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Volume 44, Issue 22

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Volume 44, Issue 22

News & Culture

Where landlords, developers, and cars are king

The Ellis Act has been responsible for thousands of San Franciscans losing their homes — and a new twist has been developing in Chiu's district

Guardian Staff Writers
Editorial
Editor's Notes

Maybe the state has gotten so bad, the red ink so awful, that Californians will finally realize that they can't have good public services for free

Tim Redmond
A progressive primary for District 6

Heading into the first open-seat race in District 6 in 10 years, we have to take care to not become victims of our own success

Chris Daly
Still defying gravity

Defenestration Project could get a bright new life before its looming death

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Volume 44, Issue 22

Food & Drink

Specchio

Mirror, mirror: Specchio offers stylishly traditional north-Italian cooking in an ultra-modern Mission setting

Paul Reidinger
Shipwrecked

Toiling in the tropics...and chili cheese hotlinks in the Mission

L.E. Leone

Volume 44, Issue 22

Arts & Culture

Dames on the brain

Columbia's new two-volume, eight-film set "Bad Girls of Film Noir"

Ben Terrall
Sly 'n' sincere

Don't confuse this Brit with Britney. Plus: Midlake and Barn Owl and Daniel Higgs

Kimberly Chun
To hurl or not to hurl

Tegan and Sara don't want your dirty laundry

Amber Schadewald
Riff evangelists

Shrinebuilder create a New Testament for the electric church

Ben Richardson
New New Orleans

Gotta shake at the party-riot — Galactic's got supafunkrock and sissy bounce

Mosi Reeves
Education of a felon

France's Oscar-nominated A Prophet charts a mobster's rise

Kimberly Chun
My son, my son, what have ye done

In praise of Kimberly Reed's stranger-than-fiction Prodigal Sons

Dennis Harvey
No regular play

Intriguing parties and the music they'll ravish you with

Marke B.
Marshall amps

Two new books by San Francisco photographer Jim Marshall intensify the love of music

Johnny Ray Huston
Arts & Culture