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Streets of San Francisco: Miguel Pendás' Vertigo tour

05.13.10 - 12:40 pm | Johnny Ray Huston |
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Miguel Pendas holds forth on Vertigo's Nob Hill landmarks.
The bachelor pad of John "Scottie" Ferguson.
Director Joao Pedro Rodrigues languishes on a Mission Dolores tombstone.
Father Junipero Serra looks over Carlotta Valdes' mythic haunting ground.
A Mission Dolores marker that attracted Chris Marker.
"And then she became the sad Carlotta."
Post September 11, Judy/Madeleine's swimming spot has been fenced off. Your camera can see it better than you can.

Last week I was able to go on Miguel Pendás' Vertigo tour. Creative Director at the San Francisco Film Society, Pendás led a group of ten on a van journey that concluded at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Should bicycling adults wear helmets?

05.13.10 - 11:47 am | Steven T. Jones |
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Did you pedal today, on Bike to Work Day? And if so, did you wear a helmet? I biked without a helmet, and in the eyes of some, that makes me reckless and irresponsible. Similarly, they say the Guardian has done a disservice to the community by featuring photos of cyclists-sans-helmets in our current issue, a criticism we also received about our Bike Issue last year. Read more »

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Streets of San Francisco: City talk

05.13.10 - 11:40 am | Spencer Young |
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On Friday, May 7 at 12 p.m., I stood at the intersection of Van Ness and Market with a pen, notepad, and die in hand. The pen and notepad were used to capture discernable language overheard, while the die served to dictate the initial direction of my walking as well as the decision made at each new intersection. The following is a transcription of one-hour of that journey—eventually the die led me to the ocean—or an attempt to quilt together found language from San Francisco’s streets. Read more »

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What happens when Lennar doesn't have a say

05.13.10 - 11:01 am | Sarah Phelan |
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Today the Planning Commission holds a hearing about Lennar's massive development plan for Candlestick and Hunters Point Shipyard, a plan the Guardian has been critically tracking for years, but the Mayor's Office and a non-profit called the Center for Creative Land Recycling have been busily promoting (check out the above video clip). But one thing they won't be talking about is the Alternatives For Study that Arc Ecology proposed, Bionic developed and Urban Strategies reviewed two years ago, in an effort to improve the developer's otherwise Foster City-like vision for the heart of District 10 in the city's southeast sector.

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Meklit Hadero makes music of the word and world, from San Francisco

05.13.10 - 10:59 am | Amber Schadewald |
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Meklit Hadero's voice exudes music. A casual conversation over morning coffee can feel like an impromptu personal performance by the San Francisco jazz musician, because even her speaking voice has rhythm.Read more »

Appetite: A couple April openings worth visiting

Out of all the new additions to San Francisco in April, these two restaurants launch with the most promise

05.13.10 - 10:49 am | Virginia Miller |
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Parada 22 brings some much-needed new blood to the Upper Haight. It's cheap, tasty Puerto Rican food with Cuban influences in a bright, aquamarine space showcasing an eclectic mix of South American antiques and knick knacks, while Latin jazz plays over the speakers. The concept is current and breezy: order at the counter, eat at picnic tables or stools, or take to go. I've been twice so far and the food has been consistently good... Read more »

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Director Travis Mathews makes gay porn intimate, cuddly, relatable

05.13.10 - 9:55 am | Louis Peitzman |
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Travis Mathews is quickly making a name for himself in the San Francisco film scene. A short film culled from his In Their Room series earned him top honors at the Good Vibrations’ Independent Erotic Film Festival last year. Now he’s working on I Want Your Love, a full-length scripted feature. Although Mathews has only completed one demo scene, the project is already generating online buzz. I spoke to Mathews about his inspiration for I Want Your Love and how the short scene fits into the bigger picture.

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Live Shots: Fact/SF presents "The Consumption Series," Mama Calizo's Voice Factory, 5/6/2010

05.13.10 - 9:31 am | Ariel Soto-Suver |
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Intimacy and personal space play a large role in Charles Slender's new dance-theater production entitled The Consumption Series from dance company Fact/SF. (The show continues through Sat/15.) As my girl date for the night, Suzy Q, put it: "I've never been that close to live dancers in my whole life!"

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Street Threads: Look of the Day

05.13.10 - 7:32 am | Ariel Soto-Suver |
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Today's Look:  Natalie and Beth, SF State

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The Daily Blurgh: Follow that bird!

05.12.10 - 5:25 pm | Matt Sussman |
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Curiosities, quirks, oddites, and items from around the Bay and beyond

Forget the Double Down: Here's a map of the Bay Area's best fried chicken spots

 

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Consumer Watchdog launches air strike against Prop. 17

05.12.10 - 3:46 pm | Steven T. Jones |
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For decades, respected consumer advocate Harvey Rosenfield has been battling Mercury Insurance and other corporations that have sought to undermine Proposition 103, the landmark car insurance regulatory measure that he wrote and California voters approved in 1988. But he's never felt the need to advertise on television, until now.Read more »

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Streets of San Francisco: ICP goes for inner city phame

05.12.10 - 3:35 pm | Michael Krimper |
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If you live in San Francisco and pay attention to public art, you might already be familiar with the work of longstanding Bay Area graffiti crew Inner City Phame (ICP). Their prolific murals – diverse in style and magnetic in form – grace walls across the city. There’s a tribute to Malcolm X on Third and Kirkwood in Bayview-Hunters Point, featuring intricately crafted aliases free floating among inspired quotes. On a vibrant wall on the corner of 19th and Mission, comic book characters from Ironman to Dr. Evil swing between stylized names forged in cracked stone. An Azteca-themed mural up the street on 25th has a jaguar warrior getting down with the gods. And ICP also curates the street level walls of the Defenestration building on 6th and Howard (that old tenement hotel with furniture flying out of the windows), making a dynamic open-air gallery out of abandoned space. Wait, who said graffiti wasn’t art? Read more »

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SFBG Radio: Tim and Johnny on Meg's collapse

05.12.10 - 3:11 pm | Tim Redmond |
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On today's SFBG Radio, Tim Redmond and Johnny Angel Wendell talk about the sudden collapse of Meg Whitman's once-mighty lead in the GOP primary and the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. You can listen after the jump. Read more »

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Films shed light on Prop 16, but lack funding for prime time

05.12.10 - 2:20 pm | Rebecca Bowe |
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The No on Prop 16 campaign is fighting back against Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s advertising blitzkrieg for Proposition 16, the anti-democratic ballot initiative it has bankrolled to secure its monopoly in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read more »

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It’s reigning men!

05.12.10 - 2:19 pm | Robert Avila |
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Thrillpeddlers peddle more Cockettes in Hot Greeks and SF Playhouse gets kinda Guignol with Slasher

On the principle that when you’ve got it you should really flaunt it, San Francisco’s Thrillpeddlers essay their second revival of a musical by the storied Cockettes. Hot Greeks, which premiered in midnight performances at the old Palace Theater in 1972, was the gleefully crazed cross-dressing troupe’s only other fully scripted musical besides, of course, Pearls Over Shanghai, which Thrillpeddlers revived to long-running fame almost a year ago and which will run in repertory with the limited-run Greeks.

While not the Oresteia or anything, Hot Greeks is more than an excuse for a lot of louche, libidinous hilarity. Okay, not much more. But it is a knowing little romp — supported by some infectious songs courtesy of Martin Worman (book and lyrics) and Richard “Scrumbly” Koldewyn (music and additional lyrics, and musical director-accompanist for the revival) — wedding trashy high school romance with the trashy ancient Greece of Aristophanes and the Peloponnesian War.

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