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Localized Appreesh: Magic Fight

Magic Fight, out on stage.Localized Appreesh is our thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay. To be considered, contact emilysavage@sfbg.com.Magic Fight has got fangs. More precisely, the...

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Oakland's first outdoor sculpture park opens tonight!

Randy Colosky installs his sculpture 'The Pressure to Hold Together That Which Held Things Back Part 2.'Photo by Laura KerryLast Tuesday, in the parcel of land off of Telegraph Avenue between 19th and...

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Heads Up: 6 must-see concerts this week

...Jonathan Richman.Not to give this family any more attention, but here I go. Are you aware of the fact that the Balloon Boy is now a long-hair tween, in a darker Hanson trio with his brothers,...

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When things get weird: X-Day, Weird Al, and more

Bob Dobbs, master of slack.Today is weird. It’s in that black hole gap between a nationally recognized holiday (er, Fourth of July) and the actual weekend, which begins for many traditional workers...

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Independence/Movement: extended interview with Oakland's SALTA dance collective

Note: this is an extended version of an article in this week'sGuardian.The crowd outside the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library in Oakland was hopping. Fidgeting, really. Almost imperceptibly at first,...

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Gary Numan: dark music done right at the Oakland Metro

Gary Numan, a study in restraint.PHOTO BY TAYLOR KAPLAN.From Metallica to This Mortal Coil, there's a sense of canned melodrama about most "dark" music that I've long found goofy and unconvincing. On...

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Heads Up: 7 must-see concerts this week

The Coup is ready.PHOTO BY TODD COOPER.This week’s must-sees include a riot grrl legend with a shiny new project, a crew of gritty Brooklyn punks, an Oakland music fest (the Oakland Music Festival), a...

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Oakland's Negative Standards support future punks

Negative Standards stick to all-ages shows.PHOTO BY MEGAN BRIMThe band Negative Standards is essentially a crust art project.While maintaining d-beat chords and sludge-like breakdowns, the...

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Freedom of Choice

With a musical love letter to his rapidly changing hometown, Oakland's favorite sideman takes center stageKev Choice near his home in Oakland's Lakeshore neighborhood.GUARDIAN PHOTOS BY BRITTANY...

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Jason "Shake" Anderson is Oakland's 'Candidate X'

Illustration by Sean MorganCandidate XIn our Jan. 1 issue, the Bay Guardian spun the tale of Candidate X, a fictional progressive mayoral candidate aiming to save San Francisco’s wonderfully weird soul...

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Injured Occupy Oakland protester and veteran Scott Olsen wins $4.5 million...

Scott Olsen after an officer fired a bean bag at his head, causing brain injury, at an Occupy Oakland protest in 2011. AP file photo by Jay FinneburghIraq war veteran and injured Occupy Oakland...

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Report details how brown and black communities are decimated, step by step

Screen grab of the report released by Causa Justa.Gentrification is a word so oft-used in conversations about San Francisco that it's easy to forget what it means.A report released yesterday by the...

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Photos: Oakland fast food workers join strike with #FastFoodGlobal movement

Fast food workers protest in Morocco. Photo courtesy of @LowPayIsNotOKLast year, Bay Area fast food workers marched for higher wages. Today hundreds marched against Oakland restaurants serving Whoppers...

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Live shots: Pro-Palestine activists block ship at the Port of Oakland

Guardian photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezPro-Palestine activists marched on Saturday to block an Israeli ship scheduled to dock at the Port of Oakland, protesting Gaza violence.Well over 1,000...

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