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Where to get blown (up?) for FREEDOM
Annual fireworks extravaganzas: What a gorgeous waste -- celebrating America! Johnny Funcheap has his huge, annual guide to sky-high Bay Area gunpowder-showers up, if you're looking for some good ol'...
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The Performant: Trans-cendental Meditations
The Tranimals come out at Nightlife The time is probably coming when humans will be able to adapt animalian traits, ala “Transmetropolitan,” either as a weekend whim or on a permanent basis. The whole...
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Behind the backflip: The story of a street-performing family
The Sardine family flips up the meaning of familial trust on Pier 39 PHOTO BY SEAN HURD You can’t miss the acrobatic stylings of Orion, Alex, and Meisje Griffiths -- also known as the Sardine Family...
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The Chron is clueless
The ol' Chron commissioned its former reader representative, Dick Rogers, to do a piece on the Jose Antonio Vargas story, and he concludes that Vargas was a liar whose failure to turn himself in to...
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Politicians have a limited time offer for you
As politicians push to maximize their campaign contributions before the semi-annual reporting deadline of tonight (Thu/30) at midnight – a big measure of the strength of their campaigns and sure-fire...
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Wanna see something really silly? "Twilight Zone Live: Season 8"
The Dark Room’s suckling at the boob tube is a mass cultural sub-phenomenon of questionable taste and, yes, abnormal staying power. Remember 2005’s Batman the TV Show: The Play? I still wake up...
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Feelmore510 is bringing sexy back to Oakland
The Bay's east side can seem a little prudish, especially when compared to its slutty sister city. Until February, Oakland's only retail resources for sex were a couple of trashy adult "superstores."...
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Noodle gnar: We got your SF air guitar championship photos right here
Attention, pre-adults: there is a place for you, a place where a laissez faire attitude and zero musical talent will not only get you by, but get you laid. Ladies and gentleman, welcome to San...
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The Village Voice, Ashton Kutcher and prostitution ads
Lacey and Larkin smirk for the camera There’s some fascinating back and forth in media circles about the Village Voice, its chain (which includes SF Weekly), Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, prostitution,...
View ArticleThe Fourth of July in Rock Rapids, Iowa, 1940-53
(Note: In July of l972, when the Guardian was short a Fourth of July story, I sat down and cranked out this one for the front page on my trusty Royal Typewriter. I now reprint it each year on the...
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Everybody loves parklets
Deep (on the mike at left) dedicates what he called "Deepistan National Parklet" in front of his home on Valencia Street Steven T. Jones The Chronicle's urban design writer John King, consistently one...
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(Summer!) Trash Lit: The Profession
By Steven Pressfield. Crown, 320 pages, $25 Wow, they still drink Rolling Rock in 2032. And they still use military laptops and handhelds and complain about bad TV reception. The web doesn’t seem to...
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Appetite: 3 restaurants to watch
Here are two new places that just opened, showing a lot of promise… and one that keeps getting better. Sexy ’70s foodie lounge : CHAMBERS EAT+DRINK The Phoenix Hotel has long exuded rock star hipness....
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Sad day for San Francisco film fans
Two big bummers today, my fellow cinemaniacs. The first bit of news is that it's official, according to collective member Claudia Lehan: beloved Haight Street landmark the Red Vic Movie House will...
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Here's tax reform, Jerry
Everyone knows I'm a fan of taxing the rich and that I think most of the economic problems in our country have their roots in the growing inequality of the past few decades, so it should come as no...
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Vicki Marlane, 1934-2011
Ms. Vicki Marlane at a Guardian photoshoot for the Winter 2008 edition of our nightlife guide, SCENE GUARDIAN PHOTO BY MATTHEW REAMER San Francisco lost true drag royalty today when Ms Vicki Marlane,...
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Another BART Police shooting
It's still too soon to determine whether the latest BART Police shooting was legit. There were witnesses. There's station security video. Maybe the victim really was attacking the officers with a...
View ArticleEditorial: Mayor Lee's budget deal
The way the daily newspapers are presenting it, the budget that Mayor Ed Lee and the Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee negotiated represents a new era of civility and cooperation at...
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A cheap shot at Tom Ammiano
Elizabeth Lesly Stevens has done some good work on the insanity of Prop. 13. Check out this, and this, and this -- all of which say, more or less, that rich people are getting a great deal under the...
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Could CA really, actually end the death penalty?
I don't know. Maybe not this year. But we're getting a lot closer -- and in the end, it's not coming down to morality or cruelty or effectiveness but to money. State Sen. Loni Hancock of Berkeley had...
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