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submitted by Collin Frost 202 weeks 3 days 12 hours 35 minutes ago
It is fitting that the Liberty Theatre's friskiest ghost is a man dressed as a sailor.
The first time Jeff Hathcock says he saw him, the apparition was sitting quietly in a back row. "I said 'Hi' and he just put his head down," the theater's director...(more)
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submitted by Suzy for team Batboy's revenge! 171 weeks 2 days 21 hours 38 minutes ago
This little town is in the dark and proud of it.
Where other places greet the night by lighting up their streets and tourist attractions, this one goes the other way — low-energy sodium lamps are shielded from above, and household lights must face down, not up.
The...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 167 weeks 2 days 22 hours 9 minutes ago
Amid a blur of blue surgical scrubs, with doctors and nurses whirling by, a row of patients lay in a pre-op room - their feet swathed in surgical booties, their heads covered in bonnets, their arms hooked to tendrils of medical tubing.
"I want to go back...(more)
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submitted by Lisa 177 weeks 3 days 14 hours 31 minutes ago
It's difficult to say what is more remarkable about the hallucinogenic interior of the Fox Oakland Theater: the Moorish details that flood the ceilings and walls, or the fact it survived decades of neglect.
"It's a wonderful glimpse of the past," said Kurt Schindler, a principal of...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 120 weeks 2 days 14 hours 42 minutes ago
Get a glimpse of the accoutrements of wealth enjoyed by one of California's most influential families in the last exhibition before the new Crocker Art Museum opens. Indulge your passion for playing with trains at the California State Railroad Museum. Or sample some of the lesser-known...(more)
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submitted by Marco 106 weeks 2 days 2 hours 20 minutes ago
Trixxie Carr, above, dances Sunday at the 11th annual How Weird Street Faire, a party along San Francisco's Howard Street with the goal of creating peace through art. The eight-hour celebration featured 10 stages of electronic music, fashion shows and an... San Francisco - How Weird...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 195 weeks 3 days 20 hours 41 minutes ago
It is a mélange of colors and sounds and smells. Among the diverse mini-cultures in and around Los Angeles County, the pocket of Indian businesses clustered mainly on Pioneer Boulevard in Artesia in the southeast part of the county is among the most distinctive of the...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Batboy's revenge! 129 weeks 3 days 21 hours 6 minutes ago
A young Berkeley family takes off for an outing. Dining room chairs and a fruit basket provide some of the vehicle's seating. The driver needs a heavy glove. Photo from Richard Schwartz's book "Berkeley 1900: Daily Life at the Turn of the Century."
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Batboy's revenge! 148 weeks 3 days 55 minutes ago
The blogosphere has been buzzing for days over the perky widow who stole the handsome gay guy from his longtime partner.
She's been called a "home wrecker" and the sobriquet that rhymes with witch, and lambasted as a wretch "who only lives for her own happiness, no...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 78 weeks 2 days 20 hours 20 minutes ago
The sight of four reindeer prancing into a gated den at the San Francisco Zoo on Saturday drew a chorus of gasps from children who were stunned to learn the animals really lived.
"But ... where are their wings?" asked one boy.
His parents stammered for a moment...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Urban farming 98 weeks 3 days 17 hours 18 minutes ago
I guess they're just clearing brush...
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written by emma lohle 254 weeks 4 days 11 hours 24 minutes ago
clorox: 7.99
toilet brush: 4.99
being acknowledged as the grossest bathroom in a major metropolitan area: priceless
