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Issue: March 11, 2009
Page: 3
72 stories found - 41 through 60
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  1. Night&Day

    A Good Ride

    By Michael Leaverton
    Published: March 11, 2009

    Some stereotypes about surfers are true: They forget to attend college, don’t talk when they eat nachos, quit Pizza Hut when a swell hits, and practice a bullshit...

  2. Night&Day

    Sordid Details, in Stores Now

    By Evan James
    Published: March 11, 2009

    Add book-penning to the ever-blossoming bailiwick of sexually frank frontman Jon Ginoli, whose Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division offers a compelling new reason to visit one...

  3. Night&Day

    Makin' Copies

    By Hiya Swanhuyser
    Published: March 11, 2009

    The gallery looks odd, almost empty, as if the curators had forgotten to put up a show. But you notice small, waist-height Plexiglas cases; they seem to hold photocopies, and...

  4. Night&Day

    The You Lagoon

    By Hiya Swanhuyser
    Published: March 11, 2009

    Anyone who has neglected to visit the new California Academy of Sciences is severely missing out, and not even because of the famous undulating grassy roof. One of the first...

  5. Night&Day

    I Think That I Shall Never See ...

    By Hiya Swanhuyser
    Published: March 11, 2009

    OK, so it turns out that a recent Nobel Peace Prize winner would have sided with the treesitters you all love to hate so much. Laugh's kinda on you, because Wangari Maathai is...

  6. Night&Day

    Team Players

    Cryptogramophone gathers together Left Coast jazz all-stars.

    By Sam Prestianni
    Published: March 11, 2009

    Los Angeles native Jeff Gauthier is a veteran improviser and composer with a knack for drawing gifted artists into his orbit. While he's an adept and eclectic performer, the...

  7. Night&Day

    The People vs. BART police

    By Hiya Swanhuyser
    Published: March 11, 2009

    It's still joltingly painful to realize: BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot Oscar Grant in the back, to death, as Grant lay handcuffed, on his stomach and fully prone....

  8. Night&Day

    Like a Kitten With A Ball of Yarn

    By Hiya Swanhuyser
    Published: March 11, 2009

    Dashing New York City impresario and partyboy Earl Dax has been living two lives: One at home and one here. His Tingel Tangel Club variety show has been responsible for a...

  9. Stage

    Theatrical Makeover

    Warming up to Climate's SOMA home.

    By Chloe Veltman
    Published: March 11, 2009

    When my friend Jessica Heidt took over as artistic director of the Climate Theater in September 2007, the corner of Folsom and Ninth streets where the alternative performance...

  10. Matt Smith

    Flubbers

    How Federal Home Loan Banks and their execs exacerbated the banking meltdown.

    By Matt Smith
    Published: March 11, 2009

    There are plenty of bad guys in the current banking collapse, but I want to introduce you to some unsung villains: the executives running little-known, federally chartered...

  11. Music

    Ariel Pink craves a label to call home

    By Doug Wallen
    Published: March 11, 2009

    It's been five years since home recorder Ariel Pink (né Rosenburg) landed on Animal Collective's Paw Tracks imprint, which released his years-in-the-can album The...

  12. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Bruno's: 1375 Fillmore (at O'Farrell), 563-6300. Fillmore. Italian and pizza. Caffeinated Comics: 3188 Mission (at Valencia), 829-7530, www.caffcom.com. Mission. Coffee,...

  13. Film

    Crossing Over: Borderline Offensive

    Citizen's arrest for Wayne Kramer's tasteless immigrant drama.

    By Scott Foundas
    Published: March 11, 2009

    Haven't we been here before? The inbred mutant offspring of Crash and Babel, writer-director Wayne Kramer's Crossing Over treats the subject of illegal immigrants coming to...

  14. Stagecap

    Where the Sidewalk Ends

    By Molly Rhodes
    Published: March 11, 2009

    The beauty and wonder of this amalgamated adaptation of several classic Shel Silverstein books grabs you from the moment the curtain is stripped away. Director and designer...

  15. Sucka Free City

    The Labor Lobby

    S.F. unions do a lot of lobbying. They just don't report it.

    By Joe Eskenazi
    Published: March 11, 2009

    Last week an eye-catching ad appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle's home page; clicking on it led to the Web site www.saveourfirehouses.com. You won't find out who wants you...

  16. Music

    A San Franciscan’s guide to SXSW

    By Jennifer Maerz
    Published: March 11, 2009

    Every year, they descend on Austin like locusts with bedhead — the musicians, booking agents, writers, labels, dotcommers, and corporate sponsors looking for their Next...

  17. Film

    Everlasting Moments: Camera Ready

    It looks great, but it's ultimately a missed photo op.

    By Ella Taylor
    Published: March 11, 2009

    Lovely to look at but too slow and deliberate to get lost in, Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments is a tribute to still photography filtered through a portrait of working-class...

  18. Stagecap

    The Model Apartment

    By Chris Jensen
    Published: March 11, 2009

    Comedy may be tragedy plus time, but sometimes a tragedy is so immense that it can only devolve into savage farce. Donald Margulies' The Model Apartment, currently playing at...

  19. Sucka Free City

    Change for the Worse

    Some local Obama supporters hit hard times after the election.

    By Herman Wong
    Published: March 11, 2009

    Noelle Lewis is a poster child for Barack Obama volunteers. Politically motivated for the first time in her life, the 28-year-old San Francisco resident paid her own way to Las...

  20. Let's Get Killed

    Live Nation battles neighbors over big concerts at Nob Hill Masonic Center

    By Jennifer Maerz
    Published: March 11, 2009

    With its swank hotels and Hitchcock movie memories, Nob Hill ain't exactly a San Francisco den of rock 'n' roll. The giant vans lumbering over those scenic hills are loaded up...

Issue: March 11, 2009
Page: 3
72 stories found - 41 through 60
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