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Dear Democrats:

26 August 2008

Look, I won’t even get (too far) into the absurdity of the “unify the party” storyline. Those articles, even though they seem based on a handful of self-righteous, myopic delegates, are the result of resorting to negative campaigning in the primaries. Thanks, Hillary, for giving McCain video clips he can use in ads against Obama. […]

Hot Lixx airs home World Championship!

26 August 2008

USA WINS AIR GUITAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
AMERICAN CHAMPION HOT LIXX HULAHAN SHINES ON INTERNATIONAL STAGE
On August 20th, San Francisco native CRAIG BILLMEIER (aka ‘HOT LIXX HULAHAN’), traveled to the Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland, carrying with him dreams of World Air Guitar glory and the flag of the United States.
Billmeier was crowned […]

Loyal Army opening on Haight (near cole) Aug. 28

25 August 2008

Gone is a SSCCTT (store selling complete crap to tourists), as Happy Trails closed to our collective yawns and shrugs and “huhs?”
So after the obligatory happy trails to Happy Trails, we welcome Loyal Army and its legion of tweenage girls to 1728 Haight St. Or whomever shops there. Whatever. Will that “whatever” ingratiate us […]

Beat music editor heads to Burning Man with all our Outside Lands pics

24 August 2008

We were at the festival. We previewed it. We covered it.
But all the pics are on their way to Black Rock City….
Sigh.

Encourage housing fraud much?

22 August 2008 1 comment

Readers of the depicted mass mailer will be sold on the $650 one-bedrooms… And the letter on the reverse side makes absolutely no mention of low-income or senior age requirements. So it’ll just take a quick phone call to grandma to reduce your rent by 66%… Kinds seems like the designer of this mailer prioritized […]

Obama is Biden his time

20 August 2008

Sen. Joe Biden really should be Obama’s VP pick… and The Beat is confident he’ll be one announced this week. We simply wanted to go on record beforehand, and publish that irresistible headline…

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