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VIDEO: Videogame killer robot GLaDOS sings for same-sex marriage proposal at...
GLADoS gushy over proposalGLADoS courtesy of Valve, photo by Joe FitzgeraldThe GaymerX convention in San Francisco's Japantown this past weekend was a historic first, an LGBT video game convention at a...
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California's refusal to reduce its prison population is a sign of deeper...
California has triple-bunked its prison gyms and common areas rather than reducing its population of inmates.CDCRCalifornia just doesn’t get it when it comes to criminal justice. We have among the...
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Bomb the Music Industry!’s Jeff Rosenstock: Poster boy for manic depression...
Get in the pit.PHOTO BY DAN HALLIGAN.To get a feel for why Jeff Rosenstock plays the way he does, you have to go back almost a decade to the sweaty, now-defunct scene in New Jersey and Long Island that...
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Tenant defenders, hate-free billboards and budget hackers
Tech sector startups aren’t the only folks “disrupting” things in the Bay Area as of late. Social justice activists are mounting their own creative, grassroots responses to unjust practices – and while...
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Community-based journalists also raising Airbnb's issues in SF
Mainstream media outlets in San Francisco may be slow to pick up on how Airbnb and other online home rental companies are violating local laws and dodging local taxes — the subject of our cover story...
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Jack Spade tries to sneak into a beloved Mission spot, triggering a community...
Jack Spade's Chicago store, a sharp contrast to the raggedy, lovable old Adobe Bookstore.The Stop Jack Spade Coalition is throwing an impromptu fundraiser tonight (Wed/7) at the Make-Out Room to help...
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Last tango: Investigators sort through BART's labor impasse
Investigators questioned BART workers, managers, and negotiators throughout the day in Oakland.Joe FitzgeraldMuch of BART's dirty laundry was aired at the first hearing on the negotiations in Oakland...
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Agency official under fire for development project endorsement
BCDC Vice Chair Anne Halsted, shown in this screen shot of Open Up the Waterfront's campaign ad.Did a high-ranking official of a regional conservation authority improperly use her influence to secure...
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Richmond gets radical, seizing foreclosed homes from banks
The banks have neglected their foreclosed homes in Richmond far more than the city and its residents would.Creative Commons/CoCoACCEAs a rule of thumb, we at the Guardian tend to believe that if the...
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Final Burning Man ticket sale brings total to 61,000 sold for $23 mil
With the final official Burning Man ticket sale going off without a hitch yesterday, Bay Area burners are now in mad preparation mode, with DPW setup crews arriving on the playa this week, early art...
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Lawsuit over injury from airborne fire hydrant tests Uber’s insurance practices
Gushing for UberImage courtesy of Leslie Straw, via Twitter @lastrawA hydrant hit by a private taxi operating in partnership with Uber was sent flying, leaving this geyser pouring at over Divisadero...
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Taxis reinvent themselves to be more like Lyft
As this image from Lyft's Facebook page demonstrates, some drivers are true believers.For all the (justified) grumbling about the business models of ridesharing services like Lyft and Uber, the...
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Breathe Owl Breathe's van and gear stolen in Berkeley
Here's the Breathe Owl Breathe van.Below is a note from the touring musicians of indie folk group Breathe Owl Breathe -- their van was stolen last night in Berkeley, and they need your help in tracking...
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Bay Area Walmart employees say they were fired in retaliation for striking
Dominic Ware participated in an OURWalmart strike this past May.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWEAfter working for nearly two years at Walmart in San Leandro, Dominic Ware said he’d witnessed too many...
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Solomon: Memo from Oslo: If peace is prized, a Nobel for Bradley Manning
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 Death."Oslo,...
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When it rains hydrant crash photos, it pours
JJ HarrisOur story last week on the Uber driver who plowed into a fire hydrant got a lot of attention, but apparently it's not so rare for errant drivers to create sudden urban showers. Reader JJ...
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Prison hunger strike enters month two
As a hunger strike staged across California prisons enters its second month, inmates and their advocates are mourning the loss of Billy “Guero” Sells, a Corcoran State Prison inmate who committed...
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Russia's Olympic moment: Let's really gay this f*cker up
The Gay Olympics: We've had like 40 years of practice at this, people.So, the 2014 Winter Olympics. They're in Russia (specifically, Sochi), which right now hates on all the gays. What should we do?...
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PG&E union spreads lies about CleanPowerSF
Dirty, dirty lies.San Francisco’s municipal power agency is gearing up to launch one of the most climate-friendly alternative energy programs in the country, but the forces behind a misleading...
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Light Asylum, Miami Horror, Hercules, whips, chains, etc.: Lineup for Folsom...
Light Asylum: getting in the leather swingFolsom Street Fair: yes to fisting, whipping, piercing. But the September 29 event has also morphed, through the auspices of kicky executive director Demetri...
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