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For Sale: 24 Hour Fitness

A time traveler from, say, the Renaissance era or the Hellenistic period, would immediately find two things strange about our beloved present. First (in no particular order): Michele Bachmann. Second: "Wait, people are paying money to run in place and lift heavy things?"Everything else would sort of ... More >>

The Feinstein-Panetta Back Story

By Peter JamisonObama's tapping of former Monterey congressman Leon Panetta for CIA director was bound to raise hackles among pols and pundits. While Panetta has that rarest of political assets -- an unimpaired reputation for probity among his colleagues and former constituents -- he has little dire ... More >>

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Chronicle Editor Ward Bushee Loves the Oldies

By Will HarperListening to Chronicle editor Ward Bushee on KQED's Forum made me nostalgic for Phil Bronstein. The former Mr. Sharon Stone had his faults, but what I liked about him was that he was more than a newspaper editor--he was a showman. Remember when Bronstein donned scuba gear to save a yo ... More >>

Dame Edna, the Crowd Pleaser

The audience is the star at insult-comic queen's S.F. show.

Gay Weddings We’d Really Like to See

Ammiano Calls Pelosi and Fenstein "Moms"

Class Action

A peek at the future of higher political education

House Of Tudor

Fortune Cookie Compilations, "Stinky's Peep Show," Artists Ball, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Sergio and Odair Assad

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The Books of Rhyme Pages

From Michael Eric Dyson to Darius James, black writers struggle to define hip-hop culture

Willie Brown's Beau Brummell

Can taste-maker Stanlee Gatti put his stamp on the Art Commission?

Hallinan's Right Cross

The narrow bandwidth of San Francisco politics makes most elections a contest between liberals. The DA's race, which pitted prosecutor Bill Fazio against centrist Arlo Smith and progressive Terence Hallinan, promised to change all that. But when Fazio zig

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