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Top 5 Insurance Agents in San Francisco
Ever wondered who your neighbors use to insure their car or home? Find out now and support local businesses in your town. Be sure to compare rates from more than one "experienced" agent!
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Superstar Pianist Lang Lang Lengthens His San Francisco Stay - Inside Bay Area
one inescapable truth about pianist lang lang is that he's never long out of sight. every time you turn around, the rock-star-status classical artist from china with the outsized personality and the don king hairdo (it looks better on lang lang) is ...
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Sf Supervisor Proposes New Restrictions On Chain Stores
san francisco-- -- a san francisco supervisor is proposing restricting new chain stores along van ness avenue. the proposal follows the enactment of similar restrictions in north beach and hayes valley, and the planning commission's approval of restrictions on grant avenue in chinatown.
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Industry Buzz
nothing but the blues: in the tradition of "ray" and "walk the line," the music biopic most likely to get tongues wagging this fall is "cadillac records." focused on the chicago blues scene circa 1955, the movie tells the true story of record-label impresario...
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C-fu Gourmet - Phoenix New Times
one of the few valley chinese restaurants that could hold its own in new york's or san francisco's chinatown. c-fu specializes in seafood so fresh, most of it is still swimming when you order it. don't miss the chrysanthemum-steamed fish, marco polo ...
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Keeping Alive California's Chinese Legacy - Inside Bay Area
it wasn't enough to pen a book on marysville's chinatown, the last remaining active chinatown from california's gold rush. piedmonter brian tom also realized a lifelong dream of establishing a chinese-american museum in marysville, after years of ...
www.insidebayarea.com

Wine And Dine Time
partying with sean penn? check.
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Wine And Dine Time
hollywood -- partying with sean penn? check. cocktails with clint? check. dinner with the dark knight? check. yep, it's that time again -- the calendars of hollywood's awards-voters are filling up fast with swanky meet-and-greets intended to "remind" them about all those laudable contenders.
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Metrolink Riders Take Advantage Of Holiday Fare - Riverside Press Enterprise
bob barton, of san bernardino, his wife and two teenage daughters got tired of traditional thanksgiving day get-togethers. "we kind of made our own tradition of doing adventurous things," says 18-year-old megan barton. they hiked in idyllwild one ...
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Professor Plays Conductor To Model Railway Exhibit's Design - Daily Californian
charles sullivan, a uc berkeley professor of landscape architecture who also goes by chip, has loved trains since he was a boy. on his first christmas ever, his grandfather gave him a lionel model train, and since then he has been surrounded by train ...
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Cable Car Rides Are The Real San Francisco Treat
san francisco --- some 7.5 million people ride san francisco's cable cars each year. many of them board at powell and market streets, the famous turnaround site at the end of the line. tourists can snap pictures of workers manually swiveling the cars around to begin the route again.
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Between The Lines: Life Stories Are Big Titles
in my fall books preview (oct. 13), experts within the $23 billion book industry said the upcoming season would trend toward fiction by a-list authors and a long list of autobiographies and biographies. as new titles continue to appear, the part about autobiographies and biographies seems understated. here's a sampling of same, some juicer than others, and a few now on bestseller lists: ...
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Blacks, Gays Discuss Fallout Over Prop. 8 - San Francisco Gate
more than 200 people attended a discussion wednesday at the lgbt community center on market street in san francisco, and many african americans said they were frustrated with the finger-pointing. black panelists blamed the media for provoking the ...
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Singapore Sizzles With The Best Street Food - Times Online
any country that bans chewing gum can’t be all bad, particularly when the same controlling attitude also created some of the world’s most vibrant street food. decades ago, singapore’s bureaucrats decided every food vendor in the country must be ...
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Spin Cycle - San Francisco Gate
former president bill clinton, aiming to provide the critical boost to help the democratic party take back the house of representatives, will headline a $1 million star-studded fundraiser in san francisco just days before the election to raise cash ...
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Site Presented By - Salon
a scene from "the boys in the band." two years before he won the best-director oscar for his genre-shaping cop thriller "the french connection," william friedkin made an entirely different film, one that was in its own way every bit as revolutionary ...
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Minus Ebert, 'at The Movies' Sees Ratings Drop 23% - Los Angeles Times Blogs
the people behind "at the movies" are discovering that life can be hard without roger ebert. earlier this year, walt disney co. revealed plans to shake up the syndicated movie-reviewing show. longtime co-host ebert, who'd been off the program ...
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