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Jazzie Collins: forever fighting the good fight
PHOTO BY DAVID ELLIOTT LEWISStalwart trans rights and economic equality activist Jazzie Collins passed away this week. She was honored in June in the State Assembly for LGBT History Month, and was on...
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A community-based coalition, a trio of supervisors and a very special...
The politicians might as well have just come out and said that Lou Giraudo is The Dude.The takeaway message from a July 11 press conference held in the Mayor’s office touting legislation authorizing...
View ArticleNationwide protest for Trayvon Martin called for Sunday
In response to the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case declaring George Zimmerman not guilty, a nationwide protest rally has been called by the ANSWER Coalition for Sunday at 4pm PST. In San Francisco:...
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Kiwis win first real America's Cup race as Oracle adapts to rejected rule change
New Zealand gets out of the water and into another point in the win column.After a week of one-boat “races,” an argument over rules, and an angry sponsor making waves in international media, it would...
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Live Shots: Phono del Sol 2013 with Thee Oh Sees, Marnie Stern, Surf Club
John Dwyer stood holding his guitar, smiling and making small talk with the crowd, having been asked by a Phono del Sol staffer to hold off while, presumably, the band on the other stage finished up...
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CEQA reform battle sparks welcome changes even before final compromise
The Planning Department recently made it easier for activists to track development projects.When Sup. Scott Wiener last year introduced legislation that would limit people’s ability to appeal...
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Inmates on hunger strike win support from California legislators
Screen shot from video posted by Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity CoalitionThe largest prison hunger strike in California history officially began on July 8, and though some California legislators...
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Labors of love
Teatro Jornalero sin Fronteras at the Imaginists base in Santa Rosa.Photo courtesy of the ImaginistsLos Angeles's Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras makes common cause with Santa Rosa's the...
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Lia Rose lets go on new album ‘Bricks and Bones’
The local singer-songwriter is gentle, but she will bite.PHOTO BY RIKI FELDMANNBay Area country-folk artist Lia Rose is a ball of sunshine both on stage and off. But if you listened to her songs, you’d...
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The Performant: Parts is Parts
"Factory Parts" opens tonight and runs through July 28 at NOH Space.FoolsFURY’s Factory Parts Builds a Future for Ensemble WorksEver ambitious, the process-oriented foolsFURY theater ensemble has added...
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Oakland cafe owner keeps it in perspective
On Saturday night, the window of Oakland’s Awaken Cafe got smashed after protests erupted in response to George Zimmerman’s acquittal.“We had a show going on. It was startling, but the band kept...
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Brutal murder, wrenching trial: HBO's must-see doc "The Cheshire Murders"
It was, people said, Connecticut's version of the In Cold Blood murders. In July 2007, Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, 11-year-old Michaela and 17-year-old Hayley, were murdered by a pair...
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Change in leadership at DPH triggers brain (and heart) drain
Environmental Health Director Dr. Rajiv Bhatia was placed on leave by new SFDPH head Barbara Garcia.Luke ThomasThe San Francisco Department of Public Health has seen an exodus of top officials over the...
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New generation of Guardian leadership seeks community partnership
San Francisco Newspaper Company has named Marke Bieschke as publisher and Steven T. Jones as editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, elevating two longtime Guardianistas into the top spots,...
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Call to action issued at San Francisco vigil for Trayvon Martin
Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco NAACP, led the rally.PHOTO BY JUSTIN BENTTINENA group of African American community leaders gathered outside San Francisco City Hall July 16 for a rally...
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Silent films, racing snails, haunted houses, and more in weekend movies!
Marion Davies stars as a lovelorn misfit in 1928's 'The Patsy,' screening tonight at the SF Silent Film Festival.Those long, well-dressed lines wrapping around the Castro Theatre signal the advent of...
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Solomon: The portrait of a leaker as a young man
Painted by Robert Shetterly for his Americans Who Tell The Truth Project. A Portrait of the Leaker as a Young ManBy Norman Solomon Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding...
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Heads Up: 6 must-see concerts this week
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu will land at the J-POP Summit.Hiatus Kaiyote, Yassou Benedict, Elvis Christ with Pookie and the Poodlez, Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine -- this week’s must-sees...
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Street Fight: Plan Bay Area falls short of a worthy goal
Plan Bay Area was the subject of a Guardian cover story on May 28 and public forum on June 12.Last week’s adoption of Plan Bay Area by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission was a watershed moment...
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Before Outside Lands: the Easy Leaves prep for summer fests, hope to catch...
The Easy Leaves in their natural environment.PHOTO MY MIKE SHERWOOD.Kevin Carducci and Sage Fifield of the Easy Leaves really are pretty easy-going. But take away their opportunity to do what they love...
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