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The Year of Living in High Resolution

How SF can have the best year ever in '08.

By Joe Eskenazi

Published: January 16, 2008

In the year that saw its mortal coil unwind on Dec. 31, a 900-foot-long ship ploughed into the Bay Bridge, baseball presented Barry Bonds with its home-run crown (of thorns — or, more...

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The Year of Living Toxin-Free

How to start 2008 in a state of detoxification

By Nirmala Nataraj

Published: January 16, 2008

Now that the "holidaze" are over and you've probably begun to regret your New Year's gorgefest or that indiscriminate office party hookup, this is probably a good time to think of your health. Of...

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The Year of Living the Fantasy

How to chase your dream job this year

By Evan James

Published: January 16, 2008

As the New Year dawns, urban dwellers in San Francisco once again experience the familiar pressure for self-improvement that seems to lurk around every corner in January. You can see him lurking,...

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The Year of Living Practically Green

How to save the environment without being extreme

By Traci Vogel

Published: January 16, 2008

Drinking goat milk is good for the environment. Cows are huge, wasteful animals that spew greenhouse gases from both ends, require rainforests to be mowed down so they can graze, and pee...

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The Spirit Is Willing

Local churches let you get right with God without the hassle

Nirmala Nataraj

Published: January 17, 2007

New Year's resolutions are so passé. But for the sake of tradition, I still find myself madly scrawling my own list of to-do's and not-to-do's, à la Bridget Jones, on crumpled Christmas gift...

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Welcome to MySpace, Whoever You Are

This year, it's all about You, so put Yourself out there

Frances Reade

Published: January 17, 2007

We're all about You here at SF Weekly . Yes, You. Time magazine named You "Person of the Year," Spin lauded You as "Artist of the Year," hell, even AdAge jumped in to name You, somewhat...

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Prosperity to the People

Online microfinance can unleash your inner Rockefeller

Jonathan Zwickel

Published: January 17, 2007

The holidays are over, your bank account is decimated, and your goodwill toward men is going bad. It's easy to write off the reason for the season once the first credit card bill of the new year...

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Dance Dance Resolution

Taking funky steps toward feeling good

Tamara Palmer

Published: January 17, 2007

If last year taught us anything at all, it was that young America is firmly in a dance-craze phase that hasn't been seen since kids were doing the mashed potato. In Atlanta, they did the...

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Welcome to SF Weekly 's annual Resolution Guide

Published: January 18, 2006

We know most of you have already promised yourselves to get more exercise, eat less/more of whatever is supposed to be bad/good for your health, and generally work on improving your self and/or...

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Quiet Is the New Loud

Have a blast dialing down entertainment options this year

By Dan Strachota

Published: January 18, 2006

Rock 'n' roll is really loud -- that's one of the best things about it. The only problem is that repeated exposure to deafening noise tends to damage your ears. You may think that a little light...

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Get Out of Town, Already

Leave the BlackBerry home this year -- break out of vacation deprivation and relax

By Karen Macklin

Published: January 18, 2006

If I had a dollar for each time in the past year I heard the words "I need a vacation" from a co-worker or friend, I'd have enough buckaroos to take that cruise, camping trip, or sojourn to South...

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Change Your Romance Regime

A monthly guide: 12 new ways to meet "The One" in the new year

By Maya Kroth

Published: January 18, 2006

It happened at 1:24 one Tuesday morning. My cell chimed, and that little envelope icon appeared on the display announcing the arrival of a text from my latest crush. I thrilled a little at the...

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Out With the Old, In With the Older

Update your home environment with new vintage stuff for a cool new year

By Frances Reade

Published: January 18, 2006

Our college years have left us a troubling legacy. Along with undeniably useful skills like the ability to subsist on cottage cheese and Triscuits and to make alluring party chitchat about...

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Recall Why You Stay by the Bay

Falling in love with your city all over again is easy if you try

By Bonnie Wach

Published: January 18, 2006

It's like the bumper stickers say: Regime change begins at home. The sentiment may have political origins, but there's no reason why it shouldn't be applied much closer to home. We're talking...

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Get Started as a Bedroom Musician

Learning to make music can make for a new you in the new year

By Philip Sherburne

Published: January 19, 2005

Sometime in December, I realized that I was burned out on the writing life. I was sick of long days spent sitting in my apartment, staring at the screen, and trying to come up with ever more...

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Fitness Gurus: What's Hot for 2005

Core training and other exercise regimens you might actually follow

By Maya Kroth

Published: January 19, 2005

Year in and year out, when January 1 rolls around, your hungover ass makes the same empty promises to your superego: Cigarettes and liquor are out, dieting and hitting the gym are in. But come...

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Gyms/Exercise Clubs

Published: January 19, 2005

24-hour Fitness 303 Second St. (at Folsom), 543-7808 350 Bay (at Powell), 395-9595 1645 Bryant (at 16th St.), 437-4188 3741 Buchanan (at Bay), 563-3535 100 California (at Davis),...

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Yoga/Pilates Studios and Instruction

Published: January 19, 2005

Amrita Yoga Ashtanga, Hatha, Iyengar, workshops and retreats 560 Third St. (at Bryant), 247-9642, www.amritayoga.com Bikram's Yoga in the Mission Bikram 2390 Mission (at 20th St.),...

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Resolved: To Enjoy San Francisco

Some ways to make the best of the best city in the world, year-round

By Matthew Stafford

Published: January 19, 2005

Native New Yorkers don't go to the top of the Empire State Building, visit the Statue of Liberty, or ride hansom cabs through Central Park, or so the cliché goes. But this -- what, reverse...

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Your Year to See the World

How to travel well in 2005 without bankrupting yourself

By Matthew Stafford

Published: January 19, 2005

"Travel," said Mark Twain, "is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness ... nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him." Travel is also difficult...