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Many actors have recently and successfully played gay characters.So why, asks James Mottram, are there so few openly gay stars? Out and about: Ewan McGregor and Jim Carrey in I Love You Phillip MorrisBy James MottramThe London IndependentRight now, i...

topics: activist, business, elected, fashion, festival

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Girl, hold my earrings, explains SF Weekly. Despite being ordered by a court to hand over half of its revenue to SF Bay Guardian for illegally selling ads below cost, SF Weekly is not -- not! -- going out of business. OK?! In a letter sent out ...

aggregated from: Peninsula Press Club

Winning a lawsuit is one thing, collecting the money from the loser is another.Two years ago, a lawyer for Bruce Brugmann's Bay Guardian convinced a San Francisco jury that the SF Weekly and its parent company were selling ads at below the cost of pr...

topics: business, san-francisco

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It's that time of year again where we here at SFist squee in delightful over a pantry stocked with Girl Scout cookies... and shed blood over which cookie reigns supreme.First, let's get down to business. Girl Scout masters and mommies/daddies, list...

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You've probably seen the Pixar movie, Up. It is really good and vastly popular, but did you know that one of Oakland's gems is featured in the recent Oscar-winning movie? Today in Montclair, 94611 explains:At the Oscar awards this weekend, Pixar's ...

topics: business, oakland

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Source: Towse.com It's not a shocker that the not-quite-vibrant LGBT Center (you'd think it would be, it has a nice building, but it's not exactly a well-frequented space) is facing some tough times eight years after opening to great fanfare. The...

topics: arts, bevan-dufty, budget, business, mortgage

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On Tuesday, San Francisco court commissioner granted SF Bay Guardian half of SF Weekly s current and future advertising revenue in a move that could seriously damage the Weekly s ability to stay in business, reports former New Times Media alt-we...

topics: business, san-francisco

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San Francisco often reward bold moves. I hope it rewards this one from a New York woman whose heart is in San Francisco:To employers in the media and publishing industries in San Francisco(or Mountain View!), I am here to introduce an offer that you ...

topics: berkeley, business, san-francisco

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Recently approved to start building a $175 million waterfront museum on Piers 15 and 17, the Exploratorium (the city's finest hands-on museum) just received a whopping $90 million donation care of two anonymous donors. The Exploratorium has outgro...

topics: arts, business

aggregated from: San Francisco Sentinel

David KimcheBy Yossi Melman HaaretzFormer top Mossad operative David Kimche, one of Israel s top diplomats and a classic intelligence and spymaster, died Monday at the age of 82. Kimche, the youngest of nine siblings, was born in 1928 to a Zionist fa...

topics: book, business, running, san-francisco