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Photo contest: Accepting entries now

Do you have a photo or illustration that captures San Francisco's neighborhoods? Maybe you have a favorite place in San Francisco that you want the world to see? Submit your entries to editor@sfnewshub.com. Best work will be featured here at SF News Hub. Please submit as a JPG at 602x245 an 100x75. For more questions, e-mail editor@sfnewshub.com.
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Ex-Chron Editor Bill Pates: The way I got into it

One in the “Seeking the Truth” series Director: Yumi Wilson Editor: Marlo McKenzi Former San Francisco Chronicle letters editor Bill Pates opens up on his views about his career and identity at The San Francisco Chronicle. He also reveals what he studied before he got into journalism and admits that he's a "second-generation Chronicle lifer."
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LGBT Center draws thousands of diverse youth

By Jennifer Terman Driving down San Francisco’s Market Street, it is clear to see that the diversity of the city is ubiquitous. Every person has a unique style of dress, of ambiance, of walking. Drivers zigzag their way through tangled intersections. Every building is a different shade, a different architectural design, each offering up something else to the world. Such a diverse building is the one with many panes of glass and the typical Victorian-style San Francisco architecture, with tur...
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SF’s ‘Bushman’ hitting hard times

By Alberto Penalva David Johnson, better known as “The World Famous Bushman” sat on a blue crate on the sidewalk holding two large green eucalyptus branches, hiding his body from the view of oncoming people. He quickly pops out from behind the branches and yells at two unsuspecting women walking towards him, scaring them and making the closer women let out a yell. They laugh once they realize they have just been had. In a matter of minutes, he manages to scare enough people that th...
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‘The Who’s Tommy’ is big hit at Ray of Light

By Cynthia Waters It’s 7:58 P.M. on an October night in the heart of San Francisco’s famous Mission District. “Places” have been called for the actors and the audience chatters excitedly in anticipation. As the clock hits 8 and the lights dim, the entirety of the Mission’s Victoria Theatre erupts into applause as the live band hits the first note and the red curtain soars open. Such was the scene for the opening of an on stage rendition of The Who’s Tommy, the classic 1960s rock opera wh...
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