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Burning Man on probation after busting its population cap
Black Rock City, Burning Man's temporary city in the desert, exceeded its population cap last year. Black Rock City LLC, the SF-based company that stages Burning Man in the Nevada desert, was placed...
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Is Twitter ruining American politics?
Relax, birdie, it's not all your fault No, I'm not talking about tax breaks. Our pals at Calbuzz, who are never dull, argue that the 140-word-ization of journalism is, well, screwing everything up....
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Why austerity sucks
European nations are starting to take some of the same steps that Republicans are suggesting for the US -- reductions in the public sector, cuts in benefits, etc. And Joseph Stiglitz, an economist who...
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The Performant: I, robots
Robogames took over the world -- or at least San Mateo. Consider the robot. A staple of futuristic paranoia fantasies since Karel Čapek’s play, “R.U.R.” was translated from Czech to English in 1921,...
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Frankie Rose's brief, enthralling Brick and Mortar stop
Frankie Rose, totally not at Brick and Mortar Music Hall. PHOTO BY SHERVIN LAINEZ In case you hadn't noticed, Frankie Rose's got the Internet goin' nutz. The 33 year-old has served time in two super...
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Poll shows tax-the-rich measure hurt by Brown's merger
Gov. Jerry Brown created a challenge for himself by saddling the Millionaire's Tax with a sales tax increase. A new poll confirms a fear we've raised before – Gov. Jerry Brown's insistence on coupling...
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Obama and state's rights
So how many angry pot smokers (and how many of my libertarian-leaning blog trolls) are going to love this? The governors of four western states want to take control of federal land inside their...
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Why three families, who never missed a rent payment, may face eviction
Tenants of 490 Athens protest outside US Bank GUARDIAN PHOTO BY YAEL CHANOFF Alma Sierra has been living in her home at 490 Athens for three years. Sierra, her nine year old son, and two other mothers...
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Jasons Segal and Statham close out April as summer (movie season) looms
Summer is here! Well, almost. And by "summer" I mean "summer movie season," which kicks off May 4 with the arrival of Marvel's The Avengers. No fools when it comes to making a buck (or hundreds of...
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Streaming live: The world championship robotics competition
I have become a robotics junkie. Full disclosure: I am a robotics junkie because my grandson, Nicholas Perez, a senior at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, is a world class driver on his world class...
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Kids, dogs, and naked people in Dolores Park
The interwebs are all buzzy over the notion that some parents might want a fence around the playground in Dolores Park. Uptown Almanac denounces the Dolores Park Brats. Sfist says it's all a plot to...
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The two defining votes of 2012
hospital left, condos right The Board of Supervisors will be facing two votes in the next couple of months that will define this board, establish the extent of the mayor's political clout -- and...
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The Bay Citizen divorces NYT to marry CIR
Phil Bronstein's team at CIR has officially taken over The Bay Citizen. Steven T. Jones This Sunday is the last day The Bay Citizen – the nonprofit San Francisco newsroom started two years ago by...
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Fly Benzo sentenced to three years probation
A group of supporters outside the Hall of Justice with Benzo, center, holding up a court document GUARDIAN PHOTO BY YAEL CHANOFF Debray Carpenter, aka Fly Benzo, was sentenced in court April 27. He...
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What's going on for Bay Area May Day?
Some of the mutitudes of May Day propaganda PHOTO BY EYES OF NEW YORK May 1, International Workers Day -- May Day -- used to strike fear into the hearts of bosses. The first May Day in 1867 was a...
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Q&A: Alaina Moore of Denver's Tennis
Tennis, on land for now. Some people look to surf pop as their go to summer soundtrack. But what if, for once, you were to venture off the shore and in to the deep blue sea? You will need a sailboat...
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By Dick Meister Dick Meister, former labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-Newsroom, has covered labor and politics for more than a half-century. Contact him through his website,...
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An absolute must-read on taxes (by Stephen King)
A lot of things drive me crazy (people making a left turn on 16th and Bryant at 5 p.m., backing up traffic for an entire block; people who get to park in the midde of the street on Sunday because the...
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Heads Up: 7 must-see concerts this week
The stylish gents of the Two Man Gentlemen Band. Are you ready for another folk revival? It's definitely here, in fact, this is a rather late post about such things – New York Magazine just did a...
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FCC complaint filed on BART cell phone service shut-off and today's the last...
Police outside a BART protest Sept. 8, 2011 GUARDIAN PHOTO BY MIRISSA NEFF Back in August, in the midst of protests, BART shut off its cell phone service. At the time, we said in an editorial that...
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