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It's funny, sometimes, but it's all too unambitious and slight. DIY shows like this one proliferate in San Francisco, but I wish more of our home-grown stuff showed real purpose. The Dingoes could start by integrating their skits more tightly. Bare-Breasted has two running gags about a woman trying to find an apartment and a woman trying to go on a vaguely satisfying date; if either of those stories had developed into something pointed it would have been a more interesting show. Subversiveness and ambition don't belong in separate toolboxes, like some underground artists try to pretend, and I doubt a little discipline would kill a Dingo's spirit.

-- Michael Scott Moore