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Live Shots: Chvrches at Mezzanine
The night started with shrieks. Well, back up. It actually started sedate. Opener Still Corners had cancelled at the last minute, due to visa issues*,” so we knew it would be a bit of a wait before...
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Wal-Mart workers strike, rally outside Marissa Mayer’s SF penthouse
There are no Walmart stores in San Francisco. And yet, four members of the company's board of directors are influential Bay Area residents. On May 29, a group of Walmart workers assembled outside the...
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The Performant: Cracks in the pavement
Erica Lewis reads at the Squat in Lower HaightPHOTO BY CARLEEN TIBBETTSGentrification-proof poetryAlthough the ongoing eviction saga (and upcomng relocation!) of Adobe Books, “the living room” of the...
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Emulating Switzerland
The AR-15http://guns.yfa1.ru/eng/Today's "human nature is revolting" story comes from the state of Utah. Apparently, one the state's leading gun-rights activists was busted for threatening his...
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Week Two
1978JAWWeek two of blogging here in the books.To paraphrase your most famous musical export, what a short strange trip its been so far.I have to admit that it's taken me aback, the bizarre level of...
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Couples and docs galore, plus Will Smith and magicians: new movies!
Game on: 'Venus and Serena'Photo courtesy of magnolia PicturesThis week there are two very different movies about two VERY different couples (Before Midnight and Sightseers). Pick your poison by...
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Weekend watch: 2 ways to mark this SF moment in the Mission [UPDATED]
Juana Alicia's "La Llorona" commemorates the fight for human rights. On Sat/1 it'll see a local lament.PHOTO VIA JUANA ALICIAAs of late, it seems as though the cries of anti-displacement activists and...
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Lee budget avoids cuts, but some say too few benefit from the boom
Mayor Ed Lee today released his proposed 2013-15 city budget in the Board of Supervisors Chambers at City Hall, a $7.9 billion spending plan that he said reflects the “San Francisco values of fiscal...
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Both sides DON'T do it
Roger Ailes, Father of the Right Wing Entertainment Complexnypost.comAs someone with a lot of friends and contacts in the real world and on the Net, I hear pretty much every opinion under the sun. From...
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Activists to governor: Please un-frack California
Activists with the newly formed Californians Against Fracking coalition congregated in front of the state building yesterday.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWEA statewide coalition of more than 100...
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Philip Glass at 75: an intoxicating series, live scores to 'La Belle et la...
Beauty and the Beast, and Philip Glass.La Belle et la Bête image courtesy of SF Performances.Last June, legendary composer Philip Glass treated our fair city to a one-off collaborative performance with...
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Staggering Hypocrisy
The root of all evilmedia.npr.orgApparently, the Republicans in Congress are railing against food stamps--fosters a "culture of dependency", they say.A few things--most of the beneficiaries of TANF are...
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Nothing without daddy
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)veteranstodayReading Rand Paul's prescription for a bigger and better GOP, I was struck by an interesting thought--since 1988, only one Republican nominee (coincidentally the...
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Jean Stapleton, RIP
Jean Stapleton, aka Edith "The Dingbat" Bunkertvtrivia.comJean Stapleton, best known as "Edith Bunker" on TV's "All In The Family", passed away in New York. She was 90.Not only was she an actress of...
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Sonny Bono, inventor of punk rock.
Sonny Bono, punk rock iconAPDid Sonny Bono invent punk rock?"I Got You, Babe" and "The Beat Goes On" are at root the most primitive songs of the era--just as neanderthal as "Wild Thing" or "Gloria" or...
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Lou Reed's not so perfect day
Lou Reednypost.comLast Friday, it was revealed that Velvet Underground co-founder and occasionally proclaimed "godfather of punk rock" Lou Reed had undergone a life-saving liver transplant in...
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Mt Everest and tantrum-tossing talk junkies
Mt Everestgetrealatrichfield.comThe world has been rather ugly of late, hasn't it? From man-made horrors in Turkey as the government sprays its people with agent orange to Syria's unending conflict to...
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Some wins, some losses in Sacto
The state Assembly and Senate passed the usual flurry of bills on May 31, the last day for initial-house approval, with some unusual drama that temporarily sidelined a medical-marijuana bill by...
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In which drag queens read Amanda Bynes tweets and the Internet temporarily...
#bestHave you ever tweeted with such dedication and furor that you reached a higher plane? That the world fell away and you were left with the impression that, through a series of carefully crafted @'s...
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Zynga implosion shows the danger in SF's technophilia
readwrite.comWe’ve long been skeptical of the overblown and self-interested claims by tech titans and their political allies that this dot-com boom changes everything and that it could never go bust,...
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