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The rich, the poor and the state of SF
Why are they so angry? Take a guess The latest Forbes 400 is out, the list of the richest Americans, and a record number (according to my annual record-keeping) now live in San Francisco. This is a...
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On the Om Front: Honor what you love
Karen Macklin PHOTO BY KING MORGAN It’s no surprise that we have days and weeks and months that are specifically designated to honoring things, like MLK day or Breast Cancer Awareness Month. To honor...
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SFBG TV: Baklava bonding at the Armenian Food Festival
No lines? Space to move and breathe? This can't be a San Francisco street festival, can it? But it was. I made a dramatic entrance at last weekend when I was shooting the 55-year old Armenian Food...
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Live Shots: Rock Make Festival
Crafting DIY-style is already pretty punk rock -- but combine it with actual live tunes, and you've got yourself the Rock Make Street Festival, a street celebration of music and art....
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Haight Street coffeshop plans to Slay at its upcoming Mission location
A new Slayer machine and a passionate store staff are promised at Stanza Coffee's Mission location. PHOTO COURTESY STANZA COFEE Stanza Coffee is expanding past its Haight Street, hole-in-the-wall...
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The Performant: 13 reasons why
Placa's plot turns on families of all kinds. PHOTO BY AMANDA LOPEZ Placas: The Most Dangerous Tattoo explores the numerology of loyalty “What’s in a number,” asks the man onstage, a former gang elder...
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Nite Trax: Re-enter Kingdom
Watch the throne PHOTO BY DAVIS KIRKLAND You can't talk contemporary American bass music without starting right off at Kingdom, a.k.a. LA's Ezra Rubin. (He appears here Sat/22 at the Lights Down Low...
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Vacancy voyeur: Matt Fisher's shots of a Treasure Island that waits
Originally built as an airport for flying boats, Treasure Island's man-made four square kilometers went on to house the Navy, and now is home to wineries, environmental hazards, electronic music from...
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Insider/Outsider art: Paul Festa's 'Tie It Into My Hand' at ODC Fri/21-Sat/22
Paul Festa's new Tchaikovsky-inspired doc 'Tie It Into My Hand' (pictured: Barbara Hammer and Festa) premieres at ODC. In a way, his first film, the experimental documentary Apparition of the Eternal...
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Frenemies in this life, enemies in the next: 'The Master' and other new films
Look for 'The Master' stars Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman to battle at the podium come Oscar season. It's here at last! Clear your mind and join the Cause! Yep, The Master opens today,...
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The gloves are coming off in competitive D5
District 5 includes the Haight, Lower Haight, Panhandle, and Western Addition. Candidates in the District 5 supervisorial race – where one recent poll showed almost half of voters undecided about a...
View ArticleExtra! Extra! Calling all Nebraska Cornhuskers!
Where to watch the Nebraska Cornhuskers game with Idaho State today (Saturday, 9/22/2012) Well, it was beginning to be a desperation The former Jean Dibble and I couldn't figure out how to watch...
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"Z is for Zest": A kids book of alphabet affirmations
Perhaps you have run aground of late, or know someone who has. Maybe you've forgotten your alphabet (or know somebody who has.) At any rate, a Bay Area couple would like to help. Rebecca Kovan and...
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TIFF happens, part two!
Read Jesse Hawthorne Ficks' first report from the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival here. In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea) This highly enjoyable Éric Rohmer-esque vehicle for...
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Total Trash adds second Coachwhips show
Dwyer on the mic. So, you know how you were super bummed that you forgot to buy Coachwhips reunion tickets for the now sold-out Oct. 27 show at the Verdi Club in San Francisco? Total Trash just...
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Why do people have a problem with bikes?
Mona Caron I've always been perplexed at all negativity that gets directed at bicyclists in general, and those who ride on Critical Mass in particular. The people from around the world that I've met...
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Live Shots: Wilco and Jonathan Richman at the Greek Theatre
What’s that thing that guitarists do in concert, where they get real close, face-to-face, and gaze down intently as if sizing up the other's instrument? The sort of maneuver that the Traveling...
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Bloomberg calls SF #1, but it sees the pitfall that Lee is missing
It's not enough to be pretty city with a big brain, we also need to show we have a heart and soul. Robert Glusic/Getty Images Mayor Ed Lee just sent out a press release touting the fact that Bloomberg...
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Party with us (and toast the Cindy Sherman show) on SFMOMA's roof
Lil Miss Hot Mess recreates an iconic Cindy Sherman work GUARDIAN PHOTO BY KEENEY + LAW This evening, Thu/27, the Guardian is teaming up with SFMOMA for a super-neato event marking the coming end of...
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TIFF happens, part three! Plus top films of the fest
Read Jesse Hawthorne Ficks' first and second reports from the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Dial M For Murder 3D Remastered (Alfred Hitchcock, US) The digitally remastered re-release of...
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