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Who Owns the Castro Rainbow Flag?

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Best Practices for Maximizing at a Buffet

​People in San Francisco like to play that they've always known the glory of free-range quail terrine and grew up foraging for truffles with their French papa. Don't front. The vast majority of us grew up celebrating all holidays, birthdays, and special events at a buffet. Won a Little League socc ... More >>

Saturday Night: Henry Rollins, Now 50, Imparts Punk-Rock Wisdom at the Independent

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Wednesday's Pick: '(Por)trait Revealed'

​"(Por)trait Revealed"Rayko Photo CenterReception 6 p.m., freeYour refrigerator reveals a lot about you. We've always known this, in a medicine-cabinet sort of way, but it took artist Mark Menjivar to really freak us out. He traveled around the country with a large-format 8-by-10 camera, quickly o ... More >>

Ice Sculptures

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Arthouse movie listings for April 21-27, 2010

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Meat Fire = Us: Is Barbecue at the Root of Being Human?

wallyg/FlickrBarbecue's a reliably toasty topic, a hallowed strain of American Southern cookery known for endless regional variations and no shortage of strident expert-y opinions about them. Even here in San Francisco, debates rage on. This week, Chronicle reviewer-in-chief Michael Bauer mad ... More >>

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A domestic worker from Kenya has accused her employer -- a prominent African journalist -- of human trafficking

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Saucy sexagenarians, kooky King Kong, global grooves, and apocryphal atheism

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