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Feature
Bonfire of the Profanities
An investigator who exposed dishonest savings and loan regulators in the '80s re-encounters an old rival in the latest banking crisis.
By Matt Smith
Published: March 4, 2009
A middle-aged man trudges ponderously up Geary Boulevard, wearing large prescription glasses, disposable tinted eyeshades, baggy jeans, and a wrinkled gray T-shirt beneath an...
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Music
John Zorn’s wild imagination takes root at Yoshi’s
By Dave Pehling
Published: March 4, 2009
Avant-garde composer and saxophonist John Zorn has been the object of ecstatic praise and furious outrage, much like his iconoclastic forebears Igor Stravinsky and Ornette...
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Eat
Room with a View — and Heat
A well-known S.F. chef amps up the menu at Sutro's at the Cliff House.
By Meredith Brody
Published: March 4, 2009
There has been one version or another of the Cliff House on its magnificent rocky site overlooking the Pacific since 1863. The first one burned to the ground on Christmas Day...
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Film
Black Like Me
Not a coveted demographic, the young African-American hipster gets a movie.
By Ernest Hardy
Published: March 4, 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 that's at this film's heart....
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Art
Orion Shepherd expresses his love for books through painting
By Traci Vogel
Published: March 4, 2009
Books are dead, we keep hearing: dead, dead, dead. And yet, like zombies that can discourse on both European philosophy and cat health, bookstores continue to shuffle on as...
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Feature
Before She Was Speaker
Nancy Pelosi's forgotten cameo in the savings and loan scandal.
By Matt Smith
Published: March 4, 2009
The most enduring image from America's last banking crisis 20 years ago depicts five U.S. senators meeting with a stubborn top banking regulator, ordering that he stop leaning...
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Music
Richie Havens redefines folk over four decades
By Ron Nachmann
Published: March 4, 2009
You can easily call Richie Havens a folksinger. He is, after all, an acoustic-guitar–playing Boomer. But you can't call him typical: His distinctive style couldn't be...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: March 4, 2009
Bruno's: 1375 Fillmore (at O'Farrell), 563-6300. Fillmore. Italian and pizza. The Creamery: 685 Fourth St. (at Townsend), 896-1445. SOMA. Coffee and pastries. Internos Wine...
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Film
Dr. Manhattan, Meet Dr. Hollywood
Whew! Tinseltown's go-to graphic novel guy didn't ruin Watchmen. But he doesn't get it, either.
By J. Hoberman
Published: March 4, 2009
The most eagerly anticipated (as well as the most beleaguered) movie of the year (if not the century), Watchmen is neither desecratory disaster nor total triumph. In filming...
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Artcap
"Richard Haden and Jeff McMillan"
By Traci Vogel
Published: March 4, 2009
The cardboard box is such a humble object that it's hardly worth acknowledging. You store stuff in the box, it serves its purpose, and it ends up disintegrating out in the rain...
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Artcap
"Elliot Anderson: Equivalents"
By Traci Vogel
Published: March 4, 2009
Luminism was a term created to describe some attributes of the Hudson River school, that group of painters who idealized upstate New York landscapes in the mid-19th century. As...
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Sucka Free City
Bridge tolls will add stress to casual carpool
By Lauren Smiley
Published: March 4, 2009
For 30 years, commuters have partaken of the unofficial and unadvertised tradition of the casual carpool to evade Bay Bridge toll costs en route to the city. It's a symbiotic...
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Film
The Meaning of Life
Without Monty Python's help, Cornel West and crew take on the big question.
By J. Hoberman
Published: March 4, 2009
As Dwight D. Eisenhower once observed, "Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before." But why? Is something better possible? Could there be another way of...
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Sucka Free City
Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier says she's not termed out
By Joe Eskenazi
Published: March 4, 2009
In early February, Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier met City Attorney Dennis Herrera for a cup of coffee. She was hoping to get him to reconsider a ruling from his office stating...
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Let's Get Killed
Pop residencies gain traction in S.F.
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: March 4, 2009
The long history of musician residencies reaches into nearly every genre. From jazz giants setting up shop for multiple nights with various players to showbiz legends hunkering...
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FilmCap
Phoebe in Wonderland
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: March 4, 2009
Nine-year-old Phoebe (Elle Fanning) is every parent's dream and nightmare — a talented child for whom school presents few challenges, but also a troubled girl prone to...
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Encore
Also Playing
Our critics weigh in on local theater
By Molly Rhodes
Published: March 4, 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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Sucka Free City
What would Clint Reilly do if MediaNews tries to buy the Chronicle?
By Will Harper
Published: March 4, 2009
Two years ago, San Francisco real estate magnate Clint Reilly successfully blocked an attempt by the two companies that own almost every daily newspaper in the Bay Area, Hearst...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: March 4, 2009
Malking It Worn-out pavement: I enjoyed reading Jennifer Maerz's article "The Noise Pop Network" [Let's Get Killed, 2/25]. Her critiques are right on. However, I was pretty...
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Reviewed
BLK JKS
Mystery (Secretly Canadian)
By Andrew Stout
Published: March 4, 2009
When BLK JKS formed almost a decade ago, the band took a lot of flak in its native Johannesburg. Rock 'n' roll was viewed as the music of the antagonistic West, and BLK JKS was...
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