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Hot sexy events: March 22-29
This week you can try out for a live smut show, or stay in the audience for a talk on Japanese sex culture (Thu/22). Perhaps you caught Soojin Chang's review of the first month's edition of Cum and...
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Peter Whitehead manipulates strange and beautiful sounds using unlikely...
Found sound: homemade instruments. PHOTO BY PETER WHITEHEAD “When I hear instrumental music, I often see how it’s designed – the movement of the different shapes in space; the changing of colors,”...
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"Hunger Games" tix sold out? See one of these movies instead!
Cyril (Thomas Doret) in Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s "The Kid With a Bike." Photo by Christine Plenus All films open Fri/23. The Kid with a Bike Slippery as an eel, Cyril (Thomas Doret) is the bane...
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A new food-truck map
Sup. Scott Wiener wants to compromise on the food-truck limits, and is working with the folks at SFUSD and the food advocates. Dana Woldow, who is working with Nancy Waymack, director of policy and...
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Mayor Lee and high ethical standards
If Mayor Ed Lee thinks that a person who pled guilty to false imprisonment can't do the job of San Francisco sheriff, he's welcome to say that. He would hardly be alone in that position, and it's one...
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SXSW Music Highlights: Photographer Brittany Powell's snaps
In addition to Mirissa Neff's coverage of the SXSW music festival, the Guardian also had photographer Brittany Powell pounding Austin's pavement in search of great music. Here are some of her photos...
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Lee's charges against Mirkarimi leave questions unaddressed
Mayor Ed Lee ignored questions during his brief announcement yesterday that he was removing Ross Mirkarimi from office Luke Thomas/Fog City Journal Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi was formally suspended today...
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Get to know: Kishi Bashi
K Ishibashi is also known by the stage name Kishi Bashi. If you're planning to hit the Fillmore tonight, I can only guess tickets were carefully debated then purchased mainly in order to see...
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Street Threads: Look of the Day
Today's look: Lexi, Dolores Park Tell us about your look: "Your graffiti is tight as fuck."
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Bachelorette's computer folk lands in Oakland this weekend
Sugarbug: Bachelorette's Annabel Alpers. PHOTO BY DAVID JAMES Ask the initially shy New Zealander Bachelorette how she makes music, and you'll get a fascinating mouthful. “Some of the stuff I make,...
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The performant: Lucky buggers
Fortunate forays into entomophagy and Éire In the estimable 1885 tome Why Not Eat Insects? (charmingly reprinted by Pryor Publications) Vincent M. Holt puts forth a simple culinary challenge, not in...
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Live Shots: Bonaparte at Public Works
I felt a little bad about leaving one of my friends by himself, while I squeezed around snapping photos of Berlin’s Bonaparte last night at Public Works. He lives in Concord, works in a meat...
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Making burrata cheese with the Milk Maid
As a little girl, I used to walk by a cheese shop in the neighborhood, flare my nostrils and exclaim “One day I want to work in a cheese shop.” That funky, musty, gym-sock fragrance has an...
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Get 'Wilde': Al Pacino's new doc gets red carpet opening at Castro
Al Pacino, looking a bit Wilde at the Castro All my amigo Morlock E. wants to know is where Frank Chu is, since Frank Chu is still a fairly good indicator of being at the most happening event of the...
View ArticleImpertinent question: Will Mayor Lee take on the Bank of America for...
Mayor Ed Lee moved with lightning speed to suspend Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi without pay on misconduct charges and unethical behavior in a spousal abuse case and continue the costly, distracting,...
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Parents in San Francisco: we want justice for Trayvon Martin
Denika Chatman, mother of Kenneth Harding, 19, who was killed July 16 over a muni fare, holds up a transfer from that date PHOTO BY WENDY KENIN "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," President...
View ArticleMeister: It's not true, what they say about pensions
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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Sharon Van Etten at the Indy: comfortable in her own skin
Sharon Van Etten, totally not at the Independent. PHOTO BY RYAN VAN ETTEN/CREATIVE COMMONS Fresh off a slot headlining NPR's South By Southwest showcase and an appearance on Conan the night before,...
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American Idol: The Diddy and Hilfiger edition
Two things: 1. You can't do a whole American Idol with a Billy Joel theme. He didn't write any good songs, and most of them are really bad. All it does it make the contestants look lame. 2. Diddy's...
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Does electrifying Caltrain really help high-speed rail?
Will these spiffy high-speed rail trains come into SF or just our normal Caltrains? Mayor Ed Lee and other regional political and transportation officials are celebrating this week's agreement to take...
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