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Straightening out planking
"You really don't know a place until you pretend you're a board on its horizontal surfaces." PHOTO COURTESY OF RYLAND WEBB The newest international pastime involves lying face down on the ground with...
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Moonhearts beam a hazy summer light on Total Trash Fest 3
Moonhearts work that distorted surf buzz. In the Wed/3 Guardian you can read the tale of Total Trash Fest 3, and what exactly it takes to be a trash band. Here I present another example of the Total...
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Brian Wilson ain't got nothing on the men of "Whisker Wars"
Move over, ZZ Top: Austin Facial Hair Club member Alex Laroche. Photo by Karolina Wojtasik/IFC If the hirsute heroes of Deadliest Catch, Ice Road Truckers, and Ax Men haven’t fully satisfied your...
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Appetite: At Beefeater Distillery, London
One jumps at the chance to spend a day at London's Beefeater Distillery, particularly when given a personal tour by Beefeater's master distiller Desmond Payne. Gracious and mannered, Payne has been...
View ArticleThe crucial question: why didn't Obama invoke the 14th amendment and seize...
For me, the crucial question for President Obama is why he didn't take the advice of former President Bill Clinton, Rep. John Garamendi, and others who urged him to invoke the 14th Amendment and its...
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Mayor's race a tight pack, but Gascón lags in DA's contest
The race for Room 200 is still up for grabs. Ben Hopfer Despite the hype and spin from various mayoral campaigns and newspapers, the big story in yesterday's release of semi-annual campaign finance...
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A song and dance at City Hall
Photo by Rebecca Bowe It was a lively scene on the steps of City Hall Aug. 2, as back-to-back press events featured live performances, lots of cheering, and support for new legislation that supporters...
View ArticleKeith Olberman is back -- and he's mad as hell about four hypocrisies in...
It's good to see Keith Olberman is back and in time to cover the end of the debt limit crisis. He's on Current TV (Al Gore is chairman and Keith interviewed him Monday night) at 8 p.m. five days a...
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Complete interview: "Between Two Worlds" directors Deborah Kaufman and Alan...
Kaufman and Snitow in Israel. In 1981 Deborah Kaufman founded the nation's first Jewish Film Festival in San Francisco. Thirteen years later, with similar festivals burgeoning in the wake of SFJFF's...
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Stop the right-wing revolutionaries
Yes, revolution is brewing, so why are we still trying to compromise with these people? The revolution has begun, but we aren't the revolutionaries. That was the disturbing thought that occurred to me...
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SF Giants asked to take a stand against racism UPDATED
Will the Giants wear their anti-racist jerseys against the Diamondbacks this week? Updated with response from SF Giants at bottom of post The San Francisco Giants will host the Arizona Diamondbacks...
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Happy birthday, Chet
Judy Davis, the longtime partner of the late Chet Helms, sent out her annual birthday card for Chet to his legion of friends and followers. HIs birthday was Aug. 2 and he died in 2005 at the age of...
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Street Threads: Look of the Day
Today's Look: Sandra (with Leon), 18th Street and San Carlos <!--break-->Tell us about your look: "I got this jumpsuit from H&M."
View ArticleAl Gore calls for an "American spring"
In an interview with Keith Olberman Tuesday night on his Current TV show, Al Gore called for "an American spring" to counter the assault of the teaparty Republicans and to go on the offensive...
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Behind the yuba: A trip to Hodo Soy Beanery's factory floor
When I was fourteen, Snorkel Mom and I went to Japan to visit my Japanese “grandma” Kiyo. She lived in Tokyo and I remember one morning walking with her to a tiny, closet-sized building that had...
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Fall ballot gets stripped of progressive measures
DPR officials will be free to lease more park space to private vendors now that a measure opposing that was killed. Ben Hopfer The San Francisco Tenants Union suffered a pair of disappointing setbacks...
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Appetite: A pilgrimage to the Plymouth Gin distillery
A decade ago I explored the central and northern parts of England, feeling strangely at home among its countryside and moors. This summer I took a three-and-a-half hour train ride through those...
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Shady financial dealings mar the "Run, Ed, Run" campaign
Behind the cute campaign posters lurk some shady characters with a financial self-interest in keeping Mayor Ed Lee in office. Not only do the groups behind the campaign urging Mayor Ed Lee to run for...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin: Deadline poet on Murdochism
A SUMMARY OF PUBLIC RESPONSE TO THE NEWS THAT A TABLOID HACKED THE PHONES OF A MISSING GIRL AND OF FAMILIES OF SOLDIERS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN All England said, in one voice, "Blimey! Could even...
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The Performant: Cello rock!
Rasputina's Melora leads the band's lilts in a mixture of faux Euro and High Elvish PHOTO BY NICOLE GLUCKSTERN Rasputina at the Great American Music Hall Somewhere at the intersection of the society...
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