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Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings
By Bradley Campbell and Matt Snyders
Published: May 6, 2009
In October 2007, Katherine Olson was looking for work. Since graduating summa cum laude from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, with a dual degree in theater and...
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Delicate Cutting
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 6, 2009
Threadlike strips of creamy paper support the moon, or the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or possibly Devendra Banhart, in the work of Tahiti Pehrson. At “Nature’s...
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All the Difference
By Michael Leaverton
Published: May 6, 2009
She stood at the lectern and said this: “I know there’s something better down the road./We need to find a place where we are safe.” In front of her, two million...
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Pretty, Tough
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 6, 2009
A delicate femininity pervades Alela Diane's songs. But unlike her forebears in the 1960s folk revival — Judy Collins, Joan Baez, or Vashti Bunyan, for whom she's opened...
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Sacred Cinema
By Michael Fox
Published: May 6, 2009
Notwithstanding the dweebs who claim to have found religion watching Star Wars, spirituality and the cinema don’t go particularly well together. Faith is a difficult...
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Ionic Breeze
By Chloe Veltman
Published: May 6, 2009
From dancers performing on cable cars to sculptors building Burning Man shrines in city parks, Bay Area artists have long produced their work in unorthodox settings. Outdoor...
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Freeze Frame
By Michael Fox
Published: May 6, 2009
Hand-drawn animation — at the going rate of 24 cels per second — may be the most labor-intensive form of filmmaking ever concocted by man, but stop-motion is right up...
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Ride the Lighting
By Michael Leaverton
Published: May 6, 2009
Today you can bike around the city and listen to stories of old people — we mean historic people — having sex. That’s the idea behind the Sex Work on Wheels...
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Let’s Talk About Sex(ual Empowerment)
By Andy Wright
Published: May 6, 2009
Fashion magazines consistently serve up flimsy articles about "positive body image" next to parades of dangerously thin models and ads for antiwrinkle creams made with...
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Gangs of Marin
By Michael Leaverton
Published: May 6, 2009
We have a tendency to overlook San Quentin — did you know that on April 16, a 15-minute riot broke out among inmates in the dining hall, which 100 officers had to coat in...
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To the Pain
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 6, 2009
Opium Magazine's Literary Death Match is part open mike night, part talent show, and part scandalous one-upmanship. Sure, well-known authors read from their work, and that's...
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Every Little Step
By Jesse Oxfeld
Published: May 6, 2009
In 1974, 18 years before MTV first assembled a group of comically mismatched twentysomethings and videotaped them being real, the choreographer Michael Bennett gathered 22...
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Riding the SART Train
By Tara Jepsen
Published: May 6, 2009
Local comedy troupe the Freeze throws a bass, a drum kit, and five MCs on the stage to play a musical round of “Can you use that in a sentence?” It’s not a...
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The Limits of Control
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 6, 2009
Jim Jarmusch's anonymous antihero hitman (French-Ivorian actor Isaach De Bankolé), identified in the credits of The Limits of Control as the Lone Man, exists only in...
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That ‘70s Movie
By Silke Tudor
Published: May 6, 2009
In 1972, the American dream was coming apart at the seams. Watergate, Vietnam, and the Manson Family murders had ushered in an era of unapologetic brutality and deceit —...
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The End Is Nigh?
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 6, 2009
Enrique Chagoya is a giant in the art world, known for skill, heart, and wit. Maybe that's why he feels he can poke fun at the gods. At "2012: Super-Bato Saves the World,"...
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Speaking in Tongues
By Jonathan Kiefer
Published: May 6, 2009
Is language the last frontier of globalization — or the last straw? Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider’s documentary tracks a year in the life of four kids in San...
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The Wild Side
By Michael Leaverton
Published: May 6, 2009
Tenderloin alleys are disgusting. It’s kind of their thing. Rule of thumb: If you find yourself in one after midnight, stop whatever it is you think you are doing, go...
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Chomp!
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 6, 2009
The jungle holds many secrets ... delicious secrets. Where would society be without, oh, say, chocolate and vanilla, which are both tropical plants? Contemplating a chocolate-...
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Paley's Palace
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 6, 2009
Today's the last chance to see Sita Sings the Blues -- in a theater, anyway. You can watch Nina Paley's breathlessly reviewed animated mythology mashup anytime you want, since...
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