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Promo: BAYS has a new self-published collection of stories, book launch party Thur/13

06.05.13 - 11:24 am |
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Bay Area Young Survivors (BAYS), a San Francisco-based action and support group for women under 45 diagnosed with breast cancer, has released a story collection, available via Amazon, titled The Day My Nipple Fell Off and Other Stories of Survival, Solidarity, and Sass. Read more »

Go, New Zealand

06.05.13 - 11:09 am | Tim Redmond |
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Imagine if Larry Ellison lost the America's Cup.Read more »

Parents just don't understand in new Warm Soda video

06.05.13 - 11:06 am | Emily Savage |
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Jeanie loves pop music, and she just wants to dance with her friends. Her angry parents and religious figures just don't understand. Watch Jeanie rebel in the suburbs in the new music video from former Bay Guardian "On the Rise" group, Warm Soda: "Jeanie Loves Pop," filmed by sometimes-Guardian photographer, Chris Stevens.  Read more »

It's National Running Day! Motivate yo'self with these classic running films

06.05.13 - 10:27 am | Cheryl Eddy |
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The San Francisco Marathon is a mere 11 days away, but today is National Running Day. So everyone gearing up for 26.2 is now trotting through shorter runs leading up to the big enchilada on June 16. What's a marathoner in mid-taper (or a couch 'tater needing motivation) to do? The sport of running, which tends to grab attention only during the Olympics or when there's a national tragedy or (natural disaster), has garnered a fair amount of cinematic interest over the years; long-distance runners, in particular, give great drama. Double-tie your laces and read on for flicks suitable for watching while you're foam-rolling and dreaming of medals.

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The end of the Republican Party

06.05.13 - 9:45 am | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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Everyone knows and loves the expression "out of the mouths of babes", but I doubt that's the reaction this poll got in the halls of Republican power. Apparently (and not surprisingly) younger Americans of all stripes don't like the GOP.Read more »

Mad dreams

DJ Mike Bee's new record shop Vinyl Dreams is heaven. Plus: Madlib's Zamrock, The Field, House of House, Rite Spot's 61st Anniversary, more

06.05.13 - 8:45 am | Marke B. |
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SUPER EGO One of the best yet worst-kept secrets of the plastic fantastic SF underground has been Vinyl Dreams, a pop-up record shop in DJ Mike Bee's living room. It's been a must for visiting headliner DJs — and those of us who get all giddy at the mere flash of a fresh vinyl platter gingerly unsleeved in a private space. I've long yearned to write about this parlor of grooved delights, where Mike Bee would happily try to get his hands on any underground tune one desired. But a girl must have her secrets. And I'm not one to gossip!Read more »

Go deep

BDSM stars give it all up for DocFest's Public Sex, Private Lives

06.05.13 - 6:12 am | Caitlin Donohue |
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SEX Public Sex, Private Lives filmmaker Simone Jude was on set with Kink.com dominatrix Isis Love when Love received a call from Child Protective Services. The single mom would have to meet with CPS staff -- there'd been questions raised about her parenting of 12-year old Rusty. For most documentarians, plot line would pause there.Read more »

Realness

DocFest is back (already!) with a slate of standouts

06.04.13 - 6:38 pm | Cheryl Eddy |
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FILM First things first: yeah, you did just attend the 11th San Francisco Documentary Film Festival in November. The schedule shift for the 2013 fest — it's now sandwiched between the well-established San Francisco International Film Festival (which ended May 9) and Frameline (starts June 20) seasons — is a gamble. Will Bay Area film fans (who probably also attended the DocFest-affiliated SF IndieFest in February) suffer festival fatigue, or will DocFest's programming (Burning Man! Bettie Page! Pint-sized magicians!) lure 'em in anyway?Read more »

Triumph of queer comics: Justin Hall wins Lambda, 'Adèle' takes Cannes

06.04.13 - 4:47 pm | Marke B. |
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Two cool, queer graphic surprises, just in time for Pride month. First, local comics hero, Califormia College of the Arts professor, and frequent SFBG contributor (not to mention out-of-the-closet Batman lover) Justin Hall took the 2013 Lambda Award for Best Anthology yesterday with his groundbreaking historical queer comics survey No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics (Fantagraphics Books).

This a huge deal, as this is the first time a comics anthology has won. (A graphic novel by Oakland's Jon Macy, Teleny and Camille, won for Best Erotic Novel in 2011, also a first.)

Hall told me right after his win:

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SF homeless services budget item < 0.25 percent of Larry Ellison’s net worth

06.04.13 - 4:01 pm | Rebecca Bowe |
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Billionaire Larry Ellison, the vainglorious CEO of Oracle and yachtsman responsible for bringing the America’s Cup to San Francisco, has come a long way since 2010, when he first floated the idea of hosting the elite regatta against a Golden Gate backdrop.Read more »

The Warriors Arena: Art Agnos v. Gary Radnich

06.04.13 - 3:31 pm | Tim Redmond |
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Here's a fun one: former Mayor Art Agnos debating the Warriors arena with Gary Radnich and Larry Krueger. Radnich has always been my favorite sports guy, ever since his days on KRON TV (although Kruk and Kuip are the best live-action announcers), and Agnos is my favorite ex-mayor. (Lord, I gave him a hard time when he was in office, and he sometimes deserved it, but he's been great as a former.)Read more »

Reactionaries hate bicycles

06.04.13 - 2:32 pm | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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After perusing a rather bizarre Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal the other day on the issue of bicycles as instruments of totalitarianism and being reminded of the idea that bike paths are part of a "new world order'', I've been asking myself, what is it that right wingers have against goddamn bicycles?Read more »

Former Hayes Valley Farm site Occupied, renamed Gezi Gardens

06.04.13 - 10:51 am | Marke B. |
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"We're doing this to help give the community a choice," Ayr told me, sweeping his arm out. "Everyone should have a voice when it comes to issues of land use and green space, which is rapidly disappearing in the city. That's why we're inviting the community to meet here tonight [Tue/4 at 6:30pm, also Sat/8 at 3pm] and see what we're about. This is a land liberation concept, we're calling it Free the Land, or Liberate the Land."

Ayr was leading me around the former site of Hayes Valley Farm, the lauded public experiment in urban farming on an undulating patch that used to be a freeway entrance, which has now been cleared to make way for a 185-unit development on half the the lot (low-income housing is slated eventually for the other half). 

Well, not quite cleared. Ayr was showing me around an Occupy-like scene, with an agricultural twist. 

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Kickstarter America's next war!

06.04.13 - 10:15 am | Johnny Angel Wendell |
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Got an email this morning from the pressing plant down in OC that is stamping a three-song vinyl single I recorded earlier this year. Ready next week--hoo-hah! As I did one of these last year also, the drill begins again--mailers to vinyl specialists and radio and first and foremost, to the backers of this project. "SHE" is the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign that I did last year.Read more »

Heads Up: 8 must-see concerts this week

06.04.13 - 10:00 am | Emily Savage |
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When does cute become cloying? Because this newly viral video of a baby playing along to the Beatles with his dad is seriously tickling me pink -- it's pretty damn adorable -- but after watching it a dozen or so times, it’s left me longing for something noisy and gross, just to wash off the darlingness of it all.

And the best shows this week are something of demonstrative polar opposites as well. There’s sugary Australian pop act Lenka, and fellow Aussie post-punks Total Control, then global dream popsters Trails and Ways, and metal battlecruiser Slough Feg, Americana punks Parquet Courts, and the Sunset Island fest, known as the "electronic music picnic." They are all in the mix.

Here are your must-see Bay Area concerts this week/end: Read more »