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‘Mary Poppins’ chimney sweep ‘blackface’ dance is racist, claims tutorial
The chimney sweep dance in Mary Poppins, led by Dick van Dyk’s affable jack-of-all-trades Burt, harks back to ‘blackface’ tropes,…
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Let’s Go Chasing Waterfalls (and Wildflowers and Mushrooms)
Lesley McClurg Apr 10 at 9:00 AM Failed to save article Please try again (Sumiko Scott via Getty Images) Guests:…
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Pillars of Jewish neighborhood held certainly one of SF’s most superb Christmas events
For decades, one of the most splendid Christmas celebrations in San Francisco took place at a grand Queen Anne Victorian…
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Oak Hearth burns down a pair’s Midpines dwelling, they see it on TV
Plumes of sinister-looking smoke were billowing over Midpines and Steve and Andrea Ward were scrambling to grab what belongings they…
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Golda Rosheuvel performs Not My Job on NPR’s ‘Wait Wait… Do not Inform Me!’ : NPR
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: The following program was taped in front of an audience of real, live people. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) BILL…
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Lawsuit alleges utility PacifiCorp sparked lethal McKinney Fireplace
Victims of the McKinney Fire that destroyed homes and killed four people in Siskiyou County have sued the Oregon-based utility…
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What we’ve discovered as we renovate our beloved S.F. house
My old friend Amanda was having work done on her home in the Catskills. She called me one evening, almost…
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Former Belleville Mayor Mark Eckert dies after battle with most cancers
Mark Eckert, the second-longest-serving mayor in the history of Belleville, Illinois, died Wednesday after a seven-month battle with cancer. He…
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Evanston Metropolis Council votes in favor of increasing its reparations program to restore housing discrimination
CNN — As a child, Robin Rue Simmons didn’t know the Evanston neighborhood she called home was an area where…
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DC outsider Doug Burgum on the Capitol Hill Membership
North Dakota governor Doug Burgum is used to being counted out — and he brought that underdog energy to a…
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