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One of the most persistent legends about the Chinese martial arts is that their world-famous crowning glory, shaolin kwan (Shaolin temple boxing), was actually invented by a...
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What is it about full-contact roller skating that thrives on hard times? Roller derby, the body-crunching indoor skate marathon, was born during the Great Depression. Its...
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On 2007's Strawberry Jam, experimental noise-making weirdos Animal Collective glided on the outskirts of dreamy indie-pop. Fan fave "Peacebone" even flirted with a sunny...
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Can a heartwarming meet-cute as unambitious and overtly sentimental as Last Chance Harvey be simply too nice to get beat up on by anyone other than the coldest of bastards?...
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While vintage shops may be a harder place to sell these days, they are still a fantastic place to shop — especially now, because of the huge selection they are...
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Light Poles and Pines isn't the freshest bread in the bakery. Or, the Whale self-released the album in 2007. A year later, the local septet signed to Seany Records, but...
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Headier in synopsis than in its vain execution, the latest transgressive art-porno from Canadian queercore auteur Bruce LaBruce (The Raspberry Reich) is a gay zombie movie, an...
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Green, blue, red — so much of America's political culture is color-coded these days, but San Francisco resident Suzi Chang hopes to stake out her own section of the...
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Picking up precisely where his winning 2004 solo debut, The Slow Wonder, left off, New Pornographers leader Carl Newman (aka A.C.) has created another platter that sounds...
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In a down economy, the little luxuries are always the first to go: the mani-pedis, the spa days, the pricey fitness club membership with the weekly personal training sessions....
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Brightblack Morning Light's brand of ambient pop is akin to the glorioles in a photograph of the sun: It's full of arching, radiant, golden light. On tracks such as "Hologram...
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Tightening your metaphorical — and literal — belt might come a little more naturally this year, courtesy of the recession. Why not kill two birds with one stone in...
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Last week the four newly elected lefties on the Board of Supervisors were honored at a party at Temple. It was actually supposed to be a roast, but it was really a social...
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Snobbish? No. Très snotty? Mais oui, mes amis! The opposite of brie-eating sommeliers, Les Hatepinks defy American stereotypes of the French as pretentious foodies and...
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Formed by brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood with drummer Derrick Bostrom almost 30 years ago, the Meat Puppets spent the '80s baking a punk-tinged, acid-drenched brand of...
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Artists' Television Access. OpenScreening: Monthly open-submission screening event. Thu., Jan. 15, 8 p.m. $5. "Channeling: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies & Queer Spirits":...
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I have seen the future, and she is a tripping, horny teen. The vision arrived last Monday, which happened to be around the same time Village Voice Media, the chain of 15...
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Rosemary-Artichoke Hummus
Courtesy of Genie Gratto
Approximately 24 cents per serving, with a two-tablespoon serving size
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According to...
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The holiday tourists who stream into San Francisco at this time of year are strangely enjoyable. Entirely predictable, they wander around all big-eyed and camcordered, in...
