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Live Shots: Pilot 59 at ODC Dance Commons, 11/19/11
After eleven weeks of creating, fine-tuning, and probably lots of serious sweating, six emerging choreographers presented their work this weekend at ODC for Pilot 59 that showed an eager, sold-out...
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Guardian editorial: The one per cent on the waterfront
graphic on occupysf EDITORIAL While Mayor Ed Lee struggles with the OccupySF encampment, another, very different group has its eyes on the city's waterfront. On the edges of the ground where...
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Kimya Dawson keeps it confessional, relatable at the Rickshaw Stop
Kimya Dawson bares her soul with a hand-scrawled guitar. PHOTO BY JESSICA TRIMMER The recurring theme of Sunday night’s Kimya Dawson show at the Rickshaw Stop was: be who you are and plainly say...
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The Chron pushes 8 Washington
Look -- nice paths for rich white people! The Chron's urban design writer, John King, thinks that the 8 Washington project would be a dandy addition to the San Francisco waterfront: The project's...
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Live Shots: The Destiny Muhammad Jazz Trio at Red Poppy Art House
Destiny introduced herself to the audience as “your friendly harp player from the 'hood.” Word. This ain't your grandmama's tea parlor harp music. This is jazz harp – maybe the only jazz harp in the...
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Pepper spray backlash continues to burn
Not only has Lt. John Pike, the police officer who liberally doused nonviolent college students with pepper spray in an incendiary show of excessive police force Nov. 18, become a meme -- he's also...
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Alameda County sheriff is shocked
Sarah Jane Holcombe, a graduate student in public health at UC Berkeley (and a neighbor of mine), was disturbed to see Alameda County deputy sheriffs using unnecessary force against peaceful student...
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The dramatic video: UC-Davis Chancellor Linda P. B. Katehi and her walk in...
Madeline Perez reports from her tent at UC Davis My granddaughter Madeline, a senior at the University of California-Davis, has been camping out with the Occupy movement at Davis. And so I have...
View ArticleJ'Accuse: An open letter from a UC-Davis professor
I Madeline Perez, our correspondent on the scene at the University of California-Davis, reports that Nathan Brown, an untenured assistant professor in the Department of English, has written an...
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Hyatt in the hot seat
Lorena Reyes believes she and her sister were fired after removing sexist images from a hotel work area. Two housekeepers at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara filed charges with the Equal Employment...
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Localized Appreesh: G-Eazy
Rapper/producer G-Eazy takes a reverantial look at 1950s pop and R&B. Localized Appreesh is our weekly thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay. Each week a band/music-maker with a...
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Period Piece: The saga of the California turkey
The venerable wild turkey was first introduced to California in 1877. PHOTO VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS “The wild turkey…is a finer representative of America than the eagle,” boldly stated the Chronicle in...
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Anonymous targets cop group that coordinated calls on Occupy
The hacker group Anonymous has targeted the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), taking down the website and publicly releasing home phone numbers, addresses, emails, and other personal information...
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Style Paige: That's tights
GUARDIAN PHOTO BY PAIGE A. RICKS Modeling knit tribal print leggings and an oversized sweater with the cutest German shepherd on the front, this young woman was surprised when I asked to take a...
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Flipping the bird: Your best bets for last-minute Thanksgiving meals
Cafe Gratitude's eats are free tomorrow -- and they could use your help in serving it up. PHOTO COURTESY CAFE GRATITUDE Wandering through the smorgasbord of Thanksgiving options is no small...
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Style Paige: Favorite finds at this year's Thread
Vintage heels at Thread: Not your typical Westfield Metreon shopping center offerings. GUARDIAN PHOTO BY PAIGE A. RICKS Mesmerized by crystals and semi-precious stones, every necklace on the table was...
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Live Shots: WU LYF at the Independent
I showed up pretty early to catch WU LYF at the Independent on Monday night. A cold breeze drifting through the venue and the giant white Wucifix standing on an empty stage made for a decidedly...
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About that "acrimonious fall"
They're at it again Illustration appeared in The Stranger Catch this. Mayor Ed Lee's mayoral victory had nothing to do with millions of dollars in campaign contributions from private interests, a...
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In his words: SF Occupier Adam
Photo by David Bornfriend Art director Mirissa Neff and photographer David Bornfriend had the chance to talk with Adam at Occupy SF on Monday, November 21. The recent Cornell grad discusses why he...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin: The pundits contemplate Herman Cain
Calvin Trillin: Deadline poet We've spent a month of this campaign In trying daily to explain The steady rise of Herman Cain. Through willingness to risk a strain In every muscle of the brain,...
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