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Lit review: "Ambient Parking Lot"
Ambient Parking Lot (Kenning Editions, $14.95) is a 187-page book about one band’s quest to capture the world’s most perfect ambient noise in a parking lot. Wait, don’t go away! It's great ... I...
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Republicans raise taxes
Nice piece in the Chron pointing out what a lot of us have been saying for years: The Republicans who hate taxes (on the rich) have actually forced state and local government to raise taxes (on the...
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Tribute: A force of nature and Force of Habit
When my big brother, David Devereaux, owner of Mission haunt Force of Habit Records, passed away suddenly at the untimely age of 41 this past July 4, it left a hole in the city’s punk and vinyl scene...
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Chiu blocks health-care bill (for now)
Sup. David Chiu has blocked a health-care reform bill from advancing to the full Board of Supervisors. And it's particularly ironic since he's a cosponsor of the measure. The bill, by Sup. David...
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Will politicians get veto power over the voters?
Sup. Scott Wiener is offering only small reasons for the big change he's proposing. Political interest groups of all stripes generally hold the “will of the voters” to be sacrosanct and not something...
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Waste Management sues SF over garbage contract
San Francisco has been trucking its waste to Waste Management's Altamont landfill since 1987 Luke Thomas The already intense fight between Recology (formerly NorCal Waste) and Waste Management over...
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The Chron says "Ed, Don't Run"
Run, Ed, or don't -- but you're running out of time Interesting, the politics of the media and the mayor's race. While the Chron is typically the downtown/conservative paper, and some of those same...
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Youth Speaks finds its Brave New Voices at this week's international poetry slam
The 2009 Brave New Voices team from NYC busts a group piece PHOTO COURTESY OF BRAVE NEW VOICES Bay Area, meet your home team. Their names are Joshua Merchant, Noah St. John, E.J. Walls, Gretchen...
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Murdoch meltdown could have ripple effect
Listening to media baron Rupert Murdoch denying responsibility for the phone-hacking scandal that has Brits in paroxysms, reminded me of former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales 2007 testimony...
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Short takes on the 2011 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
"Eichmann's End: Love, Betrayal, Death." Eichmann's End: Love, Betrayal, Death (Raymond Lay, Germany/Israel, 2010) Many documentaries rely heavily on historical reenactments to flesh out real-life...
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Trash (summer) lit: Shut Your Eyes Tight
Shut Your Eyes TightBy John VerdonCrown, 509 pp, $24 Ever since Thomas Harris created Hannibal Lecter and James Patterson devised the twisted psychokillers who populate the Alex Cross novels, there’s...
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Deep court cuts favor landlords over tenants
The court's gavel will fall particularly hard on the powerless, thanks to deep cuts forced by Republicans. When I read about the latest manifestation of California's voluntary descent toward Third...
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Digging into the juicy details of Recology's proposed landfill disposal and...
Luke Thomas Last weekend, I tried to review online the details of the landfill disposal and facilitation agreements with Recology that the Board’s Budget & Finance committee votes on Wednesday,...
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Mayor Lee meets with Bayview community leaders about officer-involved shooting
A photo from a protest outside the Oakdale / Palou station on the T-Third line. Photo by "Dang," from Indybay.org Mayor Ed Lee and officials from the San Francisco Police Department met with Bayview...
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Appetite: Three appetizing new books
Mission Street Food: Recipes and Ideas from an Improbable Restaurant By Anthony Myint & Karen Leibowitz Leave it to McSweeney’s to publish a book that is ode to a series of brilliant SF dining...
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Wage theft prevention ordinance moves forward
Members of the Progressive Workers Alliance celebrate after committee members voice support for stronger worker protections. Photo by Rebecca Bowe Supervisors expressed strong support July 20 for an...
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Party with the new, movie-making Yard Dogs Road Show Sun/24
Last November's YDRS concert at the Independent: Glitter! Show! PHOTO BY ALLEN DAVID It's not every day that you get a missive from the carnival, so when I saw Eddy Joe Cotton's email in my inbox I...
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Outrage at the Bayview Opera House (VIDEO)
Bayview resident Geoffrea Morris takes the microphone during an emotional meeeting at the Bayview Opera House. Photo by Rebecca Bowe A community meeting July 20 at the Bayview Opera House dissolved...
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The U.S. Supreme Court, which has already ruled that corporations can spend all the money they want on political campaigns, dealt another huge blow to democracy in June when it struck down a campaign...
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Decide, Ed, Decide
So Ed Lee maybe, sorta is thinking he might want to consider running for mayor. He tells folks in the Mission that "I've made no decision yet." He leaves the Chron with some pretty strong hints: Asked...
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