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The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: San Francisco & The Movies At The Old Mint

Exhibitions at the Old Mint are always tantalizing, offering just a taste of what could be, were the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society’s operating budget as grand as the building meant

Arts & Entertainment

Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society: Hyde & Ellis

Welcome to the latest chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. This week: film-inspired apartment buildings, one-

Arts & Entertainment

Urbane Studies with the Tenderloin Geographic Society: Hyde & O'Farrell

Welcome to a new chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. This week: an examination of Tenderloin housing

Arts & Entertainment

Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society: Larkin & O'Farrell

Welcome to a new chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. This week: Halal pizza, strip clubs, playgrounds

Arts & Entertainment

Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society: Larkin & Ellis

Welcome to a new chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. This week: respectable noodles, women of ill

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Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society: Larkin & Eddy

Welcome to a new chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. Other publications might be aiming to cover

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Urbane Studies With The Tenderloin Geographic Society: Turk & Larkin

Welcome to a new chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. Other publications might be aiming to cover

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Urbane Studies With Tenderloin Geographic Society: Larkin & Golden Gate

Welcome to a new chapter of Urbane Studies, in which our agents suss out the finer points of city lore by scrutinizing its individual street corners. Streets and boulevards tell stories of their

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Meanwhile, in Oakland

If your ride on the Orange & Black rollercoaster is making you ill, consider the bounty our friends to the east have on offer: the Oakland-centric film Moneyball premieres at The Paramount

SF News

Apple Employing Secret Police Force?

Because this story could only get stranger, it would now appear that Apple employees impersonated SFPD officials in order to gain access to a Bernal Heights home where, says Apple, a GPS device

Arts & Entertainment

How's Burning Man Rapture Treating You?

Whether cultural touchstone or long-belated Sophomore year, there's no denying that Burning Man arouses imagination and ire like little else. We're game for the conceit of spending hours

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Corner Store Food Critic: Lay's Garden Tomato & Basil Chips

Welcome to Corner Store Food Critic, where we select an item typically found at any number of corner stores in San Francisco, bring said item home in a carefully wrapped bag, and then

SF News

Green Apple Wants to Be Your New Book Overlord

Since coming under fire by cash-strapped state governments and independent retailers, Amazon.com has spent upward of $5.25 million in its fight to remain sales tax-free. If lawmakers and advocacy

Arts & Entertainment

Abe's Market Puts a Bird on Itself

A new mural went up on Abe's Market at Page and Fillmore Streets and no one complained about it. You're slipping, San Francisco.

SF News

SFist Blotter: Mission Shooting, SoMa Drug Robbery, Drunken Panhandle Assault

Mission / Shooting: Police today increased efforts to learn more about the daylight killing of 18 year-old Kevin Hall, who was shot near the intersection of Alemany Boulevard and Crescent Avenue on August

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Ye Olde Transit Porn

This goes out to all of you who get clammy-palmed as soon as you see your favorite F-car rolling up to your stop. Oh Milano, you come on smooth with that

misc

This Day in Pigeon History

In our capacity as head of an agency that delivers pertinent pigeon dispatches, allow us to remind you that on this day in 1914, the last known passenger pigeon--named Martha, after George

Arts & Entertainment

67 Sueños Liven Up 9th Street

On a particularly bleak stretch of 9th Street between Mission and Market Streets, the beige monolith of the SoMa Holiday Inn rises to the east, and a barren expanse leads up to what

SF News

Over-Capacity Animal Shelters Ask You to "Work it Out"

Maybe things just aren't working out between you and Sasha, your snappy little Cockadoodle, but let's just look the other way and pretend that everything's fine. SF

SF News

More Taxis to Hit the Streets Next Week (But...)

Good news, bad news: As we reported previously, the streets should be filled with with the sight of more cheerful chariots ready to take you to or from your favorite bar as of

misc

Rabbit, Rabbit

Whether one nurses an extreme case of O.C.D. or is prone to walking around ladders and not under them (it’s just good sense), superstitions are mostly benign and rooted in

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Afternoon Palate Cleanser

There is everything good and nothing bad here. David Enos' "Cryoscape." Because you look like a guy who takes chances.