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America’s watchdog is you

While it's true that some traditional media outlets, especially newspapers, might go the way of the Hummer, not everyone thinks the future is as grim as it seems. Here's one aspiring journalist's take on the future of journalism. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNHEwpRw5ss
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Got Spice?

By Lauren Jones Interdisciplinary artist and art features editor of Hyphen magazine, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, shows us her Asian roots this March in To Curry Favor and Tea Time. An interdisciplinary artist Bhaumik, is of Bengali, Columbian and Japanese descent. A self-proclaimed obsessive, Bhauik says she is inspired by materials and the connotations they carry. Her solo show, To Curry Favor, at the Mission art gallery 18 Reasons explores the belief that scents ca...
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Fight against AIDS brings Isiolo and San Francisco together

by Khaboshi Imbukwa When I visited Pepo la Tumaini, I did not know what to expect. Images of bone-thin women walking around aimlessly and sick children coughing, and sneezing filled my mind. A short drive through the dry parched land led me to a lone building with many young and old people milling around the compound. Some of the old had a look of hopelessness on them -- like the world was about to end. Others seemed happy - happy to be alive, but I did not know that part until much later. ...
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Journalism 101: What not to do on the job

"And of course being one of the new people at Mission Loc@l, I knew I was bound to mess up at some point ..." San Francisco State University journalism student Mabel Jimenez talks about an important lesson she learned recently while working as a photo intern for Mission Loc@l.
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Update: Man who jumped to his death identified

by Christopher Haire A man who fell to his death from a seven-story building on the corner of Market and Powell streets has been identified as Dylan Yount of San Francisco. Yount was 32, according to the medical examiner's office. No other details on Yount are known at this time. EARLIER ... An unknown man fell to his death from a seven-story building on the corner of Market and Powell streets at 3:45 p.m. today, according to eye-witness and police accounts. The death is being invest...
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