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The Principal Matter Teachers said Principal Gil Cho was dictatorial. Students said he manhandled them. The school district said he was doing a good job.
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He's No Angel They once called him a savior who helped people in need. Today, Edwin Parada is accused of taking money from Latinos unfamiliar with real estate laws.
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Nonconformity Still Reigns! The top eccentrics of San Francisco, and that's saying something.
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A Time to Kill The SPCA is struggling to finance a new hospital, and one way to save money is to speed up euthanasia.
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State of the Cart Join us as we map the street food scene and find out why there aren't more vendors in this most food-involved and temperate of cities.
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A Dirty Picture
What mainstream publishers don't want you to know about door-to-door magazine sales.
By Craig Malisow
Riverfront Times
Welcome to Cougar Heaven
When these huntresses on are on the prowl, the prey very much wants to be caught.
By Unreal
Broward-Palm Beach New Times
Sweet Deal
How rumored McCain veep choice Charlie Crist wants to bail out Big Sugar.
By Bob Norman
SF Weekly
All-American Girls
Are Asian women getting their jawbones cut to look whiter?
By Lauren Smiley
These New Puritans
Beat Pyramid (Domino)
By Michael Gallucci
Published on April 16, 2008
Like old-school cult punks the Fall, the four 19-year-old Brits who make up These New Puritans find plenty of room to move within their repetition. Beat Pyramid, their debut album, skitters along jagged guitar riffs, repeated one-word choruses, and a need to get the hell out of there as fast as it can (16 songs breeze through in 35 minutes). The quick hits and often-baffling lyrics — titles include "£4," "MKK3," and "H." — certainly don't encourage listeners to cozy up to the songs. Still, Beat Pyramid occasionally surprises. The atmospheric hum that drifts through "Doppelgänger" and the melodic drone of "Costume" break up the monotony and flicker with inspiration.
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