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2005 Stories by Michael Leaverton

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published July 20, 2005

  Wednesday, July 20 The career arc of the Knitters is a wonderful thing. According to the band's faux history section on its Web site,... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published July 13, 2005

  Wednesday, July 13, 2005 Although he's a graduate from Yale, a law school dropout, and a former staff writer for Late Night With... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published July 6, 2005

  Wednesday, July 6, 2005 Touted as the "solo project" of Crooked Jades spark plug Jeff Kazor, Jeff Kazor & the Swerve Beats is,... More >>

• Urban Surfer, Urban One

  published June 29, 2005

  This spring I saw a surfer at Ocean Beach tear through waves like he was exacting revenge. He'd bury his rail off the bottom and ambush the lip,... More >>

• Smut Peddlers

  published June 29, 2005

  No semen is used as hair gel in Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise, nor are there any demands for butter. Nobody even gets naked.... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published June 29, 2005

  Wednesday, June 29, 2005 Juan Carlos Desanzo's Polaquito is based on a story ripped from Argentine headlines: A young... More >>

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  published June 22, 2005

  Wednesday, June 22 French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard directed Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo in bout de souffle, known to... More >>

• Hop Onstage

  published May 4, 2005

  What is hip hop theater? It's easier for Danny Hoch, creator of the Hip-Hop Theater Festival, to declare what the genre is not: "It's a... More >>

• The Empire Strikes Back

  published April 6, 2005

  Sacramento is a mystery to us. The inland empire seems like nothing but a broad, flat piece of land, supposedly the new home of Arnold... More >>

• Trailer Hitch

  published March 30, 2005

  Trailer Town is a bad movie. You realize this early on, when a grizzled old man takes his shit on a date. Literally. He does his... More >>

• B-Movie Maestro

  published March 23, 2005

  Edgar G. Ulmer was perhaps this country's greatest B-movie director, yet he's all but forgotten in America. Exquisitely marginalized, Ulmer... More >>