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Issue: May 20, 2009
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51 stories found - 1 through 20
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  1. Sucka Free City

    During budget talks, the mayor is on the job - technically

    By Chris Roberts
    Published: May 20, 2009

    In the hours leading up to last week's 11th-hour compromise on the Municipal Transportation Agency's budget, Mayor Gavin Newsom engaged in some dubious multitasking. During the...

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    O’Horten

    By Scott Foundas
    Published: May 20, 2009

    The premise of this gentle existential farce from Norwegian director Bent Hamer is little more than an excuse for a series of deadpan vignettes about love, death, and the...

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    Summer Hours

    By J. Hoberman
    Published: May 20, 2009

    With Summer Hours, director Olivier Assayas stages a tactical retreat from the hookers and junkies of his Boarding Gate and Clean to the heart of a bourgeois French family....

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    Medicine for Melancholy

    By Ernest Hardy
    Published: May 20, 2009

    “How do you define yourself?” It’s not until its third act that Medicine for Melancholy’s lead male character explicitly asks the question at the heart of...

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    At the Intersection

    By Hiya Swanhuyser
    Published: May 20, 2009

    Migdalia Valdes is living your life. She's watching your president on your TV, and she's looking out your windows, pondering your bay. Like you, she's riding a lot of MUNI and...

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    But Is it Art?

    By Hiya Swanhuyser
    Published: May 20, 2009

    We had a cat once. She was a total diva who preferred to nap on freshly made beds featuring geometric elements that contrasted not only with the overall bed color scheme but...

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    Battle Royale

    By Michael Leaverton
    Published: May 20, 2009

    “The Awakening,” a night of pain from World Combat Sports Challenge, is being billed as California's first five-rope mixed martial arts and Muay Thai fight night....

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    Dance of the Disciples

    By Silke Tudor
    Published: May 20, 2009

    Isadora Duncan is a classic San Francisco figure. A natural libertine disdainful of convention and delighted by beauty, she stripped ballet of its soul-crushing shoes and...

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    On the QT

    By Michael Fox
    Published: May 20, 2009

    Once hailed as the Great White Hope of American movies, Quentin Tarantino instead turned out to be the King of the "B"s. It's now clear that Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction...

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    Oliver Twist

    By Tara Jepsen
    Published: May 20, 2009

    There are lots of modern ways to be old-fashioned. You can lodge your sartorial aesthetic in the corsets-and-bordello finery of another era, you can eschew cars for a...

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    Oil and Water

    By Michael Fox
    Published: May 20, 2009

    One of the miraculous characteristics of the corporate structure is its built-in ability to endlessly deflect responsibility from the top executives to the shareholders to the...

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    Khan-Do Attitude

    By Dan Strachota
    Published: May 20, 2009

    There aren’t a lot of live shows where you’ll see a musician hit in the nuts with a banana. Or watch a guy do lurid things to English chanteuse Duffy’s photo. Or...

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    The Pitch

    By Michael Leaverton
    Published: May 20, 2009

    Identical twins Logan and Noah Miller survived growing up with an alcoholic father in Marin, became accomplished baseball players, and worked as shirtless Abercrombie & Fitch...

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    That's Classic

    By Chloe Veltman
    Published: May 20, 2009

    It’s tempting to think of Mercury Soul’s Mason Bates and Benjamin Schwartz as modern day, musical equivalents of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Bates divides his time...

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    The Art of Sex Workers

    By Silke Tudor
    Published: May 20, 2009

    San Francisco’s approximately 46 square miles boast the nation’s first and only unionized strip club and the nation’s first occupational health and safety clinic...

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    The Joy of Cookin'

    By Dan Strachota
    Published: May 20, 2009

    If you accidentally came across the video for Little Joy's "Next Time Around" -- grainy Super-8 shots of boys with beards and girls singing in Portuguese -- you might think it...

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    The Parent Trap

    By Michael Leaverton
    Published: May 20, 2009

    When you have a child, your perceptions change. Shit, for one, is no longer so disgusting. It can even be cute, not to mention a huge relief, if baby delivers a tight,...

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    Fair’s Fair

    By Hiya Swanhuyser
    Published: May 20, 2009

    Anyone with a rural upbringing can tell you: The only thing wrong with traditional Amurican county fairs is that they’re not openly gay enough. Read: County fairs can be...

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    Don't Cheese and Drive

    By Hiya Swanhuyser
    Published: May 20, 2009

    Who can forget their first taste of aged gouda? The unexpected amalgam of warm, comforting near-caramel flavor with the graininess and crumbly nature of fine parmesan is kind...

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    Go Content! Beat Ignorance!

    By Hiya Swanhuyser
    Published: May 20, 2009

    Quality journalism will prevail, whether print media lives or dies. That's what we keep telling ourselves. We all want and need rigorous, skilled writer-investigators, whether...

Issue: May 20, 2009
Page: 1
51 stories found - 1 through 20
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