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Arrests after overnight 'San Francisco Commune' occupation
PHOTO BY ALEX KERFOOT After at least 100 people remained in a building at 888 Turk for almost 24 hours, police ended the occupation at 1:30 pm today, blocking off the street, and arrested more than...
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Hot Snakes reunion thrills
Hot Snakes hit it full force at Bottom of the Hill. PHOTO BY BROWN TOWN Right out of the gate, late '90s San Diego post-hardcore supergroup Hot Snakes kicked off its reunion show at Bottom of the Hill...
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Localized Appreesh: Love Songs
Everyone loves Love Songs. PHOTO BY DILLINGER PHOTOGRAPHY Localized Appreesh is our weekly thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay. To be considered, contact emilysavage@sfbg.com. Love...
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The slate controversy at the DCCC
There’s nothing like a combination of insider politics, a struggle for control of the local Democratic Party and the ongoing discussion about the need for progressives and moderates to get along...
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Brown says Lee shouldn't have taken Mirkarimi's pay away
Luke Thomas/Fog City Journal As Mayor Ed Lee continues to duck questions about why he suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi without pay or due process, even former Mayor Willie Brown – who helped elevate...
View ArticleEditorial: Reject the CPMC deal!
EDITORIAL For most of the past year, Mayor Ed Lee had been taking a tough line with California Pacific Medical Center, the health-care giant that wants to build a state-of-the-art 555-bed hospital on...
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Appetite: New bar manager, superb cocktails at Heaven’s Dog
Elks Own at Heaven's Dog GUARDIAN PHOTO BY VIRGINIA MILLER Heaven’s Dog has been a haven for superb cocktails since it opened, with excellent bartenders like Erik Ellestad (Savoy Stomp) and...
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The Performant: Ferocious many
The Ferocious Few and the Anarchist Bookfair disturb the peace. In the as-yet unwritten book of Bay Area music, at least one chapter should be devoted solely to the bands whose crowd-wrangling skills...
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Green shopping guide: 8 shops to jump-start your spring garden
Pot your dreams at Paxton Gate. PHOTO COURTESY PAXTON GATE You can turn your slice of this concrete jungle into jungle, with a bit of elbow grease and ingenuity. Oh, and resources might help, too....
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Cherry bombs away: Write up your first time for a good cause
Laura Goode (left) and Farah Goes Bang co-writer Meera Manon, secret sharers. PHOTO COURTESY OF LAURA GOODE Today I wrote a story about my sexual initiation. I forwarded my story to my friends, we...
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Fact: your heart will go on if you skip 'Titanic 3D'
Jafar Panahi in 'This Is Not a Film.' Photo Courtesy of the San Francisco Film Society We already made fun of Titanic 3D last week (spoiler alert: Kate aged better than Leo), and the only other big...
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Mayor McLaughlin on synthetic biology issue
Mayor Gayle McLaughlin of Richmond For my story about synthetic biology in this week's Guardian, I tried to reach Mayor Gayle McLaughlin of Richmond, where Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is...
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Young man's death commemorated at City Hall rally, vigil this evening
Amos Brown, center, with fellow clergy Franzo King and Malcolm J. Byrd, mourned Richardson's death at a rally today GUARDIAN PHOTO BY YAEL CHANOFF Family, friends and community members grieving for...
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Green shopping guide: 7 shops for kids and housewares
Woodshanti's trundle bed is made from sustainably logged lumber by a worker's collective started in the Bayview neighborhood. PHOTO VIA WOODSHANTI Children, don't let your parents grow up to throw...
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Guest opinion: It's not about Mirkarimi, it's about us
Virtually unmentioned in the torrent of words that have flowed over the Ross Mirkarimi false imprisonment, suspension and pending vote to determine his removal by the Board of Supervisors is any...
View ArticleDick Meister: The temples of baseball
By Dick Meister Dick Meister is a San Francisco-based columnist and former semi-professional baseball player. You can contact him through his website, www.dickmeister.com. Baseball season again. Time...
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CPMC strike linked to new hospital
Who's paying for this again? I stopped by the picket line outside Davies hospital and chatted with the members of Operating Engineers Local 39, who have been working without a contract since October,...
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More wonders from David Hall's 'Beneath Cold Seas'
Shot in the Pacific Northwest, David Hall's book Beneath Cold Seas is the first photographic book to show the colorful and exotic sea life of North America's cold waters. <!--break-->He spent 15...
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Hot sexy events April 5-11
Screw bunnies, here's your Spring 2012. PHOTO COURTESY OF MAGNET Oh sweet, fluffy bunny rabbit. In other, less frisky climes, your ilk is heralded as the perfect harbinger of spring. And also though...
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Was the cyclist who killed a pedestrian reckless?
A cyclist struck and killed a pedestrian at this busy intersection at the bottom of a steep hill. San Francisco's bicycling community is bracing for a backlash following the second recent case of a...
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