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On Wednesday the 17th, protestors assembled at noon in front of the California Public Utilities Commission building at the corner of Van Ness and McAllister.This was in anticipation of a public hearing that afternoon about Pacific Gas & Electric Corp...

topics: fashion, mayor, political, politician, protestors

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The U.S. Census Bureau certainly has spent a lot of money getting the word about its once-a-decade operation this year, with promotional materials in just about every known language and a presence at all the ethnic festivals in San Francisco, includi...

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I was crossing Polk Street in front of City Hall around noon on Saturday, making a quick dash in between St. Patrick's Day parade contingents, when I realized I was shoulder to shoulder with somebody else doing the same thing.Turning to my right, I r...

topics: bevan-dufty, board-of-supervisors, gavin-newsom, mayor, ross-mirkarimi

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The Asian Art Museum recently opened a new exhibit about Shanghai's history over the last 150 years, and the reviews have been unkind, with most of them calling the exhibit an unfocused mess. It was definitely misconceived.Think of a curator attempti...

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The New Century Chamber Orchestra, under their energetic new music director, the violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, gave a wonderful concert called Serenades and Dances that toured to four different spots around the Bay Area last week. Lisa Hirsch...

topics: ballet, opera, theatre

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A couple of weekends ago, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music offered two free performances with alternating student casts of Handel's great 1724 opera, Julius Caesar in Egypt, which involves lots of political machinations between Julius, Cleop...

topics: opera, political, symphony

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I accompanied Michael Nava (above right), the lawyer and novelist who is running for San Francisco Superior Court Judge, to Jane Morrison's Chinese New Year's fundraiser. Michael had been through a hellish couple of weeks because he had just committe...

topics: campaign, candidate, committee, election, political

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After the Joe Lynn memorial, I joined Superior Court Judge candidate Michael Nava at an annual Chinese New Year's Party given in the Sutro Forest home of Jane Morrison (below)......who has been a legendary leader in progressive San Francisco Democrat...

topics: aaron-peskin, board-of-supervisors, candidate, politics

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The overdesigned, overpriced, useless and architecturally absurd Gay, Etc. Center on Market Street started off on the wrong foot and is aging terribly, transforming into a strange, hollow shell within a decade.I haven't ventured into the place for ye...

topics: activist, campaign, political, theater

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The five-story building at 49 Geary in downtown San Francisco, between Grant and Kearny, looks like a maze of bureaucratic offices from its hallways......but on closer inspection, the place turns out to be the home for dozens of art galleries.On Satu...

topics: arts, gallery, photography