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   Funemployment: Jobless young San Franciscans are welcoming the worst recession of their lives with open arms. Too bad the party can't last forever.

   By Peter Jamison

   Published: June 3, 2009

   The text message came on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Alexis Mansinne, a 25-year-old event planner for the chic architectural magazine Dwell, was home sick with strep...

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   Fados

   By Nick Pinkerton

   Published: June 3, 2009

   The Fado is a dolorous folksong tradition from Portugal, first sung in the early 19th century by barefoot peasants mending nets and contemplating a roiling black Atlantic. It...

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   Revanche

   By Brian Miller

   Published: June 3, 2009

   This deliberate, meticulous heist-gone-wrong flick eschews all the usual excitement of crime movies. Instead, Austrian writer-director Götz Spielmann concentrates on the...

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   Behind Closed Doors

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: June 3, 2009

   In her latest book, chef Deborah Madison set out to discover what we eat when we eat alone. She answers on page one: “Like shit.” Actually, no. She really writes,...

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   Getting to the Point

   By Evan James

   Published: June 3, 2009

   There comes a point in people’s lives when they have to ask themselves, “Where is the Ciroc Vodka–sponsored open bar?” And if they aren’t willing to...

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   Free Opera on a Big TV

   By Evan James

   Published: June 3, 2009

   Just when you thought most giant Japanese video monitors were putting their artistic ambitions on hold to pursue more practical careers, some idealistic 103-feet-wide...

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   Happy Ending

   By Silke Tudor

   Published: June 3, 2009

   Thrillpeddlers, well-known for blowing dust and gristle off Grand Guignol plays from early-20th-century Paris, are setting their sights a bit closer to home for this...

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   Hey, Watch the Suit!

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: June 3, 2009

   Of all the ways to break through the fourth wall — look at the audience, talk to the audience, commiserate with the audience — we like the way the Primitive...

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   In Cold Blood

   By Michael Fox

   Published: June 3, 2009

   Horror flicks account for most of the cheap, nasty fun provided by the annual bad-taste film frenzy known as Another Hole in the Head, and it’s no wonder. The genre...

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    Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 3, 2009

    He grew up. One of our favorite punk writers has matured: It happens. With a mixture of emotions, we realize that Joe Meno is now a professor at Columbia College in his native...

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    Obscura-ty

    By Dan Strachota

    Published: June 3, 2009

    For much of its career, Camera Obscura has lived in the shadow of Belle & Sebastian. True, both bands are large Scottish ensembles based in Glasgow. Both feature girl singers...

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    Peep This

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 3, 2009

    Culture critic Hal Niedzviecki confuses us, but in a good way. In 2006, he wrote a book about the homogenization of indie youth culture (Hello, I’m Special: How...

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    World Dance

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: June 3, 2009

    Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin once flexed his might by demanding that Nikita Khrushchev perform the national Ukrainian dance, essentially forcing the future leader to squat and...

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    Bow Down

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 3, 2009

    Joe Preston is a hero to most — most experimental drone doom-metal fans. The man from Melvins, Earth, and several other underground-popular indie metal bands is onstage...

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    UPS: Yes

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 3, 2009

    Dennis D'Ambrogio drives a UPS van in the city, and any doubts about his dedication to his work is dispatched once you get a load of his right gun, which is emblazoned with...

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    Fukú Americanus

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: June 3, 2009

    After finding great success bringing Dave Eggers' novel You Shall Know Our Velocity to the stage (Sacrament, 2004), the Mission's Campo Santo is tackling Junot Díaz'...

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    Smash, the State

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 3, 2009

    If you heard Godzilla was scheduled to stomp down your whole neighborhood in a few months, you'd get out of the way. You'd be safe. Still, you probably wouldn't be too happy...

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    Nite Rider

    Published: June 3, 2009

    Nite Jewel is the nom de electropop of L.A.’s Ramona Gonzalez. She constructs arty grooves out of the same cheesy synth blurts and hand-claps heard on ’80s freestyle...

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    Painting Tracts

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 3, 2009

    It may seem retro to criticize suburbia. You might ask yourself: Hasn't that point already been made? That conformity and excessive consumption of resources, not to mention...

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    If Looking Liking Move

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 3, 2009

    Tim Sullivan's art is self-absorbed. All of his work consists of photobooth-sized pictures of himself, of his face. Making the connection between film strip and photo strip,...