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Prelinger Archives Show How San Francisco Has Always Struggled with Change
By Matt Smith Wednesday, Sep 28 2011
Megan Shaw Prelinger is proud that her private library — tucked into a former warehouse at 301 Eighth St. (at Folsom) and open to the... More >>
Lawyer Suing San Francisco for Racial Discrimination May Need a Lawyer Himself
By Matt Smith Wednesday, Aug 31 2011
Listen closely to the rhetoric of the 2011 political season. President Barack Obama — a conservative Democrat with a keen ear to Wall... More >>
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Burning Man Bummer: Ticket Lottery Won't Fill Demand
By Benjamin Wachs Wednesday, Feb 8 2012
Burning Man's first-ever ticket lottery has had far more requests for tickets than the 40,000 made available. What does this mean? •... More >>
Map Game: Redistricting May Make Neighbors of Voters
By Chris Roberts Wednesday, Feb 8 2012
The western neighborhoods can feel a world apart from the rest of San Francisco, particularly when fog muzzles the street lights and paints the... More >>
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Bouncer Visits the Lion's Den: ING Cafe
By Katy St. Clair Wednesday, Feb 8 2012
I have found Noam Chomsky's hell on earth. I have located purgatory for Occupiers. I have discovered Karl Marx's Hieronymus Bosch oil-painted... More >>
The Besotted Speak of Sod at the White Horse Tavern
By Katy St. Clair Wednesday, Feb 1 2012
Did you know that the majority of the world's sod comes from grass fields in Oregon? This blew my mind when I found out — or perhaps my... More >>
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SF Weekly Letters
By Wednesday, Feb 8 2012
Prisoner Becomes Choir Boy Image does not line up with story: Somehow, Ellen Weinstein's illustration on the cover just doesn't look accurate or... More >>
SF Weekly Letters
By Wednesday, Feb 1 2012
Dining Space vs. Food Blank space detracts from the food: "I've eaten at the corner of 18th and Guerrero at least a half-dozen times under a... More >>
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Some Unenchanted Evenings and Once You Go Lewis Black
By Amy Alkon Thursday, Feb 9 2012
Some Unenchanted Evenings My boyfriend lacks romantic ambition. In our two years together, we've never gone out to dinner someplace I can wear a... More >>
Shove Thy Neighbor and Idle Worship
By Amy Alkon Thursday, Feb 2 2012
Shove Thy Neighbor My commitment-phobic boyfriend of several years is also my neighbor. I resolved to make it work with him and then caught him... More >>
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Week of February 9th
By Rob Brezsny Thursday, Feb 9 2012
ARIES (March 21-April 19): "Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or conquest," said author George Eliot. I believe the same... More >>
Week of February 2nd
By Rob Brezsny Thursday, Feb 2 2012
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sad but true: A lot of people seem to be perpetually in a state of wanting what they don't have and not wanting what... More >>
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