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Haunted Happenings

Published: October 26, 2005

22nd Annual Womyn's Spiral Dance: Dance your hippie ass off at this tribute to the Crones, the Goddess, and the grandmothers. (Say what?) In addition to the estrogen-fest, partake in...

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Scary Affairs

A frightening array of the scariest parties on S.F.'s biggest holiday

Published: October 27, 2004

21st Annual Womyn's Ritual and Spiritual Dance: Well, the fact that the oh-so-subversive word "Womyn" is in the title should tell you all you need to know. But in case you want more, this is a...

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Halloween

Published: October 30, 2002

Wednesday, Oct. 30 Chiller-Thriller Double Features: Two programs for horror-seekers: "The Undead and the Living Dead, Gothic-Style" features Nosferatu and White Zombie (Oct. 30); "John...

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Scare Tactics

Where and when to have a hopping Halloween

Published: October 23, 2002

S C A R E T A C T I C S WEDNESDAY, OCT.30 Chiller-Thriller Double Features: Two programs for horrorseekers: “The Undead...

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Hold On a Minute!

Ecologists are still trying to spin their phony save the whale campaign

By Jill Stewart

Published: December 12, 2001

It's my rule not to write columns based on my mail, because I write only 40 columns and a handful of cover stories annually, and within that limitation cannot possibly squeeze in all the bad deeds...

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Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: August 18, 1999

Heavens! Winding my way through the clutch of people gathered on the corner of Ninth Avenue and Irving, I might have tripped right over it. Barry Hirrell would've liked that. He'd say later,...

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REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: August 18, 1999

Aries (March 21-April 19): A snail can slither slowly over the edge of a razor blade without doing itself any harm. Trained "fire walkers" are able, while in a trance, to take off their shoes and...

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Cothran

By George Cothran

Published: August 18, 1999

Off the Preservation About a year ago, some folks in North Beach, including the city's poet laureate, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and one of the city's pre-eminent architectural historians, Anne...

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Mecklin

By John Mecklin

Published: August 11, 1999

To Whine and Whine Not It's long past time now for Mayor Willie Brown to quit huffing and puffing and mewling and whining about how unfair the news media have been to him and to begin...

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REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: August 11, 1999

Aries (March 21-April 19): In my dream, I'm watching a game unfold on a savanna. The players are both lions and humans. I can't figure out how the game's played, but it involves twisty dancing,...

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Cothran

By George Cothran

Published: August 11, 1999

Go, Team, Go Last week, I marveled at the moxie of longtime mayoral pal Jacqueline Besser, telling a little story about what seemed to be funny business at the Municipal Railway involving...

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REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: August 4, 1999

For All Signs: On Aug. 11, a solar eclipse will anchor an unprecedented astrological array that some are calling a Cosmic Crucifixion. Mars in Scorpio will oppose Saturn in Taurus, creating one arm...

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Cothran

By George Cothran

Published: August 4, 1999

The Sacred and the Profane It seems that you need goat entrails, tea leaves, the blood from roosters slaughtered at the stroke of midnight on All Hallow's Eve, and various other tools of mystic...

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Savage Love

Published: August 4, 1999

I'm 38 years old and my wife is 39. Both white, healthy, and happy. I've had this particular fantasy for close to 20 years now, but only revealed it to my wife four years ago. I want my wife to...

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Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: August 4, 1999

Da Da Da San Francisco is dappled by the shadows of dada: Coffee tables crawl out of abandoned windows at Defenestration, fun-fur-festooned chickens and pogoing turnips follow their faith to...

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Mecklin

By John Mecklin

Published: July 21, 1999

Hey, It's Only the FBI Because San Francisco's daily newspapers so seldom employ significant resources to investigate anything that might produce any story that might offend anyone of any...

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REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: July 21, 1999

Aries (March 21-April 19): Among certain Native American tribes, the potlatch was a kind of generosity contest. Participants in this ritual vied to give away the most gifts. According to my reading...

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Cothran

By George Cothran

Published: July 21, 1999

What You Get When You Cross Night of the Living Dead With Being There So I read in the papers that people are really going to run Frank Jordan for mayor, which just confirms something I've long...

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Postscript

By John Bryan

Published: July 21, 1999

Don't Hold the Presses On Sunday, July 18, many San Franciscans were probably a bit surprised to learn that John F. Kennedy Jr. had apparently died under mysterious circumstances in a plane...

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Savage Love

Published: July 21, 1999

I am a 17-year-old girl who doesn't believe in casual sex. While all of my friends are relishing the thought of doing it at college, I've made the decision not to have sex until marriage. I've had...