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Music
Please don't hate Andrew Bird
By Michael D. Ayers
Published: February 18, 2009
There are plenty of reasons people might hate Andrew Bird. For one, he seems kind of gimmicky. Remember the Squirrel Nut Zippers, who spent the late '90s re-creating old-time...
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Music
A Long, Strange Trip
An originator of acid rock in the '60s, Tommy Hall used LSD to expand his consciousness. He’s still psychedelic.
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: February 18, 2009
Tommy Hall is nursing a Coke at a corner table at the Hemlock Tavern, a Polk Street music dive. The guru of '60s psychedelic rock doesn't drink alcohol. Booze brings you down,...
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Eat
Sheer Poetry
Simple but good Italian food is tucked away in a second-story room.
By Meredith Brody
Published: February 18, 2009
It's difficult to visit a restaurant for the first time without having a preconceived notion of what it's going to be like — especially in this age of multiple Internet...
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Film
Cinema Inferno
Dirty movies and gritty life as one in Brillante Mendoza's Serbis.
By J. Hoberman
Published: February 18, 2009
Abandon all hope, ye who enter the hell of images. Filipino director Brillante Mendoza's Serbis (Tagalog for "service") is entirely set in and around a candidate for the...
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Art
Masterminds 2009 Finalists
Meet the 10 Bay Area artists who will compete to win three $2,500 grants from SF Weekly.
By Will Harper and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: February 18, 2009
If we needed any more proof that there are a lot of great artists in the Bay Area, we got it while judging this year's Masterminds contest. We received more than 70 submissions...
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News
What’s in David Chiu’s political baggage?
By Peter Jamison
Published: February 18, 2009
Several months ago, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu was a lawyer and entrepreneur whose highest government office was a seat on the San Francisco Small Business...
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Music
Antony and the Johnsons' mysteries require few definite answers
By Jonathan Kiefer
Published: February 18, 2009
No matter how much you've got it all figured out, your first encounter with the androgynous leader of the exquisitely sincere chamber-pop outfit Antony and the Johnsons could...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: February 18, 2009
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Bruno's: 1375 Fillmore (at O'Farrell), 563-6300. Fillmore. Italian and pizza. City...
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FilmCap
Eleven Minutes
By Aaron Hillis
Published: February 18, 2009
Two years after winning the first season of Project Runway, flamboyantly charismatic fashion designer Jay McCarroll still hadn't launched his first clothing line, the pressure...
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Books
Oakland author Yiyun Li's novel examines China's dark places
By Jonathan Kiefer
Published: February 18, 2009
Oakland author Yiyun Li's debut novel, The Vagrants, begins with a man and his wife lying awake on the morning of their daughter's public execution, which also happens to be...
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Music
Unknown facts about Noise Pop performers
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: February 18, 2009
25 Random Things Monday, February 23, 2009 at 9:37 a.m. Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things or facts about you. At the end,...
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Music
Kids' center may move in next to porn studio
By Bonnie Ruberg
Published: February 18, 2009
Nothing spells controversy like combining kids and pornography — and apparently San Francisco's Armory is about to have a whole lot of both. When alternative...
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FilmCap
Just Another Love Story
By Nicolas Rapold
Published: February 18, 2009
Adultery remains hazardous to your health in "psychological thrillers," even in Scandinavia, and even when your affair begins as a magnificent obsession. Schlumpy Jonas (Anders...
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Books
Upcoming Lit Events
Michael Chabon talks to Richard Price. Plus: Jeff Jarvis, Peter Singer, Tim Wise, and Tobias Wolff
By Jonathan Kiefer
Published: February 18, 2009
Thursday, Feb. 19 Wait, so is Jeff Jarvis saying that Jesus already has come back, as a search engine? In Jarvis' new book, What Would Google Do? (Collins Business, $26.99),...
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Sucka Free City
Leader of Down Below Gang blames PTSD for killings
By Ashley Harrell
Published: February 18, 2009
On Feb. 9, defense attorneys disclosed part of an innovative strategy they plan to use to defend Down Below Gang leader Emile Fort, who is accused of 30 federal crimes,...
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Sucka Free City
How to recruit teachers in S.F.
By Benjamin Wachs
Published: February 18, 2009
Last week, an independent report found that the San Francisco school district is frequently failing to hire the most qualified teachers. What can the district do...
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Let's Get Killed
Live Through This: The de Young's Warhol exhibit
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: February 18, 2009
Music fans long ago lost patience with passively observing musicians. We want to download a song from one site, research band details from another, and get musicians' status...
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Arthouse
Arthouse movie listings for February 18-24, 2009
Published: February 18, 2009
Artists' Television Access. OpenScreening: Open mike for filmakers. Thu., Feb. 19, 8 p.m. $5. Chant d'Amour: Jean Genet's short film and several other silent shorts,...
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Encore
Also Playing
Our critics weigh in on local theater
By Molly Rhodes and Nathaniel Eaton
Published: February 18, 2009
Burn the Floor. 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...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: February 18, 2009
Bread and Gutter Rap on the knuckles for Jamison: Peter Jamison's article on direct services to the poor in the Tenderloin ["Their Daily Bread," Feature, 2/4] shared a sadly...
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