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You have the poor always with you. This saying of Jesus was recorded 2,000 years ago, and on New Year's morning in the Tenderloin, the poor were with us still. Hungry and...
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Marco Benevento has been whipping up a joyful maelstrom of heavily processed Hammond B-3 organ and Wurlitzer electric piano since first joining forces with drummer Joe Russo...
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If, while passing through one of the bleaker stretches of Mission Street on a Thursday night, you spy a clutch of people clustered around the door of a neighborhood Chinese...
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Fanboys is meant for the dude who is content to simply stare at an Imperial Stormtrooper's empty helmet for 90 minutes. It's for the two childhood friends who parted ways back...
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Those who have never attended the annual festival of Oscar-nominated live-action and animated shorts should be advised: Don’t expect all 10 entries to be...
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Want to cruise into the sunset on a bicycle built for two? Looking to hook up with someone whose ass belies the frequency with which they peddle from one place to the other?...
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Valentine's Day is one of those stressy holidays -- boys are expected to actually do something, and a lot of times, they don't like that. Don't worry, boys! Easy answer this...
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The thinkers at the Long Now Foundation do not think that stock market will rebound in the second half of this year. But they don’t think it won’t rebound, either....
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Khashyar Darvich's documentary records an intellectual retreat held at the Tibetan spiritual leader’s compound in northern India several years ago. Forty Westerners...
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The classic tale is re-told by Werner Herzog, who puts his own stamp on it by including longtime collaborators such as Klaus Kinski, who plays the Count, and Bruno Ganz, who...
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The reliably awesome Art at City Hall program expands its scope to include sound art: Bill Fontana, a San Francisco treasure in the realm of sound art (and surely other,...
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Our local whirling dervish, Gregangelo Herrera, has his own circus. Usually, Velocity Circus performs superfancy private gigs for rich folk; the costumes alone cost tens of...
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Preternaturally respected rock critic Richie Unterberger is one of those people who deeply and simply loves music. We think he has a particular soft spot for the British...
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The dissolute among us visit the new glossy high-tech nature museum and think: It's great, but ... with a martini it would be really spectacular. We're not bad people. We are...
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Amnesia Bar in the Mission District holds its open mike and its karaoke event on the same night every week — Tuesday. Week after week, the place is packed, because people...
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World records happen every day. We just landed one: Most Exasperated Eye Rolls During the Reading of Caille Millner’s Chronicle Column. You might have completed one as...
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The Tour of California's route changes every year, in the tradition of European pro cycling events. This is the tour's first year on what seems like an obvious stretch of...
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From his operas like Einstein on the Beach and Appomattox to his film scores for Koyaanisqatsi and Notes on a Scandal, composer Philip Glass is known for spinning minimal...
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If you’re the kind of person whose pulse quickens when you handle an early Hemingway, the California International Antiquarian Book Fair will probably kill you. It will...
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If you’re anything other than an obsessed Eddie Murphy fan (Anyone? Anyone?), you may not have known about his brother, Charlie Murphy, until he appeared in the wildly...
