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Music
The Zoo complex supports music synergy in Oakland
By Eric K. Arnold
Published: March 18, 2009
For years, the local music community has issued the same complaints: We're too isolated, there isn't a big enough music industry, people don't work together. But while the area...
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Eat
Father in the Black
Chez Papa Resto offers a modern take on classic French fare, with prices suitable to current concerns.
By Meredith Brody
Published: March 18, 2009
Arriving at Chez Papa Resto for dinner on a chilly night feels a little mysterious. The small plaza next to the still-deserted, stately old Mint building is eerily empty, and...
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Eat
Out of the Wild
Iso Rabins' foraged food is the toast of San Francisco's gourmet set. Health inspectors and environmentalists aren't so thrilled.
By Peter Jamison
Published: March 18, 2009
On an unseasonably warm winter afternoon, Iso Rabins stepped out of a silver Subaru Legacy at the intersection of Walnut and Pacific streets, a tony corner of Pacific Heights...
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Film
Eternal Flame
In I Love You, Man, not even Brody Jenner could extinguish the bromance.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: March 18, 2009
Just as we thought the "bromantic comedy" had overstayed its welcome, the genre reaches its high point with I Love You, Man. The subtext is finally the text — it's right...
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Night&Day
The Great Buck Howard
By Ella Taylor
Published: March 18, 2009
No one does raging unlovability quite like John Malkovich, who’s a total gas when he drops the bombast that often bogs down his more serious roles. Not that Buck Howard,...
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Night&Day
A Duck’s Life
By Michael Leaverton
Published: March 18, 2009
In 2002, celebrated chef Charlie Trotter quietly removed foie gras from his menu. Three years later, an entertainment reporter finally asked him why, given that Trotter used to...
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Night&Day
The Hear and Lao
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: March 18, 2009
The photo that grabs us the most on Todd Sanchioni’s Web preview of “The Changing Face of Laos Through Its Music” is predictable. We like hot guys playing...
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Night&Day
Saplings of the City
By Michael Leaverton
Published: March 18, 2009
San Francisco has an abundance of parks, but we all know the problem with parks: The grass. Good to sit on, but generally boring, not at all native, and irresistible to people...
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Night&Day
Their High Royalnesses
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: March 18, 2009
All that time spent in the Seattle punk scene greatly affected Jesse Lortz and Kimberly Morrison, otherwise known as the Dutchess and the Duke. Their voices betray the acoustic...
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Night&Day
Whose Feathered Friends? Our Feathered Friends!
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: March 18, 2009
John Robinson has a big ambition, and an uphill climb -- maybe. At “Changing the Face of Environmental Conservation Through Birding,” the African-American wildlife...
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Night&Day
Get Touched
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: March 18, 2009
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival teams up with the German language institute to bring us the importance of being Ernst. Rare Silent Films by Ernst Lubitsch lives up to...
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Night&Day
Totally Sketchy
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: March 18, 2009
The setup at Sketch Tuesdays is so awesome: You go to the gallery and watch artists make art. Then you buy it, cheap. Stroll from one end of the room to the other, and when you...
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Night&Day
Let It All Out
By Tara Jepsen
Published: March 18, 2009
If you want to find reasons to feel terrible, it ain’t hard: Mine your personal history, try on clothes under fluorescent lights, read the newspaper. But if you’re...
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Night&Day
Our Woman in Washington
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: March 18, 2009
Wonder if conservatives call anyone more names — behind closed doors, that is — than they do Congresswoman Barbara Lee? Which is a terrible way to think of it, unless...
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Night&Day
Think of a Number
By Tara Jepsen
Published: March 18, 2009
With Nadya Suleman stealing the thunder of all multiple births shy of the magic number eight, a person can reasonably wish for a simpler time in which twins were carnival...
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Night&Day
Yes We Quan
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: March 18, 2009
We're just dreaming, but here is our dream: to see dive-bar dancers whose attention to detail matches the obsession of Bay Area vintage-music DJs. For example, at Lonely...
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Night&Day
Ins-doll-ation
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: March 18, 2009
Installation art is often good art: Few rules have been set for it. Not sculpture, not conceptual art, not painting or drawing, but often dismantlable into those elements,...
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Night&Day
The Twisted Path
By Sean Uyehara
Published: March 18, 2009
Some claim that the 1986 film Labyrinth is a seminal part of their movie-going lives. We can neither confirm nor deny reports that this geeky, Jim Henson-directed puppet movie...
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Books
Nature, Nurture, or All of the Above?
A local author turns his body into a testing ground. Results vary.
By Jonathan Kiefer
Published: March 18, 2009
David Ewing Duncan is nothing if not self-aware. He knows, for instance, that his brain is shrinking. And he knows that he is among the 25 percent of humans who can't taste...
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Bookcap
Upcoming Book Events
By Jonathan Kiefer
Published: March 18, 2009
Friday, March 27 Nobody doesn't like Isabel Allende. Nobody literate, anyway. The cherished local novelist and memoirist will be the guest of honor for a "literary luncheon"...
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