Volume 44, Issue 12

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Volume 44, Issue 12

News & Culture

Eleventh-hour shopping

The Guardian's last-minute gift guide

Molly Freedenberg

Cover Story

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Top Stories

PG&E attack mailer puts City Hall on defensive

Green City: SF officials are investigating whether PG&E broke the law with these misleading mailers

Rebecca Bowe

Top Stories

Choosing fear over kids

Only the U.S. and Somalia have refused to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child

Sarah Morrison

Top Stories

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Food & Drink

Le Colonial

Mise en (Cosmo) place: The atmospheric former home of Trader Vic's serves French-influenced Vietnamese cuisine

Paul Reidinger

Comfort and joy

Ruen Pair

L.E. Leone

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Arts & Culture

Getting Xmas Twisted

Twisted Sister tackles the holidays

Kimberly Chun

Digging

Special shoutouts for new releases

Marke B.

8, 9 ... 2010

Eight 2009 musical phenoms to celebrate on the cusp of a new decade

Johnny Ray Huston

Watching the detective

Guy Ritchie and Robert Downey Jr. deliver an entertaining Sherlock Holmes

Ben Richardson

Bridges abides

Will Crazy Heart earn the Hollywood vet a long-deserved Oscar?

Dennis Harvey

Swans, symmetry, and sensations

Looking back at 2009's top dance performances and events

Rita Felciano

Curtain calls

The year that almost ate China, or after the deluge

Robert Avila

Art, work, and artwork

Artist-run groups move beyond doodling for dollars in a screwed-up economy

Spencer Young