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Hit the Dex
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
Roy Orbison plus Jello Biafra equals Dex Romweber. Fans of the singer's famous former band, the Flat Duo Jets, know this already; they'd probably add Paul Westerberg to the...
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Luna Tics
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
Alejandro Murguía volunteered in Nicaragua in 1979 — with the good guys, not with the U.S.-backed Contras. He's the author of two books and the former editor of the...
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Hunger
By J. Hoberman
Published: April 8, 2009
Established artists who’ve made mid-career leaps from gallery to movie house have not easily found their footing. But British video artist Steve McQueen is the exception....
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You Look Like a Hippie, Son
By Michael Leaverton
Published: April 8, 2009
Depending on the cut, the sweep, and the smell, a beard can signify nearly anything: virility, genius, homelessness, irony, talent with an axe, familiarity with barley and hops...
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Footloose Folk
Published: April 8, 2009
Devendra Banhart would much rather play the wandering mystic than the outlaw rock star. That wanderlust spurs him in constantly shifting directions, though the changes in...
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Avoir Du Chien
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
Judy North is leading two lives. In one, she's a mild-mannered painter of dog portraits, some of which hang at Heaven's Dog & Noodle Shop. It is there that "Walk the Dog...
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Changelings
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
The delicate graphite drawings at "Kin" are pretty, but they also have a terror element. Artist Dana Harel uses an extended meditation on human paws, and poses them as if to...
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It Went by So Quickly, I Didn’t Really See
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
Drawing from improvisational traditions of many kinds, Nina Wise is just the person to cook up a compelling stage show out of what many people would call “nothing.”...
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Sound System Gonna Bring Me Back Up
By John Graham
Published: April 8, 2009
The Portuguese empire may be gone, but the cultural flow between Portugal and its former colonies never stopped. Witness the phenomenon of kuduro, a hybrid of lo-fi...
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Rude Reels
By Michael Fox
Published: April 8, 2009
With all the discerning purveyors of schlock, genre, and exploitation cinema in the Bay Area, do we really need some dudes from Texas to show us a good time? Hell, no. But San...
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Dance Dance Revolution
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
Liz Lerman (no relation to Liz Lemon, dammit) is a funny kind of dance lady. She's been known to choreograph people in the park: Mothers lift babies in rhythm, big sisters grab...
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A Walk in the Park
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
In case you haven't made your big Earth Day plans yet — wait, what? You forgot it was Earth Day? Bad girl! As penance, you have to attend the Earth Stroll at one of our...
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State Representatives
By Michael Leaverton
Published: April 8, 2009
California’s coastline is 840 miles long — Eric Soderquist surfed the whole thing. Not every break — that would be lunacy — but the pro surfer and his...
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Born to Ruse
By Tara Jepsen
Published: April 8, 2009
What constitutes a “mothering instinct,” exactly? The squishy industrialists behind baby-doll marketing have, recently, seriously upped the ante on minting...
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Fierce Tranny Elementary
By Evan James
Published: April 8, 2009
As an apocalyptic rain of budget cuts to education threatens to wash away basic literacy, leaving children a gibbering hive mind of ultraviolent, computer-savvy street...
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Hail to the Queen
By Mark Keresman
Published: April 8, 2009
Teenage Wanda Jackson, inspired by the spunky Western-accented sounds of Bob Wills and Hank Thompson, began her career as a country singer in the 1950s. After high school, she...
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The Wanderers
By Dan Strachota
Published: April 8, 2009
There couldn't possibly be a better band than Tinariwen playing at Coachella. The upcoming music festival's 100-degree heat? No problem for a group of nomads who grew up in the...
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Requiem for a Heavyweight
By Michael Fox
Published: April 8, 2009
The extraordinary stage actor John Cazale made just five movies, but all were nominated for Best Picture Academy Awards. It wasn’t a coincidence; he was eminently capable...
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"Advice and Portraits"
By Traci Vogel
Published: April 8, 2009
Maria Forde's touchingly awkward sketches of her friends, done in pencil and watercolor, people the walls at Needles & Pens. She began these portraits as a way to gather advice...
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Waltz With Bashir
By J. Hoberman
Published: April 8, 2009
Ari Folman’s broodingly original Waltz With Bashir is a documentary that seems only possible, not to mention bearable, as an animated feature. A grim, deeply personal...
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