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Feature
JROTC under fire in S.F. schools
By Lauren Smiley
Published: April 8, 2009
Eleven instructors of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps shuffled into the school board meeting in late March like men on death row who might be handed an 11th-hour...
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Music
Gui Boratto gives techno a tender '80s crush
By Phil Freeman
Published: April 8, 2009
German label Kompakt tends to release what nonfans call "IKEA techno" — pleasant, faceless music that's sort of ambient, sort of danceable, but never too demanding of...
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Eat
What's a man gotta do to find the real soul food deal?
By Matthew Stafford
Published: April 8, 2009
It isn't easy finding a platter of honest-to-God soul food in this town. A lot of what is passed off as the genuine article may be Creole cuisine or Texas barbecue or tarted-up...
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Film
Seth Rogen's rent-a-cop rides the bipolar express in Observe and Report
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 8, 2009
Observe and Report writer-director Jody Hill makes mean-spirited tragedies that studios market as inane comedies because otherwise no one would pay a cent to see them. That's...
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Night&Day
Don't You Cry
Published: April 8, 2009
Toy company design work and street graffiti inform the work of manga-driven artist Hush. At "Veiled Beauty," the Hong-Kong-by-way-of-the-U.K. painter shows some of his famous...
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Night&Day
Grow the Hell Up
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
Young people! It is understandable that you assume black and white movies are boring. Youth equals stupidity, after all. No, srsly: If you have not seen My Little Chickadee,...
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Night&Day
Sugar
By Melissa Anderson
Published: April 8, 2009
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have transformed some of the most clichéd genres with smarts, non-screechy politics, superb acting, and visual beauty. Half Nelson—their...
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Night&Day
Beam Me Over There
By Michael Leaverton
Published: April 8, 2009
You remember George Takei — he’s the guy who was parodied on the Soup for nearly all of 2008 simply for having a nice baritone and a limitless laugh. He was also Mr....
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Night&Day
Hulk Smash Art
By Michael Leaverton
Published: April 8, 2009
Not touching the art is one of our most hallowed traditions. But who hasn’t wanted to press a finger against a canvas to see what, say, mid-'50s abstract expressionism...
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Night&Day
Pigs in Zen
By Michael Leaverton
Published: April 8, 2009
You wouldn’t think a movie about wild pig hunting would play well in the city, but we happen to be surrounded by hills filled with 200-pound, tusk-sporting boar....
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Night&Day
Blizzard of Oz
By Silke Tudor
Published: April 8, 2009
Author Lyman Frank Baum claimed The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was simply “a modernized fairy tale” for children but, even in 1900, the story resonated deeply with...
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Night&Day
Soft Corps
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
Joy Jones is cute and funny. She writes, “An artist can change lemons into lemonade/Gators into Gatorade/An escape into an escapade.” Jones, a local poet and...
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Night&Day
Weimar Days
By Michael Fox
Published: April 8, 2009
In the ’30s and ’40s, urban sophisticate Ernst Lubitsch turned a corner of the Paramount lot into Old Europe for his masterful romantic comedies Ninotchka, The Shop...
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Night&Day
Way Above Average
By Mike Rowell
Published: April 8, 2009
Vancouver-based guitar and vocals twosome Mecca Normal has always had a political bent. Sure, the band serves up smartly written songs and obstreperous guitar rock, but its...
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Night&Day
Paddling 101
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
Kayakers are like surfers. They get started, and the next thing you know, other parts of their lives begin to fall by the wayside. They try to get you to go with them. And no...
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Night&Day
w4audience
By Silke Tudor
Published: April 8, 2009
Forty million American singles can’t be wrong! Take a personality test! Rank your matches! Find out which member of Dethklok you are! Send a wink or a woo! Strings of...
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Night&Day
You Show Me Yours
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
Constraining the creative process is all the rage: Two-days-to-make-a film festivals, monthlong novel-writing events, and now this: "ShortLived 2.0", a three-month-long...
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Night&Day
Easter Basket
By Tara Jepsen
Published: April 8, 2009
Behold a passel of talented comedians at Far Easter 4: There's the usual sampling of television appearances: MadTV, Last Comic Standing, Family Guy. Dat Phan hit the stage of...
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Night&Day
A Tough Sell
By Alejandro Perez
Published: April 8, 2009
You’re unlikely to find Andrea Echeverri and Hector Buitrago, the duo behind folk-rock group Aterciopelados (“The Velvety Ones”), selling out stateside stadiums...
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Night&Day
Go Forth and Sin Some More
By Tara Jepsen
Published: April 8, 2009
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have become such a dependable fixture in the San Francisco fund-raising and social landscape, we sometimes forget they’re festooned in...
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