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Berkeley demonstrators are mad as heck, about something or other

Gar Smith, activist and keen-eyed Berkeley spy, says that protesters’ overnight “pup tents have been removed from around Berkeley’s embattled Main Post Office” — the fight is whether to turn the...

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84-year-old jewel thief cruises for bling in S.F.

Payne has been said to have a 20-page rap sheet, a 40-year-old Interpol report, five Social Security numbers and nine dates of birth. Last spring, Payne was convicted in Southern California of...

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Bay Area rich folks are faithful and true

The film is complex, as was Jobs, who galvanized the tech industry, who was responsible for a product — it was pointed out often — used and carried by just about every filmgoer sitting in the...

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When it’s not enough to wash the glasses, polish them

Unemployed oenophiles take note: A Washington Post story by former Chronicle restaurant writer Tom Sietsema explores the eating scene in San Francisco — he’s delirious over its pleasures — and reveals...

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Gavin Newsom and his great hair may get permanent City Hall spot

A group of Gavin Newsom admirers, eager to mark his place in San Francisco history, want to put his bust on permanent display in the hallowed halls where he once served as mayor. Newsom and Piedmont...

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Warriors party brings on a Golden State-of-mind

Wednesday night’s warm-up for the NBA Finals was in Oakland, home of the Golden State Warriors. The site was like a stage set, blooming lilies all around the building in the same shade of gold as the...

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Mom captures a precious moment with Sinatra

Mentioning the centennial of Frank Sinatra’s birth recently reminded Al Guthertz of his encounter with the singer. Sinatra was a teen idol; Guthertz was a teen, working in his uncle’s Medical Arts...

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Worth seeing at the movies, Aug. 28

Director Hubert Sauper, whose Oscar-nominated “Darwin’s Nightmare” focused on environmental disaster in Africa, this time focuses on the South Sudanese, “enslaved, dispossessed and colonized” by...

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Vanity Fair S.F. event forges Silicon Valley link to Hollywood

On Monday, Oct. 5, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass crowd having abandoned the meadows of Golden Gate Park, another kind of crowd — perhaps a little less laid back — will gather downtown at Yerba Buena...

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How Julius Rosenwald helped African American youth

The $70 million that longtime Sears Roebuck chief Julius Rosenwald donated in the early 20th century for the building of schools in impoverished African American neighborhoods made him a hero in that...

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Which movies to watch this weekend

In the early 20th century, a hugely successful Jewish businessman millionaire reached out to support impoverished rural blacks and their education, as well as their artistic endeavors. The...

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Slow-paced ‘Partisan’ unlikely to become a cult classic

Slow-paced ‘Partisan’ unlikely to become a cult classic [...] this time he is not bullying dieters in tutus; this time, his character, Gregori, is bullying children who wind up living in his commune,...

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Movie spies on hand for movie launching Vanity Fair tech summit

Movie spies on hand for movie launching Vanity Fair tech summit The Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit began on Monday night, with a showing of the new Steven Spielberg movie, “Bridge of Spies,”...

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Yearly sounds of heaven at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

At the Linda Mar Shopping Center in Pacifica, Julian Grant spotted a priest emerging from a Prius with an “I Brake for God” bumper sticker. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is huge and crowded, but when I...

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Squaw Valley Community of Writers finds food in words

The writers conference was founded in 1969 by novelists Oakley Hall and Blair Fuller and nonfiction writer David Perlman, science editor of The Chronicle. Most of the evening’s program, emceed by poet...

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Sex and art two of Peggy Guggenheim’s favorite things

By the time she spoke to biographer Jacqueline Bogart Weld, in recorded conversations that are the framework for the documentary Peggy Guggenheim: [...] looking back at her life, as this film does, it...

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Which movies to see this weekend, Nov. 27

The Eye Has to Travel explores the life of Peggy Guggenheim, whose instinct and taste carved out a place for herself in the firmament of 20th century artists. A fascinating story about a woman who...

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Gathering to raise money for a Tony Bennett statue

Willie Brown; Charlotte and George Shultz; Ron Conway; Daniel Lurie; Lucy Jewett; Rich Guggenhime; Larry and Pam Baer; Cissie Swig; Nancy and Joachim Bechtle; Stanlee Gatti — gathered in the Penthouse...

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SF vintage clothier ‘flabbergasted’ by raid over banned animals

A day after more than a half dozen wildlife-protection agents raided vintage clothier Decades of Fashion on Haight Street, the owner said Friday she was “flabbergasted” that state inspectors had...

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Is 'Butler' on your resume? Here's the $175,000 SF job for you

The salary, "depending on experience," is $175,000 a year. Considering the lure of that, I'm imagining that even Carson is polishing his resume.

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