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Zozobra's ashes

10.25.06 - 2:37 pm | sfbg |
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By G.W. Schulz

Old Man Gloom first formed as a side project for members of the Boston bands Converge, Isis and Cave In. In some senses, OMG was bigger and more destructive than anything its members had done with their primary outfits. Read more »

NOISE: A very little Arthur Night music

10.25.06 - 9:00 am | Music Blogger |
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Visual art curator and Angeleno contributor Carol Cheh snagged the final dregs of Arthur Nights 2006 in LA on Sunday, Oct. 22. Here are her brief impressions of art and architecture:

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Kyp Malone stands alone. Read more »

Chris Daly video ads

10.24.06 - 1:21 pm | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

There's a modest little war going on over low-tech video ads in the District Six race. I think this one, with sock puppets, is my fave. (Thanks to sfist. Then there's the more serious one, and this strange cat onethat I don't really understand. But fun to watch.

OCC -- the only true drama

10.24.06 - 12:58 pm | G.W. Schulz |
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By G.W. Schulz

Sure, the ongoing battle between the Office of Citizen Complaints and the San Francisco Police Officer's Association makes for sexy headlines. But what about a break-in at the OCC's offices? Read more »

D6 Links

10.24.06 - 12:36 pm | Steven T. Jones |
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By Steven T. Jones
For some good background links on Jim Sutton, SFSOS, Rob Black, and their attacks on Chris Daly, click here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Just in: More investment info on PG&E's candidates for supervisor

10.24.06 - 12:32 pm | Bruce Brugmann |
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Just as the Guardian went to press on Tuesday afternoon, our investigative interns returned from the Californa Public Utilities Commission with more information on the investments that PG&E has made in supervisorial candidates Doug Chan and Rob Black through two key law firms.

Documents on file with the CPUC show that Chan's law firm, Chan, Doi, and Leal, has received a total of $460,913 in fees from PG&E between 200l and 2005. In 2002, the year of the second public power initiative, the Chan firm received $49,969.78. Read more »

The big SFSOS lie

10.24.06 - 11:44 am | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

Even by the rather low standards of San Francisco political campaigning, this one is a whopper. SFSOS has been a part of a coalition that has put out a series of vicious attack pieces on Sup. Chris Daly. The pieces, and I think the total is now eight, are nothing but attacks that slam Daly over and over again and urge voters to elect Rob Black. It's about the worst sort of downtown-funded negative politics I've ever seen in town. Read more »

A tissue for Newsom

10.24.06 - 10:18 am | Steven T. Jones |
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By Steven T. Jones
Kudos for the Chron's Cecelia Vega for debunking Mayor Gavin Newsom's pity-party television interview, in which he said he may not run for reelection. Vega punches her story home with some great phrases like "20-year-old Republican girlfriend" and "Washington-size dose of political posturing," but the real gems come from Bruce Cain and Gerardo Sandoval. Check 'em out. Read more »

Nancy Pelosi ducks same-sex marriage

10.23.06 - 6:57 pm | Tim Redmond |
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By Tim Redmond

Lord knows, I've had my fights with Michael Petrelis, but he seem to have calmed down a bit of late, and his blog is actually interesting, although he made the mistake of Dan Savage too seriously. But he's nailed Nancy Pelosi for her comments on 60 minutes about same-sex marriage: "Well, that's an issue that is not an issue that we're fighting about here."

Bloody pages of horror!

10.23.06 - 6:20 pm | Cheryl Eddy |
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Probably the number one question I get asked in life (besides "Yo, Eddy, what the hell is on that sandwich?") is "What's your favorite horror film?" My knee-jerk response is, of course, Halloween -- I'm obsessed with John Carpenter, Donald Pleasence is nothing but fun to watch, and though I have the entire movie memorized, I never, ever get bored of it. Read more »