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Issue: February 25, 2009
Page: 2
71 stories found - 21 through 40
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    And the Tree Was Happy

    By Michael Leaverton
    Published: February 25, 2009

    Where the Sidewalk Ends is not for kids: The production by Boxcar Theatre, adapted for the stage by founding member Sarah Savage, is billed as a “contemporary...

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    He and Him

    By Tara Jepsen
    Published: February 25, 2009

    The premise of Pichet Klunchun and Myself sounds kinda like a sitcom: Two strangers from disparate cultures, brought together by an unseen Fringe Festival curator, try to build...

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    Stuffed Zucchini

    By Hiya Swanhuyser
    Published: February 25, 2009

    OK, this sounds too good to be true: Author R.J. Ruppenthal says you can grow vegetables in any city apartment. He says he can show you how, even if you don't have a "big...

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    Yes Yes

    By Hiya Swanhuyser
    Published: February 25, 2009

    An independent hip-hop mixer and "live performance party?" Let's think for a minute: Does that sound fun? Oh, let's go with YEAH! At "We All We Got," KPFA's Hard Knock Radio DJ...

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    Human, All Too Human

    By Hiya Swanhuyser
    Published: February 25, 2009

    And you think your dad is weird: Consider Laura Truffaut. One of the many films her father, François, is famous for making about childhood is The Wild Child/L'Enfant...

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    Cleaning the Gene Pool

    By Michael Leaverton
    Published: February 25, 2009

    To win a Darwin Award, you don’t need to die, you just need to destroy your capacity to reproduce — you can fuck a vacuum cleaner. The rules committee also puts a...

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    The Stage Is Set

    By Hiya Swanhuyser
    Published: February 25, 2009

    Holcombe Waller will be among the nominees for a MacArthur Fellowship pretty soon. What else can you say about someone who's obviously — and trust us, we wouldn't use this...

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    In Bloom

    By Michael Leaverton
    Published: February 25, 2009

    This year, the angle of the Pacific Orchid Exposition is that orchids, the flower of damp foreheads and silk sheets and chocolate cherries — fornication — actually...

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    The Zone Diet

    By Tara Jepsen
    Published: February 25, 2009

    The Twilight Zone episode that was never written may be the zone in which Twilight Zone Live exists, with episodes of the belovedly weird TV show, as re-created at a small...

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    Green Giant

    By Michael Leaverton
    Published: February 25, 2009

    If you get the chance, it’s best to see Andy Goldsworthy’s art in the field, far from manmade obstructions. In San Francisco, we rarely get the chance: His famous...

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    The Flamenco Generation

    By Bonner Odell
    Published: February 25, 2009

    Like the blues and hip-hop, flamenco was created by people living on the fringe. And like those forms, its music and dance have undergone mass efforts to buff, burnish, and...

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    They Wanna Touch You

    By Hiya Swanhuyser
    Published: February 25, 2009

    Local all-woman band Dolorata grew from the roots of the Shelley Doty X-tet, the Hail Marys, and 4 Non Blondes, so, yeah, it's a rock band. Or a rawk band, maybe. Whatever;...

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    Dancing to Fado

    By Silke Tudor
    Published: February 25, 2009

    David Roussève’s new work, Saudade, is grounded in Portugal’s most vital musical form, fado, which expresses the sadness of longing and heartbreak and the deep...

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    Law Fought the Law and — Law Won

    By Silke Tudor
    Published: February 25, 2009

    As a member of the Suicide Club and longtime collaborator with the San Francisco Cacophony Society and Survival Research Laboratories, as well as New York’s Dark Passage...

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    Azur and Asmar

    By Michelle Orange
    Published: February 25, 2009

    With its delicate, fairy-tale bones and layer of politically conscious muscle, Azur and Asmar is a sleek and yet slightly unwieldy animal. The fourth animated feature from...

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    Medicine for Melancholy

    By Ernest Hardy
    Published: February 25, 2009

    “How do you define yourself?” It’s not until its third act that Medicine for Melancholy’s lead male character explicitly asks the question at the heart of...

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    The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

    By J. Hoberman
    Published: February 25, 2009

    Some 23 years in the making, Ellen Kuras’s first film as a director is a portrait of Laotian refugee Thavisouk Phrasavath. The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) is also a haunting...

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    Gomorrah

    By J. Hoberman
    Published: February 25, 2009

    Martin Scorsese may be presenting Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah, but this corrosive, slapdash exposé of organized crime in and around Naples comes on like Mean Streets...

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    Two Lovers

    By Ella Taylor
    Published: February 25, 2009

    If Joaquin Phoenix, who plays a lovelorn bachelor in James Gray's Two Lovers, were 12 years old, the movie might make a touching romantic drama for tweens. Not that adults...

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    Fiiiiiigaro!

    By Chloe Veltman
    Published: February 25, 2009

    The Marriage of Figaro is Mozart’s most beloved opera, surpassing even Don Giovanni on the popularity charts these days: By the middle of March, it will have been produced...

Issue: February 25, 2009
Page: 2
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