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Melissa Tan
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Notable SF, This Week: 12/28-01/03
This week in San Francisco, experience music the old fashioned way at Shellac Shack and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra’s free home show. Also plans for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s day: Monday 12/28: Remember vinyl? Stop by Shellac…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/21-12/27
This week, celebrate Christmas (or don’t), partake in a jingly Reindeer Run Flash Mob, and then celebrate your inner goth kid at The Nightmare After Christmas. Monday 12/21: Celebrate the holiday season with class (because everyone knows that jazz music…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/14-12/20:
This week in San Francisco: The last Monthly Rumpus of the year rocks The Makeout Room, cupcakes meet fine art at Project One Gallery, and Paul Madonna signs books, while SF publisher, Chronicle Books, practically gives theirs away. Monday 12/14:…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/7-12/13
This week in San Francisco: Meet Elphaba and Glinda for drinks, find out what the Sad Bastard Book Club sounds like, and get all eight days of your Hanukkah on at once.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/30-12/6
This week in San Francisco: three bicyclists make a pit stop on their 12,000 mile journey, thus taking care of your exercise quotient for the year. Also, the International Body Music Festival, the Lower Haight Holiday Art Walk, and two…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/23-11/29
This week in San Francisco: Brooklyn’s own Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School comes to 111 Minna, Dorian Katz conducts a “panty exchange” as part of the one-night-only art show, Everything Must Go!, and vegetarians take over as an annual mass tryptophan…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/16-11/22
This week in San Francisco: holiday spirit at the Union Square Ice Rink, distilled spirits at the SF Indy Spirit Expo, and spirited performances at Point Break Live! Monday 11/16: Start the week off right with Love, God, Sex (and…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/9-11/15
This week, get down with The Rumpus at Hate To Be Alone, learn how to go down at Women Like Me with Carol Queen, and redefine Jewish identity at Austin Ratner’s reading for The Hub. Then, stop by the 8th…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/2-11/8
This week in San Francisco, the annual Dia de los Muertos procession, get Mortified at The Makeout Room, the self-proclaimed “hardest working artist in San Francisco” will be showing at Fecal Face, and a whole lot more. Monday 11/2: Celebrate…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week 10/26 – 11/1
In San Francisco this week, David Sedaris, a night with Kevin Smith, the SF Jewish BookFest, and a Haunted Laundromat. Monday 10/26: Learn more about one of the cornerstones of civilization as we know it: water. An official Sundance Selection,…
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The Pre-existing Condition of Rape
Cirrhosis, Huntington’s Chorea, Parkinson’s Disease, and now rape: perfectly valid reasons for denial of health insurance coverage. One of these things is not like the other, and while womens’ health groups have tried to raise awareness via the web for…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week 10/19-10/25
This week in San Francisco, geek gods at Cafe Du Nord, Michael Bartalo talks recyclable art, Ghostface Killah hangs out on Haight street, and more: Monday 10/19: Get your nerd on at Cafe Du Nord’s W00tstock where geek gods Adam…