Who was William Shakespeare? Was he the Bard of Avon, the rags-to-riches playwright whose brilliant command of language produced “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”? Or was he a drunk, a fraud and a shameless opportunist?
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BART will vote on a policy Thursday to determine when — if ever — it’s appropriate to shut down cellphone service in district stations.
The transit agency received international criticism following its decision on Aug. 11 to scramble cellphone service in its downtown San Francisco stations as a way to avert a planned protest. Activists were planning on demonstrating that day against the shooting death of 45-year-old Charles Hill by BART police officers.
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Screenwriter John Orloff tried to get his Shakespeare movie made. “Shakespeare in Love” in 1998 was one big roadblock, but Orloff kept at it.After a 20-year journey, “Anonymous” finally opens Friday in Bay Area theaters.“Anytime I was in a meeting with someone, I’d pitch it, and one time I was in a room with Roland Emmerich,” says Orloff, during a recent Bay Area visit.
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Cellphone service could still be shut down in BART stations — but only under extraordinary circumstances — if a policy resolution is approved next week by the agency’s board of directors.BART has come under intense national and international criticism for its decision to shut down cellphone service Aug. 11 in order to quell a planned protest.
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Dozens of protesters stormed into the vacant Cathedral Hill Hotel about 6:30 tonight as part of a demonstration organized by Homes Not Jails that started at the Civic Center around 5 p.m. According to its website, the organization advocates for the use of vacant and abandoned housing for people who are homeless.
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A group of homeless people and their advocates will gather at San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza Monday to march and occupy vacant properties as part of World Homeless Action Day, organizers said.Homes Not Jails, a group that advocates using vacant and abandoned housing for the homeless, will rally beginning at 5 p.m. at Civic Center and march directly to vacant properties, "reclaiming them for homeless families and individuals," the group said in a press release.
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Several hundred people picketed in front of bank branches throughout downtown San Francisco on Thursday afternoon, chanting slogans and hoisting signs that placed the blame for the country’s ongoing economic trouble on Wall Street tycoons.
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More than one month after BART spokesman Linton Johnson went on personal leave following internal and external criticism of his actions, he isn’t yet back on the job and agency officials will not discuss his possible return.
Members of the Web activist collective Anonymous targeted Johnson for apparently advocating the disruption of BART cellphone service to quell a planned protest of the agency’s July 3 shooting of 45-year-old Charles Hill.
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All things must come to an end — including BART protests.The seventh consecutive planned demonstration called by the online hacker group Anonymous officially fizzled Monday when only three protesters came to the UN Plaza and Civic Center station.Barbara Bettenburg, 61, of San Francisco was one of the three. She held a sign that read, “Stand down BART police.” Another protester left after 15 minutes.Bettenburg said police brutality is worthy of outrage.
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State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, a longtime advocate for reform of BART’s police department, will hold an oversight hearing next week on the agency’s embattled police force.
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