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Covering the Boston bombing
When the MSM does good: Boston Globe staff photo by David L. RyanEver since the horrible, awful bombing at the Boston Marathon, I've been doing what every crazy newshound does and spending far too much...
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Food for thought: 18 Reasons' class series encourages the slow chew
PHOTO COURTESY 18 REASONSHippocrates said, “let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”. The axiom certainly sounds nice rolling off the tongue, but curative qualities aside, you'll never stick...
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The Performant: Burning down the haus
Tim Kniffin, Dan Hiatt, and Michael Ray WiselyPHOTO BY DAVID ALLENThe Arsonists at Aurora Theatre crackles and sears If there was ever a time to revive a play best known for its condemnation of the...
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Property resistance in the Bay and beyond
Models sport T-shirts bearing the logo: "Better to squat than let it rot."IMAGE COURTESY AK PRESSIn 2004, Hannah Dobbz climbed up the drainpipe of an abandoned building in Emeryville and disappeared...
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"Ten more Ron Conways" would destroy San Francisco
Ron Conway, who we profiled, has an aggressive, conservative agenda for the city.As I reported in this week's cover story, San Francisco has lost its balance under Mayor Ed Lee, with economic...
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You want to live in Manhattan? Move there.
Can you see Valencia Street?I feel like I've been having this discussion for 30 years, and it still keeps coming back. The latest installment (thanks to sfist for the link) is a Slate article by...
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The comeback klown: John Leguizamo's 'Ghetto Klown' returns
It's been three years since hyperkinetic funnyman John Leguizamo last played the Bay Area, when he workshopped his newest solo show, then called Klass Klown,at the Berkeley Rep. Following the...
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Red-eyed trends: 420 fashion at Dolores Park
Not mad at tasteful stoner styling.ALL PHOTO BY CAITLIN DONOHUEFor the really sloppy, you had to go to Hippie Hill. All in all, Dolores Park last Saturday looked pretty much the same as any other...
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Tribeca Film Festival report: opening night (and beyond)!
The National performs on opening night.Photo by Kimberly ChunAh, welcome to the land of Law and Order— and the Tribeca Film Festival—as Richard Belzer introduced the event's opening night movie,...
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Chiu and Herrera roll up their sleeves for spring cleaning in City Hall
For some time now, oft-labeled “power brokers” with undue influence in San Francisco city government have taken heat for failing to register as lobbyists. At the same time, politically connected...
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On 8 Washington, it's No, No
Nice gated homes for the very very richThe November ballot may contain not one but two measures addressing super-luxury condos on the waterfront. And that could pose a serious problem for the developer...
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Ammiano's on a roll
Willie Brown, the former mayor and current unregistered lobbyist, has been trying to undermine Assemblymember Tom Ammiano for years. But take a look at two Ammiano bills this spring and you get a sense...
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City-owned electricity generation works
Photo by Mike Koozmin/SF Newspaper Co.I remember years ago a loser of a supervisor named Bill Maher tried to make a lame joke in opposition to a public-power measure. "If the city tries to run an...
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The credibility of Twitter
The stories on the latest Twitter hack -- which caused the stock market to plunge and wiped out $136 billion in investor value in an instant -- have focused on the vulnerability of the social network...
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The vultures of greed
Jeremy Mykaels, facing the Vultures of GreedA small but enthusiastic crowd marched through the Castro April 20 to bring some attention to the rash of Ellis Act evictions that are forcing seniors and...
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The hype, reality, and accountability of collaborative consumption
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky (right) didn't get any tough questions from moderator David Jones of USF.Steven T. JonesCollaborative consumption, aka the shareable economy– the labels given to a new...
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Solomon: It's time to renounce the "war on terror"
By Norman Solomon Norman 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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Boom life: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore talks about 'The End of San Francisco'
A picture of Brian Goggin's iconic site-specific sculpture "Defenestration" (that 16-year-old "furniture leaping out of an abandoned building" piece in SoMa that may be demolished soon) is pictured on...
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1AM Gallery's street art app debuts
Snap tag.I keep my iPhone slow with all the street art shots I forever shoot and store with it. Where will these photos go, this endless documentation of my surrounds? Sure, every once in awhile...
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Reports of grenade-type devices used in West Oakland raid
OK so they weren't actually on segways, but a lot of cops sure did roll up in West Oakland last night.IMAGE VIA SEANTYLER ON FLICKRA high profile police raid occurred last night in multiple East Bay...
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