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Questions raised by staff cutbacks at the Exploratorium
A round of recent layoffs at the Exploratorium in San Francisco has taken museum staff by surprise and sparked questions about the institution’s focus going forward, an unexpected turn of events on the...
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California prisoners end hunger strike after Bay Area legislators call hearings
The Secure Housing Units at Pelican Bay has kept hundreds of prisoners in solidary confinement for more than a decade each.KQEDBay Area legislators Tom Ammiano (D-SF) and Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) —...
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The big Hardly Strictly roster reveal
Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit is one of the younger bands in the lineup.After weeks of teasers, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass released its full 2013 lineup this week, and it boasts some fresh young...
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Live Shots: Asteroid #4 and the Richmond Sluts at Brick and Mortar Music Hall
By Brittany M. PowellBrick and Mortar Music Hall may have had some noise complaint troubles with the San Francisco Sound Commission earlier this summer, but that hasn’t kept the venue or Kymberli...
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Action franchise junkie Vin Diesel returns ... and more new movies!
Vin Diesel returns as the title character in David Twohy's 'Riddick.'PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURESWho dares to challenge the box-office supremacy of Vin Diesel, who returns yet again to play the...
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Supervisors to grill Mayor Lee over CleanPowerSF sabotage
Mayor Lee will have to explain why he's bucking the people and their elected representatives in favor of PG&E.Rebecca BoweMayor Ed Lee will be on the hot seat for his unqualified support of Pacific...
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Feds force pot clubs to deal in cash, then ban use of armored cars
In the US Drug Enforcement Administration's latest attempt to smoke out medical marijuana dispensaries in the United States, the federal government agency made the decision to ban the use of armored...
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Campos urges SF to explore using Richmond's eminent domain plan
San Francisco eminent domain?Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezHousing activists and Supervisor David Camposoutside of City Hall Monday, September 9,announcing a resolution to explore using eminent...
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Gary Numan: dark music done right at the Oakland Metro
Gary Numan, a study in restraint.PHOTO BY TAYLOR KAPLAN.From Metallica to This Mortal Coil, there's a sense of canned melodrama about most "dark" music that I've long found goofy and unconvincing. On...
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Vote for Best of the Bay 2013!
2013 Best of the Bay featured artist Robert TrujilloIn 1974 we blazed a trail by being the first paper to present “best of” awards. Every year since then we’ve given Best of the Bay recognition to the...
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Important happenings for the week of Sept. 11-17 ALERTS Wednesday 11Vandana Shiva on biotechnology Goldman Theater, David Brower Center, 2150 Allston, Berk. www.kpfa.org. 7:30pm, free. Join...
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Super Ego
SymbioticalIndian bass duo GODS ROBOTS plays the Symbiosis Gathering.SUPER EGO Yoga! Soon it will rule us all. One day in the not-far-off future, some fiendish grand yogi — probably of the bikram...
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Provoc-auteur
A multi-venue series highlights edgy filmmaker Pier Paolo PasoliniA rare chaste moment in 1971's ribald Decameron.FILM It still boggles the mind that perhaps the most important single figure in the...
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Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Dennis Harvey, Lynn Rapoport, Sam Stander, and Sara Maria Vizcarrondo. For rep house showtimes, see Rep Clock.OPENINGAnd While We...
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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 11Danny...
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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...
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Holy terror
Alaskan author Tom Kizzia talks 'Pilgrim's Wilderness'Pilgrim's Wilderness author Tom KizziaLIT A tale of horrors so unbelievable it could only be plucked from real life, Tom Kizzia's Pilgrim's...
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Self service: SF Fringe Festival tells it like it is
Ryan Hayes, Meg Hurtado, Margery Fairchild, and Nathan Tucker in "StormStressLenz" at the SF Fringe FestivalPhoto by Serena MorelliNote: this is an extended version of an article that appears in this...
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Girls like us
The Julie Ruin is Kathleen Hanna's dream team.PHOTO BY SHERVIN LAINEZTOFU AND WHISKEY Before Le Tigre but after the demise of Bikini Kill, Kathleen Hanna created a mystical lo-fi electropop solo...
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Bugging out
The Urinals started off as artists, and ended up musiciansThe Urinals celebrate Stranded.PHOTO BY DEBBIE SPINELLIMUSIC As Urinals folklore goes, the band was formed in 1978 by a group of five UCLA...
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