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1. Feature

   Score!!!

   Former pro soccer players from Latin America help the Farolito team dominate an amateur league.

   By Lauren Smiley

   Published: May 14, 2008

   On a recent Saturday morning, a crew of aging former professional soccer players from Latin America huddled around Salvador Lopez, who drilled them on the strategy of how their...

2. Reviewed

   Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra

   Harriet Tubman (Noir)

   By Mark Keresman

   Published: May 14, 2008

   Jazz bassist Marcus Shelby is a composer, bandleader, and Bay Area educator. He combines these talents on the magnum opus Harriet Tubman, a two-CD orchestral tribute to the...

3. Music

   Robyn Is a New Breed of Chart Chanteuse

   By Tony Ware

   Published: May 14, 2008

   Pop music is "anything that connects to a lot of people at the same time, that deals with what's going on when it's made," says Swedish singer-songwriter Robin Carlsson, better...

4. Eat

   A Trip to Here

   If you can't get out of town, try a place off the beaten track.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: May 14, 2008

   As you walk through the crowded city, past hordes of tourists patiently lined up to board tiny trolleys, drive down a twisty street, or board a boat to visit a rocky,...

5. Film

   Floating Life

   Hou Hsiao-hsien and his red balloon watch over a lonely mother and son in this soaring Flight.

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: May 14, 2008

   About a thousand movies ago, I made the truculent, unprovable assertion that if Chinese grandmaster Hou Hsiao-hsien were French, he'd be a household name. Now the moment of...

6. Night&Day

   Speed Racer

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: May 14, 2008

   Converting a fondly remembered cartoon series into a prospective franchise, the Matrix masters, Larry and Andy Wachowski, have taken another step toward the total...

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   Before the Rains

   By Julia Wallace

   Published: May 14, 2008

   British plantation owner and colonialist extraordinaire Henry Moores (Linus Roache) fancies himself the cowboy of Kerala, cavorting around the jungle with his Indian mistress,...

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   4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: May 14, 2008

   The extraordinary Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, more comfortably known as "that abortion movie that won the 2007 Palme d'Or," sheds its secrets slowly. It's a...

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   How High?

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: May 14, 2008

   Pete Ippel is a modern exponent of a long-standing tradition: the bro artist. Think of athlete-philosophers like Jack Kerouac, Richie Tenenbaum, both Jack Johnsons, or Muhammad...

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    Hearts and Minds

    By Anthony Kaufman

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Nick Broomfield, known for his unseemly documentary portraits of Aileen Wuornos, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love, brings a surprising dose of compassion to his third dramatic...

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    Heather Has Lots of People Who Love Her

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Leaving Heather Has Two Mommies in the dust, the Trans Community Picnic is a big party for families who are more honest than most. We're pretty sure all families have members...

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    Breaker Breaker

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 14, 2008

    In 1986, the Bay to Breakers held the Guinness Book of World Records title World's Largest Footrace, with 110,000 participants. That many of them were drunk, high, naked, and...

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    Be A Wolf

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Ask any beat cop or ex-boyfriend -- no two people view the same event identically. Add a few years and you'll get a few more versions of the story. So what of a tale that has...

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    Dar Ling

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 14, 2008

    You think you already know whether you like Indian classical dance, don't you? Whatever else you're pondering, whatever other traditional-art-based conundrums haunt you, you've...

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    Flight of the Monkeys

    By Michael Fox

    Published: May 14, 2008

    In their dubious quest to appease every last parent from the Bible Belt to Berkeley, the namby-pambies at Pixar, Disney, and other studios have forgotten that fairy tales are...

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    Weil Away

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Eight months ago, Mark Weil, the director of Ilkhom Theatre, was murdered in the Uzbeki capital of Tashkent. Many believe that Weil was killed for ideological reasons —...

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    The Realms of Lee and Mars

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: May 14, 2008

    The parallels between artists David Choong Lee and Mars-1 may not be immediately apparent. Choong Lee's work is decidedly urban, from his unambiguous though compassionate...

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    Mea Culpas Are for Suckers

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: May 14, 2008

    The question of whether James Frey received redemption could not be answered by press time, for Frey's new publisher, HarperCollins, did not send us his first novel, Bright...

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    Watch Them Cook

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: May 14, 2008

    For more than a decade, Killing My Lobster has been the anchor that keeps our local sketch comedy scene from sailing into irrelevancy. But its members have also been charting a...

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    Loving Nico

    By Michael Fox

    Published: May 14, 2008

    In a perfect world, the revival of Philippe Garrel's 1991 pinnacle J'entends plus la guitare (I Don't Hear the Guitar Anymore) would warrant more than a two-night stand. (It...