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Pretty Pretty Collective

By Atticus MorrisThe Guardsman Throngs of tattooed, skinny-jean-wearing scenesters crowded the north side of 22nd Street at Valencia on Saturday Sept. 11, sipping PBR tall boys and drinking wine from plastic cups at the grand opening gala for the Pretty Pretty Collective. The PPC is a new “concept salon” wedged

Mexico Bicentennial

By Estela FuentesThe Guardsman Hundreds gathered at Civic Center Plaza to celebrate Mexico's Independence Bicentennial on Sept. 15. The Celebration was put together by the Consulate of Mexico, with help from the office of the mayor and sponsorship from various corporations and media outlets. “It is important to

Speaking in Tongues

By Gayle YglesiasThe Guardsman “Speaking in Tongues” is a documentary that follows four kids and their exposure in various “immersion classes” that allow them to develop their skills in different languages to become bilingual at an early age. An immersion class is a class that is taught in a specific

Mercado Mission

By Angela PennyThe Guardsman Once a week, a dismal alleyway in the heart of the Mission transforms into “Mercado Communitario de la Mission,” or Mission Community Market, a vibrant farmer’s market and street fair. Located on Bartlett Street between 21st and 22nd Streets, the market is directly across from

Chamber Resignations

By Don ClydeContributing Writer The chancellor of the California community college system, Jack Scott, and the president of the University of California, Mark Yudof, resigned from the California Chamber of Commerce board of directors after the board voted Sept. 3 to endorse Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman. Scott wrote a

Dodging Democrats

By Angela PennyThe Guardsman If non-conservatives don’t break through our collective malaise and vote for Democrats this November, we are putting ourselves in danger of surrendering political control to a small group of uber-conservative zealots. The only people who would benefit from this are religious fundamentalists and greedy billionaires.

prop 20 pro

By Patrick MakiriThe Guardsman Proposition 20 will extend a measure that California voters had already approved 2 years ago. Proposition 11 was passed in 2008 to address redistricting issues at the state assembly level by stripping the legislature of its power to redraw district lines and awarding that power to