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1. Music

   Examining inner space at Mi Ami's studio

   By J. Pace

   Published: February 11, 2009

   The recent release show for Mi Ami's "Echononecho" single at Bottom of the Hill went off with a couple of hitches. The guitarist suffered three broken strings, and the...

2. Eat

   SOMA Samba

   Take a trip down to Rio for a taste of Carnaval.

   By Matthew Stafford

   Published: February 11, 2009

   Rio de Janeiro is one of those great cities that works its way into your plasma and lingers there, time and distance notwithstanding. The place positively thrums with charisma,...

3. Eat

   Oyster Lovers Unite

   This Valentines weekend may be your best chance to eat oysters for years to come.

   By Robb Walsh

   Published: February 11, 2009

   Nearly four inches long, the "Sand Dune" oyster from Prince Edward Island was so plump, it was bulging out of its shell "like a large breast in a small brassiere," as Rodney...

4. Film

   Bush and Confessions agree: Go shopping! (Wait, don't.)

   By Melissa Anderson

   Published: February 11, 2009

   The Confessions of a Shopaholic we need right now would be a handheld doc featuring former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain sobbing into the camera and begging the American public...

5. Night&Day

   The Muppet Movie

   Published: February 11, 2009

   In the first-ever Muppets film, Dom DeLuise convinces Kermit to go to Hollywood, and then, shenanigans! Fozzie Bear is terrific in a role that was made for him, and Miss Piggy...

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   Let the Right One In

   By Elena Oumano

   Published: February 11, 2009

   This lucid Swedish indie gem, adapted for the screen by John Ajvide Lindqvist from his novel and directed with imagination and restraint by Tomas Alfredson, releases the...

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   Pal o’ Mine

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: February 11, 2009

   Today a notorious, unrepentant domestic terrorist is due in our city, and we implore you to join forces and descend upon the location early and en masse — and then sit...

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   Black Rock City

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: February 11, 2009

   The Black Choreographers Festival's innovative dance mentoring program must really be working out. This year, all but one of the presenting dancemakers are from the Bay Area...

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   Arcade Fire

   By Silke Tudor

   Published: February 11, 2009

   In 1990, in response to Senator Jesse Helms' obscenity witch hunt, New York performance artist Penny Arcade submitted the semiautobiographical Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! for...

10. Night&Day

    Ding Ding Ding!

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 11, 2009

    People who are "into" cactus tend to be from pretty disparate groups. Sometimes it's a lady who really likes the early California aesthetic. Other people go for native-garden...

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    Straight Outta Compton

    By Ernest Hardy

    Published: February 11, 2009

    Why is there so much violence in South L.A.? What are the historical roots of the Bloods and Crips? Stacy Peralta’s documentary, Crips and Bloods: Made in America, employs...

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    Star Power

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: February 11, 2009

    For the television audience, the Oscars are a night of derision, boredom, and secret, desperate longing. Primarily, though, it’s about television: You should be in front...

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    Surreal Screen

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: February 11, 2009

    As a onetime Trotskyist and confederate of Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Anaïs Nin, and André Breton, filmmaker Maya Deren loathed Tinseltown. Until her sudden death...

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    Roll Your Own

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: February 11, 2009

    Early this month, the B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls started the season off by mud wrestling to raise money. Now, they finally lace up their skates and hit the flat track. The league,...

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    Om Face

    By Andy Wright

    Published: February 11, 2009

    What does it take to bring Jana Drakka and Nina Hartley together? Alcohol, for one, but also charity: Both are on tap at literary event The Priest and the Porn Star....

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    20,000 Frames Under the Sea

    By Michael Fox

    Published: February 11, 2009

    We’ll be feeling the pinch of the drought years in just a few short months, as reservoirs shrink and we’re compelled to reduce our water usage. Sometimes, though, it...

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    Like Blogs, Only Paperier

    By Tara Jepsen

    Published: February 11, 2009

    If you’ve been deep in Hannah Montana and visit the Bay Area for the chowder at the Cliff House and a dash of Fleet Week, you may be interested to know that we also have a...

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    She's at It Again

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 11, 2009

    At last year's Litquake opening event, actress Amber Tamblyn thought she could get some laughs by complaining about Eve Ensler. It didn't go that well. Why not? Well, it turns...

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    All Grown Up

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: February 11, 2009

    There’s no way to tell how many people Rob Reger saved; how many tweens, when presented with their first Emily the Strange comic, suddenly had a flash of insight, from...

20. Night&Day

    She Was a Household Name

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 11, 2009

    The burning of the Library at Alexandria happened a long time ago, and as Neal Stephenson has pointed out, "It's inherently difficult to get reliable information about an event...