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Truth and Reconciliation is the only chance for Hope and Change
Like most Americans, I've been fascinated by the news of Osama bin Laden's death, although my reaction has been a strange mix of relief (at the fact that this monster is gone) and revulsion (that...
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Ross for boss (of the sheriff's department)
City Hall’s steps were awash in multi-lingual black and yellow “Ross Mirkarimi for Sherrif” signs at noon today, as Mirkarimi supporters watched Sheriff Mike Hennessey, who is stepping down after 31...
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California isn't losing jobs to Texas
Sorry, Gav -- nothing to see in Texas Even Gavin Newsom, who the LA Times (with embarassing inaccuracy) calls "a poster boy for California liberalism" is buying, at least a little bit, the argument...
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Hundreds Protest Wells Fargo Shareholder Meeting in SF
The New Bottom Line, a national campaign to hold banks accountable for foreclosures, kicked off in San Francisco this week, as hundredsmarched through the Financial District to demand that Wells Fargo...
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SFBG Radio: Bin Laden, Pakistan and the ongoing wars
In today's episode, we continue the discussion of Bin Laden and Pakistan: Now that it's clear that OBL wasn't in Afghanistan or Iraq, can we please leave? Did Bush let OBL live to keep the threat...
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Hot sexy events: May 4-10
THE GREAT WALL OF VAGINA BY JAMIE MCCARTNEY I've been informed that there is an art installation being installed at the English bohemian seaside town of Brighton that will change my life – “the lives...
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Nick Waterhouse and the Tarots: New music for old souls
Nick Waterhouse knows what he likes, and as the old adage goes: "If it ain't broke don't fix it." Recording entirely in analog on vintage equipment -- including an original Muscle Shoals mixer -- and...
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Guardian poll: dogs and the next mayor
The battle over dogs at Fort Funston, Crissy Field and Ocean Beach is now big news at City Hall. The supervisors -- or most of them -- are worried that a ban on off-leash dog walking in some GGNRA...
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Super yachts are hard to move
The Guardian spotted a colossal sailboat mast getting wheeled down Illinois Street yesterday, as it was being transported from a warehouse on Pier 80 to SF Boat Works, a boat yard beside The Ramp...
View ArticleRepublican budget revolutionizes education
Ask anybody about education, and anybody will tell you that nothing is more important than education if our nation hopes to succeed in the highly competitive economic universe of the 21st century....
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Appetite: Juhu's Beach Club
Juhu's Sloppy Lil' P: a warm veggie lunch laced with spices PHOTO BY VIRGINIA MILLER What's for lunch? Top Chef fans will remember Preeti Mistry from season six of the series. That will surely be...
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Illinois pulls out of Secure Communities
As California considers reforming Secure Communities, Illinois announced today that it is terminating its involvement in the controversial federal immigration program. California and Illinois moves...
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Tourk's clients sully Herrera's mayoral campaign
Consultant Alex Tourk was a Newsom Administration insider before leaving to represent a host of corporate and downtown clients. Courtesy of Ethics Commission Does anyone really believe that lobbyist...
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5 Things: May 5, 2011
A label like this (from Cowan's Coney Island Lager line) could only be the work of a literary soul. >>FINELY BREWED PROSE Though his boozy empire is no longer based in the Bay Area of his youth,...
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Say si to the Latino Comics Expo
Latino Comics Expo: also featuring the lucha libre world of Michael Aushenker Last month we got all amped up about the growing voice of Asian Americans in the comics industry, and this weekend the...
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Dugan O'Neal talks about directing TV On The Radio's "Will Do" video
A few years back Dugan O’Neal was featured in the Guardian’s SCENE magazine to highlight Two Renegade Cops, the retro 70s pulp TV series he’d created with fellow Bay Area artist Leighton Kelly. O’Neal...
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American Idol: Hell's Kitchen edition
Sorry, Jacob -- best bow tie in the biz but it wasn't enough It's Gimmicks R Us Idol, and in between the Ford videos, another Fox production, Hell's Kitchen, got its own special promo. Chef Ramsay...
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Grrrl Brigade Stands Up! this weekend
Back in the day, despite the fact that we went to a super jock high school, my friend Lex and I decided we would be part of the after school dance theater workshop. There were definitely some good...
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The myth of the poor landlord
Early in my career at the Guardian, Bruce Brugmann, the editor, warned me about certain kinds of stories. “You know,” he said, “you can always find a welfare cheat.” It’s true: if you look hard...
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SF's top cops differ on local control
Our April 26 cover story detailed the subservient stance Gascon has taken to the FBI. The announcement by Sheriff Michael Hennessey that he won't honor federal deportation holds for undocumented...
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