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Agnos offers waterfront development history lesson during SFT speech
Former Mayor Art Agnos[Editor’s Note: This is the text of a speech that former Mayor Art Agnos gave at San Francisco Tomorrow’s annual dinner on May 21. We reprint it here in its entirely so readers...
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Chiu mailer highlights Guardian praise, despite our Campos endorsement
Politics is dirty business, and I should never underestimate the willingness of politicians to turn any editorial praise they receive into an electoral advantage, distorting the context as needed, a...
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Meet the people who are getting forced out of San Francisco
The interactive map can be found at crowdmap.com/map/narrativesofdisplacement.The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project has come out with a number of visualization projects in the past year to document the...
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Losing our religion: The Lost Church says farewell — for now
Brad Barton onstage at The Lost Church.With all the tears shed and (Internet) ink spilled bemoaning the death of the Mission District at the hands of the tech bubble, it's easy to forget lately that...
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Muni permanently locks up front facing seats, fearing lawsuits
A Muni seat with its bottom half snapped upright. Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezRegular Muni riders have no doubt seen the wheelchair-accessible seats, located just in front of Muni's middle door,...
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The anti-sunshine gang intensifies its attacks on the Sunshine Ordinance Task...
Sup. Scott Wiener leads the charge against sunshine in City HallBy Bruce B. Brugmann (with special sunshine vendetta chronology by Richard Knee) The Guardian story in the current issue demonstrates...
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Elbow's Craig Potter on iPads, tour fatigue, and hitting #1
Elbow.PHOTO BY TOM SHEEHANBy Andrew BlairIf you don’t know of Elbow by now, you should probably stop reading this and go spend some time under a tree, staring out into space, contemplating your...
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LA siren BANKS enchants The Independent
BANKS at The Independent, Wed/28.ALL PHOTOS BY LAURA B. CHILDSOn Wednesday night at The Independent, a sold-out crowd anxiously awaits the mysterious creature known as BANKS. Cloaked in layers of black...
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Pink Mountaintops get weird at The Chapel
Pink Mountaintops at The Chapel Wed/28PHOTOS BY GIOVAN ALONZIBy Jordannah ElizabethThe Pink Mountaintops performed last night at The Chapel in the Mission District to a loyal crowd of friends and fans,...
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By Bruce B. Brugmann (with the complete text of Art Agnos speech to the May 21 dinner of San Francisco Tomorrow) When Art Agnos was sworn in as mayor in 1988, he used the Athenian Oath that was...
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The 8 things that made BottleRock, well, BottleRock
The Cure, who played for two-plus hours before getting cut off.PHOTO BY LAURYN MCCARTHYI am surrounded by people with purple teeth, stained from too much red wine. These people are twisted beyond...
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Wanted PR consultant Ryan Chamberlain burned by SF politics
Ryan Chamberlain may have been burned by SF politics, leading to an FBI national manhunt. Courtesy photoThe FBI is pursuing PR consultant Ryan Chamberlain in connection with allegedly posessing...
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Good green: Lessons from the 4th annual SF Green Film Festival
A still from 'DamNation.'I can count on my two hands the days it’s rained in San Francisco this year. You’d have to be living in a cave to not know that our city is having its worst drought in...
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Which Muni lines aren't running during the #MuniSickOut?
Riders pack in to a 38 Muni as 400 of Muni's 600 scheduled buses sit in garage's and lots, undriven. Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezEveryone is scrambling for a way home during the #MuniSickOut, with...
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Wanted PR consultant Ryan Chamberlain in FBI custody
Ryan Chamberlain carried away by SFPD, as questions remain as to the nature of the FBI's investigation. Photo courtesy of ABC 7San Francisco Police Department Officers took San Francisco political...
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Muni sickout continues for second day
Crowds of riders wait for a Muni metro line at Powell station during the first sickout. Photo by Jessica ChristianUpdate: At 2:23pm the SFMTA sent an update on shortened Muni Metro service. See our...
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Ethics complaint says chair of DCCC deliberately tried to confuse voters
Mary Jung is elected chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party Central Committee and works for the Association of RealtorsSF EXAMINER FILE PHOTONOTE: This post has been updated from an earlier...
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Listen: Katie Day's anti-tech bro jam "San Francisco (Before the West Falls)"
Katie Day plays this Sat/7 at Amnesia.Between POW!'s "Hi-Tech Boom," the schticky "Google Bus Song" from Cachebox, and Violent Vickie's "Fuck You!!!!!", it's safe to say San Francisco musicians — the...
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LIVE June election coverage
Follw the San Francisco Bay Guardian tonight [Tue/3] as we cover the 2014 Primary Election live! A war on the waterfront is brewing, with Proposition B set to decide if voter approval should be...
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The Damned on playing small venues, headgear that protects you from spit, and...
The Damned play Wed/4 at Slim's.For nearly four decades now, legendary British rockers The Damned have been haunting stages around the world with their brand of gothic-inspired punk.Since storming onto...
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