Been There: Autumnal Equinox Gathering at Gospel Flat Farm in Bolinas
On the purposefully unmarked road heading into Bolinas, there is a very wonderful spot you don't want to miss. The Gospel Flat Farm is a family-run organic edible haven, with an honor-based farm stand...
View ArticleFighting displacement in Fiji, San Antonio's community gardens
Last Saturday, the website 350.org encouraged people met up to protest dependence on fossil fuels and celebrate community-based activism. The result was 2,000 events across the world for a day of...
View ArticleStreet Threads: Hayes Valley Edition
Today's Look: Maki, Linden and Octavia <!--break-->"I'm from Japan."
View ArticleChamber hip-hop opera 'Great Integration' returns with a second act
Kirby Dominant, the MC in act one. Photo by Michalgarcia.com Perhaps you've seen the billboard on your daily Bay Bridge commute: simple white background, a hand with two fingers pressed together, and...
View Article28 films in six days: Jesse Hawthorne Ficks at the 2011 Toronto...
"Wuthering Heights" still from www.tiff.net Check out parts one (here) and two (here). 21) Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, UK) Adapting Emily Brontë's novel from 1847 is a perfect project for the...
View ArticleLive Shots: Smuin Ballet in rehearsal at Palace of Fine Arts
The stage was sheathed in a cloak of purple smoke, that coated the dancer's skin as they whirled their way across the black floor. Smuin Ballet was doing a final run through of their piece Tango...
View ArticleHot sexy events: September 28-October 4
A UC Berkeley math professor got naked and made a samauri movie adaptation. See it on Sun/2 In her soon-to-be-released look at the Bay Area BDSM scene, Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street spreads to San Francisco
Activists protest on Wall Street on Sept. 24, demonstrations that have spread to San Francisco and other cities. Marnie Joyce As the Occupy Wall Street demonstration enters its 12th day in New York...
View ArticleCCDC, the Central Subway, and media manipulation (?)
The Central Subway controversy keeps travelin' on courtesy SFMTA I talked for some time yesterday with Gen Fujioka, an attorney at the Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC), about an editorial...
View ArticleStreet Threads: Hayes Valley Edition
Today's Look: Eleonore, Yse, and Phoebe, Octavia and Hayes <!--break-->Describe your look: Eleonore: "Paris" Yse: "Not my own clothes" Phoebe: "Fun!" Â
View ArticleProgressives battle downtown over economic and political reforms
A four-alarm fire that displaced 31 residents of an apartment building at Fillmore and Haight helped create a political drama. James Miller Battles between progressive members of the Board of...
View ArticleStyle Paige: Welcome Stranger rides the Hayes Valley range
Follow Paige A. Ricks as she paws through local designers, boutiques, and street trends. Her first SFBG feature focuses on high end Western wear in a Hayes Valley boutique Inimitably structured...
View ArticleThe Performant: Weekend in Wonderland
ALICE and Folsom Street Fair fall down different holes From North Beach to South of Market, clowning to carousing, the weekend offered up a veritable smorgasbord of sensory overload and playful edge....
View ArticleHardly Strictly's fresh blood
Kurt Vile plays the Rooster Stage Fri/30. PHOTO COURTESY OF GROUND CONTROL TOURING Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is a badge of San Francisco life. You move here and inevitably in your citywide journeys...
View ArticleEndorsement interviews: Sharmin Bock
Sharmin Bock is one of just two candidates for district attorney ever to try a criminal case in court. In fact, she's tried plenty of them in a 23-year career as an Alameda County prosecutor. She's...
View ArticleYour Sunday meal plan: Sweet treats, Latino eats at this weekend's food events
Three cheers for lactose intolerance! Jilli's raw milk ice cream will be available at Sun/2's Street Sweets event. After the demise of the Underground Market, a bit of a streetside, downlow foodie...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street comes to SF: VIDEO
Sup. John Avalos, a mayoral candidate, has made economic justice central to his platform. Photo by Steven T. Jones Guardian City Editor Steven T. Jones is out in the streets this afternoon (9/29)...
View ArticleWill Brown sign Leno's VLF bill?
We're still waiting. A bill that could bring San Francisco another $75 million a year -- just by restoring the vehicle license fee that people in this city paid before Arnold Schwarzenegger gutted it...
View ArticleSix arrested protesting bank foreclosures during Occupy SF
Protesters occupy Chase Bank at Second and Market streets in downtown S.F. Photo by Steven T. Jones Six activists protesting bank foreclosures were arrested after occupying Chase bank on Market Street...
View ArticlePeriod Piece: Mission Creek houseboat community rocks with the tides
Period Piece is Lucy Schiller's recurring feature on the hidden histories of San Francisco. Give her a shout at culture@sfbg.com if you know of some hot dirt on olden times in the city Few wander into...
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