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1. Feature

   Stem-cell stalemate: The push for cures may produce only disappointment - or worse

   By Peter Jamison

   Published: April 15, 2009

   The first few months of 2009 have been among the most auspicious for stem-cell research since the field's inception. In January, the Palo Alto–based biotech firm Geron...

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   Goodbye Solo

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: April 15, 2009

   As William, a taciturn senior who seems to be planning for his final days, veteran character actor and former Elvis Presley bodyguard Red West takes center stage in Goodbye...

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   The Black Balloon

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: April 15, 2009

   Produced for what was likely a day’s Botox budget on Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, the auspicious Oz import, The Black Balloon—the debut feature of director Elissa...

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   Délicieuse Dissard

   By Dan Strachota

   Published: April 15, 2009

   Unless you're fluent in French, Marianne Dissard's new disc, L'Entredeux, won't mean as much to you as other break-up albums like Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, Beck's Sea...

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   Putting the "Yay!" in Yay Area

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: April 15, 2009

   Unemployed transfolk: Good news! The good old LGBT Center has something just for you today. The rest of you: Take a minute, one little minute, to picture what it's like to...

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   Getting Sent Up to the Big House

   By Tara Jepsen

   Published: April 15, 2009

   It’s not clear whether fantasizing about opulence or grimly economizing is the prevailing approach for the people of San Francisco, but maybe we can do both at once. The...

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   Send in the Clouds

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: April 15, 2009

   If you’re a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society, it helps to live among them. Charlotte Kay lives 200 feet above the already high Russian Hill on the 22nd floor of an...

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   Tamales Bay

   By Andy Wright

   Published: April 15, 2009

   Ah, spring. When flowers bloom, baby deer take their first wobbly steps, and giant squids sail languidly past mountains of delectable tamales. Every year, the Pacific...

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   Bright Lights, Big, Buttery Chardonnay

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: April 15, 2009

   After the days of Bolivian Marching Powder, Jay McInerney started drinking wine. Then he started writing about wine, got a column about wine (House & Garden magazine), wrote...

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    Friend and Faux

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Monique Jenkinson stunned the world when her drag alter ego, Fauxnique, won the Miss Trannyshack title in 2003. She was the only person born a woman to ever have made it to the...

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    Dean Smith and Dean Byington

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: April 15, 2009

    If Dean Smith ever takes a break, or even breathes, it's hard to tell from his meticulous, obsessive, painstaking pattern art. Like a human spirograph, he maps out abstract...

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    View the Famous Person!

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Ed Begley Jr. is in all your favorite TV shows, every last one. The guy goes from Boston Legal, The New Adventures of Old Christine, and Veronica Mars right on through to Six...

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    Clearing The Room

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 15, 2009

    No way did Entertainment Weekly think its judgment on The Room -- “the Citizen Kane of bad movies -- would kick off the film’s press materials. But, there it is. And...

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    Happier This Year Than Last, Probably

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 15, 2009

    The staging of De Rompe y Raja Cultural Association's Son de los Diablos at the Ethnic Dance Festival earlier this year involved intense, exacting costumes, full-out musical...

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    It’s Better With Jell-O

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Liz Hickok’s gelatinization of San Francisco -- in which she molds the city out of Jell-O, shines lights on it, fashions backdrops, then lets the whole shebang liquefy...

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    We Salute You

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: April 15, 2009

    If you’ve ever wondered what Poulenc’s organ concerto might sound like parsed through metal guitar riffs, spiraling synths, and hard rock drums, Davies After Hours is...

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    Your Butt Off

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 15, 2009

    When people see Kellita Maloof of Hot Pink Feathers, they're usually pretty happy to follow her. Does that sound crass? Let's just say the leader of the popular samba/showgirl...

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    Do Not Cross the Jordan

    By Tara Jepsen

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Tracy Morgan is a man whose mind continuously forges forward, mining the bizarre and wickedly funny, dropping a nonsensical comment into conversation, then playing the laughs...

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    A Great SHO

    By Alejandro Perez

    Published: April 15, 2009

    In salsa, it’s easy to separate good bands from bad, but explaining what divides the better from the best takes some work. Is it energy, ability, or technical proficiency?...

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    Hitting the High Note

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Ray Ferrer headlines Harvey's Funny Tuesdays this week, which is great! He's very funny. So are the other comics on the bill at this long-running queer comedy night: Mary Van...