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Night&Day
That Story Was Delicious
By Michael Leaverton
Published: April 8, 2009
Dining out, we put our faith in the chef. In return, some chefs put their faith in Jack Daniel’s, the Five-Second Rule, MSG, or the persuasiveness of the “Employees...
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Night&Day
For the Fans
By Michael Leaverton
Published: April 8, 2009
To be eligible for the Northern California Book Awards, nominees must live from Fresno north. Entrants in the SoCal Book Awards need to live from Morro Bay south. Right now,...
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Night&Day
A Walk in the Dark
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
Lulacruza, for those unfamiliar with the Oaklandish/Argentine/Colombian duo, is the Latina Cocteau Twins. Collaborating with two dancers plus a poet/painter and a...
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Night&Day
Please E-Mail Your Mother
By Michael Leaverton
Published: April 8, 2009
We’ve all been there: at work, at the computer, feverishly knocking out e-mails, using and appreciating proper netiquette, pausing only for sips of coffee or chomps from a...
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Night&Day
Everybody Dance Now
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
You know what happens when you make an assumption? That's right: You make an ass out of you and umption. You've probably made a lot of assumptions about homeless people; it's...
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Night&Day
What the What?
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
Face it: The MSM does not think of itself as your educator. Didn't go to a school fancy enough to have economics classes? That's your problem, buddy! Reading the business...
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Night&Day
Too Much Good Stuff
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
Pop-Up Magazine expects 23 contributors. That fact wouldn't be particularly interesting if Pop-Up were a print publication, but it isn't. Instead, This American Life-er Douglas...
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Night&Day
Richie Rich
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
Rock critic Richie Unterberger (Mojo, www.rollingstone.com, Record Collector, www.allmusic.com, etc.) basically owns a film archive, and shares it often. His screenings have a...
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Night&Day
Hop Along
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 8, 2009
At the intersection of dance lessons and schoolyard antics is Double Dutch Class. Instructor Jill Herrera of SFC Double Dutch emphasizes that although the class is a super fun...
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Stage
The Story
In an age where newspapers are in decline, a play about the power of the press seems dated.
By Chloe Veltman
Published: April 8, 2009
The news industry has been taking a hammering on all sides of late. With the San Francisco Chronicle's owner threatening to sell or fold the paper because of financial...
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Matt Smith
Bobby Badfingers' snappy jailhouse comeback
By Matt Smith
Published: April 8, 2009
On Jan. 13, 1968, a black-clothed man stepped in front of a crowd of inmates, sang "I took a shot of cocaine and shot my woman down," and launched his career skyward with the...
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Music
How the crash will reshape the music industry
By Ben Westhoff
Published: April 8, 2009
Richard Florida's March cover story in The Atlantic Monthly, "How the Crash Will Reshape America," offers bold predictions on how the financial meltdown will affect our...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: April 8, 2009
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. 15 Romolo: 15 Romolo (at Broadway), 398-1359. North Beach. Cocktails and bar...
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Film
Sidestepping sports movie clichés, Sugar finds the sweet spot
By Melissa Anderson
Published: April 8, 2009
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have transformed some of the saggiest, most clichéd genres with smarts, nonscreechy politics, superb acting, and visual beauty. Though, on...
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Stagecap
Evil Hamlet: This Hamlet isn't as evil as he is dull
By Molly Rhodes
Published: April 8, 2009
The title suggests that adapter Jim Strope has made some radical shift in William Shakespeare's masterpiece, yet the changes he added—editing down the text and setting it...
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Sucka Free City
Fisherman Wharf's Bush Man survives heart attack
By Lauren Smiley
Published: April 8, 2009
The news making its way through the Fisherman's Wharf grapevine of silver breakdancers and street clowns was that Bush 2 was dead. No, not the former president. On the wharf,...
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Music
Leonard Cohen dwells where the scars run deep
By Mark Keresman
Published: April 8, 2009
Among the singer-songwriter breed, few are genuine trailblazers. Leonard Cohen is a poet pioneer rooted in that Dylan pantheon in terms of artistic influence and resilience....
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FilmCap
Gigantic
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: April 8, 2009
I don't remember ever wanting to just haul out and punch a movie before Gigantic. Interrupting every scene with a proud little fart of idiosyncrasy, Matt Aselton's auteur debut...
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Stagecap
Act a Lady: NCTC's cross-dressing show is a drag
By Chris Jensen
Published: April 8, 2009
Act a Lady ought to be a great time. Set in the Midwest in 1927, it's a comedy that considers what happens when small-town menfolk begin impersonating womenfolk at the local...
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Sucka Free City
Jobless professionals seek work at Alcatraz
By Herman Wong
Published: April 8, 2009
In an odd turn, the recession is sending formerly well-paid professionals to prison. Well, sort of. Alcatraz is hiring! And this season, the island has attracted an...
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