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- ... that the graffiti that has been removed from San Francisco's Vaillancourt Fountain includes slogans painted on it by its sculptor (pictured)?
- ... that Douce noir, which is known as Charbono (pictured) in California and Bonarda in Argentina, has been called both a "cult wine" and "the Rodney Dangerfield of wine"?
- ... that When the Game Stands Tall is an upcoming film about the De La Salle High School 151-game high school football winning streak?
- ... that in August 1975, almost the entire San Francisco Police Department staged a strike as the city refused a pay increase for them?
- ... that Gavin Arthur, grandson of United States President Chester A. Arthur, worked as an astrologer and sexologist in San Francisco in the 1960s?
May/June 2013