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Night&Day
The Kungs of Comedy
By Tara Jepsen
Published: December 24, 2008
We can think of billowing stacks of reasons to go see David Brenner do comedy. Among them: most appearances of any guest on The Tonight Show, four HBO specials, appeared on the...
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Night&Day
It’s Vegas, Baby!
By Michael Leaverton
Published: December 24, 2008
When people first see Olivo Barbieri's overhead photographs, nobody believes he’s a photographer. They think he’s an obsessed modelmaker. It takes a lot of inspecting...
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Night&Day
And Environs
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: December 24, 2008
Do you ever look at buildings and think "Man, architects are assholes?" We do. So many structures that protect humans from the elements seem designed to indulge the architect's...
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Night&Day
Mac's Got the Whole World in its Hand
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: December 24, 2008
"SCHMOOZE OR LOSE," says the Macworld Conference & Expo Web site front page. "A rule for both personal and professional success." It's not what we expected, somehow. "Small...
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Night&Day
San Francisco-ed
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: December 24, 2008
Four Shanghai artists visit S.F. for "Shanghailand," and one of our favorites is photographer Ma Liang. In one of her prints, a lady stands center-shot. She's blind. She's...
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Stage
Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party
Aaron Loeb's latest lets the audience decide.
By Chloe Veltman
Published: December 24, 2008
I would have given almost anything to hear Aaron Loeb pitch the concept for his latest play to SF Playhouse, which commissioned the work. With the title Abraham Lincoln's Big...
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Sucka Free City
Too Much Nature
Getting wet at the Academy of Sciences.
By Ben Westhoff
Published: December 24, 2008
If you're planning to visit the California Academy of Sciences this wet holiday season, bring an umbrella and be prepared to use it — indoors. The recent rainstorms have...
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Sucka Free City
Outside Lands Ouster?
City officials, Examiner hassle local promoter that created music fest.
By Peter Jamison
Published: December 24, 2008
You'd think the music promoters at Berkeley-based Another Planet Entertainment would have earned some time resting on their laurels after pioneering a wildly successful...
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Music
The Worst Lyrics of 2008
By Rob Harvilla
Published: December 24, 2008
And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness–style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: December 24, 2008
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. B's BBQ: 855 Divisadero (at McAllister), 525-3419. Western Addition. Texas-style...
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Film
Risky Business
Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in his latest impossible mission.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 24, 2008
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg — a lot of name for a lot of guy. Born into aristocracy in 1907, he was a soldier by the age of 19 and, by most accounts,...
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Encore
Also Playing
Our critics weigh in on local theater
By Chloe Veltman, Nathaniel Eaton and Molly Rhodes
Published: December 24, 2008
The Arabian Nights. Mary Zimmerman's theatrical retelling of narratives from the ancient Middle Eastern story cycle also popularly known as The Thousand and One Nights is all...
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Feature
Our critics name the best films of 2008
By Ella Taylor, Scott Foundas, Robert Wilonsky, Jim Ridley and J. Hoberman
Published: December 24, 2008
Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Something in the water? Or is it just the way the wind is blowing? Whatever the case, when our often-contentious quintet of film critics put...
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Film
The Man Who Nearly Killed Hitler
An interview with Valkyrie's star and director, Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer.
By Scott Foundas
Published: December 24, 2008
It's July 20, 1944, and Adolf Hitler has been assassinated — the victim of a bomb blast organized and executed by a cabal of high-ranking German army officers seeking to...
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Stagecap
Magic Holiday
By Chris Jensen
Published: December 24, 2008
There are two types of magicians: those who can sell a good trick to a willing audience, and those who can hold a crowd in giddy awe. The Marsh's intimate, family-friendly...
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Let's Get Killed
Getting 'Touchy' in 2008
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: December 24, 2008
Forget naughty and nice. The real lists to consider in December come from music fans. After sorting through hundreds (thousands? kabillions?) of CDs and MP3s, every media...
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Film
To Sir, with Attitude
Student-teacher power struggles in The Class.
By Ella Taylor
Published: December 24, 2008
Compare and contrast Laurent Cantet's terrific The Class with any of the following schoolroom chestnuts — Mr. Holland's Opus, Dangerous Minds, or To Sir, with Love. Note...
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Stagecap
Wrapping Paper Caper
By Chris Jensen
Published: December 24, 2008
Wrapping Paper Caper isn't the sort of thing you can easily summarize, let alone criticize. The kid-friendly production at the Marsh is part recyclable art, part Looney Tunes....
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Feature
Year of the Ram
Mickey Rourke climbs back in the ring with The Wrestler.
By Scott Foundas
Published: December 24, 2008
I hated the '90s. The '90s fuckin' sucked," says professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson early on in The Wrestler — and he should know. Over the hill and past his...
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Film
Lord of the Ring
Mickey Rourke and Darren Aronofsky make visceral comebacks in The Wrestler.
By J. Hoberman
Published: December 24, 2008
The Wrestler may be plenty visceral, but it's no more a sports movie than professional wrestling is a competitive sport. Chronic overreacher Darren Aronofsky's relatively...
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