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A guide to the best of this year's S.F. International Film Festival
By Michael Fox, Frako Loden, Jesse Oxfeld, Jonathan Kiefer and Gregg Rickman
Published: April 22, 2009
When the San Francisco International Film Fest rolls around, we at SF Weekly rejoice. Then we get overwhelmed. How are we going to cover this extravaganza? This year, for...
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Anvil
By Camille Dodero
Published: April 22, 2009
Even though Anvil, a four-piece speed-metal circus that once toured with soon-to-be cash-cow longhairs like Whitesnake and Bon Jovi, never amounted to anything more than...
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Wendy and Lucy
By J. Hoberman
Published: April 22, 2009
Modest but cosmic, Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy is a movie whose sad pixie heroine, Wendy (Michelle Williams), already skating on thin ice, stumbles and, without a...
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You're Two Tents
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 22, 2009
It can be frustrating to explain who you are. "Who are you? Who are you?" Anthony Michael Hall famously asks in the 1980s teen film classic The Breakfast Club. The question,...
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In the Merry Merry Month
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 22, 2009
It's the kind of thing promoters say: "Some of the hottest multimedia performers in the Bay Area!" If you're like us, when you see those words, you tune out unless it's a...
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The Deliverers
By Michael Leaverton
Published: April 22, 2009
It’s hard to take good, long looks at bike messengers — at their August tans, high-wire tattoos, seven-block stares, and muscle groups — when they ride like the...
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Rifle Through Garbage
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: April 22, 2009
Think of this weekend’s Total Trash Fest as the kid sibling of Budget Rock, the Bay Area’s longstanding, annual garage-punk marathon. This cluster of shows hosts many...
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Once Upon a Time, in a Gallery Not So Far Away
By Andy Wright
Published: April 22, 2009
From Where the Wild Things Are to Stuart Little, the best children’s books are the ones that appeal to adults, too. Dark and slightly twisted, they reflect the...
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Turner Around
By Tara Jepsen
Published: April 22, 2009
The talented Ross Turner makes an appearance at yet another comedy event in laugh-lovin’ San Francisco at "Comedy Returns to El Rio." Since he has frequently trodden the...
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Dancing in the Pool
By Tara Jepsen
Published: April 22, 2009
Consider synchronized swimming: This beautiful sport allegedly has its origins in Greek and Roman amphitheaters, like so many San Francisco activities. The exquisite muscle and...
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Swimming in the Park
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 22, 2009
Performance artist (and MacArthur “genius grant” winner) Guillermo Gomez-Peña often emphasizes what he calls “the meaningful tableau.” He asks his...
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Framing the Truth
By Michael Fox
Published: April 22, 2009
Half a century ago, Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank published a landmark book of 83 piercing photographs culled from the 25,000 (!) he’d taken in his travels around...
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Cinco, Not Drinko
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 22, 2009
War rages in the lower quadrant of Dolores Park. Two distinct groups — Latino families and tattooed bicycle riders — vie for supremacy, usually opting to just lie on...
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Mexskacan
By Alejandro Perez
Published: April 22, 2009
Waaaay back in the early ’90s, the airwaves were alive with the big and bouncy brass-lovin’ sounds of ska — until mass marketing led to overkill, and the major...
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Pixel Flicks
By Michael Fox
Published: April 22, 2009
The Holy Grail for mainstream American film directors — even before the monomaniacal pursuit of jaw-dropping verisimilitude in CGI-driven blockbusters — has long been...
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A Really Big Shew
By Michael Leaverton
Published: April 22, 2009
In 1959, Irving Fields cut a record called Bagels and Bongos, and listening to Emusic samples we have to say, Irv, you got down with your bad self. The bells, the skittering...
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Funk and Fiction
By Michael Leaverton
Published: April 22, 2009
Funk legend Swamp Dogg’s 2009 cover of Rock Foxx’s "Please Step Back" is a stirring tribute to his fellow funk pioneer, whose ‘70s fame was extinguished by a...
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Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
By J. Hoberman
Published: April 22, 2009
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 marks a particular 40th anniversary—not Richard Nixon’s election, but the scarcely less astonishing event that occurred a few weeks later in...
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May in Puebla
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 22, 2009
Folklorico Latino de Woodland is a classic community dance group: All the dancers look like they're having fun. At the Cinco de Mayo Commemoration, they're some of the only...
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Hark! A Wise Man
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 22, 2009
Are people really saying the U.S. is "post-racism?!" Because that's dumb: Racism is faaaaar from over. But people are saying it! Like, "Now that the president is black, there's...
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