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1. Feature

   Race to Fame

   W. Kamau Bell has built a career on examining the messy intersections of race and class in a supposedly postracial world.

   By Reyhan Harmanci

   Published: May 13, 2009

   San Francisco comedian W. Kamau Bell would like you to know that racism still exists in the Bay Area, 150 years after the abolition of slavery and 100-plus days into President...

2. Music

   Germany’s Moderat busts the ghosts in its hard drive

   By Tony Ware

   Published: May 13, 2009

   Sascha Ring was haunted by ghosts. In 2007, and Ring, a Berlin-based producer known for electrocoustic compositions under the name Apparat, found his hard drive littered with...

3. Eat

   Nopa offshoot Nopalito offers rustic Mexican fare

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: May 13, 2009

   Nopa, the large, bustling Mediterranean place that serves dinner until 1 a.m. and has a thriving bar business, has been a hit in its North of the Panhandle neighborhood since...

4. Film

   Angels & Demons has a need for speed

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: May 13, 2009

   At the tail end of The Da Vinci Code, having traipsed around scenic Paris and London for more than two hours to find out whether the Holy Grail was just an old cup or the...

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   Il Divo

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: May 13, 2009

   Hard on the heels of the acclaimed Gomorrah, Italian corruption gets a much quieter but equally vigorous workout in Paolo Sorrentino’s highly stylized portrait of the...

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   Adoration

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: May 13, 2009

   Atom Egoyan’s 12th feature film offers a typically kaleidoscopic rumination on voyeurism, videography, the relative nature of truth, and the aftermath of tragedy....

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   Treeless Mountain

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: May 13, 2009

   Kid performers naturally introduce elements of magic and mystery into the most banal of situations. They are most resonant, however, when their characters are compelled to fend...

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   Rudo y Cursi

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: May 13, 2009

   Not quite The Further Adventures of Cain & Abel, the second coming of Beavis & Butt-Head, or Peyton Meets Eli, but energetic fun nonetheless, Rudo y Cursi is a multiple brother...

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   Labor Party

   By Silke Tudor

   Published: May 13, 2009

   According to Eugene V. Debs, five-time Socialist candidate for U.S. president and co-founder of the International Labor Union, “Progress is born of agitation.” These...

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    The Rich Are Different

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: May 13, 2009

    Simon Rich got a two-book deal from Random House before he even left college, where he was president of the Harvard Lampoon, a position that set him up nicely for his current...

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    Dancing in the Streets

    By Tara Jepsen

    Published: May 13, 2009

    Mission residents — and those who pass through — love to get an eyeful, whether it’s murals, a gorgeous spread of food, epic high heels, or just some bozo with a...

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    Wouldn’t You Like to Be a Palmbach Too?

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 13, 2009

    Walking into “New Work,” Ulrike Palmbach’s art exhibit, you might think of Kathryn Spence. Both artists deal in pouchy-looking soft sculpture and cryptic,...

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    Satanic Intimacy in the Parlor Room

    By Evan James

    Published: May 13, 2009

    Sometimes the physical distance between a dying soprano and your nosebleed seats in the War Memorial Opera House is enough to make you feel like a dying soprano yourself....

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    What Hath Duncan Wrought?

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: May 13, 2009

    At the Bay Area Classic 2009 yo-yo championship, the routines are set to music, and the competitors pick the songs. It could be miraculous, or deadly. We’re here to...

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    Jack the System

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: May 13, 2009

    After graduating from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Seth Harwood did what many of his fellow apprentices dream, or rather have nightmares, about doing: He wrote genre...

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    Brinkley Bash

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: May 13, 2009

    Long before there was an It Girl, there was the Brinkley Girl. Her kohl-darkened eyes, mischievous mouth, lacy dresses, and bountiful curls adorned countless pages and stages....

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    Wingspread

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 13, 2009

    We like to compare bands to other bands, especially if the other bands are local, or small, or obscure: That’s why we’re excited to report that Los Angeles’ Big...

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    The Baker's Wife Will See You Now

    By Evan James

    Published: May 13, 2009

    Not much is known about Greece. Is it a country in southeastern Europe flanked by the Aegean and Ionian seas? Is it the undisputed cradle of Western civilization? Or is it just...

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    Large and In Charge

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 13, 2009

    The Akhe Group brings a stage show from Russia to the San Francisco International Arts Festival. Gobo.Digital Glossary is theater, sure, but it has a lot in common with...

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    Think Before You Speak

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: May 13, 2009

    Ideas beam out from Astra Taylor’s engaging philoso-doc Examined Life; the viewer basks in the intelligence onscreen and, occasionally, soaks up the rays. A purveyor of...