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elcome to the Guardian’s Best of the Bay 2011! This is our 37th annual celebration of the people, places, and things that make living here such a great experience — from Best Burrito and Best Local Band to Best Strip Club, Best Shoe Store, Best Drag Queen, and beyond. More than 15,000 of our readers voted in our 2011 Best of the Bay Readers Poll for their favorites in more than 200 categories. You’ll find the results inside — as well as 150 Editors Picks that highlight some Guardian favorites, old and new, that we think deserve special recognition for lighting up our lives this year. We’ve also included many enthusiastic quotes from our readers who responded to the question, “Best of the Best:

What’s your favorite thing about living here?” This year our theme is “Beautiful Rebels.” Throughout its history, the Bay Area has attracted wave upon wave of people looking to create something unique. From Barbary Coast explorers to Belle Epoque, Jazz Age, and Beatnik free spirits, from hippies and queer and civil rights pioneers to tattooed 1990s swing kids and Burning Man visionaries, to today’s global tech innovators and their DIY, local, organic, small-batch counterparts. We seem to be living in a time when a certain conservatism and conformity reigns, when speaking out gets you pilloried in the comments section and big-box consumerism squeezes out charming idiosyncrasies. That’s why we wanted to take this Best of the Bay opportunity to celebrate the Bay Area’s proud perseverance in remaining the weirdest, oddest, most interesting

and rewarding place in the world, somewhere where “freak” is a compliment and “out there” equals “gorgeous.” In 1974, Esquire magazine asked us for ideas for its Best of the USA issue, which led to us publish the original Best of the Bay. Made by the people of the Bay Area for the people of the Bay Area, it’s our annual opportunity to celebrate the people and places that make this city great. We were the first weekly paper to publish a regular “best of” issue. Thirty-seven years on — and 45 years after we opened our doors — we’re still going strong. Editing this year’s installment was a hoot. I shower grateful smooches on all my collaborators, especially my right-hand amiga Caitlin Donohue, creative wiz Mirissa Neff, amazing illustrator Renee Castro, photographer Ben Hopfer, the Guardian staff, and the ever-supportive Hunky Beau, my own personal Best of the Bay. But most of all I thank you, dear reader, for your generous participation, for making the Bay Area such an astounding place to live, and for turning us on to some great new things this year. 2

#&45 0' 5)& #": 45"'' BEST OF THE BAY EDITORS Marke B., Caitlin Donohue CREATIVE DIRECTOR Mirissa Neff ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR Ben Hopfer ILLUSTRATOR Renee Castro

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Jackie Andrews, Emily Appelbaum, Rebecca Bowe, Richard Boyce, Kimberly Chun, Angelina Cravich, Cheryl Eddy, Nicole Gluckstern, Sean Hurd, Steven T. Jones, Heather Mack, Virginia Miller, Carly Nairn, Sarah Phelan, Julie Potter, Tim Redmond, Paul Reidinger, Kat Renz, Charles Russo,

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Amber Schadewald, Ariel Soto-Suver, Diane Sussman, Hannah Tepper, Christopher Trenchard BEST OF THE BAY PHOTOGRAPHY Erik Anderson, Ben Hopfer, Virginia Miller, Pat Mazzera, Ariel Soto-Suver COPY EDITORS Emily Appelbaum, Diane Sussman

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"#065 5)& *---6453"503 Like the Guardian, Renee “Lady Reni” Castro is native to the Bay Area — really. Born in Oakland, Castro’s heritage stems from the Ohlone Native American tribe. (You can’t get more local than that.) Her background serves as inspiration for much of her art, especially her subjects’ clothing and their deeply-rooted connections to the natural world. Her other influences for her illustrations in this year’s “Beautiful Rebels”-themed Best of the Bay include Mexican and Spanish folklore, broken-hearted femmes fatales, disheveled muses, and erotic heroines. Castro’s current projects include commissions for SF companies the Loin and Peasants and Travelers, shows in local galleries, plus an apprenticeship at Amor Eterno Tattoo in Oakland, where you’re welcome to drop by and see her.

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Best Adult Education Best TV Newscaster Best Locally Produced TV Show Best Radio Station Best Radio DJ Best Radio Show Best Place to Get a Tattoo Best Tattoo Artist Best Local Animal Rescue Best Dog-Walking Service Best Pet Groomer Best Veterinarian Best Dentist Best Doctor Best Plumber Best Electrician Best Moving Service Best Alternative Healing Best Therapist Best Car Repair Best Motorcycle Repair Best Bicycle Repair Best Shoe Repair Best Tailor Best Laundromat Best Salon Best Hairstylist Best Massage Best Day Spa Best Gym Best Personal Trainer Best Yoga Studio Best Yoga Instructor Best Amateur Sports Team Best Public Sports Facility Best Beach Best Nature Spot for People with Disabilities Best Campground

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Editors Picks Best Sax ’n’ Suds Best Stubbornly Rooted Neighborhood Nursery Best Cell Phone Sage Best Morning-After Medicine Best Kept Kitty Club Best Flurry Forecasts Best Real Deal Barber Best Extraction sans Distraction Best Sweat for Your Stanzas Best Forest Guardians Best Slice of Postapocalyptic Paradise Best Cluck Connection Best Neighborhood Nom Noms Best Within-Sight Overnight Best Graduation Guidance Best Cerebral Stroll Best Garden Variety Historical Hotbed Best Sentient Weed Whackers Best Emancipation Station Best New Chain Gang Best Safety Net for the ‘Net Best Parent Pen Best Place for Kids To Be — Or Not To Be Best Hyperactive Hero Best Queer Exhibitionism Best Backyard Bliss-Out Best Second-Chance Seniors Best SF Ambassadors

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Editors Picks Best Beelzebubian Beignets Best Return of the Mac Best Pork Dessert Best Southern Slice of Glass Pie Best Clipsy Whiskey Best Impersonation of an Art Gallery by a Restaurant Best Craft Cheers Best Sweet Treats for Tech Geeks Best Crunchy Almond Balls Best Change of Cheese Best No-Hassle Hof Best Home Roasts in the Avenues Best Way to Get Smarter by Drinking Best Beans on a Truck Best Besting of the Big Bottles Best Righteous Vegan Sass Best Armagnac Attack Best Bromance on Bread Best Aquatic Smokes Best French Kiss (On Both Cheeks) Best Place to Yuca It Up Best Robber Bar-Room Best Family Italian (With Free Cheese) Best Russian Rush Best Chocolate Liquifaction Best Grinder at Your Bar Stool Best Biggest Bayview Brazilian Burgers Best Sublingual High Best Wake ’n’ Shake Best Star Egg

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It seems crazier than a Twinkie defense that San Francisco — one of the hottest of hotspots in terms of queer liberation and visibility — hasn’t had a history museum to preserve and explore all the wonder of LGBT life. Until now. In January, the 25-year-old GLBT Historical Society found a permanent space to display and interpret its vast archives of paper, photos, films, and audio recordings: the */%7 +LVWRU\ 0XVHXP The first of its kind in the U.S., the sleek storefront gallery may be small, but it packs a huge emotional and educational punch. From FBI files to feminist sex toys, radical activist pamphlets to old-school gay bar flyers, the museum’s lavender arsenal has ripped the lid off the often obscured queer past, and attracted tens of thousands

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BEST BEELZEBUBIAN BEIGNETS A beignet craze has swept the Bay, and really, who could withstand the fiendish temptation of these deep-fried, sugar-sprinkled, French-by-way-of-New-Orleans brunch delights? Our current favorites come courtesy of the new 'HYLO¡V 7HHWK %DNLQJ &RPSDQ\ in the Sunset which, despite its intimidating name, traffics in heavenly pastries. (The bakery’s name is actually a tribute to a sobriquet for the Farallone Islands.) The diabolically good bakers here have even set aside a day for beignet worship: zip down to beignet Sundays and fill those idle hands with made-to-order clouds of perfection — and cups of Blue Bottle coffee to boot. While you’re there, score a batch

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for a birthday party for B and B creative director. The renaming was meant as a one-night joke, but the name stuck (regulars shorten it to “441�). Whatever you call it, the dive — naturally — serves quality Sazeracs and other classic cocktails. Everyone gets into cheesy movie Wednesdays: Top Gun led to a group rendition of “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,� complete with a craft-cocktailed gentleman belting atop the bar. Though there’s talk of remodeling, we hope 441 stays as is: a dingy, sticky place where industry insiders can grab a well-made post-shift drink. 3XWN\ </ ! ``` V[UN`\ LXV

BEST SWEET TREATS FOR TECH GEEKS Sure, there are plenty of places in the Mission to park it and plug in, but the 6XPPLW &DIp provides the chance to nosh on cocoa nib nougatine and buttermilk bubbles (no stale croissants here) while the ol’

MacBook boots up. The Summit my seem steep — a tiny mocha is $5 and most desserts are $9 or $10 — but the payoff is oh-so-sweet. The concept behind Summit is innovative in a techie way: it hopes to combine work and home into a “third space� to foster broader interaction and creativity. So while basically working forever, we’ll happily gorge on a rotating dessert menu full of high quality ingredients and imaginative concoctions (think beet fluid gel and Summitexclusive Humphry Slocombe espresso balsamic ice cream) as we whip up that superhuman invisibility app. ! ?JUNWLRJ </ ! ``` ]QN\^VVR] \O LXV

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BEST BEANS ON A TRUCK You’ll know it by the smell of slow-roasting ribs and pulled pork: on weekdays 6PRNH %%4 generally parks its truck on a semi-desolate warehouse stretch of Bayview-Hunters Point. The pulled pork has a satisfying juiciness, reflecting its Midwest roots. The brisket and ribs are well loved by local worker bees. But what gives the meats a run for their money is the Smoke BBQ’s BBQ beans. Rich broth, smoky beans, and fatty chunks of pork — so good you just might forget your carnivorous entree. Best Besting of the Big Bottles: House Kombucha |

for a few years now. Their passion shows — the two serve lush coffees at their tiny, cozy cafe. Impeccable cappuccinos and a mean cup of drip pair well with breads and pastries from local producers like Mi2Sweets; Oakland’s Pepples Donuts; and baklava from Richmond Egyptian restaurant Al

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BEST BESTING OF THE BIG BOTTLES The year was 2010, a flim-flam was erupting over the high alcohol content of kombucha sold long after its bottling date — and large companies with their complicated supply lines were compelled to pull their brews from grocery store shelves. Not so +RXVH .RPEXFKD,

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BEST RIGHTEOUS VEGAN SASS If we could even fake the exuberance that 9HJDQVDXUXV editor-founder Laura Beck trips out willy-nilly in her sparklingly sassy blog posts sans animal products ... we’d be running to the store a lot more for economy-sized boxes of capital letters and exclamation points. But the site’s zazz is by no means irritating — indeed, we consider its daily updates on the hottest new vegan grub dens, footwear, and activist news required reading for leading a sexy, cut-

ting-edge vegan lifestyle in the Bay (and with the addition of new writers, the country). Plus, the site dares to say everything non-meaties tend to suppress for politeness’ sake. Sample quote on animalabusive lab workers: “I hope they get totally fucked by justice!�

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can thank owner, mom, entrepreneur, and vegan inspiration Tamearra Dyson, who has been eating animal-free for so long she can’t remember any other way. Tamearra, what do you use instead of dairy to get your mac ’n’ cheese so creamy? “What do you use?� she laughs. “You just don’t use it!� +[XJM`Jb 8JTU " ``` \X^UNb_NPJW LXV

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BEST AQUATIC SMOKES We love smoked salmon. Coldsmoked, hot-smoked, maplesmoked, pepper-smoked — especially wild and locally caught salmon purchased from a seasoned Half Moon Bay fisherman named Pietro Pavarrano. But we also recognize that there are other fish in the sea, especially the Caspian Sea. And when we’re in that transoceanic frame of mind, we head to 1HZ :RUOG 0DUNHW in the Richmond, where the no-nonsense Russians who run the place offer dozens of species of smoked fish, ranging from sturgeon to sea bass to fish you’ve never heard of. While we’re there, we also like to pick up the housemade borscht,

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BEST PLACE TO YUCA IT UP Yuca — sounds like yucky, often looks and tastes like same. Turquoise-splashed Puerto Rican restaurant 3DUDGD in the Upper Haight turns that yuca to yum. Rarely eaten here, yuca is the deliciously inescapable side dish for the bulk of the entrees, the centerpiece of the vegetarian platter, and the base of the yucca, avocado and garlic soup. Even as a standalone side, mashed and marinated in onion, olive oil, garlic, and spices, it shines. Parada 22’s savory way with the cassava root (as it’s known in much of the USA) complements home-style island favorites like tender, oregano-suffused pernil asado pork and a piquant pollo encebollado (chicken smothered in onions). For real starch maniacs, order a side with the truly scrumptious mofongo, mashed plantains with shrimp criolla.

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BEST RUSSIAN RUSH If you come from good peasant stock (did your grandfather slurp coffee from his saucer? Grandmother wear dresses and wool socks?), then you probably have regular waves of nostalgia for things like cabbage soup, pickled cabbage, cabbage rolls, cabbage dumplings, and cabbage pie. All at the same meal. At &LQGHUHOOD 5XVVLDQ %DNHU\ DQG &DIp, you can indulge all your yearnings for foods sour, smoked, sweet, earthy, tangy, and cruciferous. The ultra-tiny cafe has been around since 1953 and hasn’t strayed from its peasant-food-with-panache approach, offering blinchiki, piroshki, pirogi (if you already know the difference between those last two, congratulations), sour soups, etc. Come here to eat loudly;

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BEST CHOCOLATE LIQUIFACTION In the third season of Dexter, top cop Maria has two bonding experiences with women that are consummated with two words: “ganache frosting.” Ganache — that rich, delicious, thick, delicious, dense, delicious mix of chocolate and cream — is the base element of %RXOHWWH /DUGHU·V VLQ JXODU FXS RI (DVWHUQ (XURSHDQ VW\OH KRW FKRFRODWH All day long, Boulette’s attentive chefs keep a pan of molten ganache simmering in anticipation of its hot chocolate fans. The result is hot chocolate so thick you almost need a spoon, and so satisfying you can omit that dollop of cream. But an almostcolloidal scoop of liquid nirvana

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BEST BIGGEST BAYVIEW BRAZILIAN BURGERS Make sure you’re hungry when you roll up to the -XQLRU %DUEHFXH food truck to order one of Junior’s famous Brazilian burgers. The sandwich Junior hands you, wrapped in paper to keep the juices from cascading out, will be enormous. The uniquely delicious, stick-to-your-ribs burgers are packed with enough ingredients to equal about three meals — beef patty, egg, bacon, hot dog, cheese, ham, pineapple, grilled onion, fresh lettuce, tomato, and corn mayo crammed into a bun. Eight dollars gets you a burger, which will feed you for a couple days, and a Coke. Junior is a gracious Brazilian who has lived in the United States for 11 years and can’t do enough to ensure that his customers are happy. Want some ketchup? Need a napkin? On a bike? How about a bag with handles to make it easier for you? 7JYXUNXW J] ._JW\ </

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pickled veggies are optional — in name only. Sliced thick, they’re best when combined with Flores’ hot salsa: all told, a perfectly crafted snack (but really a meal) you’ll crave all week long. Or maybe you’re just missing the metal stars that flash in Flores’ grill every time she smiles — telling you that the woman’s a dedicated entrepreneur.

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BEST DONUTSOS All our lives, we have searched for a pastry that resembles a mosh pit fatality. And now that we’ve found it — the raspberry jelly-filled Headbanger — small matter that we have go to San Jose to re-up. Such is the glory that is 3V\FKR 'RQXWV, where the employees wear old-fashioned nurse uniforms and preside over a parade of freak-out frosteds, meat-stuffed donuts, tart raspberry-and-key-lime vegan ’nuts, even 14-inch donut pizzas made to order and a cocktail-flavored donut of the month. Many are charmingly dubbed with

like hot dogs and cheeseburgers — and some say the joint’s Polynesian fried chicken is among the best cluck in town. Whatever’s making your tummy rumbly, the secret to Punjab is to call in your order in advance — this homemade fare takes time to prepare.

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BEST COMMUNAL EATS, TWEETED “Red leaf lettuce soup crème fraiche toasted almonds, country ham on pan de mie caramelized onions dijon mustard, arugula and green bean saladâ€? is just one character shy of 140 characters. And that one character is you — as in “Why aren’t you rushing down to IDUP WDEOH right now to stuff your face?â€? The super-tiny Tenderloin breakfast and lunch hotspot didn’t pioneer the art of announcing

thing he let that scrumptious light shine, following his muse to create +RRNHU¡V 6ZHHW 7UHDWV — handmade, habit-forming, sea-salted, dark chocolate-covered caramels. These little babies, which Williams calls his “hookers,â€? work the corners of finer food stores like Bi-Rite Market or display themselves tantalizingly at the homey Hooker’s Sweet Treats CafĂŠ in the Tenderloin, tempting you to pick up a private evening’s worth of smooth and gooey entertainment. Or hey, just gorge on all the hookers you want right there, accompanied by a fresh cup of Sightglass coffee and to-die-for plum pudding.

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BEST SWEET HOOKERS We used to love watching David “Hooker� Williams rule the pool table and patio at the Pilsner Inn back in the day. But who knew then that lurking within him was the potential to blow our sweet tooth into the stratosphere? Good

compliant, the striking tavern in SoMa raised the bar for restaurant design. Good for it. It’s lovely; it’s immaculate; we would almost eat off the walls. But — besides the fact that all this green-edged conception has actually yielded a comfortable vibe, stellar drinks, and spectacular cooking (please try the sauerkraut soup and roasted mussels with chorizo) — what’s the real news? Agricole! The classic West Indian white rum, or rhum, is derived from pure cane juice and much prized by the French. Bar Agricole serves it in its ti punch cocktail, spiffily accented with lime zest. The clean, crisp taste evokes an amiable warmth within, much like Bar Agricole itself. ]Q <] </ " ``` KJ[JP[RLXUN LXV

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BEST KOREAN CHICKEN GARAGE You hear tales of a magical Korean restaurant located in a converted garage near Ocean Beach, barely marked by a strand of Christmas lights and a winking chicken with a bowtie and green hair. The restaurant is open until 2 a.m. and is perfect for after-bar snacks: kimchee fried rice, calamari and beef bulgogi, heaps of noodles, crispy fried clucker, and jugs of thick, soju-infused cocktails. When you enter 7R\RVH it’s actually the quaintly decorated Korean restaurant of your imagination, with a tasty underground vibe to boot. Perfect for post-bar refreshment, true, but a destination in itself: you could lose yourself (and your party) in one of the huge, savory seafood casseroles or cauldrons of sizzling rice soup. And so affordable! No wonder it’s jam-packed with the young and hot. ! 7X[RNPJ </

BEST SHABU-SHABU FOR KLUTZES We’re not sure what your list of priorities looks like when it comes to promising soulmate candidates, but for us, that person better damn well know how to cook. Here’s one nifty little trick for finding out if the person across the table can adequately steam your beef: schedule a shabu-shabu date. The Japanese cuisine, which requires you to use chopsticks to cook your own thinly sliced meats and veggies in a shared hotpot, is incredibly fun and tasty — once you get the hang of it. The friendly 6KDEXVHQ in Japantown is our favorite, because it has an authentic atmosphere and a klutz-patient staff who don’t mind a little splashy ineptitude. And if your companion happens to be a butterfingers, you can always save face with one of Shabusen’s umami-riffic sukiyakis.

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BEST CAKE-TASTROPHES “I just want to make people read my evil shit,� gleefully wicked Bay Area meta-baker and blogger Shannon O’Malley of $SRFDO\SVH &DNHV told us last year. “Fatalistic gluttons!� Branch Davidian Texas Pecan Pie, Seismic Haitian Mudcake; Bird Flu Feather Cake, “Inexplicable� Blackbird Pie, Global Jihad Date Cake, even Gay Wedding Cake (there’s bondage involved) — O’Malley’s hilarious, conceptual “recipes for the End� play up our primal fascination with food and disaster while tweaking the foodie propensity for perky cultural appropriation. Now her End Times creations have been collected into an Apocalypse Cakes book, so you can unplug, retreat to your mountain survival hut, and indulge your millennial cravings, enraptured. JYXLJUbY\NLJTN\ `X[MY[N\\ LXV 2

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Noche Flamenca para Japo`n w/ La Tania and Friends A benefit for survivors of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami Friday July 29 / 7:30 pm / THEATER

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Misioneros de la Trova Alfredo Gomez, MamaCoAtl, Rafael ManrĂŹquez, and Mario Rojas

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BEST HIGHBROW WITH YOUR HIGHBALL Though we appreciate the legions of pubs that rely on still shots and a good jukebox to entertain, we sometimes feel the need to broaden our drunken horizons with a good dose of drama. For those times, 6DQ )UDQFLVFR 7KHDWHU 3XE is just the ticket. Chummily convened in the TenderNob’s low-key CafÊ Royale, San Francisco Theater Pub has performed new translations of classic Greek dramas and staged adaptations of Lovecraft, Whitman, Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi, Evgeny Shvart’s The Dragon, and Vlacav Havel’s The Audience, as well as a series of San Franciscothemed shorts and a 75-minute version of Shakespeare’s Henry the IV and V — all against a backdrop of barstools, beer mugs, and bad lighting. Best of all, admission is free, so you can spend more on beer. Ah, the sweet, sweet hangover of dramaturgy.

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Daly’s Dive) instantly transforming the Mid-Market bar into the seat of power for the progressive local government-in-exile: a place where revolutions are plotted and frustrations are soothed with strong drinks and juicy burgers. With SFGTV on the tube, Daly slinging classic cocktails and brewskis, and malcontents lining the bar, the Buck has become a refuge for leftist political junkies. And for those looking for shockingly clean bar bathrooms. 6J[TN] </ ! " !

BEST LORD OF METAL You can’t put 6ORXJK )HJ¡V 0LNH 6FDO]L in a tidy box. As front man of the cult local metal band — its most recent album, 2010’s The Animal Spirits, earned critical raves — he prowls the stage with a vaudevillian flair while performing blistering, melodious tunes (sample titles: “Trick the Vicar,â€? “Ask the Casketâ€?). Plus: he’s a sci-fi fan; he teaches philosophy at Diablo Valley College; and he occasionally pens highly articulate, commenter-rattling columns for respected metal blog Invisible Oranges. Slough Feg CONTINUES ON PAGE 48 >>

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will play a rare show Aug. 17 at the Elbo Room, opening for New Wave of British heavy metal legends Diamond Head. Voices will soar; faces will melt. www.sloughfeg.com BEST PLACE TO MEET YOUR MAKER If you ever need reminding that nerd is still the new black, 7HFK6KRS is at the ready. Inside this SoMa “open access public workshop� you’ll find a veritable wonderland of high-tech tools for metal- and wood-working, machining, fabric crafts, electronics, and robotics — with classes on how to use it all. Offerings range from entry-level courses on basic skills like soldering, laser-cutting, silkscreening, milling, and injectionmolding, to pro-pushing seminars on the latest precision machining tools and high-tech design soft-

ware. Individual memberships are a pricey, $100–$125 per month (less for students), but hey — at least you won’t have to buy your own 3-D scanner! Whether you have a skill you’re itching to hone, an invention you’d like to prototype, or a project you’re hoping to finalize, this shop’s capable crew will help you see it through. " 1X`J[M </ " ``` ]NLQ\QXY `\ ]\\O

BEST AEROSOL ROOTS It’s easy to forget, with the advent of sleekly produced, four-story street art extravaganzas, that graffiti used to be the strictly illegal pursuit of brave-crazy iconoclasts hustling around with backpacks full of signed FedEx stickers and cans of Krylon. But thanks to the self-described “lizard people� behind (QGOHVV &DQYDV, the art of the throw up is still being honored. The Bay Area street-art blog is updated daily with the kinds of pieces that’ll never star in a Warholian post — from ground

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BEST ’PICKS OF PASSION It is safe to say that Scott Weaver loves San Francisco. Leaving aside that Weaver’s family has called the City by the Bay home for three generations, the man has spent the majority of his life recreating the city’s charms with 100,000 toothpicks in an almost masochistically intricate behemoth he’s titled “5ROOLQJ 7KURXJK WKH %D\.� The sculpture

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BEST UN-EGGS-PECTED PUPPET SHOW The goofy brainchild of professional juggler Thomas John, ´7KH /DG\ RQ WKH :DOOâ€? turns the dry bones, childhood mystery of the fall of Humpty Dumpty into a convincingly hard-boiled puppet noir,

where all the puppets are eggs and almost all of them come to a rotten end. John’s deadpan, pun-filled narration and his deft physical manipulation of the principal players make “Lady� the best-laid plot starring a farm-fresh, extra-large dozen in the Bay. Performance runs are sporadic but well worth the watching and waiting. You can also catch John performing his combination clowningand-juggling shows on the Center Stage at Fisherman’s Wharf, and root for him as a final contestant on America’s Got Talent. Plus he plays the glockenspiel? Pretty crackin’, if you ask us. ``` PRP\JUJM LXV ]QXVJ\H SXQW

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BEST SING-ALONG FOR WANNABE SEA DOGS Admit it. You’ve always wanted to run away to sea. But landlubbin’ reality just keeps on getting in the way. Still, those Captain Kidd fantasies won’t go gently, so isn’t it great that there’s a safe space to live out your water-logged fantasies in real swashbuckling style? On the first Saturday of the month, at the very end of Hyde Street Pier (a National Park Service sanctuary for historic boats) a diverse crowd of young buffs and old salts gather together for a spirited sing-along, the 6HD &KDQWH\ 6LQJ. The atmosphere is pretty wholesome overall, but still a convivial anarchy reigns supreme. Want to lead a chantey? Go ahead. Want to improvise a harmony line during the chorus? Do it. Want to take a break and tool around the meticulously-restored tall boat Balclutha where the sing is held, cup of hot

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BEST SITE-SPECIFIC CLASSICISTS This year marks the end of :H 3OD\HUV¡ three-year collaboration with the National Parks Service on Alcatraz Island. The project showcased the island’s scenic isolation in a number of artistic and community-building endeavors. The stage company’s 2010 marathon production of Hamlet was a tour de force of site-specificity, taking actors and audiences all over the island, including areas normally off-limits to the public. In their imaginative stagings of Macbeth, Hamlet, and Iphigenia, as well as their ongoing art exhibitions for, by, and about incarcerated juveniles and adults, the Players highlight themes of isolation, incarceration, justice, and redemption. They wield their art as a catalyst rather than as nostalgic revival. Their Alcatraz residency ends in the fall. In 2012, it partners with the California Parks Service to stage The Odyssey on Angel Island. ``` `NYUJbN[\ X[P

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and the youth arts organization Loco Bloco (drummer Gomez, who joined the group when he was 12, is now its music director). The band incorporated the other sounds of the city: reggaeton, funk, old school Frisco hip-hop, reggae irie. Now with horns, timbales, and three emcees, it packs sweaty venues (and stages) with a diverse sound that could have only come from the Bay. A big band in the era of the iPhone DJ? With a new album, Mission Statement, dropping this summer, we bet there’s enough Bayonics love in this city to keep the party going. ``` KJbXWRL\ LXV

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for kids, with a discount, usually $15–$18, for accompanying adults. And while the idea of children learning the finer points of free jazz and bebop makes sense — kids love to improvise — Yoshi’s calendar actually factors in just about every genre other than heavy metal (start your tyke down that road with a copy of Black Sabbath). Recent $5 matinees have featured Hawaiian guitarist Willie K., flamenco guitarist Ottmar Liebert, and vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater’s tribute to Billie Holiday.

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BEST HOMEBOY SCRIBE Awash as it is in traffic-stopping murals and radical neighborhood galleries, the Mission hasn’t produced a lot of novels recently from its native sons and daughters. So when born-and-bred Missionite and City College literature professor %HQMDPLQ %DF 6LHUUD’s debut effort Barrio Bushido turned out to be a magical realistic, drug-andviolence-driven, sophisticated lyrical achievement, the ’hood rejoiced in its son. Bac Sierra’s readings at Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts turned out a capacity crowd, and a retinue of candy-painted,

hydraulic-powered low-riders lined the curb outside. With Bac Sierra as a role model, maybe the barrio won’t have to wait long for another of its own to follow suit and publish something great. ]XMXKXMXMX`W `X[MY[N\\ LXV

BEST DARKWAVE EMBRACE “Dark is the new light!� raves one online fan of San Francisco bleak-star rockers WKH 6RIW 0RRQ Outfit leader Luis Vasquez does double duty on conga and synth in Oakland-SF band, the Lumerians, weaving a sparkling, seething thread of exotica into that combo’s tropi-psych mind-meld. But the Soft Moon is where Vasquez chooses to tread darkly, venturing into an extremely chilled, vaguely menacing, yet exquisitely goth-derived and highly synthesized future. Rest assured, the way comes black-iced with ‘80s-era shivers and intimations of Krautrock. Armed live with driving beats, bat cave echoes, and stabbing black-and-white visuals, Vasquez and Co. are the Bay’s prime entries in the “darkwave� wave that’s been sweeping underground dance floors. The Soft Moon released its self-titled debut on Captured Tracks in 2010. Next stop — your shattered earbuds. ``` Vb\YJLN LXV ]QN\XO]VXXW

BEST KARAOKE PROUSTIAN The continued karaoke tyranny of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” induces revulsion on the order of Barney’s theme song. Now one fine man, maverick karaoke DJ 5RJHU 1LQHU, has taken a stand for all of us against the song’s monopoly. The wildly costumed, wildly fun Niner levies a $5 tax for its use, and uses the extra cash to buy more songs for his collection. Niner can usually be found at the

Parlor near Fisherman’s Wharf on Wednesdays, San Mateo’s Swingin’ Door on Thursdays and Fridays, and SoMa’s Butter on Sundays. Ever the intellect, his website quotes Marcel Proust: “Detest bad music but do not despise it. As it is played, and especially sung, much more passionately than good music, it has much more than the latter been impregnated, little by little, with man’s tears.”

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BEST “HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS” In 2010, Bay Area performance artist and provocateur Philip Huang bucked the notion of institutionalized artistic legitimacy and challenged his friends to stage performances in their own homes. “We can legitimize ourselves,” his manifesto promised, calling the welfare state of professional arts organizations a “crock of shit.” CONTINUES ON PAGE 52 >>

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Faggotina, Jorge P., and Amos G., pack El Rio with a festive spirit that celebrates fierce old-school style. In this age of mainstream gay integration, if not downright assimilation, it’s fascinating that alternative queer types are celebrating the music of another time of mass integration and civil rights extension. But beyond the cultural implications, Hard French is one wig-flipping, tongue-entangling hoot.

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ens of human butterflies, fluttering and whirling in the breeze as a DJ turns them out. Drawn by your fascination, you enter the fray, pick up a couple of psychedelic-patterned pieces of fabric, and begin to twirl with abandon. You’re floating with )ODJJLQJ LQ WKH 3DUN, the charitable monthly afternoon flood of queer love, put on by personal trainer Xavier Caylor and friends. Like fan-dancing, flagging (dancing with weighted pieces of fabric) is a decades-old gay dance floor tradition that has taken on a spiritual edge, calling up the memories of those affected by AIDS and drawing the blessing of our own spiritual godmothers, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. It’s also simply fabulous.

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BEST SHOEGAZERS ON THE BLOCK The distortion burns. The reverb uncoils in snakey moans. And the rubbery bass and authoritative tom push forward, ever forward, in the hands of vocalist-bassist Shaun Durkan, guitarist Kevin Johnson, and drummer Abe Pedroza of :HHNHQG. Formed just a year after the shoegaze pioneers of My Bloody Valentine made their way to San Francisco once more to play the hulking and reverberant Concourse, Weekend’s three unassuming childhood friends have managed to reform that cavernous shoegaze sound into something closely held and intimate, yet sweeping in its reach and tremulous with contemporary possibilities. The threesome’s first full-length album Sports (Slumberland, 2010), droned like 1990s post-punk yesterday once more — careening like a loud, unforgettable dream. End times have rarely sounded so breezy, so good. ``` Vb\YJLN LXV `NNTNWMV^\RL

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BEST WORD OF LAW Gone are the days when poetry readings were confined to the dimly lit coffee shops, public libraries and beat bars of urbania. San Francisco being one of the world’s meccas for all things literary, we word-worshipping denizens hardly bat an eyelash when we hear of something like the regular SRHWU\ UHDGLQJV DW 7RQ\ 6HUUD·V ODZ RIILFHV on Pier Five. Serra, who has made a career defending and championing society’s outcasts by expressing “the poetry of the law,” has been holding such events for three years, usually with a theme attached and a lively crowd attending. This year included poetry events celebrating Native American culture and the great, lost deserts of America. +[XJM`Jb </ "! " ``` YRN[ UJ` LXV S ]XWb \N[[J

BEST READY-MADE ROCK BAND The Byrds drawled it best: So you wanna be a rock ’n’ roll star? Then listen now, to what I say. Thanks Jim McGuinn, we’ll take it from here. Or rather, %OXH %HDU 6FKRRO RI 0XVLF·V EDQG ZRUNVKRSV will. The school sets groups of about seven beginnerlevel musicians to practice cover songs (genres range from rock to country) for three months with a very patient

teacher before they perform at Café Du Nord or Bottom of the Hill. Just don’t let it go to your head. Back to McGuinn: the money, the fame, and the public acclaim. Don’t forget what you are, you’re a star. +^RUMRWP - /X[] 6J\XW ,NW]N[ </ ``` KU^NKNJ[V^\RL X[P

BEST SIXTH STREET SENSE Does growing up in San Francisco make you an insider in its art scene? Definitely not — but it can be fertile ground for creating a scene of one’s own. Sixth Street resident and Filipino immigrant Reynaldo Cayetano Jr.’s passion for film photography led him to convene ,QNV RI 7UXWK, an art collective of young City College students and SF natives. The group has thrown packed multimedia art openings with live local hip-hop soundtracks all along Sixth Street — Rancho Parnassus, the House Kombucha factory, and Bayanihan Community Center. This year, group members got the keys to DA Arts, the onetime SF district attorney’s office, whose walls they have lined with stunning black and white photography of life on Sixth Street. -* *[]\ <Ra]Q <] </ ``` `Ra LXV Y^[YX\NKNbXWM[NJLQ RWT\XO][^]Q

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BEST SCARY CLOWN TOWN This could also be titled “worst place to go after you ingest hallucinogens,� but hell, don’t blame 3OD\ODQG 1RW $W 7KH %HDFK for its slightly creepy-carny vibe. Blame the former first lady of San Francisco’s seaside: Laughing Sal,

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storefront) and the project, 'D\V RI 6SULQJ, gave birth to cooking classes, music video shoots, yoga sessions, and sewing circles. More important, it quietly created a hangout for young, old, housed, and unhoused neighbors and San Franciscans. The 100 days are over, but the possibilities they generated — we hope — are just beginning.

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Center into a hand-woven, hydraulic-powered, homegrown healthy bacteria-sprouting maze of maker magic. The fair was also celebrating its fifth year in action (the East Bay edition of the fair takes place Oct. 16 in Oakland), having already turned on

BEST SINGLE-FILE STYLE If bikes are ever going to live up to their potential as game-changers in the world’s consumption of fossil fuels, their proponents are gonna need smarts, heart, and damn if they’re not gonna need style as well. Luckily, Tyrone “Baybe Champ” Stevenson Jr. has all three covered. The Oakland

cyclist started decorating his twowheelers with flashy strips of foil, elaborate sound systems, and kitschy corporate logos, sparking a movement that now claims a hip-hop video with more than 3 million hits on YouTube, a dedicated East Bay youth massive, and a world of imitators. The 2ULJLQDO 6FUDSHU %LNH 7HDP holds head-turning single-file group rides through its neighborhoods and has become a

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school art with pride — snazzing up placards with over-the-top fonts, providing elegant window signage for boutiques and restaurants, crafting appetizing menu boards, even revamping your Victorian with a gilded transom. Founder Damon Styer and crew have also branched out into the gallery scene: a recent art show at Guerrero Gallery featured work by present and past New Bohemia staff. The vintage feel, handmade aesthetic, and design-addict cache — New Bohemia’s products have

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making far from decent wages, working with toxic, health-shattering dyes. Small wonder then that local fiber movements are beginning to stitch. Visit Oakland yarn shop $ 9HUE )RU .HHSLQJ :DUP to be indoctrinated. Owner Kristine Vejar sells an in-house line of local fibers and natural dyes, and stocks other brands as well. Plus she gives classes on the skills you need to clothe yourself sustainably and hosts free sewing nights to develop community among people who purl — responsibly. ! <JW 9JKUX 8JTU " ! ``` J_N[KOX[TNNYRWP`J[V LXV

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BEST PROTOTYPES (PRIMATE OR OTHERWISE) The website of the )RDP 0RQNH\V concept modeling studio has an “awards� section that admits, “While we can’t honestly recall Foam Monkeys ever actually being mentioned for an award, the company has certainly been a part of many award-winning product development teams.� But we’re giving the company itself a real, bona fide Best of the Bay to boast about. Why? Because! Here you can not only construct a polyurethane primate, but also all sorts of useful stuff — like prototypes for everything from MacBooks to microchips. Sure, the company @E;<G<E;<EK# CF:8CCP$FNE<; s J8E =I8E:@J:F 98P >L8I;@8E s J=9>%:FD s 9<JK F= K?< 98P )'(( 69

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BEST CHEAP PLACE TO SCORE A CUP AND A CONRAD Literature and coffee: such sweet, sweet dependencies. Enable both on the cheap at 5HDGHU¡V &DIp Inconspicuous to those on a casual Fort Mason stroll, this used book treasure trove on the bay is infinite and grand once found. With $20, it’s possible to take home a few written works (some only $1!) and still have change for indulging in a custom-brewed cup of Blue Bottle. Reader’s is a production of the San Francisco Friends of the Library, so not only does each

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BEST ANTI-GOLIATH GAME FACE After a five-year effort by chainwary neighborhood activists to keep it off the grand hippie boulevard, megachain Whole Foods opened at Haight and Stanyan streets early this year. It furthered the neighborhood’s fitful transmogrification into Fancy Town (or Ashbury Valley, the ’hood’s new NoPa-like real estate agency-created moniker), but +DLJKW 6WUHHW 0DUNHW is rising to this market-share challenge. With shifts starting before the crack of dawn, the 30-year-old family-owned shop has stepped it up, adding a high-quality butcher counter, a deli, the least pricey and most diverse beer selection in the Upper Haight, and a buffed-up coffee selection. If only all small businesses could up their game in the face of corporate claims. 1JRPQ] </ ``` QJRPQ]\][NN]VJ[TN] LXV

BEST LEATHER-SCENTED TIME WARP Stepping into cobbler 6X]DQQH *HRUJH’s shop is like entering a hide-covered time warp. George crafts her clodhoppers in much the same way that shoes were made several hundred years ago. She works the leather by hand, stitching the pieces with thread and hammering it all together with actual nails. Not only are the shoes custom-made to fit every tootsie they encase, they are also unique pieces of art, nearly too lovely to take tramping on the dirty pavement. George shares her high-quality, low-technology workshop with Peter, a shoemaker originally from Italy who used to make sandals for Mother Teresa. Together they make some damn fine throwback sling-backs. ! ,Q^[LQ </ ``` \^cJWWNPNX[PN\QXN\ LXV

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BEST RING OF SUCCESS Jewelry — it can be scary! We don’t mean the fun ornamental kind of jewelry, like Celtic nipple rings or jade idol earrings or purple pentagram pendants (although those can be scary too). No, we’re referring to real jewelry — like the fancy traditional kind you’d better get right or Bridezilla/o is gonna ’splode and slap you silly with a rolled-up copy of Country Weddings magazine. How will you know how to score the perfect engagement ring, or wedding band, or anniversary bracelet, or birthday watch? Don’t fret. The enormously helpful and nice folks of -XVW %DQGV will help you with everything, from sizing and color to design and polish. Their showroom in the labyrinthine San Francisco Gift Center sparkles not CONTINUES ON PAGE 74 >>

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BEST BARREL FULL OF MONKEY SUITS Let’s face it, if you’re a happenin’ gentleman or a trouser-trusting lady in this fancy-pants city, you’re going to need to bust out the occasional tuxedo. But who wants to spend a few hundred bucks on a new tux? Screw that noise, get over to +HOG 2YHU and check out the selection of $20 used tux shirts and wide variety of full monkey suits — from the 1970s-style mariachi look to something a bit more classic. Hell, why don’t you mix-andmatch it up? They’ve already got you in a suit, so you might as well have some fun with it. 1JRPQ] </ ! ! !

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(SFPD) said its response was justified because Harding fired at officers first. The investigation in Harding’s case took a bizarre twist July 21 when SFPD issued a press release based on a medical examiner’s report stating that Harding had died not from rounds fired by police, but a self-inflicted gunshot wound. But among communities distrustful of the police, the particulars of each case seemed to matter less than the perception that officers are too quick to escalate conflicts into deadly standoffs. Both incidents provoked intense anger because they resulted in marginalized transit passengers suffering sudden, violent deaths following interactions that were initiated by police. The shootings sparked angry protests, prompting standoffs at Civic Center BART Station, along the T-Third line in the Bayview, on Valencia Street, in Dolores Park, inside the Castro Muni Station, and at the cable car turnaround on Powell Street. A group of activists staged protests in the Mission following the Bayview police shooting, snaking through the streets as they disrupted traffic and public transit service. “The march began at Dolores Park where nearly 200 of us departed,” an anonymous post on the anticapitalist Bay of Rage website recounted, describing the events of

a July 19 protest that resulted in 43 arrests. “Upon reaching the Castro Muni Station, all hell broke loose.... What had now become a mob moved effortlessly past the bewildered cops ... Trash was set alight and thrown down onto the tracks below ... ticket machines, the fare checkpoints, and the agent booth were all smashed with hammers and flags — totally ruined. Smoke bombs and fireworks were thrown throughout the station.” This display occurred just eight days after protesters shut down BART stations in downtown San Francisco during rush hour to condemn the fatal shooting of Hill, the homeless BART passenger. The message from outraged Bayview residents at a chaotic and emotionally charged community forum staged July 20 at the Bayview Opera House was not that people were upset that this had happened to Harding, a Washington state resident, in particular. Instead, people expressed outrage that police had gunned down yet another African American youth, and that unless some complicated and longstanding issues were addressed, it could happen again, to anyone. The forum was organized in partnership with the SFPD and clergy members from the Bayview. Police had prepared a PowerPoint presentation, but never managed to get that far. At the meeting, Police Chief

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Legislative Analyst report recommending that the board consider submitting a proposition to the voters to repeal the 1932 refuse ordinance so that future collection and transportation services be put to bid. The report also recommended that future residential and commercial refuse collection rates be subject to board approval. But with two progressive supervisors running in citywide elections this fall, and with Recology exerting massive pressure on elected officials, the Kelly coalition could not find four supervisors to place such a charter amendment on the November ballot, forcing them to launch their own initiative. And at the July 20 meeting of the board’s Budget and Finance Committee, Sup. Ross Mirkarimi, who is running for sheriff, and Sup. Jane Kim rescinded their initial decision to send the agreements to the full Board without recommendation. Instead, after the committee had moved on to other business, they joined Chair Carmen Chu, one of the most conservative supervisors, in forwarding the Recology agreements to the full board with unanimous support. Mirkarimi interrupted the committee’s next discussion to rescind the landfill vote. “I think there was some misunderstanding a little bit in wrapping up the landfill agreements with Recology, “ Mirkarimi said. He said that he asked for the vote to be rescinded, “so we can accurately reflect some of the sentiments being articulated here. I think we just learned some things on the fly.” In many respects, the switch by Kim and Mirkarimi made sense: prior to their initial vote, they made positive statements about the proposed agreements, but also stated an interest in exploring the appropriateness of the city’s 1932 law. “Overall, I think this was a good contract,” Kim said. But she noted that, thanks to the 1932 ordinance, the city doesn’t get franchise fees. And she claimed that it only gets half of what other Bay Area cities get from their waste contractors. “So, I’m really interested in continuing that conversation, but I think it’s a separate conversation,” she said. Mirkarimi said it was his concerns that led the committee to “put a pause” on the Recology agreements until it could “undertake more homework.” He also noted that his office

“held a number of meetings” and he tried to “leverage this opportunity to reanimate activity at the Port.” “I was hoping that we might be able to arrive at something much more deliverable,” Mirkarimi said, presumably referring to the fact that these efforts resulted in DoE unveiling an amendment to include two “possible changes” to operations and facilities at the Port of San Francisco in the agreements. These changes involve utilizing other modes of transportation, including barges, as alternatives to the rail-haul plan proposed in the agreement. They also call for developing new facilities at the Port for handling waste, recyclables, organics, and other refuse. The cost of such alternatives would be passed onto the rate payers. “I think that, cost-effectively, we may be able to insert the Port into this equation, but it’s not ready for prime-time yet,” Mirkarimi said. He concluded by saying that Recology has been innovative in reducing the city’s waste stream. “This should be a front-burner conversation,” Mirkarimi said, noting that former Mayor Gavin Newsom focused on making San Francisco “the greenest city” in the United States. He added that San Francisco claims to have a 77 percent diversion rate, the highest in the U.S., and said, “That comes at a cost, it doesn’t come for free.” After the meeting, DoE deputy director David Assmann said that the City Attorney’s Office is reviewing WM’s filing. “But it’s too soon to comment,” Assmann said. He also claimed that, thanks to the 1932 ordinance, “there was no practical way” for another company to transport San Francisco’s waste to its designated landfill, “other than building a second transfer station outside the city.” But Kelly continued to express concerns that the agreements are not competitive, and that the city lacks a contract and ensuing franchise fees. “They are running this as if it’s still the 1950s,” he said. Kelly claimed that Recology Vice President John Legnitto, who is the 2011 chair of the SF Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors, recently told him that Recology has been in negotiations with City Hall around a $4 million franchise fee, but that the money would now be spent opposing Kelly’s competitive bidding initiative. 2

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Wed, July 27

AVERAGE WHITE BAND

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Tivon Pennicott, Bobby Rodriguez, Billy Childs & More!

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Wed, Aug 3

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