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Activists hope to turn resolution into real foreclosure suspension
'foreclosure fighters' rally outside City Hall before an April 2 land use committee meeting where the resolution first passed PHOTO BY CAROL HARVEY On April 10, the Board of Supervisors unanimously...
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Live Shots: Radiohead at HP Pavilion, 04/11/2012
The first time I saw Radiohead, it was opening up for Belly, back when “Creep” was an exquisite oddball of a radio hit. Actually, it wasn't so much opening for Belly as it was a double bill, but...
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Cyclists gain an unlikely defender against the backlash
After yesterday's media pile-on – with the Examiner's cover story and the Chronicle leading both its front page and Bay Area section with stories bashing bicyclists in the wake of a pedestrian death –...
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Even more King Buzzo
The vibrant colors of Buzz. PHOTO BY PETER ALFRED HESS Punk icon King Buzzo of the Melvins is an amusing conversationalist. Veering toward the inane, he adds quirk to the boring, everyday topics, and...
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Louis Dunn: UC-Davis: Where real education begins
Madeline Perez, our ace correspondent who reported the UC-Davis pepper spraying story from her tent on campus, flashed the word that the long awaited and much delayed investigation report would be...
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Party Radar: Bye-bye Blow Up (?), Green Velvet, Kenny Larkin, Hookahdome, DJ...
Honey Mahogany wins Miss Blow Up 2011. Farewell, Blow Up! PHOTO BY HOLY MOUNTAIN Is it weird that last night I found myself dancing around in my Underoos to Mother Nature's wowser light show and bass...
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Appetite: Jazzy 1950s-era bar in former newspaper printing room? Believe it
Bourbon and Branch, Wilson and Wilson, Rickhouse... I've frequented (and written about) each since they opened. Though some tire of the speakeasy concept, Bourbon and Branch led that trend, remaining...
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Pre-boarding call: Jorge De Hoyos’s “Departing Things”
In the last few years, Los Angeles–born and San Francisco–based dancer-choreographer Jorge De Hoyos has worked with Sara Shelton Mann and Meg Stuart, traveled with Keith Hennessy’s Turbulence project,...
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Hot sexy events: April 13-19
Kink star Lorelei Lee and Stephen Elliott's porn story 'Cherry' has its SF debut at SFIFF (April 24, 27, 28) STILL FROM CHERRY Kink.com is getting its star turn in the mainstream media – everyone's...
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Mirkarimi claims Lee didn't care what really happened
Ross Mirkarimi is beginning to tell his story after months of resistance to giving a full accounting of what happened. Luke Thomas/Fog City Journal Did Mayor Ed Lee ask Ross Mirkarimi what really...
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Live Shots: Melvins at Great American Music Hall, 04/12/2012
Though the lightning storm delayed my +1 who was coming in from California's stoney north coast, we arrived at the Great American Music Hall just in time to see the sludgy gods take the stage....
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Audrey Cole, from her perch on Potrero Hill, passes along this once-in-a-liftime photo of lightnng striking the San Francisco Bay Bridge. b3...
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Why free Muni for youth makes sense
Supervisor Scott Wiener has gone out of his way to dis the plan to let kids ride Muni for free. His oped in the Chron April 9 argued that the city just doesn't have the money ($8 million): We need to...
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7 dead musicians who should never be hologramized
Bestweekever.tv totally beat us to this. Did Tupac's ghostly appearance during last night's Dr. Dre stunner at Coachella pry open the hell-mouth of a future Rock and Roll Hologram of Fame? Last night...
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Heads Up: 7 must-see concerts this week
Queen of scene, Miss Wanda Jackson. Lots of big name, sold-out shows this week. Swedish indie folk sister duo First Aid Kid at Slim's is officially out of tickets, as expected. As is Pulp and Refused...
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Coachella Day 1: Girls, EMA, WU LYF, Mazzy Star, Pulp, more
All photos by Eric Lynch I guess the story of the first day was the weather. Everyone checking their iPhones for what time the rain would begin. And it eventually came, not SF rain, but a startling...
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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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Outside Lands 2012 announced: Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Jack White
Crowd-surfing to Ty Segall at last year's Outside Lands. PHOTO BY EMILY SAVAGE Holy cow, the Outside Lands lineup is out and it is packed full of major, big name acts. How long 'till San Francisco...
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Coachella Day 2: All about Azealia (and Radiohead)
All photos by Eric Lynch If Friday was about the weather and a few stellar performances, Saturday was all about the music. Larger, happier crowds with pants rolled higher and enthusiasm to...
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Talking with Etgar Keret (supposedly)
Keret on his translators: "Others openly admit that they prefer translating dead authors who are not trying to befriend them." PHOTO BY MARTINA KENJI VIA TABLET You can't imagine the writerly crisis I...
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