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Night&Day
By Nick Pinkerton
Hitoshi Matsumoto, one-half a legendary Japanese comic duo, debuts as big-screen director/star with this goof on the rubber monster movie line, especial debt owed to Ultraman....
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Night&Day
By Ella Taylor
Trailing mostly justified ill will for having trounced the critical favorite, Waltz With Bashir, for Best Foreign Film at last years Oscars, Yojirô Takitas...
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Night&Day
By Hiya Swanhuyser
All too often, art made of glass is also made of cheese. Corny paperweight-inspired New Agey "sculpture" is common, we'll probably never know why. (Maybe because glass is about...
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Sucka Free City
By Matthew Hirsch
Want to learn to speak Spanish? Or Korean? For $259, you could order the Rosetta Stone computer software online and start building a basic vocabulary without changing out of...
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Sucka Free City
By Benjamin Wachs
Last week NBC announced it is picking up Trauma, a medical drama set in San Francisco. What storylines and plot twists can we
expect?
The Trauma team sees the error of...
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Letters
Not the Bell of the Ball
Not killing GIs: Wow, unbelievable. A cover-length article
about a so-called "comedian" without a single example of what W. Kamau
Bell says or thinks...
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Feature
People and Places
Best Caltrain Voice
Sergio Cruz
Sergio Cruz knows what early morning Caltrain commuters heading from S.F. to their jobs on the Peninsula and the South Bay...
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Matt Smith
By Matt Smith
We San Franciscans like to fancy ourselves unique, but most such
claims don't hold water. We had 1960s counterculture movements, yes,
but the thick of that action was at...
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Music
By Doug Wallen
If all goes as planned, by early next year the Fresh & Onlys
will have released music on eight different labels. That's a startling
feat for a band that formed a year ago, but...
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Music
By Brian J. Barr
Since 2004, Sir Richard Bishop has treated his albums like
international buffet tables of sound, piling a little bit of everything
on his platters. His solo work (2004's...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
When historians look back at the last 10 years of San Francisco
underground music, they'll likely note John Dwyer's sizeable impact on
the Bay Area. More than most modern punk...
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Reviewed
Jigsaw (Midget/ EMI)
By Ben Westhoff
White grime rapper Lady Sovereign was the British Asher Roth
of 2006, the subject of a tremendous marketing blitz preceding the U.S.
release of her debut, Public Warning. As...
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Reviewed
Eating Us (Graveface Records)
By Dave Pehling
Ramshackle electro-psych collective Black Moth Super Rainbow first
came to wider recognition with 2007's Dandelion Gum. Having
dosed that record with some of the most...
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Reviewed
Down with Liberty ... Up with Chains (K)
By Doug Wallen
After famously marketing socialist punk in Nation of Ulysses
and MC5-damaged gospel in the Make-Up, the perpetually cool Ian
Svenonius has another winning concept on his hands...
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Hear This
By Dan Strachota
Over the last few years, Philly MC Amanda Blank scored props
by playing and collaborating with locals Spank Rock, Diplo, Aaron
LaCrate, and Plastic Little. Her debut album, I...
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Hear This
By Annie Zaleski
In hindsight, the idea that people once considered
Fischerspooner an electroclash act is laughable. The NYC duo of
Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner has always been a synth-pop...
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Hear This
By Nicholas Hall
Animal Collective makes sound behave in a multiplicity of ways, simultaneously. The band doesn't write "songs" as much as it crafts ecstatic moods and colorful musical...
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Hear This
By Sam Prestianni
Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction enjoyed their
heydays nearly 20 years back with debuts that blazed new paths in pop
music that still resonate. NIN married the machine...
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BeatBox
By Tamara Palmer
New Yorker Danny Tenaglia is one of the most popular touring house DJs in the world. He has the power to break records across regional borders, playing the clubbing hotspots of...
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Bouncer
By Katy St. Clair
It's hard to tell whether bars foster phony relationships. When you
feel a certain fealty to your fellow man sitting next to you, is that
genuine bonhomie, or just the booze...
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