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2012 Summer Fairs and Festivals

Carnaval, Maker Faire, Eat Real, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Folsom Street Fair ... Our annual comprehensive guide to outdoor and community affairs

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Our 2012 Small Biz Awards, sonic attacks, summer fairs, Best Coast, meaty bliss, more. Online articles here, digital edition here.

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Live Shots: Livening up Mendell Plaza

05.16.12 - 4:11 pm | Ariel Soto-Suver |
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Mendell Plaza, 05/12/12. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
Mendell Plaza, 05/12/12. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
Mendell Plaza, 05/12/12. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
Mendell Plaza, 05/12/12. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
Mendell Plaza, 05/12/12. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
Mendell Plaza, 05/12/12. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
Mendell Plaza, 05/12/12. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
Mendell Plaza, 05/12/12. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
Mendell Plaza, 05/12/12. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
Mendell Plaza, 05/12/12. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver

Every Saturday, as part of a 12-week free concert series, the Bayview Opera House transforms Mendell Plaza into a music-filled oasis. (I visited on May 12 and fell in love with the sounds and sights of this Bayview spot.)

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Recology's slate cards

05.16.12 - 4:04 pm | Tim Redmond |
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Wow. Every single slate card I've seen so far for this election has been paid for at least in part by Recology, which is fighting a measure that would require competitive bidding on its garbage contract.

The Richmond Democratic Club. The Teacher's Union. The SF Women's Political Committee. The SF Democratic Party. The Milk Club. The Alice B. Toklas Club. I'm sure there are a few more out there. And every one has a big "No on A" ad on the back.Read more »

Green presidential candidate seeks to energize the disenfranchised

05.16.12 - 3:44 pm | Steven T. Jones |
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After participating in last weekend's Green Party presidential debate against Roseanne Barr in San Francisco, which we cover in this week's paper, frontrunner candidate Jill Stein stopped by the Bay Guardian office to chat about her hopes for progressive change in this tumultuous political year.

“The political-corporate establishment should not be given a pass in the voting booth,” the Massachusetts physician told us. “Four more years of Wall Street rule is what we get if you give them your vote.”Read more »

The GOP has no answer on the state budget

05.16.12 - 3:33 pm | Tim Redmond |
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The Republican leaders in Sacramento have absolutely no solutions to the state budget problems. They're against the guv's tax plan for November, they're against raising any new revenue, they have their facts completely wrong -- and they have no alternatives to offer.Read more »

Lindsey Buckingham's live show comes down to one

05.16.12 - 3:32 pm | Sean McCourt |
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With an arsenal of a dozen guitars and several amplifiers lined up behind him, Lindsey Buckingham wasted no time delving into his extensive catalog of songs Monday night at the Fillmore.

Striding up to a lone microphone stand wearing his signature blue jeans, v-neck t-shirt, and black leather jacket, the singer and guitarist launched into an hour and 15 minute set that spanned a broad spectrum of his career, covering a wide swath of solo material in addition to some of the mega hits he created as a member of Fleetwood Mac.Read more »

'Reclaiming Jewish Activism': easier said than done

05.16.12 - 3:30 pm | Yael Chanoff |
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A panel in which three local activists will talk about how their Jewish ancestors inform their present-day work seemed harmless enough. But in the Bay Area’s friction-prone Jewish community, its cancellation has led the organizers to write a letter in protest and accusations that one of the area’s biggest funders of Jewish events, the Jewish Community Federation (JCF), is participating in McCarthy-style censorship. Read more »

Localized Appreesh: Wild Hunt

05.16.12 - 3:07 pm | Emily Savage |
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Localized Appreesh is our weekly thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay. To be considered, contact emilysavage@sfbg.com.

The essence of Oakland's Wild Hunt could summed up thusly: doomy, progressive metal that perches in the cerebral cortex during a waking nightmare. A ghoulish nightmare from which you don't necessary wish to wake. It's black magic behind fluttering eyelids. Read more »

Housing for the super rich approved, 8-3

05.16.12 - 2:15 pm | Tim Redmond |
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The progressive movement and the battle for housing balance and economic justice in San Francisco got walloped May 15 when eight supervisors sided with a developer who wants to build condos for the massively rich on the waterfront.Read more »

Fresh Cuts: Sunshine-y jams take spotlight as summer approaches

05.16.12 - 11:33 am | Julia B. Chan |
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With dream-pop favorites and a randy R. Kelly, this week is both guilt-free and not-so-innocent. Fresh Cuts has selected the finest new records to blast at your next barbecue; the following truly sizzle.

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Turn up the dark

SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW: Movie stars, superheroes, and movie stars playing superheroes battle for summer supremacy

05.15.12 - 8:01 pm | Cheryl Eddy |
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FILM So far, 2012 has been a year of mixed blessings for Hollywood, contrasting mega-hits like The Hunger Games and The Avengers with one of the biggest mega-flops of all time, John Carter. But summer's really when show-biz turns deadly serious. Each week, there's a new wannabe blockbuster — pasteurized, processed, film-like products so huge they have the ability to make or break entire movie studios — hoping for returns big enough to make all involved even richer, and insure sequels and spin-offs for summers to come.Read more »

Tour de F*ck You: Sons of Science speak!

05.15.12 - 4:24 pm | Marke B. |
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In our recent Bike Issue, we profiled several of our favorite Bike People -- freewheelin' movers on the 2012 bike scene we particularly admired. Among them, for how could it be otherwise, were the Sons of Science, an augmented trio of musical bike-tivists whose side-splitting viral "Motherf*cking Bike" video hit lampooned and celebrated SF's precious, in-your-face bike culture. 

John Benson and Ward Evans of Sausage Films teamed up with amazing bike horn soloist Hector Pérez for the one-off (perhaps?) project -- and there are plenty of juicy local cameos in the video. Benson and Evans took some time from sippin' lattes on their fixies (kind of!) to answer some questions.

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Live Shots: 'Uncertain Weather' at ODC

05.15.12 - 3:52 pm | Ariel Soto-Suver |
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'Uncertain Weather' at ODC. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
'Uncertain Weather' at ODC. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
'Uncertain Weather' at ODC. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
'Uncertain Weather' at ODC. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
'Uncertain Weather' at ODC. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
'Uncertain Weather' at ODC. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
'Uncertain Weather' at ODC. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
'Uncertain Weather' at ODC. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
'Uncertain Weather' at ODC. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver
'Uncertain Weather' at ODC. Photo by Ariel Soto-Suver

The ODC Youth and Teen Program staged its first full performance in a fantastic collection of dances inspired by the seasons on Fri/11.  Dancers twirled through the “rain” with colorful umbrellas, an ice cream hawker tapped on a sunny beach, and sweaty passengers swayed in a sardine-packed Mission bus ride.

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Who's running against Chris Daly?

05.15.12 - 3:41 pm | Tim Redmond |
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I didn't know former Sup. Chris Daly was running for state Assembly in the 19th District. Odd -- I've been told he splits his time between Soma and Fairfield, but I had never heard anything about him moving to the West side of town.Read more »

Appetite: 2 new Bay cheap eats spots

05.15.12 - 3:17 pm | Virginia Miller |
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In the spirit of my recent "new SF cheap eats" article, here are two noteworthy new cheap eats joints East and South: Berkeley and Palo Alto.

ASIAN BOX

Asian Box is a newer take-out shop (with one narrow communal table inside and a couple tables outside) in a mobbed Palo Alto strip mall. What could be just another casual Asian food joint has two key things going for it. One is two former San Francisco chefs behind it: executive chef Grace Nguyen, of Out The Door’s Bush Street location, and Chad Newton, who many of us followed at Fish and Farm (where he created one incredible burger).

The other is that Asian Box’s affordable food ($6.95-$8.25) is ultra-fresh and satisfying.

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In bed with the cuddle expert

05.15.12 - 2:41 pm | Kelly Lovemonster |
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“I’ve been enveloped and swimming in love the last few years”

It’s early Saturday morning, and I’m quickly putting fresh sheets on my bed. The door bell rings before I can finish, and I run down the stairs to a incredibly punctual, smiling, and shirtless Travis Sigley, the cuddle therapy practitioner.

Sigley is a San Francisco-based, specializing in private appointments, group sessions, and workshops on non-sexual intimacy. I invited Sigley over to have a conversation about his line of work -- and to find out why this beautiful man is always shirtless. He greets me at my door with a big hug. His handsome face and sun-kissed body make it easy to imagine spending an hour in my bed wrapped in his loving arms.

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