the even longtime residents of the Mission love it, and has a nice photo of a person...
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Norman Solomon is the author of “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.” He is the founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and co-founder of...
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Look who supports same-sex marriage
Sorry Joe -- we're not listeningThe latest Field Poll is very good news for supporters of same-sex marriage in California -- residents of this state now support gay nuptials by almost 2-1. That's a...
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Noise Pop 2013: Cruel Summer, Lake, and the Blank Tapes at Hemlock
It's a low-key kind of Noise Pop year compared the past three or four, without the huge, attention-grabbing headliners of yore (looking at you, Flaming Lips at Bimbo's), but Wednesday's show at the...
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Pies at the ready: Seniors prep for this weekend's Black Cuisine Festival
"This is the hippest, hottest senior center in the city," said a volunteer as she shredded chicken. Dr. George W. Davis Senior Center was in full cooking mode, preparing for Sat/2's Black Cuisine...
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More on what consent means for BDSM porn: A performer speaks out
Porn starlet Maxine Holloway: "Sexism, classism, racism, homo- and transphobia do not disappear when the film starts rolling."Having sex for money can change the dimensions of the kinds of acts you're...
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