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The Rolling Stones rock hard, bring surprise guests, almost make up for...
It’s one of those things about attending a concert – any concert – at HP Pavilion in San Jose: no matter how you approach the venue, you’re likely to run into those hardline Jesus freaks waving signs...
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Aiming for the top of the food chain
Wenonah Hauter grew up on a farm and is the author of Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America.The issue of labeling for genetically engineered foods gained fresh momentum...
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Take a walk: 4 cultured strolls to guide your feet this week
Check out ice cream, photobooths, and disco at Divisadero Art Walk Thu/9.IMAGE BY ARTHUR LDCommuting to work, we speed walk. In the evenings, we run for our girlish figure. After a Saturday night at...
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Those overpaid, underworked public employees
Before you start griping about ovepaid Muni drivers and public employee unions, you might want to take a look at this neat-o map that shows who the highest-paid public employees are in every one of the...
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Live Shots: Marina and the Diamonds at the Warfield
I like a little grit. Usually I feel that a great show combines unpredictability, recklessness, and some raw, unpolished vulnerability. That’s what makes live music exciting and dynamic. If we wanted...
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A boost for Ammiano's pot bill
Assemblymember Tom Ammiano's bill to create state regulations for pot clubs just got a boost: Although I disagree with the Supreme Court decision allowing towns to ban the dispensaries, it's kicked...
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Commission approves soccer project but pushes the city to restore habitat
Artist rendering of the artificial turf soccer fields the city will build at the west end of Golden Gate Park.The California Coastal Commission today upheld San Francisco’s plan to replace the Beach...
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From Lick to Main: Noah Veltman on his amazing interactive SF street name...
When I saw Noah Veltman's interactive SF street (and landmark) name history map pop up on feed last week, I was instantly engrossed. (It was especially refreshing after staring at this depressing...
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Gatsby who? Check out these cool rep flicks instead! Plus: more new movies.
Thank you for being a fiend: Shintoho's 'Vampire Bride' screens at the YBCA.Courtesy of Shintoho Co. Ltd.This week: two, count 'em two, series dedicated to oft-overlooked films produced outside the...
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Supes worry about 8 Wash shit show
The Chronicle seems to have entirely missed the latest installation in the 8 Washington shit show, but the Ex has the story, and, even if it doesn't mean the project is in the toilet, it's given...
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Hey, you! "Tech people" are not the douchebags you think we are
I hear a lot of talk, especially from my own queer community, about how “tech people” are ruining San Francisco. From skyrocketing rent prices and disappearing diversity to economic and cultural...
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Jamaican Queens on major influences, ‘Wormfood,’ and Detroit
Jamaican Queens get comfy.The Detroit-based trio, Jamaican Queens, makes instantly catchy, hip-hop-influenced, electronic-soaked pop gems and performs them in a dance-inducing glam pop fashion....
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Hot sexy events: Aliens, etc.
Suzie Silver's 'Strange Attractors' project envisions sex for the extra terrestrial nasty pig.PHOTO COURTESY CENTER FOR SEX AND CULTUREYou will have to excuse the few weeks that your sexy events column...
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The bagpipe squawks for thee: first thoughts on 'Black Watch'
Cast of National Theatre of Scotland's Black WatchPHOTO BY SCOTT SUCHMANIf you thought the theatricalized story of a jaunty and imperiled Scottish regiment in Iraq in 2004 would come off as a sort of...
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The Chron discovers the lack of waterfront planning
Is this the waterfront we want?So the Chronicle's John King (who's generally not a bad architecture critic and really seems to understand city planning) finally discovered something that some of us...
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Here’s which tech companies won’t turn your emails over to the feds
The contents of these communications are secret. Email, maybe not so much.When you write a letter, seal it in an envelope, and drop it in the mail, federal law is clear that it’s a private document. No...
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Why rent control works
I shouldn't even bother to talk about this, because all it will do is stir up the trolls, but I'm getting sick of all the talk about rent control being a source of San Francisco's housing problem. The...
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Sandra Bernhard thinks I'm groovy (feeling's mutual)
57???Raise your hand if performance comedy stylist Sandra Bernhard is an ever-present entity in your cultural firmament. Is she the voice of your internal monolouge when you're feeling powerful?...
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Racism and homophobia east of the Rockies
There are assholes everywhere, and there are people in San Francisco who use racist and homophobic slurs. But this interactive map (based on students at Humboldt State analyzing 150,000 nasty tweets...
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Heads Up: 7 must-see concerts this week
Astronaut Chris Hadfield, floating in space.STILL FROM YOUTUBEThis video has been floating around of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield floating in space, slowly turning inside his vessel, playing the...
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