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Welcome to the Bubbleverse
As I attempt to explain Bubbleverse -- "a cosmic portal into your childhood imagination" in SoMa, "offering a rare glimpse of this majestic hydrophysical phenomenon" -- please keep in mind that I was...
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Solomon: Uncle Sam and Corporate Tech: Domestic Partners Raising Digital Big...
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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Q&A: Dita Von Teese on gaining sexual confidence, creating beauty on her own...
Dita Von Teese is headed this way.PHOTO BY SCOTT NATHAN.She is classy, beautiful, and sexually poised. She’s seductive, creative, and ambitious. She is world-famous burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese, and...
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Did the Hayes Valley Farm occupation help or hurt the cause of liberating...
Activists who occupied the former Hayes Valley Farm site held the space and posted this sign before being evicted by police.Did the recent activist occupation of a temporary urban farming plot help...
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Protesters to be awarded $1 million settlement in mass arrest lawsuit
A scene from the Nov. 5, 2010 protest where OPD mass arrested 150 protesters in a residential neighborhoodPHOTO BY RAMSEY EL-QAREA federal judge has granted preliminary approval for a settlement of...
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Solomon: The pursuit of Edward Snowden: Washington in a rage, striving to run...
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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Desperate for support, 8 Washington developers run ads proclaiming: “Stop the...
With a July 8 deadline fast approaching, the developers behind the 8 Washington project are taking steps to ensure their measure to approve one of the priciest condo projects ever contemplated in San...
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Heads Up: 7 must-see concerts this week
Mykki Blanco, cosmic angel.Pride Week is upon us y’all, and with those excited, proud, rainbow-waving masses, come awesome live acts, DJs, bands, you know the drill by now; there are official shows,...
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Embarcadero Center Cinema closing (temporarily) for renovations
Adios, Embarcadero; see you (and your awesome new snack bar) in NovemberVia www.embarcaderoshop.comDon't panic, art-house fans: you can still get your subtitle fix at Landmark's other San Francisco...
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The Performant 151: A Declaration of Independence
Taking the road less traveled with the Independent EyeIn a cozy living room in Cole Valley, a small but attentive oddience gathers to watch a trio of short theatrical vignettes performed by maverick...
View ArticleExaminer sues Chronicle, alleging predatory ad-pricing scheme
Today the San Francisco Newspaper Company, which owns the Bay Guardian, announced it was suing the Chronicle, accusing it of below-cost competition. You can read the story, by Joe Eskenazi, below....
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The street fight over bicycles, in NYC and SF
[Ed Note: SF State Professor Jason Henderson, whose work we've covered for years, wrote this op-ed for the New York Times and customized this version for us]A few weeks ago Wall Street Journal...
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Sadik-Khan and her groupies urge bold action on the streets of San Francisco
Days after Sadik-Kahn's speech, the Bicycle Music Festival showed how people can lead the way to a more bike-friendly city.Tim DawSan Francisco and our timid Mayor Ed Lee could learn a few things from...
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Supreme Court same-sex marriage decisions: DOMA invalidated, Prop 8 case...
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, same-sex marriage pioneers, photographed in 2008 for SFBGWatch this space throughout the day for breaking news on the decision and reactions.DOMA INVALIDATEDThe Supreme...
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....and here's your full freedom to marry dance mix, Mary
Hole-y matrimony: artwork by Phillip PhilastreToday already has an amazing (and in one case sad) soundtrack of excellent tunes. But Honey Soundsystem are first on the stick with an excellent mix of...
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Religious leaders celebrate Supreme Court decision upholding marriage equality
Photos by Rebecca BoweWhile proponents of the now-unenforceable Proposition 8 might have pointed to scripture to justify opposition to same-sex marriage, a group of religious leaders from throughout...
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Disillusionment, "Everyman," and Netroots Nation
For nearly the entire Caltrain ride to down San Jose last Thursday morning, my thoughts were fully consumed by the subject of liberal disillusionment and cynicism. I pondered the question, “How much...
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Solomon: David Brooks, Tom Friedman, Bill Keller wish Snowden had just...
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 Us to...
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From around the Internet: San Franciscans celebrate marriage equality
A street party in the Castro on June 26.Screen shot from video by "HiWorld798"All around San Francisco yesterday, gay couples, city leaders, and street revelers celebrated the Supreme Court’s rulings...
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Images from a big gay victory celebration
It was an amazing day of celebration in San Francisco yesterday, from the early morning crowd that gathered in City Hall to hear the ruling legalizing same-sex marriages in California to the evening...
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