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The Guardian endorses: Jello Biafra for Mayor!
Vote for Jello Biafra! Photo by j_guerrero via Photobucket On every level, the San Francisco mayor’s race is critical. San Franciscans will decide whether a fiscally conservative candidate backed by...
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Roller derby: the San Francisco treat
Drizzly March was a slow time for San Fran sports fans -- the last Super Bowl Sunday pig-in-a-blanket put to bed a month before, the NBA trade deadline past and playoffs a distant dream; and today's...
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Wicked Grounds suspended in limbo
The Grounds' calendar of fetish-ful events Coffee pots and spankings may soon cease to coexist at Wicked Grounds, San Francisco’s only kink café that announced plans to close last week due to...
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Redmond traded for Nevius in mid-season shocker
CW Nevius (left) and Tim Redmond were traded after their CEPs dropped and their teams looked to shake things up. Bay Guardian Executive Editor Tim Redmond has been traded to the San Francisco...
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Brugmann: Dammit, where's our tax break?
Bay Guardian Editor and Publisher Bruce B. Brugmann announced today that the paper will move to Brisbane next fall unless the city expands its payroll tax exemption to cover Potrero Hill. The paper,...
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St. Stupid's Day Parade mocks economic and religious institutions
The 33rd Annual St. Stupid's Day Parade careened through the Financial District this afternoon, with hundreds of colorful self-styled idiots offering spirited and incisive send-ups of corporate and...
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WonderCon diaries: Chris Cosentino is... Wolverine's new buddy!
Slice! Dice! Chris Cosentino is gonna rage it all over SF with Wolverine, just watch I had seen chef Chris Cosentino (of Bay Area offal ground zero Incanto, also a The Next Iron Chef contestant and...
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Jane Kim's credibility problem
Sup. Jane Kim, after her Guardian endorsement interview, which resulted in us giving her our number two endorsement. Two weeks ago, when Sup. Jane Kim voted to move the Twitter/mid-Market/Tenderloin...
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Fist Fam hits the Bay
Fist Fam: "You gotta be chaotic to produce something" In the music video for rap collective Fist Fam's song "Posted," emcee Philo stands on a Columbus Avenue median, the Transamerica Pyramid pointing...
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Snap Sounds: Peter Gordon
PETER GORDONLove of Life Orchestra(DFA) With Arthur Russell duly sainted, the New York City avant-disco revival turns to this extensive, expansive studio project and its lush, sax-dominated epics....
View ArticleEditorial: Taxes — without the GOP
Gov. Jerry Brown did everything he promised to do. He negotiated in good faith with the Republicans. He listened to their ideas. He made it clear he was willing to accept concepts (pension reform, for...
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Urban homesteaders forge ahead, despite lack of ®
Ruby Blume's new urban homesteading book is embroiled in the Dervaes family trademark dispute PHOTO COURTESY OF RUBY BLUME For years, the Internet has provided a second home to a community of urban...
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The case for class warfare
By now, just about everyone who cares about the economic wars in America has read the Joseph Stiglitz piece in Vanity Fair. It's nothing new, really -- the same stuff a lot of people have been saying...
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Lookin' forward to the weekend: Berkeley Art Museum faces a "Pigeon" invasion
The "L@te: Friday Nights at BAM/PFA" series has brought some great programs since its inception, and this Friday's promises to be one of them. Programmed by Betty Nguyen, "Pigeon Dealers" includes a...
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Devaughndre Broussard’s credibility on trial in Chauncey Bailey murder case
Report from The Chauncey Bailey Project, of which the Guardian is a member: By Thomas Peele, The Chauncey Bailey Project OAKLAND — Defense attorneys on Tuesday continued their assault on the...
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Board approves Twitter/mid-Market tax break
Tenderloin power broker Randy Shaw, who helped craft the tax cut deal, talks with Sup. Jane Kim just after the vote. Luke Thomas After making some last minute amendments proposed by sponsoring Sup....
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Snap Sounds: Beach Fossils
BEACH FOSSILSWhat a Pleasure(Captured Tracks) Beach Fossils' music possesses a brisk energy that -- while sonically akin to great '80s records on labels such as Postcard and Sarah -- feels...
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First Thursday: Deathly portraits, cubic rams, smudgy painted mutts, and Aids...
April is usually one of the liveliest months for the make-your-own-maze blitz of art openings that is "first Thursday," and this year is no exception. One highlight is definitely the debut solo show...
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Sunday Streets could spawn skating world records
Sunday Streets returns to the Great Highway this weekend. Steven T. Jones A Guinness world record for the longest roller skating chain may be broken here in San Francisco this weekend. The car-free...
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More on environmental justice in the Bay Area
Chevron's Richmond Refinery processes raw crude into fuel. Photo by Rebecca Bowe As part of our 2011 Green Issue, the Guardian is spotlighting several pollution-plagued areas throughout the region and...
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