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No Wall on the Waterfront wins big, Chiu prevails in Assembly race by slim...
Election night wins and losses at the Yes and No on B campaign parties. Pictured here is the Yes on B campaign table. Photo by Rebecca BoweDevelopers looking to build high-end luxury condos on the...
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The pedestrian pop of Sylvan Esso
Sylvan Esso hits The Fillmore Fri/6.Upon first listen, Sylvan Esso kind of takes hold of you. Nick Sanborn’s melodic, layered, driving electronic beats pair perfectly with Amelia Meath’s blissful voice...
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What’s the hidden message of @HiddenCash?
What are we to make of @HiddenCash, the “anonymous social experiment for good,” created by a wealthy Bay Area man who has told media he just wants to put a smile on people’s faces?The anonymous donor,...
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Muni sickout: Q&A with transit union president
TWU Local 250-A (Muni's union) President Eric Williams sits down to talk about the Muni sickout. Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezIt's fair to say San Francisco is sick of the sickout.Three days after...
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There is too much going on this weekend: The Congress, Not Dead Yet Fest, and...
The Seshen open for tUnE-yArDs Sat/7.Y'all ever have that thing where a week or two will go by without a show you're particularly stoked on, and then all of a sudden there's one weekend where you want...
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Cruise into the weekend (oh yes we did) with new flicks!
Girls rock: Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, and Liv LeMoyne in We Are the Best!PHOTO COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURESDudes! The (lucky) 13th San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, aka DocFest to those in...
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TREAT SHEET 2014 (all on one page!)
Mmmm.. lemon cookie and strawbery ice cream from Three TwinsTREAT SHEET It's almost summer time: Forget about that diet -- you've got bigger things to worry about than whether you can fit into that...
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Get some: 'This Is What I Want' fest continues through June 21
Festival participant VK PrestonThis Is What I Want— the Bay Area’s fifth annual performance festival devoted to performing and investigating desire — seems to want it all this year, with no less than...
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New appointments to Sunshine Ordinance Task Force may help government...
Ali Winston tells city supervisors, who were concerned about diversity, that his mother is Turkish and he cares about the Middle Eastern community. The task force appointments met much controversy....
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Chevron refinery expansion permitted before environmental review, lawsuit...
Chevron's Richmond refinerySF EXAMINER FILE PHOTOCommunities for a Better Environment, known for its watchdog efforts around Chevron's Richmond oil refinery, has filed a lawsuit against the Bay Area...
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New historical hipster photos showcase big-wheeled bikes from San Francisco...
Photos via California Historical SocietyHipsters and bikes are as close as Instagram posts of five dollar cups of organic, free trade, Japanese drip coffee. Historical photos recently posted to the...
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Middle fingers to the sky, Lady Gaga takes San Jose for an artRAVEy ride
Lady Gaga, being Lady Gaga.There are a lot of critiques that I can make about Lady Gaga’s Tuesday night performance in San Jose — the sports arena acoustics, the horrifically boring opening acts, the...
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Tune in to SFBG's Alternative Ink, sickout edition!
Spend your Sunday night with the dedicated staff here at the Bay Guardian, for two hours of local music and lively, information talk during our bi-weekly Alternative Ink radio show from 6-8pm Sunday,...
View ArticleNorman Solomon: Obama escalates his war on journalism
By Norman Solomon (Norman Solomon is executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and co-founder of RootsAction.org. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep...
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Party Radar: Daybreaker gets you moving - on a Tuesday morning
Reveille! Reveille!Back in 1988, I hung out for a summer in West Berlin. Yep, this was before the wall fell, when West Berlin was a roiling, hyperactive, neon-crazy island in a sea of Communist...
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The Pogues' James Fearnley on Shane MacGowan, the difference time can make,...
James Fearnley reads tonight, Mon/9, at Moe's Books in Berkeley.Mixing a high proof distillation from the sounds of traditional Irish folk music with the piss and vinegar attitude and energy of punk...
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Venture capitalist cat-fight as Ron Conway angrily defends Mayor Ed Lee
Ron Conway shouts down a venture capitalist as they argue the future: will Mayor Ed Lee make San Francisco affordable again? Image courtesy of BloombergWealthy Silicon Valley venture capitalist Ron...
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Transportation funding faces key test after Mayor Lee flips on VLF increase
Then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger slashed the VLF, and now Mayor Ed Lee won't let San Franciscans raise it this year.Facing a deadline of tomorrow’s [Tues/10] San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting...
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The under-celebrated influence of Guided By Voices
Guided By Voices play the Regency tomorrow, Wed/11.PHOTO BY MATT DAVISIn a conversation about '90s rock staples the other day, a friend casually mentioned that he'd never really listened to Guided By...
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Campos wins veto-proof support for closing the city healthcare coverage...
Sup. David Campos is finally closing the healthcare coverage loophole after being thwarted years ago by David Chiu and Ed LeesfbgSup. David Campos appears to have finally succeeded in his years-long...
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