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    Know Your Rights

    By Michael Fox

    Published: March 11, 2009

    When it comes to social-issue documentaries, the citizenry has finally figured out that the best (and usually only) way to find out what’s happening in the world is from...

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    Lives in the Gulch

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 11, 2009

    If there’s a local neighborhood with a better name than Polk Gulch, we haven’t heard it. Once featuring a grand accumulation of marginalized characters tottering...

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    Primal Sloganeering

    Phil Freeman

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Primal Scream founder Bobby Gillespie is a master of sloganeering — he’s a much better interview subject than lyricist. Fortunately for him, in the hype-driven...

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    Say Västerbotten!

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Lovely to look at but too slow to get lost in, Jan Troell's new movie is a tribute to still photography filtered through a portrait of working-class life wracked by war and...

25. Night&Day

    Dream On

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Oakland's Fernando Reyes has an opening reception on March 20 at 6 p.m. March 4-28, 2009

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    Dream On

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Oakland artist Fernando Reyes' work reminds us of Gustav Klimt gone flash animation -- plus he's obviously seen those flayed-cadaver exhibits too many times. Trippy, ornate...

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    Take a Hike

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Point all the fingers you want about the passage of Proposition 8, which amended the fucking state Constitution to deny the right of same-sex couples to marry. You can say it...

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    In the Beginning

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Sluggo’s was a workers’ collective. This tiny restaurant, situated on the late-’80s-early-’90s UC Santa Cruz campus, pops up in the collective memory every...

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    Camelot Revisited

    By Michael Fox

    Published: March 11, 2009

    It’s a marvelous thing when fiction, even historical fiction, is trumped by actual factual history. Oliver Stone’s JFK, you’ll recall, hysterically portrayed the...

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    Hand to Mouth

    By Michael Fox

    Published: March 11, 2009

    It started by accident, when Mike Plante’s dining companion chanced to be out of cash. The CineVegas Film Festival programmer had the bright idea that his cohort, a...

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    AA OK

    By Tara Jepsen

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Paula Poundstone is one of those talented comedians who can riff the night away with any old audience member randy enough to shout out some hooch-fueled commentary. She’s...

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    Kara and Katy

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Those who don’t count themselves fans of local modern dance have never seen Kara Davis move. This jewel in the crown of some of S.F.’s gutsiest companies carves space...

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    We Nominate Chicken John and Deep Jawa

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Where art and wonk meet, things are bound to go dorky, like at the Valencia Streetscape Art Advisory meeting. This event really has a sexy name, don't you think? Doesn't it...

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    12

    By Michelle Orange

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2008, Russian actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov’s masterful, engrossing 12 is finally finding its way into theaters. A...

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    Tokyo!

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Does anyone remember Japan? The tri-part Tokyo! revisits the Land of the Lost Decade—or at least its largest city—courtesy of tourist filmmakers Michel Gondry and...

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    Food Apocalypse

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 11, 2009

    It’s a conspiracy we have no theory for: The S.F. International Chocolate Salon and BaconCamp take place on the same day. Some of you will lean toward the salon, having...

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    Master of Puppets

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Using puppetry in a play about a Japanese internment camp during WWII is one thing (and probably not a good thing). Liebe Wetzel’s Lunatique Fantastique, however, does...

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    The Class

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Compare and contrast Laurent Cantet’s terrific The Class with Mr. Holland’s Opus and Dangerous Minds. Note the structural similarities: misbehaving students, a...

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    Lights, Camera, Mystic!

    By Evan James

    Published: March 11, 2009

    “What would it be like to sit fireside under the stars and ask a true spiritual master and mystic all your unanswered questions about life?” asks Sadhguru Jaggi...

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    The Goddest Damn Thing

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 11, 2009

    We can understate, and say that the Bay Area isn’t known as a hotbed of fundamentalist Christianity. Or we can overstate, and say that Bay Area music audiences would...