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Conflicted Chron buries the lead in city corruption case
Mayor Ed Lee and former Mayor Willie Brown are accused of corruption in a case that Matt Gonzalez is working on. Luke Thomas/Fog City Journal The San Francisco Chronicle's Matier and Ross love to poke...
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Plastic bags banned from all SF stores
Images like this one, a sea turtle eating a plastic bag, have fueled environmental efforts to ban the bag The Board of Supervisors voted to expand a 2007 ban on plastic checkout bags to cover all...
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Making history: Joanne Griffith's 'Redefining Black Power' project comes to...
Author Joanne Griffith:"This is the only way for us to keep memories alive." "Joanne [Griffith]'s work is centered on one theme: not to offer information as a point of journalistic fact, but to act as...
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Catholic hospitals and birth control
I'm glad Sen. Barbara Boxer, along with Sens. Patty Murray and Jeanne Shaheen, are supporting the Obama administration's decision to mandate contraceptive coverage at Catholic hospitals. I read the...
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Unintelligible genius: looking back at all four shows of the Reggidency
Reggie Watts, during SF Sketchfest's epic four-day Reggidency. PHOTO BY TOMMY LAU When Reggie Watts first came to my attention, through a series of appearances on Conan O’Brien’s show a few years...
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Bay Citizen and CIR announce merger of their newsrooms
A newsroom formed to counter the Chronicle could be run by the guy who oversaw that paper's decline. The Bay Citizen and Center for Investigative Journalism have formally announced their intent to...
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Sundance Diary, volume eight: the final countdown
"Compliance" image from www.imdb.com In a series of posts, Midnites for Maniacs curator-host and Academy of Art film-history teacher Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports on the 2012 Sundance Film Festival....
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Upset pornographers and the definition of scissoring: "Queer and Boning"...
Brouhaha! That would be the word I'd use to describe the reaction to today's cover story, "Queer and Boning in Las Vegas," about Courtney Trouble and her posse's adventures at the AVN Awards in Vegas....
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Campaign to regulate health insurance premiums launched in SF
Consumer Watchdog is making Blue Shield the poster child for health insurance reform in California. Representatives from Consumer Watchdog and other groups today launched a ballot measure campaign to...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin: Explaining the resurrection of Newt Gingrich
Two attempts to explain the resurrection of Newt Gingrich 1 Yes, Newt appeared dead at least twice. If Mitt's guys were playing it smart, They would have made certain of that By driving a stake...
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WTF, Debra Saunders?
I really, really can't figure out what the Chron's only local editorial page columnist, the conservative Debra Saunders, is trying to say. If I read her Feb. 8 column right, she's opposing the Appeals...
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The Performant: Science, Honor, Psychogeography
The Phenomenauts and Alley Cat Books shoot for the moon. Trapped in a world they didn’t create, the spacecraft-garage band known to us as The Phenomenauts must surely come from a more evolved time and...
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This art will move you: 1AM SF Gallery's homage to truck graffiti
Toy trucks, self-referential tagging scenes, and art on truck parts themselves feature at 1AM SF's "Truck Show." PHOTO COURTESY OF OPTIMIST “Graffiti is anti-corporation,” says Optimist, a long time...
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Behind-the-scenes pics from Courtney Trouble's Guardian cover shoot (NSFW)
Photo by Molly DeCoudreaux When the Guardian team and photographer Molly DeCoudreaux converged on 18th and Castro Streets to shoot naked pics of Courtney Trouble and her Queerporn.tv posse, we knew...
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Wiener wants a sunshine audit
Sup. Scott Wiener is calling for an audit of the costs of complying with the city's Sunshine Ordinance -- a move that could lead to some great ideas for better public access to records or to a...
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Nite Trax: DJ Rekha brings the 'Basement' beats to Non Stop Bhangra
Rekha, with records. "I have been around the bhangra block," says DJ Rekha, NYC's ambassador for the highly danceable contemporary Punjabi (by way of London) sound, and founder of the popular,...
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Mark Zuckerberg will pay less tax than you
Before we start talking about the Facebook Windfall and all the nice new tax dollars the company will pour into the state treasury, let me take a moment to put this in perspective. Before Jerry...
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Larry Ellison won't miss $22 million
If the America's Cup fundraising committee can't come up with $32 million, the city's going to be on the hook for a big chunk of change -- as much as $22 million -- budget analyst Harvey Rose says....
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Trader Joe's signs agreement in labor victory
Trader Joe’s, known for being really more of a snack emporium than a grocery store, can now be known for something else; buying tomatoes picked by people with basic human rights. Feb. 9, it became the...
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Hearing today on bizarre Occupy Oakland stay-away order case
Oakland City Hall- now off limits? The first Occupy Oakland protester to allegedly be in violation of a stay-away order has a hearing today. Joseph Briones, 30, was arrested along with 408 others at...
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