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How to get hot this week: sexy events
Celebrating three year of gentlemanly antics on Wed/13.POSTER BY FELIX D'EONI was paging through my neon-orange-and-yellow copy of Tristan Taormino's Feminist Porn Book and generally feeling good about...
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Workers underpaid by firms renovating fancy mid-Market offices
A giant thumbs down showed up outside developer Group I's Bush Street headquarters today.Guardian photo by Rebecca BoweUnion members from San Francisco Carpenters Local 22 were distributing flyers...
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Nurses still waiting for CPMC to fully embrace San Francisco
City and CPMC announced the hospital deal with week.Mike Koozmin/SF Newspaper Co.Labor and community activists cheered this week's news of a much-improved deal between the city and California Pacific...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin: Hacker unearths paintings by George W. Bush
To new artist George Bush (junior),We welcome you Greetings. Salaam.We're eager to see your depictionOf nukes stashed away by Saddam.Calvin Trillin: Deadline Poet: The Nation 3/4/2013)
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Labor activist urges “innovation” in workers' rights organizing
Bill Fletcher Jr. spoke at "Labor at the Crossroads" on March 7.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWEEven as renowned labor activist Bill Fletcher Jr. geared up for a talk last Thursday to describe the dire...
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Live Shots: Passion Pit, Icona Pop, Matt and Kim at the Bill Graham
Swedish duo Icona Pop made the typical announcement about being really happy to finish up its tour in San Francisco, last Thursday at the Passion Pit/Icona Pop/Matt and Kim show at the Bill Graham...
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Next, the Treasure Island sellout
Wait -- where's the seawall?Now that he's done such a bang-up job negotiating a deal for the CMPC hospital, leaving the supervisors to clean up the mess, does anyone think that the...
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Heads Up: 7 must-see concerts this week
Martha Wainwright comes to the Swedish American Hall.If you're avoiding the hype and heat of Austin for that annual indie, not indie music-and-film massacre that is South By Southwest (er, SXSW,...
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From the Rocketship to Bay Lights, "temporary" is the key that unlocked...
The Bay Lights came on just as the Raygun Gothic Rocketship is about to come down.Luke Thomas/Fog City JournalIn the wake of The Bay Lights coming on to rave reviews and mesmerized gazes last week,...
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Get your political moving and shaking on
What's happening in the socially conscious Bay Area this week? Well, there's a mass rally Thurs/14 to save City College of San Francisco. There are community organizing meetings, like today's...
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Cristian Mungiu on his stark, stunning 'Beyond the Hills'
Cosmina Stratan and Cristina Flutur in 'Beyond the Hills'PHOTO BY SEBASTIAN ENACHECristian Mungiu— one of the main reasons everyone's all excited about the Romanian New Wave — follows up his Palme d'Or...
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The 8 Washington shit show
Pretty -- unless there's a sewer main broken belowThe latest problem with the 8 Washington condo project emerged March 12 when the Chron reported on a new study that shows construction of the most...
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Live Shots: The Robert Glasper Experiment at New Parish
It really wasn't a question whether the Robert Glasper Experiment would be any good at the New Parish on Friday night – but how it would go about replicating the success of Black Radio, which recently...
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Supervisors approve Western SoMa Plan, rejecting expanded office development
The Board of Supervisors today approved the Western South of Market Community Plan, the first step to ending a development moratorium that has been in place since the citizen-based planning process...
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Localized Appreesh: Magic Fight
Magic Fight, out on stage.Localized Appreesh is our thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay. To be considered, contact emilysavage@sfbg.com.Magic Fight has got fangs. More precisely, the...
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The Performant: Our selves
Communion of flesh: Brontez Purnell Dance Company’s “The Episodes”PHOTO BY ROBBIE SWEENEYThe body does not lie -- Anne SextonSo often in the arts it seems like we spend an inordinate amount of time...
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Live Shots: K-Pop's Night Out, Ashley Monroe, and more at SXSW, Day 1
Photos and words by Bowerbird PhotographyFans made scrawling lines all through Austin, Texas, waiting to gain access to countless shows, as the SXSW 2013 music festival kicked off on Tuesday night.Some...
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Tough questions asked on America's Cup fundraising shortfall
At a March 13 subcommittee hearing called by Sup. John Avalos, representatives from the city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD), the America's Cup Organizing Committee (ACOC) and...
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Desi Santiago inflates Juanita More's Pride party plans
Does the idea of one of SF's best-known drag fashionistas rendered in massivem inflatable form excite you? You then, are the target audience for this item of news: Juanita More has announced that...
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Fine Snoop, I'll listen to your reggae album (a movie review)
"I know Obama wants me to go to the White House, but what the fuck can I perform?"In the life of Snoop Lion (or Doggy Dogg, for those who were done with hip-hop after Chronic 2000), there have been...
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