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October 12, 2006

Tenant Relief Not to be confused with the popular hemhorroid remedy, Proposition H, if passed, would increase the amount of money landlords pay evicted tenants forced out by condo conversions, planned demolitions and everyone's favorite, the OMI (owner move-in, though OMI sounds like an abbreviation for something equally unpleasant and embarrassing as hemhorroids). Additional money would go to elderly and disabled tenants and tenants with children. Tonight, the Housing Rights Committee hosts an Evening......

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October 12, 2005

logowithtext3.jpg Hey good lookin' -- what you got cookin? Tonight: Check out some new African cinema at the Yerba Buena Center. Tonight's screenings (at 7:30) kick off their monthlong "African Metropolis" festival, featuring movies that highlight the African urban experience. The movies featured, two works by Senegalese director Dijbril Diop Mambety, are set in Dakar -- one about a little girl trying to become a newspaper seller and one about a man trying to redeem his lottery ticket. Thursday: The Balboa presents the Devil Music Ensemble playing the accompaniment to two silent movies, Big Stakes (a Western, at 7) and the dreaded Nosferatu (at 8:45). Or accompany another kind of soundtrack on the east side of the city, as Bitch Magazine throws a karaoke party (starting around 8 p.m.) at the Mint to celebrate the release of its most-recent Fun and Games issue. And Friday: Come celebrate five years of fat dance with Big Moves! Big Moves is dedicated to promoting size diversity in dance, and will premiere two pieces commissioned for its contemporary dance group, Mass Movement. Doors at 7:30, $20 in advance, at CounterPULSE (1310 Mission). Maybe Mission dancer Allan Frias will be there! ...

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