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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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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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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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How do you define yourself? Its not until its third act that Medicine for Melancholys lead male character explicitly asks the question at the heart of...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There arent a lot of live shows where youll see a musician hit in the nuts with a banana. Or watch a guy do lurid things to English chanteuse Duffys photo. Or...
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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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Its tempting to think of Mercury Souls Mason Bates and Benjamin Schwartz as modern day, musical equivalents of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Bates divides his time...
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San Franciscos approximately 46 square miles boast the nations first and only unionized strip club and the nations first occupational health and safety clinic...
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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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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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Anyone with a rural upbringing can tell you: The only thing wrong with traditional Amurican county fairs is that theyre not openly gay enough. Read: County fairs can be...
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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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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...