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When interim Mayor Ed Lee said he wasn't interested in running, it appears he was only telling stories. If San Franciscans wish to cast their votes for a storyteller, perhaps...
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You're obviously going to catch the headliner sets at this weekend's Outside Lands Festival, so we'll assume you're already more than familiar with Arcade Fire, Muse, the...
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The moment does not belong to the hotel restaurant. Five years ago, Campton Place, Michael Mina's eponymous restaurant at the St. Francis, and the Dining Room at Ritz-Carlton...
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Money-back guarantees feel like such a remnant of the old economy. Does the depressed consumer class even expect companies to make good on their advertised word anymore? But...
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Chris Sollars shaves with an ax. Tony Labat is internationally famous for drinking beer. And Mica Sigourney does not even want a normal life. At BAN6 Presents Literary Death...
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A girl in a long dress floats motionless in a forest pool, flowers drifting on the surface of the water around her. Her eyes are glassy in death, and she radiates tragic...
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Point Blank, a French action film that has nothing to do with the 1967 (and highly Frenchified) John Boorman flick of the same name, opens with a bang: An apparent burglar...
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So You Think You Can Dance is a horrible reality television show. It's formulaic, arbitrarily competitive, and hosted by a very, very annoying woman. But it's also the...
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When the group of women who run La Cocina, a Mission District food-business incubator, launched the San Francisco Street Food Festival two years ago, they underestimated how...
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Our gawking fascination with Detroit’s decline is so prevalent that there’s even a term to describe it — disaster porn. Yet while there are plenty of...
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Controversial, offensive, and downright angry, Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr. was a real force in his time. Better known as Jay Reatard, the notorious rock 'n' roll monster was known...
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When she wasn’t busy collecting art, fomenting literary movements, and dissing Oakland, Gertrude Stein used her inimitable talents to help create a most inimitable opera...
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The documentary Audience Award winner at this year's Sundance festival, Buck follows itinerant horse trainer Buck Brannaman as he applies his uniquely humane and frankly...
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You music geeks probably know of something called “air checks” – hourlong segments of radio broadcasts recorded for no other reason than to freeze the moments...
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We love to educate friends who’ve recently moved to San Francisco, and among the best ways to do this is taking them to Sutro Heights and the ruins of Sutro Baths, both...
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After she catches her fiancé sleeping with a podiatrist, Grace (Rebecca Schweitzer) spends her days cradling a bottle of Jack Daniel's on the couch. Occasionally she...
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Last year San Franciscans were outraged when Laguna Honda Hospital administrators took money from a gift fund meant to provide simple pleasures to patients and instead spent...
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1. At midnight, Crystal Castles emerged from a soupy, fog-filled blackness amid obliterating strobe lights, kicking off their headlining set with the unsettling "Doe Deer,"...
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Feeling poor and hungry, we dropped into Cordon Bleu in Nob Hill and got to talking with proprietor Katie Yu.
Yu, from Hong Kong, has never been to Vietnam. In 1995, she...
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More than just the Hollywood It Girl of the moment, Emma Stone is a real actress, and in The Help, she gets an ostentatious, Oscar-baiting Big Scene in which to prove it....
