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Oct. 26-Nov. 2, 2005

Hot Spot

FOR 25 YEARS now, Negativland have been one of the leading engagers in of copyright infringement, plunderphonics high jinks, and "culture jamming" (uhh ... whatever that means now, but they do get the credit for inventing the word), among other things, relying heavily on the fair-use clause. Most famous for a court battle with Island Records over sampling U2, and a fake press release claiming their song "Christianity Is Stupid" made a kid in Minnesota kill his family (that got way out of hand), Negativland have recently thrown their hat in the ring on the peer-to-peer debate. Now the Bay Area band (or, if you prefer, think tank, art collective, authors, sonic outlaws) that launched a thousand college term papers is back with a live show called Its All in Your Head FM. (The Great American Music Hall will even bring out their rarely used seats for this one.) It purports to be "a stereophonic look at monotheism" hosted by Dr. Oslo Norway. No, I have no idea what that means either, but it promises not to be boring and stupid. Wed/26-Thurs/27, 8 p.m., Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell, $20. (415) 885-0750. (Lydia Brawner)

Oct. 26

Wednesday

All good citizens Say fare thee well to Citizens Here and Abroad. Half of the tuneful dream-poppers will soon be following through with their moniker and heading overseas to China – too bad they'll miss their "Newport Beach debut" on The O.C., says vocalist-guitarist Adrienne Robillard. (She adds that she's been busy popping anti-typhoid and -malaria pills.) And we can say we knew those congenial Bay Area indie rockers back when – over a bad Hawaiian-style plate lunch – before they took some sort of Death Cab to success. Minipop and Love Like Fire also perform. 9 p.m., Mezzanine, 444 Jessie, SF. Free. (415) 625-8880. (Kimberly Chun)

Let it burn Radiating an intensity and fervor that have been sorely lacking in so many modern punk bands in recent memory, Richmond, Va.'s Smoke or Fire have crash-landed on the recorded landscape with their debut full-length, Above the City (Fat Wreck Chords). Cementing their sound over the past seven years, the formidable foursome – who were formerly known as Jericho until a shitty Christian rock band that owned the rights to the name decided to threaten legal action – hit with the musical equivalent of a Molotov cocktail. Incendiary riffs explode over throat-ripping vocals and thunderous rhythms, especially on tunes like "California's Burning," "Delawhere," and "Fire Escapes." But don't think they're a one-dimensional songwriting jackhammer; check out "Cryin? Shame" as an example of their other, slightly more subdued, talents. Against Me! headlines; the Epoxies and the Soviettes also play. 8 p.m., Slim's, 333 11th St., SF. $13. (415) 255-0333. (Sean McCourt)

Oct. 27

Thursday

Lean, Green disco machine Disco done right is damn dope, and NYC's Brennan Green knows how to do it right. Alongside people like Metro Area and Daniel Wang, Green has pushed the disco sound in an urbane and sleek, yet definitely funky, direction. With a discography that includes releases and production for everyone from Wave Music to Output Recordings, and his monthly Pop Your Funk! residency at NYC's APT, Green is the envy of the deep disco set. Joining him behind the decks for this month's edition of Mighty's club Eggs are Broker/Dealer, Actual Jakshun, and Gold Chains. 10 p.m., Mighty, 119 Utah, SF. $6. (415) 626-7001. (Peter Nicholson)

Oct. 28

Friday

Free Palestine! This week offers some exceptional opportunities to break through the media blackout of the powerful grassroots movement of nonviolent resistance that's gained momentum in the occupied territories of Palestine. First, two leading activists – and unlikely friends – talk about the struggle: Ayed Morrar, a middle-aged family man who works for the Palestinian Ministry of the Interior and helped lead the peaceful campaign against the construction of the illegal Israeli wall through his hometown of Budrus, and Jonathan Pollak, a 23-year-old punk rocker and graphic designer who's helped mobilize hundreds of fellow Israelis. Then, Haifa University historian Ilan Pappe, one of Israel's most prominent intellectuals promoting equal rights for Muslims, Christians, and Jews, makes a string of equally rare appearances. All speak prominently on the aftermath of the Israeli disengagement from Gaza – and what the mainstream media aren't telling you. Morrar and Pollak: Tonight, 7 p.m., AK Press, 674A 23rd St., Oakl.; Sat/29, 7 p.m., Calvary Presbyterian Church, 2515 Fillmore, SF; Sun/30, 7 p.m., SEIU Local 790, 100 Oak, Oakl.; Tues/1, 7 p.m., St. John's Presbyterian Church, 2727 College, Berk. $5-$15 donation. (510) 381-1287. Pappe: Sat/29, 7:30 p.m., First Congregational Church, 2501 Harrison, Oakl.; Sun/30, 7 p.m., First Unitarian Church, 1187 Franklin, SF. $20. (510) 548-0542. (Camille T. Taiara)

Double, double, toil and trouble Take the quirky fragmented world of early-20th-century pulp magazines, lace it with a dose of Halloween venom, and top it off with a heaping spoonful of improvisational comedy and you have True Fiction Magazine's annual Halloween weekend shows. You, the audience, create the topic and they, the True Fiction performers, go with it. Entirely spontaneous and completely original, this nonprofit improv theater troupe paints a hilarious world of black-and-orange-colored comic book drama by using a clean canvas of ideas with each performance. This is interactive theater at its best. Also Sat/29. 8 p.m., Bayfront Theatre, B350 Fort Mason Center, Marina at Laguna, SF. $15. (415) 474-6776, www.improv.org/shows. (Forrest Caskey)

Take flight You know that feeling you get while driving down the southbound 101 with your hand cutting wind waves out the window? That's the kind of experience Mae conjure in every one of their free spirited, beautifully composed piano-pop songs. A beaming travelogue of catchy pop-punk, their sophomore album, The Everglow (Tooth and Nail), features the band's talent for versatility, leading the listener with emotive lyrics that speak to endless skylines and love-inspired flight. There's a certain enthusiasm in lead singer Dave Elkins's voice that shines even atop the band's multilayered tunes, a formative combination that will quickly become the official soundtrack to sunny coastal drives across the country. Circa Survive, Mute Math, and Discover America open the show. 8 p.m., Slim's, 333 11th St., SF. $15. (415) 255-0333. (Justin Yu)

Oct. 29

Saturday

Experimental Dental Prom There's something about the Stork Club's stage that reminds me of a high school prom. Maybe it's the metallic hanging streamers, or the smell of whiskey – I don't know, but it always brings me back. Imagine how much nicer things could have gone at your prom if Experimental Dental School had headlined the dance. I would've infinitely preferred their unique polka-new wave spaz-circus thing to the ubiquitous sweaty palmed K-Ci and Jojo slow dance. Sigh. Tonight, along with Condor, Militant Children's Hour, and Kool Teen, Experimental Dental School play the Stork, and we can all have a rock-your-socks-off time. Come to think of it, I still have that dress that Grandmama bought me packed away somewhere. You got a tux rental and some gross carnations? 9 p.m., Stork Club, 2330 Telegraph, Oakl. $5. (510) 444-6174. (Lydia Brawner)

Boo-tiful stranger Toss aside those fun-size Snickers (for one night, anyway). Far more delicious treats are in the bowl at Halloween at the Hypnodrome. This festive evening features the terrifying Grand Guignol talents of the Thrillpeddlers, "mad musical scientist" Thomas Truax, mentalist Bob Taxin (free your mind!), and spooky chanteuse Jill Tracy, performing with her Malcontent Orchestra. Thrillpeddlers devotees will recognize Tracy from her 2004 guest stint with the company, which saw her playing the mistress of a monster-haunted manor and a doomed flapper with appropriately eerie aplomb. For these Halloween shows, expect cool 1920s flair (with a touch of goth glam) when Tracy sits down at her piano and shares her macabre melodies. If you can swing the cost, the Hypnodrome's "Shock Box" seating is worth it for the, um, heightened sensory experience. Tonight, midnight; Sun/30-Mon/31, 7:30 and 10:30 p.m., Hypnodrome, 575 10th St., SF. $20-$69. (415) 248-1900, www.hypnodrome.com. (Cheryl Eddy)

Unholy union Combining music from two different genres is often a recipe for disaster. Take Ludacris and Sum 41, for example. The problem in this case is that both parties suck on their own, so a collaboration between the two was doomed to fail from the beginning. They should have taken notes from Benjamin Woods, the brain behind transgenre act Flametal. Woods takes one part raging speed metal guitar and vocals, adds a healthy dollop of flamenco acoustics, and finishes it off with two spectacular flamenco dancers, La Fanny and Melissa Cruz. This ferocious pre-Halloween frightfest also features flamenco traditionalists Los Soleares. 8:30 p.m., La Peña Cultural Center, Berk. $20. (510) 849-2568, www.laninaflamenco.com. (Yu)

Oct. 30

Sunday

Promoting peace Most big-time entertainment promoters can learn a thing or two from the late, great Chet Helms. Not only did he help make a name for Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and many other legendary San Francisco rock musicians through his promotions company, Family Dog, but he also helped create the scene that would hugely contribute to, affect, and mirror this country's political and cultural climate in the '60s. Helms was so deeply associated with the scene that he's considered a founding father of the psychedelic movement. How many promoters of MTV acts will you remember more than three decades from now? Today, Family Dog presents A Chet Helms Tribal Stomp to honor Helms, who died this past June, with a full day of music and entertainment by Nick Gravenites, Harvey Mandel, Taj Mahal, Paul Kantner, Ray Manzarek, Vince Welnick, Big Brother, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Canned Heat, Iron Butterfly, Terry Haggerty, Sammy Hagar, Greg Errico, Melvin Seals, and many, many others. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Golden Gate Park, Speedway Meadow, JFK near 25th Ave., SF. Free. www.2b1records.com/chetmemorial. (Sarah Han)

Oct. 31

Monday

Spirit of 73 When speaking about Proposition 73, our dear old Governator Schwarzenegger was quoted as saying, " I wouldn't want to have someone take my daughter to a hospital for an abortion or something and not tell me. I would kill him if they do that." Hmmn.... How about the rest of us look at it a little more thoroughly before we amend the California constitution Nov. 8, shall we? Get more information about the controversial parental notification proposition at the Vote no on 73! Halloween rally, concert and costume party put on by VOX (Voices for Sexual Freedom). Bands Baby Teeth and the Starfish play, the Radical Cheerleaders perform, and Nora Dye of Planned Parenthood and Leah Marchenko of NARAL speak, with other guests, performers, and activists to follow. Noon-2 p.m., San Francisco State University, Malcolm X Plaza, 19th Ave. and Holloway, Free. (415) 710-3550, vox4sf@sfsu.edu. (Brawner)

Nov. 1

Tuesday

Sea bells Indie rock is an amorphous beast of a musical genre, as given to wrapping its arms around an east Londoner's grime as it is a Floridian's whispery folk. Even so, the chamber music of Louisville, Ky., collective Rachel's pushes the genre's bounds: a sort of Kronos Quartet for the hoodie set. While the Rachel's premise might sound a bit contrived, the band's icy sound waves speak for themselves. Contemplative and gauzy, the group's strings-heavy texture wraps itself around the listener like a dream – live, the results should be sparkling. On that note, the Rachel's Web site lists one of its touring members as playing "percussion, keyboards, and films," which sounds pretty mellow. Invert also performs. 9 p.m., Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell, SF. $18. (415) 885-0750. (Max Goldberg)

Nov. 2

Wednesday

I double dare you I know that buried somewhere underneath all those albums representing your grown-up musical tastes is a well-worn copy of an album by Knapsack or some other like-minded pop-punk act. San Francisco's Roma 79 are here to help you revisit pop-punk, embarrassment- and irony-free. Tonight they celebrate the release of their debut album, The Great Dying (Ascestic Records). But R79 aren't a completely untested act – they have already toured the States and recorded soundtracks for Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. Yes, Nickelodeon! I'd love to see Double Dare Dave rocking out in the front row at one of their shows. 9:30 p.m., Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk, SF. $6. (Sean Patrick Maylone)

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8 Days a Week Oct. 26-Nov. 2, 2005 Hot Spot FOR 25 YEARS now, Negativland have been one of the leading engagers in of copyright infringement, plunderphonics high jinks, and "culture jamming" (uhh ... whatever that means now, but they do get the credit for inventing the word), among other things, relying heavily on the fair-use clause. Most famous for a court battle with Island Records over sampling U2, and a fake press release claiming their song "Christianity Is Stupid" made a kid in Minnesota kill his family (that got way out of hand), Negativland have recently thrown their hat in the ring on the peer-to-peer debate. Now the Bay Area band (or, if you prefer, think tank, art collective, authors, sonic outlaws) that launched a thousand college term papers is back with a live show called Its All in Your Head FM. (The Great American Music Hall will even bring out their rarely used seats for this one.) It purports to be "a stereophonic look at monotheism" hosted by Dr. Oslo Norway. No, I have no idea what that means either, but it promises not to be boring and stupid. Wed/26-Thurs/27, 8 p.m., Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell, $20. (415) 885-0750. (Lydia Brawner) Oct. 26 Wednesday All good citizens Say fare thee well to Citizens Here and Abroad. Half of the tuneful dream-poppers will soon be following through with their moniker and heading overseas to China – too bad they'll miss their "Newport Beach debut" on The O.C., says vocalist-guitarist Adrienne Robillard. (She adds that she's been busy popping anti-typhoid and -malaria pills.) And we can say we knew those congenial Bay Area indie rockers back when – over a bad Hawaiian-style plate lunch – before they took some sort of Death Cab to success. Minipop and Love Like Fire also perform. 9 p.m., Mezzanine, 444 Jessie, SF. Free. (415) 625-8880. (Kimberly Chun) Let it burn Radiating an intensity and fervor that have been sorely lacking in so many modern punk bands in recent memory, Richmond, Va.'s Smoke or Fire have crash-landed on the recorded landscape with their debut full-length, Above the City (Fat Wreck Chords). Cementing their sound over the past seven years, the formidable foursome – who were formerly known as Jericho until a shitty Christian rock band that owned the rights to the name decided to threaten legal action – hit with the musical equivalent of a Molotov cocktail. Incendiary riffs explode over throat-ripping vocals and thunderous rhythms, especially on tunes like "California's Burning," "Delawhere," and "Fire Escapes." But don't think they're a one-dimensional songwriting jackhammer; check out "Cryin? Shame" as an example of their other, slightly more subdued, talents. Against Me! headlines; the Epoxies and the Soviettes also play. 8 p.m., Slim's, 333 11th St., SF. $13. (415) 255-0333. (Sean McCourt) Oct. 27 Thursday Lean, Green disco machine Disco done right is damn dope, and NYC's Brennan Green knows how to do it right. Alongside people like Metro Area and Daniel Wang, Green has pushed the disco sound in an urbane and sleek, yet definitely funky, direction. With a discography that includes releases and production for everyone from Wave Music to Output Recordings, and his monthly Pop Your Funk! residency at NYC's APT, Green is the envy of the deep disco set. Joining him behind the decks for this month's edition of Mighty's club Eggs are Broker/Dealer, Actual Jakshun, and Gold Chains. 10 p.m., Mighty, 119 Utah, SF. $6. (415) 626-7001. (Peter Nicholson) Oct. 28 Friday Free Palestine! This week offers some exceptional opportunities to break through the media blackout of the powerful grassroots movement of nonviolent resistance that's gained momentum in the occupied territories of Palestine. First, two leading activists – and unlikely friends – talk about the struggle: Ayed Morrar, a middle-aged family man who works for the Palestinian Ministry of the Interior and helped lead the peaceful campaign against the construction of the illegal Israeli wall through his hometown of Budrus, and Jonathan Pollak, a 23-year-old punk rocker and graphic designer who's helped mobilize hundreds of fellow Israelis. Then, Haifa University historian Ilan Pappe, one of Israel's most prominent intellectuals promoting equal rights for Muslims, Christians, and Jews, makes a string of equally rare appearances. All speak prominently on the aftermath of the Israeli disengagement from Gaza – and what the mainstream media aren't telling you. Morrar and Pollak: Tonight, 7 p.m., AK Press, 674A 23rd St., Oakl.; Sat/29, 7 p.m., Calvary Presbyterian Church, 2515 Fillmore, SF; Sun/30, 7 p.m., SEIU Local 790, 100 Oak, Oakl.; Tues/1, 7 p.m., St. John's Presbyterian Church, 2727 College, Berk. $5-$15 donation. (510) 381-1287. Pappe: Sat/29, 7:30 p.m., First Congregational Church, 2501 Harrison, Oakl.; Sun/30, 7 p.m., First Unitarian Church, 1187 Franklin, SF. $20. (510) 548-0542. (Camille T. Taiara) Double, double, toil and trouble Take the quirky fragmented world of early-20th-century pulp magazines, lace it with a dose of Halloween venom, and top it off with a heaping spoonful of improvisational comedy and you have True Fiction Magazine's annual Halloween weekend shows. You, the audience, create the topic and they, the True Fiction performers, go with it. Entirely spontaneous and completely original, this nonprofit improv theater troupe paints a hilarious world of black-and-orange-colored comic book drama by using a clean canvas of ideas with each performance. This is interactive theater at its best. Also Sat/29. 8 p.m., Bayfront Theatre, B350 Fort Mason Center, Marina at Laguna, SF. $15. (415) 474-6776, www.improv.org/shows. (Forrest Caskey) Take flight You know that feeling you get while driving down the southbound 101 with your hand cutting wind waves out the window? That's the kind of experience Mae conjure in every one of their free spirited, beautifully composed piano-pop songs. A beaming travelogue of catchy pop-punk, their sophomore album, The Everglow (Tooth and Nail), features the band's talent for versatility, leading the listener with emotive lyrics that speak to endless skylines and love-inspired flight. There's a certain enthusiasm in lead singer Dave Elkins's voice that shines even atop the band's multilayered tunes, a formative combination that will quickly become the official soundtrack to sunny coastal drives across the country. Circa Survive, Mute Math, and Discover America open the show. 8 p.m., Slim's, 333 11th St., SF. $15. (415) 255-0333. (Justin Yu) Oct. 29 Saturday Experimental Dental Prom There's something about the Stork Club's stage that reminds me of a high school prom. Maybe it's the metallic hanging streamers, or the smell of whiskey – I don't know, but it always brings me back. Imagine how much nicer things could have gone at your prom if Experimental Dental School had headlined the dance. I would've infinitely preferred their unique polka-new wave spaz-circus thing to the ubiquitous sweaty palmed K-Ci and Jojo slow dance. Sigh. Tonight, along with Condor, Militant Children's Hour, and Kool Teen, Experimental Dental School play the Stork, and we can all have a rock-your-socks-off time. Come to think of it, I still have that dress that Grandmama bought me packed away somewhere. You got a tux rental and some gross carnations? 9 p.m., Stork Club, 2330 Telegraph, Oakl. $5. (510) 444-6174. (Lydia Brawner) Boo-tiful stranger Toss aside those fun-size Snickers (for one night, anyway). Far more delicious treats are in the bowl at Halloween at the Hypnodrome. This festive evening features the terrifying Grand Guignol talents of the Thrillpeddlers, "mad musical scientist" Thomas Truax, mentalist Bob Taxin (free your mind!), and spooky chanteuse Jill Tracy, performing with her Malcontent Orchestra. Thrillpeddlers devotees will recognize Tracy from her 2004 guest stint with the company, which saw her playing the mistress of a monster-haunted manor and a doomed flapper with appropriately eerie aplomb. For these Halloween shows, expect cool 1920s flair (with a touch of goth glam) when Tracy sits down at her piano and shares her macabre melodies. If you can swing the cost, the Hypnodrome's "Shock Box" seating is worth it for the, um, heightened sensory experience. Tonight, midnight; Sun/30-Mon/31, 7:30 and 10:30 p.m., Hypnodrome, 575 10th St., SF. $20-$69. (415) 248-1900, www.hypnodrome.com. (Cheryl Eddy) Unholy union Combining music from two different genres is often a recipe for disaster. Take Ludacris and Sum 41, for example. The problem in this case is that both parties suck on their own, so a collaboration between the two was doomed to fail from the beginning. They should have taken notes from Benjamin Woods, the brain behind transgenre act Flametal. Woods takes one part raging speed metal guitar and vocals, adds a healthy dollop of flamenco acoustics, and finishes it off with two spectacular flamenco dancers, La Fanny and Melissa Cruz. This ferocious pre-Halloween frightfest also features flamenco traditionalists Los Soleares. 8:30 p.m., La Peña Cultural Center, Berk. $20. (510) 849-2568, www.laninaflamenco.com. (Yu) Oct. 30 Sunday Promoting peace Most big-time entertainment promoters can learn a thing or two from the late, great Chet Helms. Not only did he help make a name for Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and many other legendary San Francisco rock musicians through his promotions company, Family Dog, but he also helped create the scene that would hugely contribute to, affect, and mirror this country's political and cultural climate in the '60s. Helms was so deeply associated with the scene that he's considered a founding father of the psychedelic movement. How many promoters of MTV acts will you remember more than three decades from now? Today, Family Dog presents A Chet Helms Tribal Stomp to honor Helms, who died this past June, with a full day of music and entertainment by Nick Gravenites, Harvey Mandel, Taj Mahal, Paul Kantner, Ray Manzarek, Vince Welnick, Big Brother, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Canned Heat, Iron Butterfly, Terry Haggerty, Sammy Hagar, Greg Errico, Melvin Seals, and many, many others. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Golden Gate Park, Speedway Meadow, JFK near 25th Ave., SF. Free. www.2b1records.com/chetmemorial. (Sarah Han) Oct. 31 Monday Spirit of 73 When speaking about Proposition 73, our dear old Governator Schwarzenegger was quoted as saying, " I wouldn't want to have someone take my daughter to a hospital for an abortion or something and not tell me. I would kill him if they do that." Hmmn.... How about the rest of us look at it a little more thoroughly before we amend the California constitution Nov. 8, shall we? Get more information about the controversial parental notification proposition at the Vote no on 73! Halloween rally, concert and costume party put on by VOX (Voices for Sexual Freedom). Bands Baby Teeth and the Starfish play, the Radical Cheerleaders perform, and Nora Dye of Planned Parenthood and Leah Marchenko of NARAL speak, with other guests, performers, and activists to follow. Noon-2 p.m., San Francisco State University, Malcolm X Plaza, 19th Ave. and Holloway, Free. (415) 710-3550, vox4sf@sfsu.edu. (Brawner) Nov. 1 Tuesday Sea bells Indie rock is an amorphous beast of a musical genre, as given to wrapping its arms around an east Londoner's grime as it is a Floridian's whispery folk. Even so, the chamber music of Louisville, Ky., collective Rachel's pushes the genre's bounds: a sort of Kronos Quartet for the hoodie set. While the Rachel's premise might sound a bit contrived, the band's icy sound waves speak for themselves. Contemplative and gauzy, the group's strings-heavy texture wraps itself around the listener like a dream – live, the results should be sparkling. On that note, the Rachel's Web site lists one of its touring members as playing "percussion, keyboards, and films," which sounds pretty mellow. Invert also performs. 9 p.m., Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell, SF. $18. (415) 885-0750. (Max Goldberg) Nov. 2 Wednesday I double dare you I know that buried somewhere underneath all those albums representing your grown-up musical tastes is a well-worn copy of an album by Knapsack or some other like-minded pop-punk act. San Francisco's Roma 79 are here to help you revisit pop-punk, embarrassment- and irony-free. Tonight they celebrate the release of their debut album, The Great Dying (Ascestic Records). But R79 aren't a completely untested act – they have already toured the States and recorded soundtracks for Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. Yes, Nickelodeon! I'd love to see Double Dare Dave rocking out in the front row at one of their shows. 9:30 p.m., Hemlock Tavern, 1131 Polk, SF. $6. (Sean Patrick Maylone) The Bay Guardian listings deadline is two weeks prior to our Wednesday publication date. To submit an item for consideration, please include the title of the event, a brief description of the event, date and time, venue name, street address (listing cross streets only isn't sufficient), city, telephone number readers can call for more information, telephone number for media, and admission costs. Send information to Listings, the Bay Guardian Building, 135 Mississippi St., SF, CA 94107; fax to (415) 487-2506; or e-mail (paste press release into e-mail body – no text attachments, please) to listings@sfbg.com. We cannot guarantee the return of photos, but enclosing an SASE helps. Digital photos may be submitted in jpeg format; the image must be at least 240 dpi and four inches by six inches in size. 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