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Jason Braatz has been in the city's floral business for six years — enough time to know that it pays to keep Yelpers happy. And Panthea J. is not happy. "Sadly, it was...
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For seven weeks last summer, Lady GaGa was just what pop aficionados needed. Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" had inexplicably topped the Billboard Hot 100. Each week that...
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"I have seen purer liquors, better seegars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier cortezans, here in San Francisco than in any...
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That was the most offensive display of sexualized violence I have ever seen," one wilting fellow in need of a camphor hankie was overheard saying in the elevator. Such...
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Eddie Izzard, if he ever sees this movie, will attain nirvana, disappearing completely, like the flame of a candle that has been blown out. By putting a Scottish actor into...
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Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 marks a particular 40th anniversary—not Richard Nixon’s election, but the scarcely less astonishing event that occurred a few weeks later in...
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DJ /rupture (Jace Clayton) is a turntable master and producer who wears many funky hats. He hosts the weekly radio program Mudd Up! on New York’s WFMU, maintains a blog...
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Alex Lukas’ idea of the end of the world, or the heavily built up part of it, doesn’t look all that bad. True, his cities are underwater, with high tides pooling...
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Behind the scenes with Saint Patrick: Real name: Maewyn Succat. Backstory: Was forced into slavery by Irish raiders (dude was British!). He later returned to Ireland as a...
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Female persons of all ages: Let's go to the After-School Program Showcase put on by the Bay Area Girls Rock Camp. Every single one of us could stand to see four bands made up...
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Did you know that when the Golden Gate Bridge gets hot, it sits low in the saddle? Course you didn’t: You don’t have a Bridge Thermometer, which looks like one of...
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Nestled in San Francisco with a closet full of orthochromatic film harvested from the garbage of a dental office, Kerry Laitala resembles a mad scientist filmmaker. She...
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Light in the loafers or bonkers for Balanchine, friends of Dorothy or freaks for Diaghilev: High art queens of any stripe need look no further than their own San Francisco...
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By now you should know all about grand guignol, thanks to the efforts of the Thrillpeddlers theater troupe (if not, think shock theater directed by Quentin Tarantino and a...
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Maybe being a marijuana comedian (example: Rob Cantrell) is like being a prop comedian. Granted, your prop isn’t visible onstage, unless you count the thumb and...
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“Television, the drug of the nation/Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.” If you can name the first band to do that song, you ought to buy yourself a new Wii....
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In one key category — revelations per minute — the S.F. International Asian American Film Festival has the edge over Frameline and the S.F. International Film...
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Daniel Grandbois is bringin' flash fiction back. No, not "slash fiction," you dirty bird. Flash, or sudden fiction, is a sort-of genre defined by its word count: few. It's the...
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"A Field Guide to the Atmosphere" appears to be inspired by a book. Photographer and videomaker Lindsey White likes books; one of her previous pieces is a chair, in front of a...
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Short films made by youth and elders from the local LGBT community, including & All That Jazz, Changeling, Imaging Your [Right], and more. Co-presented by the LGBT Community...
