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Pick-up bball legends tell the tale of the game outside
NYC's Bobbito Garcia (left) visited 180 courts in 75 days with filmmaker Kevin Couliau (right) to shoot 'Doin' it in the Park'.PHOTO BY JUSTIN FRANCISWe're talking about basketball, NYC pick-up...
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DPH: Unaffordable housing is bad for your health
Mind the affordability gap: The numbers represent how many full-time jobs you'd need at minimum wage to pay the rent.SFDPHTo cover rent on a two-bedroom apartment at "fair market value" in SoMa, a San...
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Tech guru says Internet destroying middle class
Jaron Lanier isn't a Luddite. He can't be dismissed as a crackpot, whiner critic who is jealous of the success of others. He virtually invented virtual reality; he was a tech guru when most of today's...
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The Performant: Forever young
Rocky Horror turns 40, still crazy after all these years.Who doesn’t have fond memories of their first Rocky Horror Picture Show experience? Ok, mine are mixed since the first time I saw it was on an...
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Yo La Tengo plays the hits at the Fillmore, covers Black Flag
Yo La Tengo at the Fillmore.Photo by David Kanaga.The last time I saw Yo La Tengo, on its fabulously gimmicky Spinning Wheel tour, the trio delivered an abrasive, garage-y opening set under an...
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Randy Shaw just loves Capitalism
Well: We all know that Randy Shaw, director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic and editor of BeyondChron, is a loyal, devoted fan of Mayor Ed Lee. We know that he pretty much sees no wrong in the Lee...
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4 reasons that spending $150 on Janelle Monae tickets is not 100 percent...
5. She's dreamy1. Her Thu/16 show is at the symphony It is! The show is at Davies Symphony Hall and features actual symphony musicians playing actual orchestral arrangements to back up android-andro...
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Brown raids cap-and-trade funds, delaying action on climate change
Yes, Governor, it does. So how about taking actions that match your rhetoric?Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere continue to rise to dangerous levels, but still our political leaders delay...
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Can the tech boom solve our housing crisis? No, but it can make it worse
HAC's mantra. San Francisco Housing Action Coalition and San Francisco Magazine posed an intriguing question at a forum they sponsored last night in the W Hotel: “San Francisco’s Housing Crisis: Can...
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Woods for you: Best redwood parks for family times, wowwing out-of-towners,...
You should check out some redwoods this summer, even if you don't have a large army of children to accompany you.PHOTO BY PAOLO VESCIAYou have no reason not to explore California's freakishly gorgeous...
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More protests over Willits bypass project
Protester Robert Chevalier locked himself to a Caterpillar to protest a Caltrans bypass construction project.PHOTO COURTESY EARTH FIRST!Controversy over the Willits Bypass continued Monday, as Willits...
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Party Radar: Save Esta Noche!
Drag princess Per Sia will perform, shown here with a Miss Primavera 2013 contestant.Many of us barely remember growing up there, meeting our first hot papi, trying out our first cha cha heels on...
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Campos to Pride: City funding requires transparency, meeting about Manning...
Protesters were locked out of the Pride board's "public" meeting on May 8Over the weekend, Pride posted a Facebook note saying that, despite its promises, it would not be holding a public meeting to...
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Why is the SF housing market "positive?"
It's been a long, long time since anyone said that traffic is terrific. When there are too many cars on the road, it's considered bad, not healthy -- even if the boom in single-occupant auto travel is...
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Cryin' wolf
The oh so serious Lindsey Grahammyyesnetwork.comThis has been a wretched stretch of brutal press for Barack Obama lately. Battered over and over by revelations of IRS malfeasance, aggressive assaults...
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Is Larkin Street Youth Services using public funds to fight a union...
A flyer posted by LSYS management.Larkin Street Youth Services does great and important social work with homeless youth in San Francisco, for which it receives generous support from city taxpayers, as...
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Googlass: Gatecrashing Google I/O
Having a good time and not afraid to show it.GUARDIAN PHOTOS BY CAITLIN DONOHUEIt would be foolish to turn down the offer of cost-free Billy Idol on a Wednesday night, but I could have remembered that...
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Behold! Highlights of ArtPadSF and artMKT
In this week's issue, Guardian visual arts Matt Fisher singled out some highlights of the big ArtPadSF and artMKT shows, which open tonight and run through Sun/19. Here's a slideshow that shows you...
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New designers show their stuff at this weekend's Asian Heritage Street...
Fashion designer Huab Vue brings her collection to this weekend's runway.The annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration and fashion fever may not be automatically associated in the brains of Bay Areans....
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“Privacy? Screw that.”
Er, Google glass?PHOTO BY PETER KAMINSKI VIA FLICKRAt a party the other night, somebody convinced me to try out Google Glass. I let curiosity get the better of me, succumbed to peer pressure, and put...
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