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Green shopping guide: 8 sources of weekend-ready, enviro-friendly beauty
Nectar Essence makes flower-based, organic beauty products right here in the Bay. Beauty is said to only be skin-deep -- but the businesses that use holistic, organic, and plant-based ingredients want...
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Burning Man awards art grants and resolves final ticket issues
Two Flux Foundation founders, Rebecca Anders and Jessica Hobbs, with a model of their funded Zoa project. Guardian photo by Steven T. Jones It's been a tough year for Black Rock City LLC (aka the...
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So you want to be a time traveler!
If you're an aspiring time traveler, you need to pick up a copy of the brand-new how-to book So You Created a Wormhole: The Time Traveler's Guide to Time Travel (Berkley Trade, 326pp., $15). If you...
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Aren't we glad the Blue Angels still fly over SF?
I understand that the Angels are supposed to be the best pilots in the Navy, but still: These things crash, and when they do it really sucks. At least seven still missing in Virginia Beach. Imagine if...
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GWAR honors deceased guitarist's return to the home planet
Those sleazy, salacious scumdogs of the universe in GWAR wasted no time in unleashing their riotous brand of musical mayhem on Friday night before a packed audience at the Regency Ballroom, with fake...
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Why Wall Street loves the War on Drugs
The raid on Oaksterdam has just about everyone in local politics engaging in a little head-scratching: What possible reason would the Obama administration have to crack down on medical marijuana in an...
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Social liberalism beats economic populism?
Is he an economic liberal -- or a social liberal? Or neither? Eric Alterman, who writes on media for The Nation, has a book out on the history of liberalism in America and a fascinating essay in The...
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Heads Up: 6 must-see concerts this week
Toronto's Trust opens for Blood Orange In the days leading up to veritable sweaty behemoth Coachella, many national acts are cooling their jets, taking breathers, stretching their hamstrings before...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin: The situation
So Mitt's officially an Etch A Sketch, And Rick says JFK's speech made him retch. Ron Paul's a ditz, and Gingrich is a letch. Though nets are flung as far as tthey will stretch, There isn't any white...
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Localized Appreesh: The Buttercream Gang
Sweet waves of Buttercream. PHOTO BY BRAD ZWEERINK Localized Appreesh is our weekly thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay. To be considered, contact emilysavage@sfbg.com. The Buttercream...
View ArticleEditorial: The flight from San Francisco
EDITORIAL There is no simple free-market solution to gentrification and displacement. There's no way a crowded city like San Francisco can simply rely on the forces of supply and demand to protect...
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Free speech and Fidel Castro in Florida
The First Amendment protects your right to say just about anything, but doesn't insulate you from the consequences. And there's a difference between the right to free speech and the responsibility to...
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In their words: Oakland locals from this week's Guardian cover
Matthew Reamer/Mirissa Neff This week's Guardian cover features creative folks from all over Oakland proper. They were asked the question "Is Oakland cooler than San Francisco?" and in return we got...
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Green shopping guide: 6 earth-conscious fashion outposts
Mystery Mister: Where lace-trimmed bonnet urges are fulfilled, sustainably. PHOTO VIA YELP USER MYSTERY M We've been shopping green for a week now -- check out our previous guides to housewares, kid's...
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Different galaxies of hip-hop at Paid Dues
Under the sweltering San Bernardino sun this past Saturday, more than 40 artists came together to pay homage to hip-hop at the Paid Dues Festival. Odd Future grilled raw meat on stage, intermittently...
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Mini nuclear bombs -- such progress!
The little bit of propeller head in me thinks this is totally cool: A team of physicists and engineers at the $3.5 billion National Ignition Facility said they fired an array of 192 laser beams,...
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More Easter! I must have more Easter!
In San Francisco, we only celebrate E-ster by getting weird. (As in this shot from Dolo on Sunday) GUARDIAN PHOTO BY CAITLIN DONOHUE You were a bad, bad bunny if you missed the killing-it three-tiered...
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Lee veto protects the SFPD's ability to spy on you
Mayor Ed Lee yesterday vetoed legislation that would have banned San Francisco Police Department officers working with the FBI from conducting covert surveillance on law-abiding citizens. Not...
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You're gonna need to upsize that popcorn
Paprika Steen plays a star teetering on the brink in "Applause." photo courtesy www.applausemovie.com Guess how many movies are opening in the Bay Area Fri/13? Sixteen. Sixteen, y'all. That might be...
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The Performant: It's so magic
From “Ghost Ship Rodez” at Z-Space PHOTO BY KEVIN KENNEFICK Terry Allen’s Ghost Ship Rodez and Christian Cagigal’s “The Collection” put a spell on it. It sounds like a bit of a cliché, but there...
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