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Sometime past midnight on Labor Day of last year, 22-year-old John "Daniel" Schirra was running nude along an Ingleside District street, yelling for help. He was in the grips...
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Azeem never wants to be considered a "local" MC. For one, the label is technically false: He comes to Oakland by way of New Jersey and Miami, and maintains strong ties to his...
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Hotel restaurants used to be stodgy, predictable, and dull — not destinations, but places of last resort for travelers too tired to leave the hotel, or inoffensive...
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Masters of the carefully crafted cheap shot, Joel and Ethan Coen have built a career on flippancy. Given their refusal to take anything seriously — least of all the...
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For some of us, anything involving a size zero fashion model is an automatic no-no. We turn it off, click away, or cross the street. Continuing the theme, we don't like the...
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What happens to prodigies? Whether you find the phenomenon intriguing or tired, the extremely talented young always have a weird row to hoe. Yisrael K. Feldsott was the first...
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Turned on (in more ways than one) by the brassy inspirations of Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith, and, yes, Joan Jett, thousands of girls picked up electric guitars in the 1970s...
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Comedian Chris Garcia shows his balls. Literally. In the "American Apparel" video clip online, Garcia and co-mocker Ali Wong appear wearing workout clothes, doing some moves,...
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Full disclosure: Dan Strachota writes for this paper. He was once our beloved music editor. Also, we like him and attend the events he organizes and DJs for, like the...
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The popularity of premium chocolate has skyrocketed in recent years, as has a vocabulary to describe it that rivals the wine lexicon. At “Chocolate Seizure,” local...
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Thirty-five years ago, a CIA-backed military junta led by General Augusto Pinochet violently overthrew Chilean president Salvador Allende's democratically elected socialist...
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Less well known than some of the Beat poets, Philip Lamantia nevertheless embodied the spirit of his times so thoroughly that his life story now seems iconic. Born in San...
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The stories of Tobias Wolff are like a good YouTube short, offering snapshot scenarios that suggest worlds about the characters that inhabit them. We can be grateful that...
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When you grow up as the son of a charismatic Democratic congressman who loudly championed the arts during the worst of the anti-NEA fights, cynical logic would have it that...
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It's a safe bet that after its first run Pineapple Express, the cannabis-powered comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, will become an arthouse staple, programmed into...
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We're bigs fans of trivia nights at bars, and this is why: While trying to figure out what city the very last Pony Express ride ended in while sober is extraordinarily...
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Filmmaker Tore Dahlin says he " ... wanted to make a movie as diverse as California." That's a damn tall order, but the result, Corky's Hot Ice, looks like it may actually...
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Claude Chabrol, who should soon be shooting his 70th feature, is at once wildly prolific and utterly faithful—at least to the conventions of the commercial thriller....
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We hear wedding bells! At the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence-run Wedding Bells Bingo, the usual monthly gay bingo madness is augmented with the San Francisco Gay Men's...
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It turns out that the answer to the question we've all been asking — what would happen if the Cockettes and Cindy Sherman had a baby? — can be found right now in a...
