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Final Burning Man ticket sale brings total to 61,000 sold for $23 mil
With the final official Burning Man ticket sale going off without a hitch yesterday, Bay Area burners are now in mad preparation mode, with DPW setup crews arriving on the playa this week, early art...
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Lawsuit over injury from airborne fire hydrant tests Uber’s insurance practices
Gushing for UberImage courtesy of Leslie Straw, via Twitter @lastrawA hydrant hit by a private taxi operating in partnership with Uber was sent flying, leaving this geyser pouring at over Divisadero...
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Taxis reinvent themselves to be more like Lyft
As this image from Lyft's Facebook page demonstrates, some drivers are true believers.For all the (justified) grumbling about the business models of ridesharing services like Lyft and Uber, the...
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Breathe Owl Breathe's van and gear stolen in Berkeley
Here's the Breathe Owl Breathe van.Below is a note from the touring musicians of indie folk group Breathe Owl Breathe -- their van was stolen last night in Berkeley, and they need your help in tracking...
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Bay Area Walmart employees say they were fired in retaliation for striking
Dominic Ware participated in an OURWalmart strike this past May.GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWEAfter working for nearly two years at Walmart in San Leandro, Dominic Ware said he’d witnessed too many...
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Solomon: Memo from Oslo: If peace is prized, a Nobel for Bradley Manning
Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death."Oslo,...
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When it rains hydrant crash photos, it pours
JJ HarrisOur story last week on the Uber driver who plowed into a fire hydrant got a lot of attention, but apparently it's not so rare for errant drivers to create sudden urban showers. Reader JJ...
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Prison hunger strike enters month two
As a hunger strike staged across California prisons enters its second month, inmates and their advocates are mourning the loss of Billy “Guero” Sells, a Corcoran State Prison inmate who committed...
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Russia's Olympic moment: Let's really gay this f*cker up
The Gay Olympics: We've had like 40 years of practice at this, people.So, the 2014 Winter Olympics. They're in Russia (specifically, Sochi), which right now hates on all the gays. What should we do?...
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PG&E union spreads lies about CleanPowerSF
Dirty, dirty lies.San Francisco’s municipal power agency is gearing up to launch one of the most climate-friendly alternative energy programs in the country, but the forces behind a misleading...
View ArticleShareable, smearable
After writing critically about problems in the business models of so-called "shareable economy" companies in last week's issue — including our cover story on Airbnb and other companies that facilitate...
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Walmart fires Bay Area workers after strike
After working for nearly two years at Walmart in San Leandro, Dominic Ware said he'd witnessed too many co-workers struggle to make ends meet, and had felt disrespected for long enough. A co-worker...
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Bootieful
10s across the board at BootiePHOTO BY ERIC STEINSUPER EGO You'd figure that after 10 successful years and a franchise that rings the globe, including regular stops in São Paolo, Shanghai, Dublin, and...
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Midsummer mayhem
Four beyond-the-mainstream treats for genre fansLouis Koo breaks bad in 'Drug War'PHOTO COURTESY OF VARIANCE FILMScheryl@sfbg.comFILM It's been a zzz summer at the multiplex. The number one movie of...
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Reel to real
Revisiting Shirley Clarke's 1967 'Portrait of Jason'"One beautiful something:" Portrait of JasonPHOTO COURTESY OF MILESTONE FILMSarts@sfbg.comFILM At a moment when gay people and gay rights have never...
View ArticleOn the Cheap: August 14 - 20, 2013
On the Cheap 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 14Toby...
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Ex-pat
emilysavage@sfbg.comTOFU AND WHISKEY The moody "drag-pop" songs on Alexis Blair Penney's debut album, Windows, were written with an ex-boyfriend in mind — Seth Bogart, aka Hunx — yet in a cruel twist...
View ArticleFilm Listings: August 14 - 20, 2013
Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Dennis Harvey, Lynn Rapoport, and Sara Maria Vizcarrondo. For rep house showtimes, see Rep Clock.OPENINGAdjust Your Tracking: The...
View ArticleTheater Listings: August 14 - 20, 2013
Stage listings are compiled by Guardian staff. Performance times may change; call venues to confirm. Reviewers are Robert Avila, Rita Felciano, and Nicole Gluckstern. Submit items for the listings at...
View ArticlePsychic Dream Astrology: August 14 - 20, 2013
August 14-20, 2013ARIESMarch 21-April 19Think before you act, Aries. Whatever you put out there is coming back to like a Pluto-fueled boomerang, so you'd better make sure your motives aren't petty or...
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