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Real tech worker says SF homeless "grotesque,""degenerates,""trash"
Image via Gopman's Facebook page.Just a day after a fake tech worker blew up the Internet with class hatred, an actual tech worker spewed hatred for real -- and it’s worse than anything that our...
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SFUSD gifts city 115 affordable housing units for the holidays
Advocate asks board to approve the land swap project.Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezThe San Francisco Board of Education last night (Tue/10) approved a land swap with city government, gifting San...
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Official SF bike count shows big increase, but not big enough to meet city goals
New separated green bike lanes have helped make cycling safer and more attractive in SF.Courtesy of SFBCAs anyone who has traveled the streets of San Francisco knows, there’s an increasing number of...
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Proposal seeks to improve prospects for the formerly incarcerated
Sup. Jane Kim's proposal seeks to eliminate bias against people who've served time behind bars.Questions concerning an individual's criminal history have been banned from city agency employment...
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Personal archives: CAAM's home-movie project Memories to Light
The family of CAAM's Devin Agatep poses in a vintage home movie.Courtesy of Davin AgatepFor as long as I can remember, my family has spent New Year's Day at my aunt and uncle’s house in Campbell. As we...
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Dragons and drag: new movies from Peter Jackson and Tyler Perry, plus more!
Orlando Bloom returns to Middle-earth to play Legolas in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.PHOTO COURTESY OF WARNER BROS.Breathe easy, halfling: the middle installment in Peter Jackson's...
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Bus riding tech workers respond to national spotlight on evictions
Google bus riders watch a protest blocking their bus.Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezEvictions are rippling through San Francisco. Tensions are high. Tech workers with gobs of cash are driving up the...
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SF Sketchfest posted its schedule today! (Spoiler: it's awesome)
Dudes! Nerds! Pedro-voters! SF Sketchfest 2014 posted its complete schedule today, unveiling over 200 shows to be held in 20 venues from Jan. 23-Feb. 9. Over the past 13 years, the fest has exploded...
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Amanda Lepore brings the body heat.
Lepore it on."You know how I'm obsessed with coordinating my outfits," NYC club legend and "most expensive body in the world" Amanda Lepore breathed into the phone, in advance of her Sat/14 appearance...
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Homeless hater Greg Gopman was a jerk at the office, too
Former AngelHack CEO Greg GopmanVia Gopman's Facebook.Former AngelHack CEO Greg Gopman not only fanned the flames of San Franciscan tech resentment by calling the homeless “degenerates” and “trash” on...
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The Performant: Sleep No More
Upon reaching the fifth floor of the California Institute of Integral Studies, a wall of makeshift web diagrams asks arriving oddience members to detail what the longest amount of time they went...
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SF Board of Supervisors approves new tenant protections
Housing affordability has become the top issue in San Francisco, as today's meeting reinforced.Rebecca BoweThe Board of Supervisors today (Tues/17) gave unanimous final approval to legislation aimed at...
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Plans for SF clean energy program still underway, despite political opposition
District 5 Sup. London Breed called for a clear plan to build out local energy sources and create jobs.San Francisco’s longstanding effort to develop a municipal renewable energy program has been...
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National Park Service asks Presidio Trust to hit the breaks on museum proposals
PDX museum rendering courtesy of Presidio.govThe battle over the cultural fate of the otherwise outdoors-oriented Presidio could hit the pause button once again after a high-level letter sent to the...
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Year in Music 2013: Taylor Kaplan's top 10s
Albums1. My Bloody Valentine: m b v2. Dean Blunt: The Redeemer3. Julia Holter: Loud City Song4. No Joy: Wait to Pleasure5. Oneohtrix Point Never: R Plus Seven<!--break-->6. Boards of Canada:...
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Mayor Lee orders affordable housing push
Mayor Ed Lee announces new housing directive, standing on a deck at Natoma street housing project flanked by officials.Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezMayor Ed Lee stood on the rooftop terrace between...
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Tech sets out to help the homeless
Google “tech,” “San Francisco,” and “homeless” right now, and you will undoubtedly find the tale of Greg Gopman, former CEO of AngelHack, whose notorious Facebook comments comparing homeless people to...
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Mayor Lee addresses Google bus controversy
Guardian photo and graphicAt a press conference on affordable housing today, the Guardian asked Mayor Ed Lee about San Francisco’s favorite pinata: tech buses. The monstrous private shuttles, which...
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The Burning Man Project's boring bait-and-switch
In a series of stories earlier this year, I outlined how the board that controls Burning Man doesn’t appear to be “relinquishing our control” over the event, as founder Larry Harvey announced would be...
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A century after the Raker Act, San Franciscans are still illegally denied...
San Francisco won federal approval to build a major dam in the Hetch Hetchy Valley 100 years ago today.The San Francisco Examiner has a good story on today’s 100th anniversary of the signing of the...
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