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When Victor Cipriano Lopez collapsed and died in a driveway near the corner of 22nd and Valencia streets at 10:29 on a Sunday night last November, he was already supposed to be...
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From the first verses of "Rapper's Delight," hip-hop has emphasized braggadocio, and most rappers believe more is more when it comes to boasting about their net worth and...
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San Francisco is fortunate in having a number of delightful shopping-and-eating streets: Haight, Mission, Union, and Valencia spring to mind, and we could go on. They're the...
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Brendan "Kids' Choice" Fraser returns to the multiplex daycare as "Mo" Folchart, antiquarian-book-repairman-cum-adventurer. In Inkheart's opening chapter, he's identified as a...
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Every year, we stand agape at the lineup for SF Sketchfest, wondering who thinks San Francisco comedians are rock stars (we know thats Sketchfest director and co-founder...
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After a holiday hiatus, the San Francisco Film Society Screen is again primed to fire up its projector. Curated by the same clued-in programmers who scour the planet for the...
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Kim Addonizio pumps iron, teaches poetry, and writes about the insane using her shockproof bullshit detector. When we saw her last, she was winning an episode of the Literary...
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The house band at Andy Warhols Factory happenings was not Courtney Taylor-Taylors outfit, you dodgy hipster. (Its a common mistake, confusing the 60s...
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Kyle Ranson's career is testament to an "encouraging hippie mother," as he puts it in his online bio. A painter since toddlerhood, the San Francisco artist has managed to...
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We dont know if its the latest thing in AMA Supercross, but its the only thing we know about AMA Supercross: celebrity-designed tracks. For this years...
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It can be frustrating trying to figure out what "tape music" is. All the people associated with this experimental-composition genre are so overeducated that they refuse to...
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He's an indie Morrissey, or a boy Dusty Springfield, possessed of a vintage way with words and that voice. Whatever amalgam of glossy, cool elements he is, the Music Lovers'...
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Fuga!: The name means flight or escape, another way of saying go, you must leave now. This sense of urgency is reflected in the band's tales of...
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Urban Japan is a culture in love with the cutting edge, and in this it shares a singular, pulsating passion with the world of contemporary dance. Where better then to immerse...
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Modest but cosmic, Kelly Reichardts Wendy and Lucy is a movie whose sad pixie heroine, Wendy (Michelle Williams), already skating on thin ice, stumbles and, without a...
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With its bristling topicality, ritzy cast and Roger Deakinss gracefully bleak cinematography, John Patrick Shanleys adaptation of his 2005 play about an old-school...
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Marsh Youth Theater, a performance training program for kids aged 2-18, brings local celebutante and outsider artist Michael Bernard Loggins famed book Fears of Your Life...
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Rodes Fishburne is a Grotto writer, so it was only a matter of time before someone bought his first novel. That happens to people who belong to the Grotto they publish,...
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At first glance, the Disposable Film Festival seems to exist because every film technology, just like every film genre, gets its own festival this is a law in big cities...
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Award-winning choreographer and dancer Sean Dorsey's strongest suit is storytelling. Beautiful lines and muscled skill characterize his work as well, but the drive of it comes...