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Street Threads: Look of the Day
Today's look: Jackie, Dolores Park Tell us about your look: "I just got this dress today at NO. I sold some clothes and bought this dress."
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Opinion: SF needs police domestic violence policy
Everything I've written on the Mirkarimi case has attracted sizable volumes of comments (see here). Our suggestion that the mayor tread cautiously before seeking his official removal is bound to...
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School Board to hire new sup't -- quickly
Carlos Garcia is retiring at 60. San Francisco School Superintendent Carlos Garcia is retiring, which is no surprise -- most school superintendent's rarely stay anywhere for more than five years, and...
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Street Threads: Look of the Day
Today's look: Kelly, Howard and Third Street Tell us about your look: "Skirts for life!"
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Awww, the poor finance industry
It must be so awful to be a recruiter in the finance industry these days. Seems college kids just aren't as interested in going to work for companies that crashed the U.S. economy, perpetuate the...
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Pink slime and the SFUSD
Let's start off with a basic assumption: This stuff is gross. If you eat hamburgers, you don't want to know what goes in them anyway, since it's never been pretty, but the idea of taking stuff so...
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SXSW Music Day 1: Mirel Wagner, Lila Downs, ZZ Ward
I'm in Austin to blog the SXSW Music festival for the second year. With evening slates that usually have around 50 official showcases happening at any given moment (and many more unofficial shows),...
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Millionaires Tax merger is a risk and opportunity
That simple concept has now gotten a bit more complicated My first reaction to today’s news that the popular Millionaires Tax measure was merging with Gov. Jerry Brown’s broad-based tax measure was...
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Hot sexy events: March 15-21
You've maxed out Grindr, bummer -- hit up a panel discussion Thu/15 to learn your next click. File them under “things I don't understand, ergo I hate them”: getting stood up and online dating. How...
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The Performant: The mourning after
Explorations in the language of the living at SFAI and NOHspace Long before I moved to San Francisco, there were already certain things I’d learned to associate as being quintessentially San...
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Gascon and the Mirkarimi plea deal
The Mirkarimi case has taken another strange turn: The district attorney, George Gascon, just told the Chronicle that he doesn't think the sheriff really thinks he's guilty, and wants to raise that at...
View ArticleDick Meister: Labor's David vs. GOP's Goliath
By Dick Meister Dick Meister, former labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom, has covered labor and politics for more than a half-century. Contact him through his website,...
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Street Threads: Look of the Day
Today's look: Sandra, Yerba Buena Lane and Market Tell us about your look: "I like to look different, not like everyone else."
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Jeff Adachi on Gascon and Mirkarimi
Jeff Adachi, the public defender, who has been trying criminal cases for a quarter century, had some interesting comments on District Attorney George Gascon's latest move: Ross has already pled guilty...
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Get ready for Bonaparte
Just a typical night for Swiss songwriter Tobias Jundt. PHOTO BY BLOGPARTEI/CREATIVE COMMONS So let’s just pretend I made a clever joke about Napoleon invading and just skip to the point: Bonaparte,...
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American Idol: Warrant check edition
Clear up those warrants, man -- they should invite you back Damn, I'm a day late here, sorry: All this fuss over the sheriff over the sheriff of San Francisco has taken me away from my sacred American...
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New Penthouse Club opens, gets everybody drunk
Last night's opening of North Beach's brand spanking new Penthouse Club and Steakhouse (formerly Show Girls, before that Boy Toys) was glittery enough and did have a two-story pole for the women to...
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SXSW Music Day 2: Spoek Mathambo, Sauti Sol, Kali Mutsa
After an early afternoon chat with Portuguese electro-kuduro group Buraka Som Sistema, I wandered downtown only to run into Andy and Christian of San Franpsycho. They've got a rack of clothes, a...
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SXSW Music Day 3: Santigold, Hindi Zahra, Debo Band
My third day at South by Southwest kicked off with the big SPIN Magazine party at Stubb's. Best Coast was wrapping up their set and everyone was eagerly anticipating headliner Santigold. Santigold's...
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Nite Trax: American Mavericks fest brings big organ, Bach phantasm, fruit...
The stage for John Cage's Song Books,' including a projection of singer Joan La Barbara ALL PHOTOS BY KRISTEN LOKEN "The best form of government ... is no government at all!" announced singer Meredith...
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