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An afternoon breeze blows through an open doorway under the opening titles of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata, portending a coming storm and the more violent winds of change...
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The Model Apartment. 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,...
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If few of the elected officials who signed a law into existence can be bothered to follow it, and the government commission charged with implementing that law opts not to...
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As the edifice of daily print journalism collapses chunk by chunk, it's a fair bet that San Francisco will see a proliferation of upstart media outlets staffed by out-of-work...
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Manuel Legris, a French dancer interviewed in Ballerina, Bertrand Norman's involving study of the Russian ballet, insists that a Russian ballerina is easy to spot in a crush...
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Twilight Zone Live, now in its sixth season at the Dark Room, isn't exactly a tribute to Rod Serling's landmark TV series from the '50s and '60s. It's more like an extended...
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After a fare hike earlier this year, isn't it time we started asking Caltrain for a few perks in exchange for the privilege of commuting from San Francisco down the peninsula?...
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Nodzzz' excellent self-titled 2008 debut is on the turntable, and the tunes by this basement pop trio are impatient. They expire at a minute and change. Blink to their beat,...
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This play, as its subtitle suggests, is a one-man Beckettlike riff about "nothing," written by the incomparable Will Eno. The script was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer...
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Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser Published:
March 25, 2009
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Artists' Television Access. Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band: Fri., March 27, 8 p.m. $6. 992 Valencia (at 21st St.),...
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All the (Fo)rage
Taking the piss out of Pong: For two weeks in a row now, SF Weekly has had fantastic cover stories; one on Yelp showing how elitist this city can be...
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The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs' CD shares its name with the legendary London nightclub that served as a way station between '70s punk and '80s synth-pop. Like the club, the record...
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Say the name Knut, and most folks will think of that polar bear cub from the Berlin Zoo. A select few, though, will recall an extremely underrated post-hardcore noise-metal...
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It's easy to say what Baltimore club music isn't: It isn't Miami bass, Bay Area hyphy, Chicago house, New York hip-hop, D.C. go-go, Atlanta crunk, or Detroit techno. Yet it...
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Legendary Dadaist noise outfit Nurse with Wound started as a trio in 1978, and has had plenty of collaborators along the way, but ultimately the group revolves around the...
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Classic disco, from the popular American variety to the more obscure Italian kind, still thrives in pockets of the San Francisco dance scene. However, there's often a divide...
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Detroit's Platinum Pied Pipers (Robert "Waajeed" O'Bryan and Darnell "Saadiq" Bolden) recently released Abundance, their hauntingly beautiful sophomore album. Where their 2005...
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They say that beauty is only skin deep, which is indeed true. Case in point: Joan Crawford, the original "hot mess." I find her a very sympathetic character, despite being an...
