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Night&Day
By Michael Leaverton
Initially, we figured the comedy book The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life wouldnt pass the laugh-out-loud test, because few books do, and this wasnt by The...
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Night&Day
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within is easy for Kim Addonizio to say. The local author, poet, editor, prizewinner, harmonica player, weight lifter, and hottie has...
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Night&Day
By J. Hoberman
Filipino director Brillante Mendozas Serbis is entirely set in and around a candidate for the worlds tawdriest movie theatera dingy hall of mirrors...
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Night&Day
By Aaron Hillis
Two years after winning the first season of Project Runway, flamboyantly charismatic fashion designer Jay McCarroll still hadnt launched his first clothing line, the...
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Night&Day
By Hiya Swanhuyser
The original Tingel Tangel Club was in Berlin in the 1920s and '30s; the Nazis did not like it. They probably wouldn't like this one, either: New York City promoter and bon...
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Night&Day
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Adam Mansbach's novel Angry Black White Boy must have pissed off a lot of people at first. It features a protagonist who pretty much only hates other white people more than he...
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Stage
By Chloe Veltman
What I am about to do may well banish me to hell: I am about to disparage an autobiographical play about terminal breast cancer, written by a playwright who recently died of...
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Matt Smith
By Matt Smith
Marcus Santiago, a nine-year veteran of the San Francisco Park Rangers, a little-known corps tasked with guarding the property of the Department of Recreation and Parks, swings...
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Music
By Jonah Bayer
Despite going by the nickname Fat Mike for most of his adult life, Michael Burkett's most prominent trait isn't the fact that he's overweight. The bathroom scale is actually a...
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Fresh Eats
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats.
Candy Darling: 796 Sutter (at Jones), 346-1500. Tenderloin. Handmade candy and...
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Film
By Scott Foundas
Tom Tykwer's The International is one of those movies in which shadowy men meet in parked cars, abandoned buildings, and inconspicuous public spaces (museum galleries are a...
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Stagecap
By Molly Rhodes
It's been said that true moments of joy come mostly through two acts: sex and dancing. Burn the Floor combines both, as 16 hard-bodied, high-energy performers spin, thrust, and...
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Feature
By Robb Walsh
"It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their name to eat an oyster." — William Butler, 1599
In cooperation with the U.S. Food and Drug...
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Music
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Fueled by primal, Dead Boys–style garage-punk fury and a whole lot of booze, Seattle sextet Murder City Devils began its rampage in the summer of 1996. Bespectacled...
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FilmCap
By Tim Grierson
The humanistic ensemble drama has gotten such a bad name in recent years, thanks to ponderous high-profile entries like Crash and Babel, that a barebones plot description of...
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Stagecap
By Nathaniel Eaton
What's intriguing about this play "suggested" by the life of Tennessee Williams is that the playwright is portrayed simultaneously by a man (Daniel Albright) and a woman (Alex...
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Sucka Free City
By Herman Wong
Recession horror stories now have new victims: pets. Animal rescue organizations in the Bay Area say they have been getting more and more calls from people who say they can't...
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Encore
Our critics weigh in on local theater
7 Sins: James Judd's one-man comedy about his own life. Fridays, Saturdays. Continues through Feb. 21. Exit Theatre, 156 Eddy (at Taylor), 931-1094, www.sffringe.org.
Angry...
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Feature
By Robb Walsh
Swan's Oyster Depot
1517 Polk (at California), 673-1101
Monday-Saturday 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Opened in 1912, Swan's is essentially a fish market with a long marble bar and 20...
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Reviewed
Years of Refusal (Lost Highway/Attack)
By Steven Gdula
Morrissey's ninth solo album sounds right at home on his new label, Nashville's Lost Highway. The singer who once famously clutched Oscar Wilde to his chest might seem...
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