Fanfare

San Francisco: Places to go, people to see

By BY Examiner Staff • August 27, 2007 12:00 am

The S.F. Mime Troupe ends its summer season with free performances of the satire “Making a Killing” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Monday at Dolores Park, 18th and Dolores streets, San Francisco. The show follows two Army newspaper reporters assigned to write a puff piece on the construction of an American-funded hospital in Iraq. Visit www.sfmt.org.

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