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2008 Stories by Michael Leaverton

• Someone’s Doing the Robot

  published July 30, 2008

  Last June, on one of the Chron’s 73 blogs, a video showed smitten artists Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock in their shared studio, and... More >>

• Watch Them Go

  published July 23, 2008

  Some of us can run only a block, and then only to catch someone selling bacon-wrapped hot dogs. Dean Karnazes isn’t one of us: In 2006, he... More >>

• Down and Out in S.F.

  published July 23, 2008

  If you don’t like Broke-Ass Stuart and his guidebook, you and your Frommer’s can go fuck yourselves at the Ferry Building.... More >>

• The Gods Must Be Angry

  published July 23, 2008

  Tomorrow, in various lucky zones of northern hemisphere, the moon will snap over the sun like a lens cover, to borrow a metaphor from the writer... More >>

• Art House

  published July 16, 2008

  Artists' Television Access. "L.A. Plays Itself": Two porn films made by Fred Halsted in 1972: the titular feature and Sex... More >>

• Being Bad Feels Pretty Good

  published July 16, 2008

  Remember when you discovered that Andrew Clark was just a troubled soul, just like you, and that Claire Standish was simply a girl with horrible... More >>

• Saddle Up

  published July 16, 2008

  It’s nice how the annual Bicycle Film Festival always makes time for those who suck on energy gel and click through Whole Foods in... More >>

• Ships Ahoy

  published July 16, 2008

  Of the many square-rigged, tall ships sailing into port this week for the Festival of Sail, we’re most excited about the Nina.... More >>

• Art House

  published July 9, 2008

  To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access.... More >>

• Gentlemen Shooters

  published July 9, 2008

  If a camera could steal your soul, it would not be a Coolpix. It would be something big and metallic and smoky, a machine from the golden age of... More >>

• Want Some Candye?

  published July 9, 2008

  The title of tonight’s lineup-rich show, "For the Love of Candye: A Benefit for Candye Kane" carries an ominous tone: What’s... More >>

• Labor of Love

  published July 9, 2008

  The site-specific theater company Scrap and Salvage has been rooting around the city’s offbeat areas for a while now — notably the... More >>

• What Cats Think

  published July 9, 2008

  When Jaws came out, shark researchers got all shouty, claiming that Steven Spielberg misrepresented the evilness of great whites. The same... More >>

• Riding for Keeps

  published July 9, 2008

  Every summer, the Tour de Fat bike festival rolls through many bike-friendly places — Portland, Austin, Durango — pitches some... More >>

• Art House

  published July 2, 2008

  Compiled by Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser. To submit a listing, e-mail More >>

• Lit Up

  published July 2, 2008

  Although fire-art exhibits have lost some of their sparkly fascination, fire-art apocalypses remain a potent lure. The Crucible’s Fire... More >>

• Million Fishes, Hundred Gourds

  published July 2, 2008

  For her New York solo show last March, dancer Nora Chipaumire (part of the renowned Urban Bush Women) stormed around unusual objects hanging from... More >>

• Cinema on Ice

  published July 2, 2008

  You probably haven't heard of Matt Archbold, and here’s why: He was a surf phenom from San Clemente, way down in Orange Country, 20 years... More >>

• So Crafty

  published July 2, 2008

  Thanks to the resurgence of small-batch DIY knitting and stitching among artists, we no longer have to bow down to the man when buying crafts.... More >>

• Hail S.F.

  published July 2, 2008

  Photographer Sean McFarland does wonderful things to San Francisco. He takes countless photos of particular settings -- from buildings, parks, and... More >>

• Spit or Swallow

  published June 25, 2008

  Wine snobs are different than you and me -- they have more money. At Pinot Days Grand Festival, $65 allows you to pick the brains of the... More >>

• Tiny Monsters

  published June 25, 2008

  As the art duo Hella More Funner, Adam Gray and Sam Fuchs make abstract pieces that reveal themselves at a distance, but it’s impossible not... More >>

• Spaced Out

  published June 25, 2008

  The latest incarnation of Michelle Blade's art (she dips her brush into different styles, refreshingly) has a washy grandeur, a touch of innocent... More >>

• The Science of Bigfoot

  published June 25, 2008

  Ah, Bigfoot. Where to begin? He's really a bear, or a giant ground sloth, or a moonshine hallucination. Last August, two enterprising idiots, Rick... More >>

• Laugh with Sal

  published June 25, 2008

  Gone are the days when the superrich could cement in a prime piece of S.F. coastline, drop a roof over it, and sell swimming tickets — but... More >>