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AIDS vigil returns at Occupy SF
In October, 1985, the AIDS vigil started when city workers tried to hose off two men chained to the federal building doorsPhoto by Jane Rosette A coalition has come together to bring a striking new...
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Appetite: Insects and mezcal
A new twist on the tequila worm at Don Bugito dinner at Headlands Center for the Arts Nestled near the ocean in the wilds of the Marin Headlands sits Headlands Center for the Arts, an artists' haven...
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Occupy SF: The eviction drumbeat begins
We all knew that Mayor Lee wouldn't risk sending the cops in to evict OccupySF until after the election. But now the newspaper drumbeat has begun -- the place is filthy, there's shoplifting nearby and...
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Is SF moving to the right?
The Bay Citizen/New York Times thinks so. The headline on the story -- "more conservative is the new normal" -- says it all. Matt Smith (formerly of our price-fizing rival SF Weekly) and Gerry Shih...
View ArticleDick Meister: Strange bedfellows: Labor's Tim Paulson and the Chamber's Steve...
By Dick Meister Dick Meister, former labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom and a former city editor of the Oakland Tribune, has covered labor and politics for a half-century as a...
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Once in a century
We're all obsessed by politics right now, but I want to take a moment to remind everyone that a day like this only comes around once in a century. I mean, it's 11/11/11. That has to mean something....
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Shrouded in black, Lykke Li makes eye contact with us at the Fox
LYKKE LI LOVES ME. PHOTO BY RYAN PRENDIVILLE Lykke Li doesn’t want you. Let’s just get that straight. Lykke Li wants me. Or at least I think so. Because even though it’s a cliche to say that it sounds...
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Live Shots: Feist at the Warfield
SFBG photographer Charles Russo caught Feist at the Warfield on Monday.
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One percent assault the waterfront
Condos for the one percent: the 8 Washington project While the 99 percent are fighting to hold onto a crowded encampment at Justin Herman Plaza, two new condo projects are moving along in San...
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Maximum Consumption: Justin Bua finds the vegan in hip-hop
The author of Legends of Hip Hop says that veganism is the ultimate expression of the culture. PAINTING BY JUSTIN BUA Hip-hop and jazz visual artist Justin Bua is reeling off the pillars of vegan...
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Localized Appreesh: The Spyrals
Get lost with the Spyrals. Localized Appreesh is our weekly thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay. Each week a band/music-maker with a show, album release, or general good news is...
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The Performant: Humanesque
“More Human Than Human” and “Two Clowns” explore the in/human condition If our frail human lives begin, as the fundies would have it, at the moment of conception, at what point are we defined as being...
View ArticleDick Meister: Mucho car!
By Dick Meister Dick Meister is a San Francisco-based former sports car driver. It's gone forever, my beloved Triumph Spitfire, that classic, marvelous looking British sports car that never ran...
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What if you were rich?
There seem to be more and more millionaires coming out of the nicely paneled woodwork to tell us that they should pay higher taxes. I heard one of these folks on NPR yesterday and she was talking...
View ArticleGuardian editorial: Mayor Ed Lee's challenges
Mayor Ed Lee has always talked about bringing the city together, about avoiding division and harsh conflict. And now that he's won a four-year term, he's must address a wide range of city problems...
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Uh oh ... feds raid pot clubs in Seattle
The feds have launched a coordinated series of raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in the Pacific Northwest. The Stranger in Seattle has extensive coverage: Federal agents and local law...
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Student protests underway at UC Berkeley; campus shooting appears unrelated
UC Berkeley student Honest Cheung speaks at an Occupy Cal protest at Sproul Plaza Photo by Nena Farrell By Nena Farrell and Rebecca Bowe Traffic was stopped in downtown Berkeley today, Nov. 15, as a...
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U.S. mayors holding regular discussions about Occupy protests
Occupy Cal protest at the UC Berkeley campus today, Nov. 15 Photo by Nena Farrell The U.S. Conference of Mayors, a nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more, is holding...
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Occupy your imagination: Tomorrow, hear the words of a Mission son
Rising from the ashes: Benjamin Bac Sierra. PHOTO COURTESY BENJAMIN BAC SIERRA It's getting into the grind time for the Occupy movement. The first, brilliant tactic of camping out in our nation's...
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Madlib’s Medicine Show returns to SF
The producer works on his magnum opus. PHOTO BY CHRIS WOODCOCK The final album to Madlib’s 13-part Medicine Show is scheduled to be released this month, capping a series that may prove to be the...
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