World homeless day protest targets racist Castro landlord
In a protest marking World Homeless Day, the squatter group Homes Not Jails briefly occupied a vacant building on Castro St. tonight. Twenty were arrested. This is the third year that the group has...
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Avalos, Campos, Kim, Olague: Four profiles of courage at City Hall
Supervisors John Avalos, David Campos, Jane Kim, and Christina Olague earned profiles of courage for their votes to reinstate suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi up against enormous pressure for a...
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Das Racist's Kool A.D. on hip-hop, baseball, and losing his virginity
Kool A.D., far left, gives it a thumbs up. PHOTO BY CAROLINE MORT Self-proclaimed, “second best rapper with glasses after E-40” and Bay Area native by way of Brooklyn Victor Vazquez aka KOOL A.D. of...
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Guess who pornographers are voting for in November
A 2009 homage to the pornographers' top pick for prez. Surprise! It's Obama, by a whopping 55 percentage point differential. Porn PR conglomerator Xbiz conducted the poll of adult filmmakers (details...
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Gascón's challenge to Mirkarimi belies his own official shortcomings
George Gascón, shown here in January when he announced charges against Mirkarimi, is still making demands. Steven T. Jones The backlash against Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's reinstatement by those who...
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The Performant: Surrealistic mellow
Doing the Lobster Quadrille at The Mad Hatter’s Ball A singular bit of whimsy, Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland may be one of the only childhood fantasias to be embraced equally by linguists, logicians, and...
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Homes Not Jails protesters released
PHOTO BY PETER MENCHINI Nineteen Homes Not Jails protesters who were arrested last night and held on felony charges of vandalism, conspiracy and burglary, many on bail as high as $325,000, have been...
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Affleck! Psychopaths! Lithuanian hoops! Yep, more new movies
Alan Arkin's character (left) coins a phrase you'll be hearing a lot after this film comes out: "ARGOfuckyourself!" Photo by Claire Folger Yes, it's true: Argo is entertaining. Former cheeseball Ben...
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Was Realtor-financed attack ad illegally coordinated with Lee?
David Lee appeared in this video that was supposedly produced independently of him or his campaign. District 1 supervisorial candidate David Lee might have violated election laws prohibiting...
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Heads Up: 8 must-see concerts this week
Allah-Las: new but not. As the seasons change – whatever casual seasonal changes we get here in the Bay – the interminable cycle of music, of bands, of life, spins on. Men of a certain age keep...
View ArticleThe Julian Davis allegations
Obviously the allegations in SF Weekly that Julian Davis groped a woman are serious stuff. For the record, nobody at the Guardian knew anything about this; we didn't know anything even remotely...
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Judges consider whether the feds have ignored medical evidence on marijuana
Tomorrow (Tues/16), for the first time in more than 20 years, a court will consider whether the federal government has improperly ignored evidence of marijuana's medical value in continuing to...
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Davis needs to drop out
EDITORIAL Kay Vasilyeva, a member of the San Francisco Women's Political Caucus, has come forward with the allegation that District Five candidate Julian Davis grabbed her and put his hand down her...
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Live Shots: Treasure Island Music Festival 2012
Music nerds talk lineups the way sports fans manage fantasy teams, particular with festivals, where suddenly strategy becomes a part of catching a show. Treasure Island Music Festival, is sort of an...
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NY cops misuse Tasers; would it be different here?
In New York State, cops are routinely misusing Tasers, zapping suspects who are laready handcuffed, zapping people in the chest, zapping people who aren't menacing or carrying any weapon ... pretty...
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Okay, this is funny
It only works once; if everyone all over the web starts using this gag, I'll get totally sick of it. But right now, it's worth a laugh.
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Frog killers in the heat: San Juan's first street art festival
Sego painted a coqui. That makes sense because the soft-spoken Mexican mural artist dabbles luminously in the animal kingdom, improbably creating detailed scenes of magical realism with little more...
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Burner-built Peralta Junction brings a West Oakland lot to life
Bay Area artists and other creative types have been building cities from scratch in the Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for two decades now, forming their culture and honing their ability to fill blank...
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The most shameless campaign mailer of the year
You gotta be kidding This is out-of-control shameless: David Lee -- the pro-landlord, pro-downtown, pro-any-form-of-development candidate who is running against Sup. Eric Mar in District 1, is trying...
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Tiny hats and Trannyshack: this year's Masquerotica has something for everyone
What adventures await you this year at the Concourse Exhibition Center? MASQUEROTICA 2011 PHOTO BY RUE99 What of the the sex expo? Hundreds of new pairs of fishnet stockings await this weekend's...
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