Festival front lines: Harmony 2010

06.15.10 - 4:31 pm | Caitlin Donohue |

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Aerial photo by DJ Guacamole

Santa Rosa got a little more groovy this weekend for the estimated 30,000 to 35,000 that attended the 32nd annual Harmony Festival, three days that were so epic my ability to narrate them cohesively has been called into question. Assembled here are some bits and pieces from the scene.

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The Daily Blurgh: Stakeout on 6th Street, Twilight tribute bands, tipsy artists

06.15.10 - 4:13 pm | Matt Sussman |

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Curiosities, quirks, oddites, and items from around the Bay

Thomas Kinkade: "painter of light," shameless boozehound. (Also: Doesn't the mugshot totally make him look like a champion poker player or a washed up bookie? I always thought he would be more Bob Ross than Hunter S. Thompson).

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Ozzy Osbourne has donated his body to science. Will Keith Richards follow suit?

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BP's stock rises. How about Obama's?

06.15.10 - 3:26 pm | Sarah Phelan |

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A month ago, when BP ascended to the top of the list of corporate villains, the company’s stock took a thrashing. But now the panic selling seems to have gone into reverse: BP’s stock rose today, even as lawmakers in Washington intensified their criticism, other oil companies claimed they would have done a better at handling the spill, and BP said it was speeding up payment of large commercial losses due to the Gulf of Mexico disaster. Read more »

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Activists angry about BP spill target Arco stations

06.15.10 - 1:54 pm | Steven T. Jones |

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People have felt powerless to counter BP's devastating and unstoppable oil leak, but Bay Area activists have finally settled on a target for their outrage: BP-owned Arco gas stations, which sell some of the cheapest gas around. On Friday, protesting activists blocked an entrance to the Arco on Fell Street, and tomorrow (6/16), the Sierra Club will hold an 11 a.m. protest outside the Arco at 3400 San Pablo Avenue in Oakland.Read more »

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Rubicon taps into the conspiracy TV treasure trove

06.15.10 - 1:42 pm | sfbg |

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By Ryan Lattanzio

“Story Matters Here.” AMC’s tagline should tell you something about their primetime gestalt. With two of television’s most acclaimed dramas in its lineup -- Mad Men, a show I admire but can’t love, and Breaking Bad, hands down the best show on TV -- AMC seems destined to be heir apparent to HBO’s kingdom of smartly written dramadies and tragicomedies (Treme, True Blood, and this fall’s Boardwalk Empire, to name a few). Read more »

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Reading the June election tea leaves

06.15.10 - 1:27 pm | Tim Redmond |

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Everyone’s reading the tea leaves after the local election. The November supes races will be a huge deal, and it’s really tempting to try to figure out what the DCCC results mean for the fall. Paul Hogarth at BeyondChron takes it on here. Chris Daly (no surprise) disagrees.

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Elections

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Why Newsom loves sit-lie

06.15.10 - 1:03 pm | Tim Redmond |

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To the surprise of exactly nobody, Mayor Gavin Newsom is putting his sit-lie law on the November ballot. And I think he's thrilled about it.Read more »

Homelessness

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Tomorrow is tonight in Gutenberg! The Musical!

06.15.10 - 11:53 am | sfbg |

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By Sam Stander

Have you ever seen a musical where most of the characters couldn’t read? It really is a novel idea, isn’t it? That’s what Doug Simon and Bud Davenport are here for! The hack musical theater hopefuls who basically constitute the whole cast of Scott Brown and Anthony King’s Gutenberg! The Musical! know that writing a musical is hard, so they’ve done all the work. It’s just up to the bigshot Broadway producers in the audience (purportedly) to make their dreams come true. In Beards Beards Beards: A Theatre Company’s production of the rather madcap little play, which premiered Thursday at Exit Stage Left in San Francisco, Austin Ferris and Joey Price play the two sickeningly sincere song-and-dance men to a tee.

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Editorial: PG&E's greed backfires

06.15.10 - 11:50 am | Guardian Staff Writers |

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The defeat of Prop. 16 showed that unlimited corporate spending on a ballot initiative doesn't guarantee victory.

EDITORIAL The single most important number to come out of San Francisco on election night was this: 67.49 percent. That's how many people in this city voted against Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s monopoly measure, Proposition 16. It's a statistic that ought to be posted somewhere on a wall at City Hall to remind everyone in local government that the voters sided overwhelmingly against PG&E and in favor of a public option for local electricity. Read more »

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Street Threads: Look of the Day

06.15.10 - 11:21 am | Ariel Soto-Suver |

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Today's Look: Emma and Madeline, 26th Street and Castro

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Street Threads

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The Daily Blurgh: Poisoned fruit cocktails, tipsy crafts

06.14.10 - 4:37 pm | Matt Sussman |

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Curiosities, quirks, oddites, and items from around the Bay and beyond

The moral imperative of the BP oil spill: Drive 20 percent less.

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Former gourmet chocolatier goes vegan.

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Meg Whitman, helluva boss

06.14.10 - 4:04 pm | Tim Redmond |

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Meg is proud of her success at EBay. I wonder if she's proud of shoving one of her employees. I know, I know -- Meg was a tough-love employer who demanded the best and would tolerate nothing less. She relishes the reputation that, as the NY Times says, she

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Appetite: 3 recent opening worth checking out

06.14.10 - 3:32 pm | Virginia Miller |

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Out of all the new additions to our food and drink scene last month -- and there were quite a few -- these spots launch with the promise of becoming SF classics. As always, read more about restaurants, bars, travel, food and drink in my newsletter, The Perfect Spot.

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Love Art Lab's sexy shade of green

06.14.10 - 3:29 pm | Caitlin Donohue |

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“She's more high brow, and I'm more...” Golden girl of classic porn, and ex-prostitute, Annie Sprinkle and I are eating lunch in her Bernal Heights kitchen. She's searching for the words to compare her partner Beth Stephens' and her own artistic repertoires. The two women are in the midst of what they call the Love Art Lab, a far reaching, seven year project that's seen them married eight times all over the globe in lavishly creative ceremonies that invoke Sprinkle's and Stephens' commitment to “ecosexuality.” Read more »