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Insurance Commissioner to CPUC: Tech "rideshare" companies must provide...
A San Francisco taxi driver raises the Lyft insurance issue during a July 30 protest. Guardian photo by Josh WolfRideshare companies must provide their drivers with insurance. That was the gist of a...
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Avalos: Should SFPD officers wear body mounted cameras?
Image from a memorial for Alejandro Nieto, who was shot by SFPD officers. Avalos referenced the shooting in his request.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWEThe fatal shooting of Alejandro Nieto, a man who...
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Airbnb comes clean with San Francisco
Airbnb came clean this evening, sending out new terms of service drafted April 7 that customers must agree to before conducting further business starting April 30. Read more »
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Kaepernick incident report details bong hits, blackout, and alleged assault
Kaepernick in better times. MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/AP FILE PHOTOSan Francisco 49ers star quarterback Colin Kaepernick, player Quinton Patton and Seahawks receiver Ricardo Lockette are being investigated...
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Listen: Dylan Shearer's "Mold in the Fold"
Dylan ShearerSan Francisco songwriter Dylan Shearer has been kicking around the Bay Area since 2005, but something in his voice sounds like he just arrived here in a time machine from London in 1965....
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Crowdfunding real-estate: A tool to combat displacement or another nail in...
Marcus Books used crowdfunding to try and preserve San Francisco history, but Tycoon Real Estate is using it to flip propertiesPHOTO COURTESY SUPPORT MARCUS BOOKSA key provision in the JOBS Act, a...
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Taxi drivers protest rideshares as government mulls new regulations
Cabs line up along the CPUC in protest of "rideshare" industry. Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezCar horns honked and tempers flared as around 30 taxi cabs circled around the California Public...
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Giving thanks: On growing up with Nirvana
For all of the world-wide media attention surrounding the induction of Nirvana into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tonight and the 20th anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain this week, there is one...
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Defense attorneys say Shrimp Boy is innocent; slam feds
Who is Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow? In the 137-page federal complaint detailing charges that led to the high-profile arrest of Sen. Leland Yee, Chow, and 24 others two weeks ago, Chow is described as the...
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Aliens, haunted mirrors, photographic mysteries, and isolated islands: new...
Scarlett Johansson plays a predatory alien in Under the Skin.It's Friday, which means only one thing: new movies R herrre! Though Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier will probably keep body-slamming...
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Another Google bus blockade, this time targeting a Google employee
Claudia Triado (right) with her son on the steps of 812 Guerrero, where tenants are facing eviction.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWEThis morning (Fri/11) kicked off with yet another Google bus blockade...
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Coachella for agoraphobics: How to do the festival without leaving your house
Fun fact: I'm bad at festivals. It's not that I don't enjoy them, per se: there's live music, the outdoors, fried food, great people-watching.It's just that -- well, okay, I lied, I usually don't enjoy...
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Super Smash Bros. on the big screen, Sunday 4/13!
The Super Smash Bros. Melee fighter lineup. Photo courtesy of Nintendo, inc.The Nintendo game Super Smash Bros. Melee was supposed to be a party game, “fun for the whole family,” as the kids say. Mario...
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Punk-rock veteran Cheetah Chrome is still full of surprises
Cheetah Chrome plays Thee Parkside tomorrow, Sat/12.As the guitarist for Rocket From The Tombs and The Dead Boys, Cheetah Chrome helped write the sonic blueprint for punk rock — and after four decades...
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Coachella pics!: Friday
The Knife performed Fri/11 at Coachella. Guardian photos by Eric Lynch.
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Avalos: Should SFPD officers wear body mounted cameras?
Image from a memorial for Alejandro Nieto, who was shot by SFPD officers. Avalos referenced the shooting in his request.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWEThe fatal shooting of Alejandro Nieto, a man who...
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Airbnb comes clean with San Francisco
Airbnb came clean this evening, sending out new terms of service drafted April 7 that customers must agree to before conducting further business starting April 30. Read more »
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Kaepernick incident report details bong hits, blackout, and alleged assault
Kaepernick in better times. MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/AP FILE PHOTOSan Francisco 49ers star quarterback Colin Kaepernick, player Quinton Patton and Seahawks receiver Ricardo Lockette are being investigated...
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Listen: Dylan Shearer's "Mold in the Fold"
Dylan ShearerSan Francisco songwriter Dylan Shearer has been kicking around the Bay Area since 2005, but something in his voice sounds like he just arrived here in a time machine from London in 1965....
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Crowdfunding real-estate: A tool to combat displacement or another nail in...
Marcus Books used crowdfunding to try and preserve San Francisco history, but Tycoon Real Estate is using it to flip propertiesPHOTO COURTESY SUPPORT MARCUS BOOKSA key provision in the JOBS Act, a...
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