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Night&Day
Gran Torino
By Scott Foundas
Published: May 6, 2009
Like many characters Clint Eastwood has played in his six-decade screen career, recently widowed Korean War vet Walt Kowalski is a man outside of his own time hurled by...
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Night&Day
Tulpan
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 6, 2009
A small mob of camels stampede by a nomad’s tent. Inside, a young guy in a sailor suit sits on the rug, cheerfully recounting his death struggle with an octopus to the...
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Art Is Not a Crime
By Tara Jepsen
Published: May 6, 2009
Nothing says Friday night like an art party, and the "Skate This Art" Artist Reception and Film Screening takes (ollies?) it higher than your standard...
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Night&Day
Play On
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 6, 2009
San Francisco has a rep to protect. Seriously: We're known as "the" aerial dance city (eat that, Denver!), and we have a lot of good flying practitioners such as Joanna Haigood...
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No Small Adventure
By Silke Tudor
Published: May 6, 2009
In the early ’90s, when Paul Reubens was arrested for masturbating in a porn theater, the cult of Pee-wee Herman took on new proportions in San Francisco. We didn’t...
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Paradise Found
By Dan Strachota
Published: May 6, 2009
The Virgins could very well be the poster boys for the modern hipster nightmare. Four roguish lads — two of whom actually met at a photo shoot for frequent Vice...
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Night&Day
How We Ate
By Michael Leaverton
Published: May 6, 2009
The bookstore shelf space devoted to what we eat, how we eat, how we feel about what we eat, and whether it would be better if we stopped eating it altogether is fat and happy,...
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Night&Day
Wicked Awesome
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 6, 2009
Kendra Kassebaum is Glinda. She rules the big stage as the not-yet-Good-Witch in the popular musical Wicked. Along with some of her friends and cast members (alas, not the...
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Night&Day
As You Were
By Michael Leaverton
Published: May 6, 2009
This was the year Bay to Breakers got written about. First, someone said something about all the naked people pissing in the bushes and drinking Labatt’s and throwing up....
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Two-Pronged Attack
By Michael Leaverton
Published: May 6, 2009
The following takes place between May 14 to May 16: Janeane Garofalo and Mary Lynn Rajskub, both actors on the hit show 24, both not very funny on the hit show 24, are both...
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Night&Day
Girl Scout
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 6, 2009
It’s like if Bjork were a tomboy hick — Scout Niblett is British, but if she weren’t, she’d make a great American. Indie-rock’s scruffy goofball diva...
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Night&Day
Fill in the Blank
By Michael Leaverton
Published: May 6, 2009
Stenciling is the most adult of the vandal arts. It even has a respectable name. Grandparents surely walk by them every day, unaware, having no idea they’re overlooking...
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Night&Day
He Would Have Loved to Hate the New Star Trek
By Alejandro Perez
Published: May 6, 2009
Meet Oscar de León, “ghetto nerd” and titular character of Junot Díaz’ amazing, heartbreaking, Pulitzer Prize–winning epic novel The Brief...
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Comm(ute)unity
By Andy Wright
Published: May 6, 2009
Do you dread going to work? No, no, we know you don't hate your job. After all, we're all so lucky to have jobs at all in this economy, yadda yadda. But do you hate the...
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Night&Day
Lesser-Known Nightmares
By Michael Fox
Published: May 6, 2009
There are no second chances in film noir. Hell, the first chance is a scam, a hundred-to-one shot, a fool’s errand or, if the sucker is lucky, a blind alley. There’s...
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Night&Day
Museum Grade
By Michael Leaverton
Published: May 6, 2009
Today, the de Young launches an exhibit made up of artists who have not paid enough dues, sweated enough blood, or even squeezed out a living in an artist’s garret, loft,...
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Night&Day
How Low Can You Go?
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 6, 2009
If any supervillain has been waiting to orchestrate a dastardly swing through some plate glass, this is the meaningful yet swanky affair to hit. So watch out if you attend...
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Night&Day
Tea on the Brain
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 6, 2009
Tea houses have played major roles in revolutions around the world and throughout history. At a new lecture series called "Coping with the New Economy," the organizers probably...
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Night&Day
Mighty Casey
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 6, 2009
John Casey makes art using a lot of manly flowers. We love "Flower Fight," for example, a drawing which shows a guy's face sprouting blooms out the eyballs. He's a dude, so you...
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Night&Day
All Over the Place
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 6, 2009
Paul Madonna is a cartoonist, sort of. His work runs in the daily paper in a paneled, captioned format, indicating "cartoon" or "comic strip." As such, "All Over Coffee"...
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