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2005 Stories by Michael Leaverton

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published October 26, 2005

  Wednesday, October 26, 2005 Men: They're selfish, they don't listen, and then there's the farting. But the movie Zombie... More >>

• Mad Doodling

  published October 26, 2005

  ONGOING 10/26-3/12/06 Growing up, I never even held a stack of comics, to say nothing of... More >>

• His Story

  published October 26, 2005

  SAT 10/29 Lots of people know about Finocchio's, the "gender illusionist" cabaret that in the 1940s and '50s sat where Enrico's is... More >>

• World's End

  published October 26, 2005

  WED-SAT 10/26-29 Step into the serene Varnish Fine Art, grab a glass of wine, and witness, in close proximity, the end of days... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published October 19, 2005

  Wednesday, October 19, 2005 The city, the people, the authorities, the food -- nothing in Oz is sweet, and that goes double for a boy... More >>

• L.A. Story

  published October 12, 2005

  I used to live above the shimmering intersection of Broadway and Taylor, with its IMAX-like view of the Bay Bridge, as seen in The Princess... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published October 12, 2005

  Wednesday, October 12, 2005 Based on the title, the group lecture "Science Is Sexy" seems to have a definitive answer to the... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published October 5, 2005

  Wednesday, October 5, 2005 "Ask Dr. Hal" is the game show for dorks, hoochie-coochie girls, and the highly intelligent (or any... More >>

• Versed

  published September 28, 2005

  It may come as a shock to realize that Richard Hell, famed punk of bands such as the Voidoids, was originally a published poet. It's not... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published September 28, 2005

  Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Her work on Digable Planets' Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) is etched in our... More >>

• This Week's Day by Day Picks

  published September 21, 2005

  Wednesday, September 21, 2005 Modern-day Nellie Bly Barbara Ehrenreich got down on her hands and knees and cleaned toilets as... More >>

• Northern Darkness

  published September 14, 2005

  Right after America scrapped its experiment with hair bands, metalheads in the desolate climes of Norway started killing each other and burning... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published September 14, 2005

  Wednesday, September 14, 2005 Andrew Sean Greer's The Confessions of Max Tivoli provided a startling look at the history... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published September 7, 2005

  Wednesday, September 7, 2005 Recent books like Persepolis and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi and Reading Lolita in... More >>

• The Loss of Leon Meed

  published August 31, 2005

  By Josh Emmons Scribner (2005), $24 According to Northern California native Josh Emmons, Eureka was founded when ambitious... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published August 31, 2005

  Wednesday, August 31, 2005 How did the universe evolve? Beats the shit out of us. For that you need Norman Glendenning, a... More >>

• PT's Legacy

  published August 31, 2005

  Missed Burning Man, huh? Me, too. But I did make it to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth. Of course, the circus... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published August 24, 2005

  Wednesday, August 24, 2005 The debate over music trading painted everybody as a villain: Musicians were just trying to get paid, the... More >>

• Death Trip

  published August 17, 2005

  Killing Yourself to Live features Spin's Chuck Klosterman visiting rock-star death sites, which is little more than a... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published August 17, 2005

  Wednesday, August 17, 2005 It's been some time since we've heard from Aimee Bender. After a dazzling debut with 1999's book of... More >>

• Real Funny

  published August 10, 2005

  First, the salient facts: Funny Ha Ha was shot in 20 days, acted by amateurs, and funded by kindness. It's a slacker,... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published August 10, 2005

  Wednesday, August 10, 2005 Bittersweet, atmospheric, slightly harsh folk music may sound like a done deal. When you hear it, you... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published August 3, 2005

  Wednesday, August 3, 2005 The Pacific Film Archive's series highlighting "operatives, surveillants, and saboteurs" in cinema gets... More >>

• Pedro Rocks

  published July 27, 2005

  We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen is a lot of things: a manual for upstart bands, a chance to see old punks in their living... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published July 27, 2005

  Wednesday, July 27, 2005 Giving new meaning to the old term "peace punk" (coined, as far as we know, during the Reagan years),... More >>