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SCOTUS talks same sex marriage: San Francisco responds
LGBT activists held a vigil in San Francisco yesterday to call for marriage equality.PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWELGBT rights activists held a vigil outside the California Supreme Court building in San...
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I survived the "Real World: San Francisco" marathon
Reality bites, circa the same year as 'Reality Bites' The 28th season of The Real Worldpremieres tonight, and the trailer features some crying bros and a lot of slapping in Portland, Ore. To remind us...
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Mayor Lee’s mysterious breakfast companions [UPDATED]
Dealing in the shadows?PHOTO BY DAVE GRAY VIA FLICKRSee an update to this story below. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has been having breakfast with CEOs to seek millions in funding for the America’s Cup,...
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Sutter/CPMC agrees to a contract with its nurses in SF, clearing the path for...
California Nurses Association regularly battles big hospital corporations on behalf of patients.AP PHOTO BY MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZEnding a long and contentious labor impasse and setting the stage for the...
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Hot sexy events: Nerd boobs, Bill Gates' condom quest, and the Sheagle = landed
If Bill Gates gets his way, condoms will spread their wings and fly.IMAGE VIA RUKKIT.WORDPRESS.COMHey, dudes who don't like condoms, has Bill Gates got your back or what? During the same month that the...
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Heartless Bastards’ Erika Wennerstrom on breaking writer's block with travel
Oh those Heartless Bastards.It seems like the Austin-based Heartless Bastards have made some drastic changes since the release of their debut album, Stairs and Elevators, shedding their punkish...
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Reagan's legacy: Homeless death
The headline on sfgate is about as brutal as you can get: "The coming homeless die-off." But the brief story points to an alarming set of statistics: The median age of homeless people on the streets of...
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NanosauR remixes Backstreet Boys, Antwon, and Chelsea Wolfe
NanosauR has a treat for you.Earlier today, Bay Area dream pop producer NanosauR posted to his Facebook page, “This is a collection of 20 remixes I have made over time, I hope you like it. Download it...
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The right wing and same-sex marriage
I had lunch with my old friend Johnny Angel Wendell, a musician, actor, and radio personality in LA, who was up here on vacation (and to hype his new vinyl, "My Lesbian Friend,") and we got to talking...
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Airbnb's tax and tenant law violations headed for hearings
Airbnb and other "shared housing" websites allow landlords to circumvent local tenant protections.As Airbnb continues to avoid making any public comment on the $1.8 million annual Transient Occupancy...
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Can't stop fashion: Style, as always, at Oakland's First Friday
We're stoked on next week's Oakland First Fridays, where the style is weird, wild, and exactly what you would expect to see any time Bay Area folks, art, and mingling collide. In March, despite the...
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Bow down to the robo-proletariat!
Radically refashioning a host of reactionary fashions, La Pocha Nostra Live Art Laboratory puts all borders up for grabs. The international performance art troupe returns to San Francisco Sat/30 for...
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Privacy and electronic tolls on the Golden Gate Bridge
Welcome to the iconic Golden Gate Bridge! You are being tracked.PHOTO BY JOEL KRAMER VIA FLICKRNow that human toll collectors have vanished from the Golden Gate Bridge, motorists can expect their...
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Foxygen works its uncanny magic at Brick and Mortar Music Hall
Foxygen's Sam France.PHOTO BY LAURA KERRY.I experienced a strange phenomenon in the few days leading up to Tuesday’s sold out concert at Brick and Mortar Music Hall. The first in a series of strange...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin: One issue that seems to be getting bipartisan support in the...
When Cruz begins a crude bombard,He speaks with reckless disregard.So even those who share his viewsTend not to want to schmooze with Cruz.Calvin Trillin: Deadline Poet: The Nation4/8/2013
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Foreign imports and American heroics: new movies!
It's just a flesh wound: Saoirse Ronan in 'The Host'PHOTO BY ALAN MARKFIELDHollywood unfurls the latest adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's ever-popular YA fiction (the mercifully vampire-less The Host),...
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Live Shots: Flume at the Rickshaw Stop
Every time I've been to Popscene in the last few years, and I mean every time, I see the same guy. Deep 30s, clean cut, and so meticulously well-dressed that it's conspicuous. Particularly conspicuous...
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Lyft to take on Muni routes
In an announcement that could transform transportation policy in San Francisco, the startup company Lyft is prepared to take over some of the most crowded and dysfunctional Muni routes in San...
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He will rise again: Hunky Jesus contest rescheduled
We good.Soggy hordes of Dolores Park revelers were caught, mid-day-drunk, when unseemly amounts of rain stopped the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's famed Hunky Jesus contest in its tracks yesterday....
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Archbishop announces nuptials
He's got something to smile about now!San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced today that he would wed his longtime lover, Lupe, a tennis pro at the Bay Club.“It will be a simple...
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