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Issue: February 11, 2009
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54 stories found - 1 through 20
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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...

  6. Night&Day

    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...

  7. Night&Day

    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...

  8. Night&Day

    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...

  9. Night&Day

    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...

  11. Night&Day

    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...

  12. Night&Day

    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...

  13. Night&Day

    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...

  14. Night&Day

    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,...

  15. Night&Day

    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....

  16. Night&Day

    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...

  17. Night&Day

    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...

  18. Night&Day

    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...

  19. Night&Day

    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...

Issue: February 11, 2009
Page: 1
54 stories found - 1 through 20
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