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W. Kamau Bell has built a career on examining the messy intersections of race and class in a supposedly postracial world.
By Reyhan Harmanci
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...
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Music
By Tony Ware
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...
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Eat
By Meredith Brody
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...
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Film
By Ella Taylor
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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Night&Day
By Ella Taylor
Hard on the heels of the acclaimed Gomorrah, Italian corruption gets a much quieter but equally vigorous workout in Paolo Sorrentinos highly stylized portrait of the...
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Night&Day
By Scott Foundas
Atom Egoyans 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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Night&Day
By J. Hoberman
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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Night&Day
By J. Hoberman
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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Night&Day
By Silke Tudor
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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Night&Day
By Michael Leaverton
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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Night&Day
By Tara Jepsen
Mission residents and those who pass through love to get an eyeful, whether its murals, a gorgeous spread of food, epic high heels, or just some bozo with a...
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Night&Day
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Walking into New Work, Ulrike Palmbachs art exhibit, you might think of Kathryn Spence. Both artists deal in pouchy-looking soft sculpture and cryptic,...
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Night&Day
By Evan James
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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Night&Day
By Michael Leaverton
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. Were here to...
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Night&Day
By Michael Leaverton
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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Night&Day
By Silke Tudor
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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Night&Day
By Hiya Swanhuyser
We like to compare bands to other bands, especially if the other bands are local, or small, or obscure: Thats why were excited to report that Los Angeles Big...
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Night&Day
By Evan James
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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Night&Day
By Hiya Swanhuyser
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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Night&Day
By J. Hoberman
Ideas beam out from Astra Taylors engaging philoso-doc Examined Life; the viewer basks in the intelligence onscreen and, occasionally, soaks up the rays. A purveyor of...
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