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Issue: April 8, 2009
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71 stories found - 1 through 20
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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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,...

  7. 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...

  8. 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....

  9. 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...

  10. 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....

  11. 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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    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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...

Issue: April 8, 2009
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