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Night&Day
By Scott Foundas
Theres nothing new under the suburban sun (save for infectious ticks) in Derick Martinis Lymelife, whose weighty allegorical title and fastidious 1970s...
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Night&Day
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Stephen Vincent is tired tonight. He's made a serious piece of art every day for the past 99 days; today, he makes an additional 26. Numbers are important to Vincent in this...
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Letters
It's Harder to See a Camouflaged Elephant
PE the best you can PE: The big elephant in the room is that JROTC can't get PE credit unless its instructors are certified by the...
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Michael Lacey
By Michael Lacey
Editor's note: From the moment SF Weekly published its first issue as a New Times publication in 1995, Bruce Brugmann, Tim Redmond, and their employees at the Bay Guardian made...
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Eat
By Alastair Bland
For decades, members of the Mycological Society of San Francisco have scoured Lands End each rainy season for edibles and collectibles. But in July, the Golden Gate National...
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Sucka Free City
By Joe Eskenazi
If ever you needed another reason to despise Paris Hilton — utter vapidity, being famous despite having no discernible talent, overuse of the teeth in her sole legitimate...
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Sucka Free City
By Benjamin Wachs
The Recreation and Parks Department has unveiled a plan to charge for admittance to the San Francisco Botanical Garden in order to raise money to turn the facility into a...
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Music
By Ezra Gale
If Adam Theis were erased from San Francisco (à la James Stewart's George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life), the city would become radically more desolate. Sure, tourists...
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Music
By Shawn Reynaldo
Camilo Lara is a product of his environment. The Mexican DJ and producer (who also happens to hold down a day job as the president of EMI Mexico) didn't grow up with dreams of...
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Music
By Phil Freeman
Despite the trend in consumer downloads, singles are for dilettantes. Full albums are still where a band's real art lies. That's a point many musicians are out to prove,...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
An old-school metal band's dramatic epic is about to hit movie theaters. This is a group that started in the early '80s and influenced rock legends like Slash, Lemmy from...
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Hear This
By Andy Tennille
Just over a year ago, Heartless Bastards frontchick Erica Wennerstrom packed her bags for Austin, leaving her hometown of Cincinnati behind after the dissolution of her 10-year...
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Hear This
By Shawn Reynaldo
Disco has crept back onto San Francisco's fashionable dancefloors, making bands like Glass Candy veritable heroes in the process. Once a noisy outfit owing a heavy debt to No...
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Hear This
By Shawn Reynaldo
Insane in the Brain" may be more than 15 years old, but blunted L.A. hip-hop quartet Cypress Hill hasn't lost its green thumb, so to speak. While these Latino rap veterans...
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BeatBox
By Tony Ware
Parisian producer Sébastien Tellier claims his 2008 album, Sexuality, was informed by "the abuse of sustained arpeggiator by extralarge tablecloths." That's crazy in any...
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BeatBox
By Doug Wallen
Englishman Ben Jacobs (aka Max Tundra) and Canadian duo Junior Boys are the perfect tourmates. Both acts record for Domino, prefer esoteric album titles, and find fresh ways to...
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Bouncer
By Katy St. Clair
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe in coincidence, and those who don't. I'm not sure which category I fall into yet.
The folks who don't believe in...
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Eat
At Heaven's Dog, mixing contemporary Chinese and fancy drinks in a modern setting does not a great restaurant make.
By Meredith Brody
Heaven's Dog, the latest offering from iconic San Francisco restaurateur Charlie Phan (The Slanted Door, Out the Door), is housed in a chic, cleanly designed modern space on...
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Fresh Eats
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
By J. Hoberman
Kevin Macdonald's Washington thriller is a bellows designed to puff up the most beaten-down reporter's chest. Compressed from the highly regarded BBC miniseries first telecast...
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