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Night&Day
A History of Violins
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 13, 2009
Local playwright Terrence Beswick’s last play was about the heartbreak of crystal meth addiction, and this one’s about fiddles. Seriously! Strings, starring Juan...
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Night&Day
Rabbit-Ear Blues
By Michael Fox
Published: May 13, 2009
We’ve been beaming TV signals into space for decades with no reply, or at least none that we can decipher. What if it’s because those advanced life forms...
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Night&Day
The 'Land of the Lost
By Scott Foundas
Published: May 13, 2009
Drawn from Superbad director Greg Mottola’s own experiences working at a ramshackle suburban amusement park in the 1980s, Adventureland feels at once personal and...
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Night&Day
Past Tense of "Dares?"
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 13, 2009
"There are legitmate differences between a conservative and a liberal," notes comedian Will Durst. "A liberal believes that by helping the greater good, it will eventually come...
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Night&Day
They Look Real
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 13, 2009
The hardcore teen queen who took the name Sasha Grey and refers to her porn films as performance art plays a paid escort called Chelsea in Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend...
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Night&Day
Schooling You
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 13, 2009
Those of us with a thing for hipster academics have known him for years. Michael Eric Dyson is a superstar among the small, well-educated world of egalitarian PhD candidates....
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Stage
Sean Owens explores the virtues of a drag queen's best friend in Stale Magnolias
By Chloe Veltman
Published: May 13, 2009
It's astonishing how much of our identity is wrapped up in our hair. Samson depended on his luscious locks for strength; when Delilah gave the Biblical hero a buzz-cut, his...
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Matt Smith
Outside the bedroom, BDSM practitioners can't take punishment
By Matt Smith
Published: May 13, 2009
An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed a quote to writer Violet Blue. The words should have been attributed to a performer Blue quoted in her column. SF Weekly...
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Music
Rick Froberg takes the straight road in Obits
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: May 13, 2009
With its insistent wail of reverb-drenched garage rock, the debut album from Obits, I Blame You, may come as a surprise to listeners familiar with the background of guitarist...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: May 13, 2009
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Anthony's Cookies: 1417 Valencia (at 25th St.), www.anthonyscookies.com. Mission....
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Film
Rudo y Cursi is not the kind of sports movie where everyone wins
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 13, 2009
Not quite The Further Adventures of Cain & Abel, the second coming of Beavis & Butt-Head, King Kong vs. Godzilla Redux, or Peyton Meets Eli, but energetic fun nonetheless, Rudo...
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Stagecap
Candide, or Optimism
By Chris Jensen
Published: May 13, 2009
Combining an 18th-century French satire with a traditional Japanese theatrical form may seem like a gimmick just waiting to fail. But in Theatre of Yugen's new Kyogen-style...
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Music
Venerable sex club still looking for a new home
By Bonnie Ruberg
Published: May 13, 2009
"Did you know that a large sex club is opening in your neighborhood?" declared an anonymously authored flier that circulated in the blocks around 44 Gough St. early last month....
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Film
Pitch-perfect child performances root Treeless Mountain
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 13, 2009
Any movie featuring children under 10 is a movie wherein documentary bids to trump fiction and behavior can eclipse acting. The 1934 New Deal flag-waver Stand Up and Cheer!...
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Stagecap
The In-Betweens
By Nathaniel Eaton
Published: May 13, 2009
Dark Porch Theatre was formed as a dance-and-movement–based company in Portland, Oregon, and then moved to the Bay Area to focus on acting. This explains the dramatic...
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Sucka Free City
Chessmasters take their fight to S.F. courts
By Matthew Hirsch
Published: May 13, 2009
As the kings and queens of American chess descend on St. Louis for the 2009 U.S. Championship tournament this week, another set of brainiacs is brawling here in San Francisco...
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Let's Get Killed
Green Day's 21st-century political opera
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: May 13, 2009
Washington politics, schmolitics. When this country votes incompetent presidents into office, Bay Area punk bands get sworn into leadership positions. It's impossible to...
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Encore
Also Playing
Our critics weigh in on local theater
By Chris Jensen, Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 13, 2009
Audacious Artefacts: Parisian Grand Guignol. As with just about any collection of short theater pieces, Thrillpeddlers' new sex-and-violence extravaganza is very much...
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Sucka Free City
How will the cops enforce S.F.'s new club loitering law?
By Chris Roberts
Published: May 13, 2009
Much ballyhooing and nay-saying accompanied the Board of Supervisors' passage last week of a law designed to cut down on that bane of city existence: the dreaded loiterers,...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: May 13, 2009
No Free Pass for Harrell Wait, gaydar isn't good science?: This is a stupid article ["Identity Questions," Ashley Harrell, Sucka Free City, 5/6]. The writer is calling these...
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