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Night&Day
Ferlinghetti
By Jonathan Kiefer
Published: April 22, 2009
Whether this will stand as the definitive documentary profile of the definitive local poet, publisher, provocateur and City Lights co-founder is for history to judge. In the...
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Night&Day
Yogi Bear
By Michelle Orange
Published: April 22, 2009
There are a number of tensions at play in Kate Churchill’s Enlighten Up!, a documentary about the proliferation of yoga as both spiritual path and commercial workout...
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Feature
SFIFF52:Q&A with David Lee Miller
My Suicide director talks about death and the Internet.
By Jonathan Kiefer
Published: April 22, 2009
If you've ever seriously wondered what the point of it all is, or whether one reason your life feels so empty is that you watch too much of it on a screen, you are very much in...
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Feature
SFIFF52:On Location
Films with Bay Area ties.
By Jonathan Kiefer
Published: April 22, 2009
D Tour Being in an indie-rock band can be great fun — unless you have to do dialysis while on tour. This doc explores how East Bay rockers Rogue Wave had to rally...
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Feature
SFIFF52:Star Power
Special events at the fest bringout the celebrities.
By Michael Fox
Published: April 22, 2009
Stars have long lured moviegoers to the theater, and for half a century festivals have used that gravitational pull to generate media attention, raise the glamour quotient, and...
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Matt Smith
Whipped and Gagged
Is government spending obscene? Well, it paid to train S&M filmmakers.
By Matt Smith
Published: April 22, 2009
Talk about an economic stimulus. California taxpayers have paid $46,791 so that employees of the San Francisco pornographer Kink.com might produce more perfect web-based...
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Sucka Free City
Animal Control gives Dog-Cat-Rat Man's pets a clean bill of health
By Peter Jamison
Published: April 22, 2009
San Franciscans generally fear the great unknown beyond their windswept peninsula, particularly when that unknown takes the form — so rare within city limits — of...
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Sucka Free City
Democratic Party contest pits bad boy Chris Daly against dark-past-lugging August Longo
By Joe Eskenazi
Published: April 22, 2009
When Supervisor Chris Daly tossed his hat into the ring for the low-profile, unpaid position of Democratic Party regional director last week, much of the ensuing media coverage...
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Sucka Free City
Dancing on the Culture Bus' ashes
By Gordon Young
Published: April 22, 2009
It seems the ill-conceived, bright-yellow Muni 74X CultureBus — created to shuttle tourists to various San Francisco cultural icons and backed by Mayor Gavin Newsom...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: April 22, 2009
Miracle Cell or Hard Sell? Third opinion: Having been integrally involved with embryonic-stem-cell research funding since it began (I was the citizen-sponsor of the Roman Reed...
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Music
Throbbing Gristle's local homecoming
By Ron Nachmann
Published: April 22, 2009
In May 1981, industrial godfathers Throbbing Gristle played a final show in San Francisco before breaking up. They followed in the footsteps of fellow iconic British bands the...
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Music
Dan Deacon brings a human element to spastic jams
By Nicholas Gitomer
Published: April 22, 2009
Although Dan Deacon's moshable hybrid of punk-rock energy, Casio melodies, and chipmunk vocals made him an instant indie darling two years ago, his musical pedigree is more...
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Let's Get Killed
In the Red plays favorites — and survives indie labeldom
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: April 22, 2009
People are seriously questioning whether record labels are necessary anymore. At a time when artists can market themselves directly to fans through the Internet, discussions...
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Reviewed
Kush Arora
The Dread Bass Chronicles (Kush Arora Productions)
By Tim Pratt
Published: April 22, 2009
The emergence of Bay Area dubstep parties over the last couple of years illustrates the ever-expanding audience for music that combines elements of drum 'n' bass, breaks, dub,...
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Reviewed
Asher Roth
Asleep in the Bread Aisle (SchoolBoy/SRC/Universal Motown)
By Ben Westhoff
Published: April 22, 2009
Being a privileged white guy from the Philly suburbs doesn't disqualify Asher Roth from legitimate hip-hop MC status — not being able to spin an interesting yarn does....
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Reviewed
Serge Gainsbourg
Histoire de Melody Nelson (Light in the Attic)
By Brian J. Barr
Published: April 22, 2009
Even with no knowledge of the French language, it'd still be fairly obvious that Serge Gainsbourg's 1971 album was consumed with lust. The pelvic-thrust basslines, his...
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Spinal Tap "Unwigged and Unplugged"
By Ezra Gale
Published: April 22, 2009
True story: Years ago, this writer ran smack into comedians Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer in an East Village bar, holding court in character as Spinal...
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Hostile Crawlcore
By Phil Freeman
Published: April 22, 2009
Bay Area punk legends Flipper go through bassists like Spinal Tap did drummers; most recently, Nirvana veteran Krist Novoselic left and was replaced by Rachel Thoele, the...
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The Paper Route
By Dan Strachota
Published: April 22, 2009
Over the past decade, Jason Quever has proven adept at spinning gorgeously murky pop with his Papercuts ensemble. His fourth disc, You Can Have What You Want, is no different,...
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Grouchy Attitude
By Tamara Palmer
Published: April 22, 2009
The Grouch & Eligh's new album Say G&E! reveals the similar lyrical delivery style shared by these rappers and longtime friends. They twist tongues so quickly it takes some...
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