Psycic Dream: Jan. 15-21, 2014
ARIESMarch 21-April 19When people act or react with anger it’s often just to cover up deeper insecurities or worries. This week you may find your mind running a mile a minute, Aries, and the track it’s...
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Lee panders to motorists and undermines SFMTA with Sunday metering repeal
First Mayor Ed Lee ignores the rising cost of living in San Francisco (fueled partly by his own corporate welfare for the tech industry and commercial landlords), and now he’s using his sudden concern...
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Study: 30 percent of tech shuttle riders would move from SF if there were no...
We weren’t able to attend the San Francisco Commission on the Environment’s policy committee meeting on Mon/13, but there were clues (okay, a live Twitter feed) that the debate around the city’s tech...
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SFUSD backs supervisors’ sugary beverage tax, with concerns
Supervisors Mar and Wiener listen to advocate Roberto Vargas defend their sugary beverages tax to the Board of Education Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezA San Francisco ballot initiative to levy a tax...
View ArticleRep Clock: January 15 - 21, 2014
Frederick Wiseman's four-hour 2013 doc At Berkeley returns by popular demand to UC Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive.Schedules are for Wed/15-Tue/21 except where noted. Director and year are given when...
View ArticleThis Week's Picks: January 15 - 21, 2014
Word spears to pierce the stoniest of heartsTHURSDAY 1/16 Read more »
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"V" for victory
TABLEHOPPPING: New openings brought to you by the letter "V"— plus nifty North Beach spots for lunch and Sunday dinner.Beef rib at VerbenaPHOTO BY CARMEN TROESSERculture@sfbg.comCHOW NOWHere we are,...
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Art-ic blast
Dispatches from live performance in frigid New YorkWorth braving the polar vortex: "Muazzez"PHOTO BY ILAN BACHRACHarts@sfbg.comTHEATER New York early last week was as cold as Muazzez. True, I've never...
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The secret life of Sylvia Fein
The 94-year-old painter comes to terms with her surreality in a new retrospectivearts@sfbg.comRead more »
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Mar calls for hearing on recycling center evictions
The now closed Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council's recycling center.An eviction crisis of a different sort has hit San Francisco, as one by one, recycling centers are closing across the city....
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A first glance at 'Looking'
Looking scruff-tastic, but where's the beef?Imagine a place where all the gay men are masculine, well-built, physically unselfconscious, and fashionably tousled; where young male artists and young male...
View ArticleMusic Listings: Jan. 15-21, 2014
WEDNESDAY 15ROCKBottom of the Hill: 1233 17th St., San Francisco. Connan Mockasin, Disappearing People, Faux Canada, 9 p.m., $10-$12.El Rio: 3158 Mission, San Francisco. Nobunny, King Lollipop, Pookie...
View ArticlePsycic Dream: Jan. 15-21, 2014
ARIESMarch 21-April 19When people act or react with anger it’s often just to cover up deeper insecurities or worries. This week you may find your mind running a mile a minute, Aries, and the track it’s...
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Lee panders to motorists and undermines SFMTA with Sunday metering repeal
First Mayor Ed Lee ignores the rising cost of living in San Francisco (fueled partly by his own corporate welfare for the tech industry and commercial landlords), and now he’s using his sudden concern...
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Study: 30 percent of tech shuttle riders would move from SF if there were no...
We weren’t able to attend the San Francisco Commission on the Environment’s policy committee meeting on Mon/13, but there were clues (okay, a live Twitter feed) that the debate around the city’s tech...
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SFUSD backs supervisors’ sugary beverage tax, with concerns
Supervisors Mar and Wiener listen to advocate Roberto Vargas defend their sugary beverages tax to the Board of Education Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezA San Francisco ballot initiative to levy a tax...
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Promo: The Edwardian Ball is happening this weekend
The Edwardian Ball is an elegant, whimsical celebration of art, music, theatre, fashion, technology, circus, and famed author Edward Gorey, set in an imagined “Edwardian” era. Now in its fourteenth...
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Of course Beyoncé is a feminist: On gender equality and women in entertainment
Hi, I'm here for Women's Studies?A specific corner of the Internet was abuzz this week with the news that Beyoncé, fresh off inciting think-piece warfare about whether or not her new visual album...
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Welcome to San Francisco, "Welcome to Night Vale"
Hello, listeners. Brilliant breakout podcast "Welcome to Night Vale" has gained a rabid (yet adorably introspective) fanbase since it launched in June 2012. The twice-monthly, 20-minute-long show,...
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The secret life of Sylvia Fein
The 94-year-old painter comes to terms with her surreality in a new retrospectivearts@sfbg.comRead more »
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