they have laundromats. they have their own spaces where they read, play video games. it is really like a small, microcosm of what they might find back in the united states. >> what do you hope that viewers take away from seeing your body of work or the exhibition as a whole? >> i think it is important for people to question how much we do or do not know about afghanistan, but conflict in general. too often today, i think we see one or two images and we think we understand what is going on in a part of the world, and we should try to get away from that. we should question what we know about a conflict, where we got the information, and always look for new perspectives and new focus is on topics that we think we already understand. >> james, thank you for spending time with us, and congratulations on the exhibition and letting san francisco see this big body of work of yours. >> thanks. >> welcome to "culture wire." today we're headed to smpling f. camera works, a premiere venue for artists working in photographer, video, and digital media. the latest exhibition lists c

it has an apartment house, laundromat, other stores, where my wife purchaser bicycle, and a host of other things. they did not do anything about that. basically it is the private 49'er stadium. which was privately controlled by private interest. the final and inconvenient truth is that the hanc recycling center actually serves the community without taking from the community, as other private interests have done for so long. i would urge you to support this excellent resolution. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i have lived in 7 cisco since 1970 and used hanc many times for recycling. especially cardboard. i have also taken several classes at the garden for the environment. we have the machines at bell market on 24th street in the past. it was an interesting experience. they were always broken. you had to stand there for a long time to make 20 cents. and there was no cardboard recycling. i am very to appointed in an "to san francisco chronicle" for the lack of balance reporting on this issue. i would ask you to support the proposal. supervisor mirkarimi:

schools have been closed and many businesses including car washes and laundromats were forced to shutnd the city is warning residents who do have water to boil it before drinking. in new mexico, natural gas outages have left much of the state without gas and heat. utility teams, with help from the national guard, were going door to door working to restore natural gas to more than 30,000 customers. >> i've never heard of anything quite like this. >> reporter: it was another blow to a region recovering from record cold temperatures, icy roads and rolling blackouts. the restrictions led to a run on five-gallon jugs and cases of water at local stores. now, the local water utility says it's lifting the usage restrictions tonight at 10:00, but it isn't over yet. more cold weather is headed this way late tomorrow. brian. >> george lewis out in new mexico tonight. george, thanks. >>> a big payday for arianna huffington as aol becomes the new owner of "huffington post." the liberal website she created six years ago. it's a sprawling online media property with over 20 separate sections. purchas

, those atms that you see that are just sort of like this solo machine that's, you know, in the laundromat up there in the side, in the bar. you have to be very careful with those. the encryption isn't always that great. people can actually take the hard drive out of those and read information. sometimes those things are a phony. they're actually set up as a machine for you to put in your card, whether a debit card or credit card, so someone can steal your information. >> how about recurring bills? because it's very handy, subscriptions that automatically just get updated on a month-to-month or year-to-year basis. >> you might forget that you have signed up for the annual, you know, payment that's automatically going to be charged to your credit card. perfect example. you sign up for a magazine. you sign up for the auto pay every year. well, you forget that you did that, and then they send you a renewal notice in the mail, so you pay that, and then you also have the auto pay that you had signed up for, so now you've been dinged twice for that $12.99 magazine or whatever it might be. so, it