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Weiner Rises!

05.23.13 - 10:58 am | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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Midnight Wednesday, Anthony Weiner--who resigned from Congress two years ago because of a "sexting" scandal--has announced he will run for mayor of New York City. He will enter a crowded field to replace Michael "Big Gulps Are Murder" Bloonberg.Read more »

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Björk plays the part of stunning mad scientist at the Craneway Pavilion

05.23.13 - 10:04 am | Emily Savage |
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Björk at the Craneway Pavilion. Photo by Paige Parsons.
Björk, the Icelandic choir, and screens of fire. Photo by Paige Parsons.
Björk with the pendulums. Photo by Paige Parsons.
Björk at the Craneway Pavilion. Photo by Paige Parsons.
The Icelandic choir and some moons at the Craneway Pavilion. Photo by Paige Parsons.

With purple lightning bolts of electricity jagging toward one another in a steel cage center-stage, powerful pipes that reverberated through the pavilion and rippled out onto the sea, and a fuzzy Snow Cone wig of every color -- cherry red, orange, lime green -- Björk seemed like the mad scientist of the natural world last night at the relatively intimate Craneway in Richmond, Calif.

She also thanked the audience often, 't-ank you, Bay Area, gggrrrratitude!" (she rolls her Rs beautifully) and offered up a 16-piece coven of sequined and hooded Icelandic choir princesses, so you can assume she's the benevolent type of creator. Read more »

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Sanctioned for sound violations, club owner fires ethics charge back at Entertainment Commission

05.22.13 - 5:25 pm | Steven T. Jones |
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The San Francisco Entertainment Commission last night voted to restrict the hours, sound limits, and other operating conditions for Brick & Mortar Music Hall -- the Mission Street live music venue that has received a series of noise complaints from its neighbors on Woodward Street -- until it completes soundproofing work to deal with the problem.Read more »

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Activists’ zine documents violent arrests at SF State

05.22.13 - 3:21 pm | Rebecca Bowe |
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Emotions ran high at San Francisco State University on May 21, where a group of activists held a rally decrying police officers’ excessive use of force in an incident that occurred last Thursday, May 16. Five arrests were made that night outside a student dormitory. YouTube videos showing police officers tackling the arrestees to the ground, as onlookers cry out in dismay, have drawn thousands of hits.Read more »

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For No God's Sake

05.22.13 - 2:28 pm | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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The nightmarish aftermath of the Moore, Oklahoma EF-5 tornado is in rebuilding and rebounding mode. People are digging out of the mess. Survivors located. Businesses re-opening.Read more »

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Week One

05.22.13 - 11:43 am | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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I took this gig a week ago---multiple posts a week, basically a news-based version of what I did for the SFBG in the 90's. It's already kicking my ass, as the old "PISSED" columns were once a week and based in music. This is way tougher and way more gratifying. Thanks.Read more »

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PG&E can't survive solar energy

05.22.13 - 11:20 am | Tim Redmond |
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Years ago, in the middle of the boom in nuclear power plants, we used to say, only half in jest, the private utilities would never accept solar energy because you can't put a meter on the sun. Turns out that's pretty close to true.Read more »

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The Performant: Dare to DIVA

05.22.13 - 9:54 am | Nicole Gluckstern |
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A yearly performance fest supports XX creatives

Spring is in the air, and so is DIVAfest, the EXIT Theatre’s annual celebration of female artists and theater-makers. Founded in 2002 by Christina Augello to give female creators a secure space to showcase their craft, DIVAfest has hosted an estimated 500 participants have come through in the last 11 years, from visual artists (Sophie Kadow, Kathy Jo Lafreniere, Michelle Talgarow) to playwrights (Kerry Reid, Lee Kiszonas, Margery Fairchild) to music-makers (Beth Wilmurt, Shannon Day, Carrie Baum Love), to burlesque dancers (Odessa Lil, Red Velvet, If-N-Whendy). This year, the fest hits the stage May 9-June 2.  Read more »

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Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill Of The Lord God Oil

05.21.13 - 3:37 pm | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning, I take a brutal boot-camp type class at the Hollywood YMCA here in LA. 45 minutes of sheer hell, but as these things are measured, surely worth it. I've been going for the last year and a half at the prodding and urging of my friend Stacy "Beano" Johnson, a lively and lovely woman and an ex-pat Okie from outside Tulsa. Yesterday, I walked in to find her strecthing and she seemed, as you would imagine, distraught. Read more »

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No need to drop names: Freak City is the Internet's IRL cultural center

05.21.13 - 2:30 pm | Caitlin Donohue |
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STREET SEEN I like LA because outfits don't have to be as functional. In San Francisco, you're always worrying about whether you'll flash someone disembarking from your single-speed, about what exactly is going to happen to those white platform sandals inside the Montgomery Street BART station. Oh lord, sandals in San Francisco?

In Los Angeles, you can wear whatever the hell you want. After all (just to be SF-bitchy about it), they don't dance down there, they certainly don't walk, and you probably won't broach the waterline at the beach, so the gold braid on your swimsuit? Appropriate, necessary. (Just take it off when you go in the pool.) In Los Angeles, you are allowed to dress like you are at the white-hot center of the hip universe, free of earthly fetters. Buy the dress in midriff.

And in this year of 2013 AD, Freak City is the place to shop for one's interstellar journey.  Read more »

Promo: Win Tickets to see Bjork at Craneway Pavillion

05.21.13 - 2:14 pm |
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Win tickets to see Bjork on Wednesday, May 22 at the Craneway Pavillion in Richmond, CA.

Follow this link to enter!

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Senate goes after tax-cheating Apple

05.21.13 - 1:58 pm | Tim Redmond |
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Glad I'm not the only one who thinks its an outrage that the world's most valuable company, with vast revenues and huge cash surpluses, is looking for ways to avoid paying federal taxes. Read more »

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Young, creative people who work hard

05.21.13 - 12:59 pm | Tim Redmond |
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I almost don't know what to say, except: Finally, someone admits it.

Rebecca Pederson, writing in The Bold Italic, explains why she actually likes the idea that San Francisco is becoming so expensive that thousands of longtime residents are being forced out; see, if it's more expensive to live here, then young, creative people will work harder:Read more »

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New BART director wants to raise fares in San Francisco and end "A" Fast Pass

05.21.13 - 12:53 pm | Steven T. Jones |
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Are BART passengers in San Francisco being subsidized by Muni riders and by BART customers from the suburbs? Or is it the other way around? And does it really matter, or should we just be thankful that people are choosing BART over clogging the roadways in this transit-first city?Read more »

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Family meal: 18 Reasons joins forces with neighbor Three Squares to extend reach of healthy eating

05.21.13 - 8:35 am | Cortney Clift |
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Community food hub 18 Reasons has always had the back of the well-meaning kitchen newbie. With a cafe space, educational programming, and tasting events geared towards making a healthy, sustainable diet doable, since 2007 when the organization's co-founders brought in Bi-Rite Market, a happy partner for the little space located a block from the family grocery store's Mission digs. Read more »