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San Francisco rent explosion: Median rent for two-bedroom apartment tops $4K
The Rent is Too Damn High, Part 2 Image courtesy of PriceEconomics.comHold onto your butts, a new study on San Francisco's rental market (yes another one) reveals the city's newest most expensive...
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Lee and Pelosi talk middle class jobs in unequal SF
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-SF) joined Mayor Ed Lee at a press conference yesterday [Tue 12] at Yerba Buena across from the construction site of a Central Subway station. It was billed as an...
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San Francisco Democratic Party decides on endorsements for November election
Tenant advocate Dean Preston asks the DCCC to endorse Prop. G.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWEAt a meeting lasting about four hours last night [Wed/13], the San Francisco Democratic County Central...
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Scenes from a Faerie farewell
An unseasonably warm afternoon breeze wafted the scent of burning sage over Duboce Park yesterday, as a crowd of 200 or so mourners joined hands in a giant prayer circle to celebrate the life of...
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Was Oakland's moment of silence for Ferguson buzzed by a police helicopter?
Stock photo of a California Highway Patrol helicopter. Was this the 'copter that buzzed a moment of silence for victims of police violence? Via Wikimedia user ShakataGaNai under CC SA 2.0As many of us...
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Old guys, touchy-feely teens, and rep-house picks you don't wanna miss:...
William Lustig's 1980 exploitation classic Maniac screens tonight at the YBCA.Photo courtesy of William LustigOutside of the multiplex this week, don't miss Midnites for Maniacs curator (and Guardian...
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Paul McCartney bids Candlestick a fiery goodbye
Sir Paul at Candlestick last night, Aug. 14.PHOTOS BY RYAN HOLMESMy earliest memories of Candlestick are formative ones. Like any Bay Area kid who cut her baseball teeth on Giants games at the...
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Film festival organizers call for safer San Francisco streets
Editor’s Note: Aug. 19 marks the Bay Area Global Health Film Festival, hosted by the Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology. The theme of this year’s festival is “Road Traffic Safety...
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Guardianistas on the air: Catch our Alternative Ink and Expanding Mind...
We Guardianistas aren’t just tethered to our keyboards, writing stories for our weekly print and daily online editions. We’re also working the microphones at public events and online broadcast outlets...
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Live shots: Pro-Palestine activists block ship at the Port of Oakland
Guardian photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezPro-Palestine activists marched on Saturday to block an Israeli ship scheduled to dock at the Port of Oakland, protesting Gaza violence.Well over 1,000...
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Grover Norquist to take the stage at Burning Man … right after a fake guru
Guardian illustration using Grover Norquist photo by Gage Skidmore and a photo of Editor Steven T. Jones at Burning Man.Burning Man’smost notorious attendee, ultra-conservative Grover Norquist, has...
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Live Review: The Coup's provocative 'Shadowbox' marred by sound problems
The Coup in 'Shadowbox,' Aug. 16.PHOTO BY DANIEL BROMFIELDThe Coup's new multimedia project Shadowbox was at least partially inspired by bandleader/MC Boots Riley's experience walking into a Theater...
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Live Shots: SF Street Food Fest fills us up quickly
The weather was gorgeous, the lines weren't too long, and the people were friendly -- and hungry -- at the sixth annual SF Street Food Festival last Saturday.About those shorter lines, though -- that...
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We're draining the swamp: No more comments at SFBG.com, at least for now
There’s a tipping point between constructive criticism and destructive disparagement, and when the latter category is layered with an onslaught of spam from spellcasters, solicitors, and scammers —...
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SFPD still searching for man who beat Feather; memorial fund set up
The Noe lemonade stand paid tribute to Feather last week.There have been no new developments in the case of Feather, aka Bryan Higgins, the Radical Faerie who was found beaten near Duboce Park, and who...
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Hump day music news: The Masonic gets a facelift, that dancey new Toro y Moi...
An artist's rendering of you and all your computer-generated friends having fun at the new Masonic.PHOTO/LIVE NATION-- The venue formerly known as the Nob Hill Masonic Center will re-open next month as...
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American landscapes: a review of SF native Sean Wilsey's essay collection,...
Midway through the introduction to More Curious (McSweeney's Books, 342 pp., $22), his recently-published collection of essays from the last 15 years, Sean Wilsey (who appears at the Booksmith Thu/21)...
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Researcher explores police and protester violence in the Occupy movement
People are moved by a line of police as authorities disperse a protest in Ferguson, Mo. early Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. On Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, a white police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, an...
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Eyewitness claims victim of officer-involved shooting did not brandish Taser
This illustration of Alejandro ("Alex") Nieto, from justiceforalexnieto.org, appeared on fliers throughout the Mission District.A person claiming to be an eyewitness to the fatal shooting of Alejandro...
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Who will run Gleneagles Golf Course? If it's not the city, who cares?
Gleneagles Golf CourseAs we watch today’s Recreation and Park Commission meeting on extending political insider Tom Hsieh’s no-bid contract to run the once-public Gleneagles Golf Course — which is...
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