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Free Sunday meter plan challenged with environmental review
Transit advocacy groups filed an appeal today challenging a controversial vote by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's Board of Directors to end paid Sunday meters last month. The appeal...
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Porn stars write-in against mandatory condom bill
A shoot at Kink.com. Photo by Mike KoozminA website and letter-writing campaign against a statewide mandatory condoms-in-porn bill launched on Monday.The website has no stated backer or "about" page,...
View ArticleFast food workers strike in the Bay Area and worldwide
Bay Area fast food workers who walked out and picketed their stores last year are set for a repeat performance in their battle against the house that Big Mac built, timed to debut right as the Guardian...
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SFO director initiates crackdown on unpermitted Uber drivers
San Francisco’s “sharing economy” may be on its way to getting “catalyzed” thanks to this week’s Share Conference, but ridesharing companies also are getting called out – by the director of San...
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Photos: Oakland fast food workers join strike with #FastFoodGlobal movement
Fast food workers protest in Morocco. Photo courtesy of @LowPayIsNotOKLast year, Bay Area fast food workers marched for higher wages. Today hundreds marched against Oakland restaurants serving Whoppers...
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Thick as blood: Sibling duo Broods are the next kiwis on the rise
Broods at the Independent.ALL PHOTOS BY LAURA B. CHILDS“Kiwis tend to hold back and be too humble. They don’t want to be over-confident, but I think people are starting to realize that a little bit of...
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KUSF's axe-man, Father Privett, stepping down
Father Privett at a meeting about the closure and sale of KUSF Photo courtesy of the City College GuardsmanThe University of San Francisco president who sold off beloved community radio station KUSF in...
View ArticleEvent Listings: May 28-June 3, 2014
Listings are compiled by Guardian staff. Submit items for the listings at listings@sfbg.com. For further information on how to submit items for the listings, see Selector.WEDNESDAY 28Cassandra Dallett...
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Eternal beauty
SF Silent Film Festival unearths treasures and curiositiesScreen siren Dolores del Rio stars in 1928's Ramona.PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SF SILENT FILM FESTIVALarts@sfbg.comRead more »
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Where evil grows
A small-town hero discovers his dark side in Jim Mickle's pulpy 'Cold in July'Three for the road: Cold in July's Sam Shepard, Michael C. Hall, and Don JohnsonPHOTO COURTESY OF IFC...
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T bagged
Trannyshack changes its name -- and the Internet explodes. Plus: Animal Collective, Glamamore, Maxxi Soundsystem, Last Nite, more parties.Drag goddess Glamamore goes nutz! Sat/31marke@sfbg.comSUPER EGO...
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Hold 'Steady'
Alonzo King's new work mixes dark threat into tendernessDavid Harvey and Meredith Webster from Alonzo King LINES BalletPHOTO BY RJ MUNAarts@sfbg.comDANCE Alonzo King's The Steady Heart (which opened...
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Chiu mailer highlights Guardian praise, despite our Campos endorsement
Politics is dirty business, and I should never underestimate the willingness of politicians to turn any editorial praise they receive into an electoral advantage, distorting the context as needed, a...
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Meet the people who are getting forced out of San Francisco
The interactive map can be found at crowdmap.com/map/narrativesofdisplacement.The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project has come out with a number of visualization projects in the past year to document the...
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Losing our religion: The Lost Church says farewell — for now
Brad Barton onstage at The Lost Church.With all the tears shed and (Internet) ink spilled bemoaning the death of the Mission District at the hands of the tech bubble, it's easy to forget lately that...
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Muni permanently locks up front facing seats, fearing lawsuits
A Muni seat with its bottom half snapped upright. Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezRegular Muni riders have no doubt seen the wheelchair-accessible seats, located just in front of Muni's middle door,...
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The anti-sunshine gang intensifies its attacks on the Sunshine Ordinance Task...
Sup. Scott Wiener leads the charge against sunshine in City HallBy Bruce B. Brugmann (with special sunshine vendetta chronology by Richard Knee) The Guardian story in the current issue demonstrates...
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Elbow's Craig Potter on iPads, tour fatigue, and hitting #1
Elbow.PHOTO BY TOM SHEEHANBy Andrew BlairIf you don’t know of Elbow by now, you should probably stop reading this and go spend some time under a tree, staring out into space, contemplating your...
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LA siren BANKS enchants The Independent
BANKS at The Independent, Wed/28.ALL PHOTOS BY LAURA B. CHILDSOn Wednesday night at The Independent, a sold-out crowd anxiously awaits the mysterious creature known as BANKS. Cloaked in layers of black...
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Pink Mountaintops get weird at The Chapel
Pink Mountaintops at The Chapel Wed/28PHOTOS BY GIOVAN ALONZIBy Jordannah ElizabethThe Pink Mountaintops performed last night at The Chapel in the Mission District to a loyal crowd of friends and fans,...
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