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2010 Stories by Michael Leaverton

• More Theater Reviews

  published July 28, 2010

  How the Other Half Loves. Alan Ayckbourn's acidic, class-conscious 1969 comedy explores the collateral damage of an affair,... More >>

• Coldcore

  published July 28, 2010

  Good sound artists don't do things halfway. Cheryl Leonard was interested in the Antarctic, so she went to the Antarctic. She collected field... More >>

• Leisure Time

  published July 28, 2010

  During the California wildfires of 2008 and 2009, Youngsuk Suh grabbed his camera and captured picturesque landscape shots of smoke toying... More >>

• RIP Tom Servo

  published July 28, 2010

  War of the Insects is a 1968 Japanese sci-fi thriller, seldom seen in the U.S., because it sucks. Really: It's about killer bees created by... More >>

• "Ask My Permission Before You Quote Me, Kenneth!

  published July 28, 2010

  The writers of 30 Rock had Tracy Morgan say this: "You're going to sue me? Who do you think you are, the San Diego Zoo?" And this:... More >>

• Arthouse movie listings for July 28-August 3, 2010

  published July 28, 2010

  Artists' Television Access. "Cut and Run: Evolution and Life of the Mind, Body, and Medium": Independent experimental films. Sat., July... More >>

• More Theater Reviews

  published July 21, 2010

  How the Other Half Loves. Alan Ayckbourn's acidic, class-conscious 1969 comedy explores the collateral damage of an affair,... More >>

• Arthouse movie listings for July 21-27, 2010

  published July 21, 2010

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

• Ice Sculptures

  published July 21, 2010

  Your refrigerator reveals a lot about you. We've always known this, in a medicine-cabinet sort of way, but it took artist Mark Menjivar to really... More >>

• Game On

  published July 21, 2010

  Recently we downloaded a much ballyhooed racing game for our iPhone, played for five minutes, and felt like we'd watched the first season of... More >>

• I'm the Knave, Man

  published July 21, 2010

  Early this year, the world slapped its head and said "Lebowski!" Technically it said "Bridges!" but many heard "Lebowski!" For Crazy... More >>

• No Boundaries

  published July 21, 2010

  The SFMOMA Artists Gallery sits right next to the Long Now Foundation, and it would be folly for the former to hold a show called "Wondrous... More >>

• More Theater Reviews

  published July 14, 2010

  Shopping! The Musical. Some theater types want to be Hamlet; others want to be Liza Minnelli. The smiling, hardworking performers... More >>

• Arthouse movie listings for July 14-20, 2010

  published July 14, 2010

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

• Diamond Dogs

  published July 14, 2010

  Oakland artist Robb Putnam takes bits of trash and makes dogs out of them. Really good dogs. It's easy to see how things could go rotten, however,... More >>

• How the Soup Was Made

  published July 14, 2010

  You might consider a tour of Pier 39 to be the equivalent of slipping into a tub of fast-setting chowder with seafood flavoring, but the... More >>

• The Hills

  published July 14, 2010

  We're not going to be in the Seven Hells of S.F. bike ride because we can't ride a bike more than one mile without falling off. We also... More >>

• How We Are Hungry

  published July 14, 2010

  Dave Eggers is guilty of being famous, and those who sentence people for that have been sentencing him for years. He writes books? Opens writing... More >>

• More Theater Reviews

  published July 7, 2010

  Shopping! The Musical. Some theater types want to be Hamlet; others want to be Liza Minnelli. The smiling, hardworking performers... More >>

• Not Melissa Gilbert

  published July 7, 2010

  Every small town has an intolerable bitch, and in Walnut Grove, Minn., in the 1870s, that bitch was Nellie Oleson, as played by Alison Arngrim.... More >>

• Do It (Mostly) Yourself

  published July 7, 2010

  Curated by designer Yves Béhar, the innovative exhibit "TechnoCRAFT: Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers, and Design in the Age of... More >>

• Boing Boing Picnic

  published July 7, 2010

  We won't lie: Boing Boing spooks us. We can easily wrap our heads around Gizmodo, Wired, even the... More >>

• More Theater Reviews

  published June 30, 2010

  Shopping! The Musical. Some theater types want to be Hamlet; others want to be Liza Minnelli. The smiling, hardworking performers... More >>

• Arthouse movie listings for June 30-July 6, 2010

  published June 30, 2010

  To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. 4 Star Theatre. The Message:... More >>

• Ye Old Mavericks Film

  published June 30, 2010

  Remember during the Mavericks surf contest, when the bad wave attacked the audience? Imagine what that wave looked like when it first broke, half... More >>