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"Freeway's" sister making movie about local "super fan"


Published June 2, 2011 at 2:01 p.m.


San Francisco's Dee Dee Russell is a "bohemian filmmaker" and sister to local, Milwaukee "sports fan legend" Mike McCarter. And, she's making a movie about her brother "Freeway Mike."

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Big names eye real estate in downtown SF


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Published Feb. 19, 2011 at 11:25 p.m.

Josette Melchor spends her time devising ways to lure art lovers into the exhibition space she runs in downtown San Francisco ...

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Artists will return to Market


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Published Feb. 17, 2011 at 1:56 p.m.
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Count on artists to fill the void at 10 empty Mid-Market storefronts. The San Francisco Arts Commission is opening a new round of its Art in Storefronts program, which installs art in vacant storefronts to bring new ...

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Progressives jockey for 'holy grail': S.F. mayor


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Published Nov. 24, 2010 at 3:35 a.m.
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The solid left majority on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has an opportunity to do what city voters haven't done for more than two decades: put a progressive in the mayor's office. Not since the election of Art ...

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'Paper!Awesome!' This Saturday


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Published Feb. 16, 2010 at 10:59 p.m.
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Normally, as a product of all that's good and pure about the future of media, we loathe anything involving paper that isn't an Anna Wintour venture (e.g., Dave Eggers, Derek Powazek's current state of mind, etc.) But one papyrus-y thing we can get behind is when paper used as art that hangs on a wall ... One of San Francisco's most acclaimed (and enjoyable) art galleries, Baer-Ridgway, will unveil a new group exhibition featuring fresh works on paper by over 100 artists. Curated by gallery

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SFMOMA raises $250 million in 6 months


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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 5:53 p.m.
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In a dramatic sign that expansion plans for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are on the fast track, museum officials announced Thursday that they have raised $250 million a mere six months after making the project public. "There's not yet a formal ...

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Deal gives de Young most of Oceanic art works


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Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 5:22 p.m.
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Most of the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum's cornerstone collection of Oceanic art will stay put under a deal that San Francisco officials have struck to resolve an inheritance dispute that threatened to have the collection dismantled. The tentative ...

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"Primero la Caja": Pablo Guardiola


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Published Dec. 16, 2009 at 6:00 a.m.

The title of Pablo Guardiola's solo show translates to "First the Box," a richly ambiguous phrase that echoes the artist's grand talent for allegory. Guardiola, who was born in Puerto Rico and graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005, manages to turn ordinary objects into reverberat ...

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SFist Interviews: Ashley Muangmaithong, a Nutcracker Ballerina


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Published Dec. 14, 2009 at 10:15 p.m.
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AM: The French mirliton has its own challenge. You dance with a ribbon in this production, so you’re enjoying yourself, but at the same time thinking don’t get caught in the ribbon ... SF: In your opinion, what is the best part of this year’s Nutcracker? ... AM: I love the snow theme. It’s absolutely amazing. There’s this transition after the fight scene -it goes black and then all of a sudden you just see this illumination of white and you feel like you’re in a snow globe ... There

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Gift Guide: Caffeinated Comics


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Published Dec. 7, 2009 at 10:35 p.m.
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by Amy Crocker ... Caffeinated Comics has posted this helpful holiday gift guide, suggesting specialized comic books for your entire list. Their recommendations include: ... Your Buddy Who Lives in the Mission: "The Graphic Bio of Che" Your Buddy Who Lives in the Haight: "Giraffes in My Hair" Your Buddy Who Lives in the Castro: "Queerville" The Right-Wing Sister-in-Law Comic Book Geek: "Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen" The Pervy Uncle Comic Book Geek: "Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of

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