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The Great Walls of Chinatown
With the exception of the electric rice cookers, this Bowery tenement could have come straight from the Nineteenth Century.
By Elizabeth Dwoskin
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Getting Off
DUI attorney Tyler Flood wins 80 percent of his trials--even if his clients were 100 percent drunk.
By Mike Giglio
Miami New Times
Park or Die Tryin'
From the homeless parking mafia to the meter fairy, finding a spot in Miami has taken a turn toward the surreal.
By Gus Garcia-Roberts
City Pages
The Baddest Men on the Planet
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Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny (Sept. 30)
The San Francisco native satirist and cultural critic wonders how the insanely despotic Roman emperor might apply his mad statecraft skillz to our young republic.
The Lump of Coal (Sept. 30)
By Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
Self-described thusly: "This is a story about a lump of coal who can think, talk, and move itself around. Is there a more charming holiday tale to behold? Probably, but Lemony Snicket has not written one."
Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos (Oct. 1)
Our favorite spoken-word comic. This is the recovery memoir and manual for people who really, seriously, don't trust recovery memoirs and manuals.
Have You Seen ... ? A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films (Oct. 15)
A new ginormous compendium of lively, literary movie commentary from the author of that other ginormous compendium, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film.
Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity (Nov. 24)
A brief history and analysis of five wide-scale financial disasters by the author of Moneyball.
Fall Arts Guide
Dance:
Choreographer Erika Chong Shuch by Nirmala Nataraj
Events to check out this fall
Music:
San Francisco Jazz Festival by Eric K. Arnold
Classical and Opera events
Museums & Galleries:
Relics Revisited by Traci Vogel
Visual Arts Picks
Books:
Litquake by Jonathan Kiefer
Theater:
Loretta Greco by Chloe Veltman
Fall Theater Events
Film:
Fall Films
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