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A Bay Area kind of stand-up: Frankie Quinones of For the People Comedy
Fact: Comedian Frankie Quinones takes great care of his nails. PHOTO BY AMANDA LOPEZ Common knowledge states that if you're serious about becoming a stand-up comedian on the West Coast, you move to...
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Last night with Michael: Cirque Du Soleil revives the King of Pop
That spooky "Thriller" scene. PHOTO COURTESY OF OSO IMAGES I consider myself a casual Michael Jackson fan; I've long owned worn vinyl copies of Thriller and Off the Wall, and have fuzzy memories of...
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Nite Trax: Edwardian Baller Justin Katz tells of Gorey origins, steampunk...
Edwardian revelers show their phantasmagorical stripes PHOTO BY NEIL GIRLING/THEBLIGHT.NET In this week's Super Ego nightlife column in the paper, I write about this coming weekend's giant Edwardian...
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Gov. Brown backs high-speed rail and other big ideas
California Gov. Jerry Brown this morning used a big portion of his annual State of the State speech to promote the construction of a high-speed rail system for California – a project that has been...
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SOPA, PIPA and the 99 percent artists
It’s described as Hollywood v. Silicon Valley, a battle of powerful giants, the entertainment world against the tech world, and at first, the entertainment world won out -- the Stop Online Piracy Act...
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Steven Lee appointment twists and turns
Steven Lee (center left) has lots of Facebook party photos with "famous friends" like Sup. David Chiu, who is swearing him in. Politically connected club owner Steven Lee will be sworn onto the...
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"In the big butt category, there's four awards": What's it like to vote in...
Critics' choice: Vivid's Spiderman XXX parody made our sexperts' webs tingle in 2011. Once a year, the porn industry gathers to honor its own. Cash is dropped on sparkly stripper gowns, breasts are...
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Louis Dunn: The corporate media covers Occupy
Guardian graphic by Louis Dunn "Occupy America," as the Guardian says on the front page in this week's issue. "Let's take back the country--starting now. A proposal for the next stage of the Occupy...
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"Occupy Wall Street West" hopes to see massive protest
Poster designed by Eric Drooker A coalition from across San Francisco is hoping to make tomorrow – Friday, Jan. 20 – a monumental day in the history of Bay Area activism, the Occupy movement, and the...
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SF defends cops who killed an unarmed innocent
Asa Sullivan with his son, who is now seven years old. San Francisco is denying responsibility and aggressively defending the police officers who shot an unarmed man in the darkened attic of a...
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Plenty of drama at the Mirkarimi hearing
I’m glad I got to the courtroom early; by the time Judge Susan Breall called the case of People v. Ross Mirkarimi, there wasn’t a single seat available, and Her Honor wasn’t allowing standing room....
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There's no crying in football...
It was the crying jag seen round the world. With seconds left in last Saturday's divisional playoff game 49ers tight end (and Guardian cover model) Vernon Davis caught the game-winning touchdown, kept...
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Nite Trax: Lady Blacktronika comes for Honey
Lady Blacktronika will give it to you. Watch your snowballs: the First Lady of Beatdown, Lady Blacktronika, is hopping on her magic sleigh and coming down the mountain for Honey Soundsystem on Sun/22....
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The GOP primary: Enjoy the show
The 49ers game isn't until Sunday, but in the meantime, I hope everyone's enjoying the spectacle that is the Republican primary in South Carolina. First off, we have John King asking His Newtness...
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More on the Mirkarimi case
I wrote up the Jan. 19 hearing on the domestic violence charges against Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, but a few more points are worth thinking about as the embattled sheriff prepares for another court...
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Boxer, Feinstein both supported SOPA/PIPA
The grassroots and corporate tech rebellion against two Internet censorship bills was, by all accounts, a stunning success and a demonstration of the clout of online politics and web organizing -- and...
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Protesters "Occupy" Vacant Building
A slogan from the May 1968 student/labor revolts in Paris scrawled on a wall inside the former Cathedral Hill Hotel GUARDIAN PHOTO BY YAEL CHANOFF After a long day of protest that began at 6 a.m.,...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin: Newt lays into Mitt
It's "pious baloney." Yes, pious baloney. What Mitt speaks, Newt says, is remarkably phony: His citizen pose is all hooey; He's hungered for office like Thomas E. Dewey. <!--break--> And what he...
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The bad kind of pain: Kitty Stryker talks sexual abuse in the BDSM community
Sex activists Kitty Stryker (pictured) and Maggie Mayhem are speaking out on abuse in BDSM. PHOTO BY LENG MONTGOMERY In a culture where pain equates to pleasure and sexual power is deliberately...
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Dim the lights: sad news for local film fans
It's been a sad few weeks for the local film community. First came the news that film critic Rossiter Drake — who wrote for the SF Examiner and 7x7 among other publications, and was a fellow member of...
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