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Treasure Island: Is this the end?
Is it glowing yet?So Mayor Lee goes to China with plans to celebrate the signing of a deal that would bring $1.7 billion in Chinese investment into the lagging Treasure Island redevelopment project,...
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Proposal would halt condo conversions for ten years
Ted Gullicksen of the San Francisco Tenants Union joined supervisors in unveiling an alternative to controversial legislation.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWESan Francisco Supervisors Norman Yee, Jane...
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Faux cabs: A tourism industry perspective
I got a fascinating letter from a person who's worked in the tourism business in San Francisco for many years, and he's very worried about the impact of the faux cabs on the city's biggest industry....
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An art benefit -- for the artists
"Avalon Blues," Harley Lafarrah EavesAll sorts of political campaigns and causes raise money by asking artists to donate work that can be auctioned off. It's not often that the artists themselves get...
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Heads Up: 7 must-see concerts this week
The return of King Khan and BBQ Show. We've got goosebumps.Macca, Hall and Oates, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails – what is this, 1976, or '99? I kid; the Outside Lands 2013 lineup is again a...
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Boston, a day later
It's hard to know what to say about the Boston Marathon bombings. Except that I don't believe the guy on the roof did it, and I don't believe the government did it to get its hand down our pants, and...
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Warriors Arena proposal rouses supporters and opponents
Project opponents depict Bay views with and without the proposed Warriors Arena.San Francisco Waterfront AllianceRival teams have formed in the last week to support and oppose the proposed Warriors...
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Goats, unicorns, Snoop Dogg: What to do in SF for 4/20 2013
Unicorns, man. See, like, the sixth event on this list.Hey stoner stereotypes, see ya at Hippie Hill! I jk -- you can do way better on International Stoner Day this year in the Bay. Instead of watching...
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CEQA change moves faster in SF than Sacto
Examiner file photoSo the Guv says he doesn't think he's going to be able to gut CEQA this year. I think he's right: The party he supposedly leads (but doesn't tend to follow him) won't go for it, any...
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Is there such a thing as "green" fracking?
Screen shot from Hydrozonix website, www.hydrozonix.com.Michael Klein is an unlikely oil industry executive. He’s also an unlikely environmental activist. For many years, the affluent San Franciscan...
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Bat for Lashes brings an occult celebration to the Regency Ballroom
Bat for Lashes spreads her wings.PHOTO BY LAURA KERRYThere’s an idea in literary theory that co-opts the philosophical notion of the concrete universal. The value of a poem, character, or story, it...
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The Chron gets the condo deal wrong
It's kind of a surprise that the Chron actually likes the (possible) condo conversion deal. That paper typically opposes anything that is good for tenants and supports anything that the landlords like....
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Is there hope for California?
Nothing cheers up an old tax-and-spend liberal than word that two major new sources of state revenue -- enough to begin closing the gap in education funding -- are at least on the table in...
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"Street Fight" examines the politics of mobility in San Francisco
Ideology plays a bigger role in shaping San Francisco than most people realize, as we've discussed in this space before. Nowhere is that more true than in the politics of land use and transportation,...
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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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Bay Area groups critical of immigration reform proposal
May 1 won't be the first immigrant rights march SF has seen. In 2010, racial profiling in AZ brought thousands out to protest.GUARDIAN FILE PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWEOlga Miranda, secretary treasurer of the...
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Catching up with Young Prisms: new video, new process, and those pesky Cure...
Young Prisms age gracefully.At their show at Elbo Room on Friday, Young Prisms are going to play new material that they’ve never performed in front of an audience. “It should be interesting,” bassist...
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Cruisin', obsessin', and drinkin': new movies!
Olga Kurylenko and Tom Cruise space out in 'Oblivion.'Photo courtesy of Universal PicturesHollywood is clearly bowing down to the power of Tom Cruise this week, opening no other contenders (sorry, Rob...
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The new Exploratorium opens -- are the piers as good as the Palace?
As someone who was practically bottle-fed on the old Exploratorium space, I was hesitant approaching the science museum's opening day at its new home on Pier 15 and 17. Like many other SF natives, I...
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Party Radar: Bruno Pronsato, No Way Honey, Harlum Muziq, Tube & Berger,...
Glamacane: Club legend Candis Cayne and the ever-stunning Glamamore of Some ThingThis week's Super Ego clubs column is full of signs and wonders for the coming weekend, but here's a further quintet of...
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