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Someone sure has a way with words.

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Filmmakers document history, stories of iconic bar

As the city’s only lesbian and queer bar prepares to go dark tonight after 18 years, a pair of San Francisco filmmakers is helping ensure that memories of the Lexington Club live on. Friends Susie Smith and Lauren Tabak have spent the past four months collecting dozens of photographs, old flyers and other bar mementos, […]

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WASTEries

Panaderia Throw-down II: The Rise and Fall of the Conchas.

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Ice cream shop regains its footing after big Mission fire

When Luis Abundis heard from his brother Jose that the building that housed his ice cream shop was on fire, he thought it was a joke. “I didn’t believe him,” said Abundis, who soon confirmed there was nothing to laugh about when his daughter, with him at their store in Oakland, checked the news on […]

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Mission startup wants to disrupt your sex toys

Noting that “sex is becoming more and more mainstream,” a Mission-based hardware startup has plans to revolutionize the sex toy industry – or so it seems from this unusual Craigslist ad. For a mere $25,000, the ad says, you can invest in a “human sexuality” product that not only “challenges the existing toy market,” but could soon […]

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Weird crime: Thief threatens woman, takes off with oxygen tank

A man was arrested Sunday night after he threatened a woman with a lighter and stole her portable oxygen tank, police said. According to authorities, the 49-year-old suspect knocked on the woman’s door, on the 500 block of South Van Ness Ave. near 16th Street, around 10 p.m. When the woman opened the door, he pulled her […]

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Car snark

Best vanity plate ever.

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Uh … On second thought, let’s keep the water on

I guess some things won’t be affected by the new water restrictions.

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Elbo Room set to close this fall

As much as San Francisco music fans were hoping for an intervention, sadly it looks like the Elbo Room will shut its doors by the beginning of November to make way for a condo project.  According to SFGate, which cites a letter on the Mission venue’s Facebook page, the building’s owners decided not renew the club’s […]

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Not what they mean by ‘street greening’

Happy 4/20 from Capp Street.

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