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Issue: May 13, 2009
Page: 2
50 stories found - 21 through 40
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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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....

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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....

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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....

  14. 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!...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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,...

  20. 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...

Issue: May 13, 2009
Page: 2
50 stories found - 21 through 40
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