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Newsom and his commissioners just love Candlestick/Shipyard report

06.04.10 - 11:46 am | Sarah Phelan |
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 Text by Sarah Phelan, photos by Luke Thomas

Today, I’m dedicating Michael Franti’s  “Say hey, (I love you)” to the entire Redevelopment Commission and the four Planning Commissioners who approved the City’s final Environmental Impact Report plan for Lennar’s Candlestick/ shipyard development. I'm doing so, not because I love these commissioners, who are  all mayoral appointees, but because they all seem to love everything about the final report, despite ongoing concerns about building a bridge over an environmentally sensitive slough, taking park land for luxury condos and unresolved questions about the Navy’s cleanup of the shipyard.(Yes, the EIR doesn't address the toxic cleanup, but does it make sense to approve it before the Navy has completed its cleanup assessment plan?) Read more »

Street Threads: Look of the Day

06.04.10 - 9:47 am | Ariel Soto-Suver |
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Today's Look: Whitney, 18th Street and Lapidge

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You down with ICP? The perils and wisdom of being just a Juggalo in 2010

06.03.10 - 5:18 pm | sfbg |
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By Zach Ritter

Do you remember the first time you heard of Insane Clown Posse? What was your reaction? Did you laugh? Recoil in horror? Or did you thank the trickster gods of pop culture for allowing such a band to exist? Read more »

Five summer anthems

06.03.10 - 2:46 pm | sfbg |
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By Ryan Lattanzio

Like a lawn chair and a cold, sweaty glass of iced tea, summer and songs just go together. This season, music snobs can collectively stop drinking with their pinkies pointed out and start embracing the radio-friendly sound waves breaking before them. And summer 2010 is definitely awash with sounds both large and small.

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Nevius family values

06.03.10 - 2:33 pm | Tim Redmond |
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The Chron's C.W. Nevius has made a big deal of moving back into town from the suburbs -- and the offhand comment by Steve Jones in an email to Nevius has almost become a sticky nickname. In fact, his own newspaper's website, sfgate, headlined his column "Suburban twit moves to city." Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Spill it over

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 »

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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