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Bicycists don't deserve hate or violence

06.03.10 - 1:59 pm | Steven T. Jones |
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Today's Chronicle story about an SUV driver purposely running down four bicyclists in San Francisco last night is disturbing enough, but the neanderthals who commented on that story to support this murderous rampage and blame bicyclists' behaviors for encouraging the attack are truly outrageous and should be universally condemned. Has civil society broken down to the point where advocating violence against innocents is acceptable?Read more »

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Bongtastic!

06.03.10 - 1:37 pm | Caitlin Donohue |
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Science: it brought us non-stick saute pans, the Internet, timed traffic lights -- and now, once again, it is making our lives better through the advancement of empirical knowledge. Of course, I'm referring to the findings enclosed in the new publication from Berkeley's Ten Speed Press, Bongology. Read more »

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SFBG Radio: Tim and Johnny on nationalizing BP

06.03.10 - 12:37 pm | Tim Redmond |
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Today, Tim and Johnny discuss BP's utter failure in the Gulf of Mexico -- and Robert Reich's suggestion that Obama simply nationalize the oil company's interests in the United States and take over the repair and cleanup. You can listen after the jump. Read more »

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Leno cell-phone bill faces crucial test

06.03.10 - 12:09 pm | Guardian Staff Writers |
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By Brittany Baguio

The State Senate is set to vote as soon as June 3rd on legislation that could require cell phone companies to disclose the level of radiation their devices emit. The bill, by Sen. Mark Leno, is the latest effort to expand consumer awareness of a potential problem that become the center of a heated scientific debate.Read more »

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Should Antonini recuse himself from Lennar vote?

06.03.10 - 11:12 am | Sarah Phelan |
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As a Newsom appointee, Planning Commissioner Michael Antonini is expected to be a key vote today in favor of Lennar’s massive redevelopment plan at Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard.Read more »

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alt.sex.column: Eek! Eels in my ...

06.03.10 - 10:40 am | Andrea Nemerson |
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Dear Andrea:

My girlfriend asked me to demonstrate my most unorthodox masturbation techniques, and one of my inventions is the Fly on the Island. Catch a small, lively fly. Carefully remove the wings and put it into a pill bottle. Draw a hot bath and get in.

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From freeway to favas

1,500 neighborhood volunteers help Hayes Valley Farm bloom

06.03.10 - 10:36 am | Caitlin Donohue |
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Perhaps you've noticed a fresh mountain of fava beans arising along Octavia Boulevard as you travel toward Market Street, in the spot where a freeway used to touch down. Don Wiepert certainly has. He's a senior citizen who lives across the street from the rows of green sprouts, and even helped to raise the crop in his own living room.Read more »

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The sonic-green wonders of "experiential music festival" Soundwave. Plus: Shabazz Palaces at Big Tune and Kontrol's five-year technoversary

06.03.10 - 10:21 am | Marke B. |
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I may be at wit's end over the crude-stained feathers of everything else, but I'm more than OK with music so far in 2010. Sounds are stretching out, sonic categories are superimposing translucent wings, folks are taking chances for granted. For the past five years, the best DJs have been slowing down their sets, some to the point of blissful stasis — lightly back-pedaling in the midst of history's traffic. Read more »

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Street Threads: Look of the Day

06.03.10 - 9:48 am | Ariel Soto-Suver |
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Today's Look: Camille, 24th and Bartlett

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The Daily Blurgh: Sex spray, tasty jerky

06.02.10 - 5:00 pm | Matt Sussman |
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Curiosities, quirks, oddites, and items from around the Bay and beyond

Local art thief nabbed, ID-ed.

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New spray could help the 'one minute men' in your life (and it's not Axe).

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Labor's small business friends

06.02.10 - 4:00 pm | Dick Meister |
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Dick Meister, former labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom, has covered labor and politics for a half-century. Contact him through his website, www.dickmeister.com, which includes more than 250 of his recent columns.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other outspoken foes of organized labor like to claim that small business owners are as anti-union as the notoriously anti-union Chamber and its big business members. But don't you believe it.

Unfortunately, plenty of people do believe it. They accept the conventional wisdom that employers, large or small, don't like unions in general and especially don't like their employees joining or organizing unions to represent them in determining their working conditions.

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Oakland hosts Buzz band

06.02.10 - 3:21 pm |
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By Sam Stander

First-wave British punk’s pop geniuses the Buzzcocks have been reunited for some time now, currently sporting two members from the band’s heyday in the late ’70s, guitarist-vocalists Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle. They’re passing through the East Bay on Fri/4, at Oakland’s Uptown, backed by pop-punkers the Dollyrots. It’s their only Bay Area stop on this go-round, and a surprisingly small venue for such a heroic act. Buzzcocks monopolize a distinctive mixture of frankness and enthusiasm that still trumps their countless teen-bop imitators, and any chance to see them even at this late date should be relished. Videos (now and then) and show info after the jump.

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Hot sexy events June 2-8

06.02.10 - 1:59 pm | Caitlin Donohue |
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I once took a memoir writing class that ended up being all women. One of the most powerful, if slightly cringe-inducing pieces that was read aloud was one from a fifty-something lady who'd just taken her first pole dancing class, a course which culminated in an amateur night at a local tattoo-and-piercing style strip club. This lady was absolutely, deep breathingly, tear jerkingly, blown away by the power surge of arousal that she got from trotting out her decidedly un-pinup lady parts on the floor. It made me wish that all moms got a gift certificate for stripper class upon their last child's exodus from the family home. Gosh, and what if they all got to check out a Vagina Jenkins show (Fri/4)! Do you like? If you do, check out Slinky Productions' little how-to on Sun/6. Sure, at $149 it's spendy, but at what cost sexy?

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Newsom doesn't read the Guardian!

06.02.10 - 1:51 pm | Tim Redmond |
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Gav was on KQED this morning, talking about his run for Lite Guv, and he started right off by saying how he doesn't ever -- ever -- read the Bay Guardian

Michael Krasny started off by asking why Newsom refused to appear on the radio in a debate with Janice Hahn. "She agreed, you didn't." Krasny asked. "Why?"Read more »