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Super Natural
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: June 3, 2009
The reigning monarchs of poster sales come together at "Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities." Did we just take a swipe at two great American artists? Yes, but...
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"Apocalypse Night"
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: June 3, 2009
We know you're waiting for The Road to come out. It has a soundtrack by Nick Cave and stars the divine Viggo Mortensen; we don't blame you. In the meantime, though, a local...
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Sea Change
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: June 3, 2009
Seven short films, an intermission with discussions, a feature film, and a trailer make up World Oceans Day Film Festival. The feature, Barbara Ettinger's Sea Change: Imagine a...
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Eat This Book
By Michael Leaverton
Published: June 3, 2009
Jonah Raskin, an academic, former '60s radical, and biographer of people like Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg, spent a year on a farm in Sonoma. Why? Food is the new...
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Spreading Those Wings
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: June 3, 2009
Underground indie-folk heaven would be Little Wings, Karl Blau, and the Sarees playing in an airy, warm barn surrounded by peaceful orchards. Maybe throw in some good wine and...
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Damn Blonde
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: June 3, 2009
We like poet and novelist Sherman Alexie, a lot. We went to see him at the City Arts & Lectures series a while back, and when we got the chance to sneak into the pre-show meet...
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As If There's Any Other Kind
By Tara Jepsen
Published: June 3, 2009
Luis Alberto Urrea and a handful of others hit the pretty red-hued stage at the behest of San Francisco's Charlie Jane Anders for the Writers with Drinks series. It always...
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Dirty Work
By Michael Fox
Published: June 3, 2009
California’s agribusiness plows, plants, and picks pretty much year-round, but we tend to celebrate only the spring-summer harvest. (Seen the price of cherries in...
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Let's Take Some E!
By Michael Leaverton
Published: June 3, 2009
Joel McHale is the host of The Soup, a television clips show on E, which is way wittier than we have any right to expect — it’s a television clips show on E....
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I Like Mike
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: June 3, 2009
It’s a good trick: Touring behind a book you wrote about the book tour you just finished. Not everyone could get away with it, honestly. If Dave Eggers tried that,...
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Busy Busy
By Michael Leaverton
Published: June 3, 2009
Last election, when we were all wondering what was on Obama’s fabled BlackBerry, the sketch comedy troupe Kasper Hauser was wondering how fast it could get a book out....
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You Brut!
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: June 3, 2009
Fans of Bournemouth, England’s Art Brut adore its pop-punk sneering and snarking demigods, and we don’t blame them; frontman Eddie Argos has the angry wit of a young...
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Rock On
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: June 3, 2009
Remember the sassy fad among 12-year-olds of forming a W with the fingers? Stood for “whatEVER?” This is how we feel about intense athletes, especially the people who...
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Camp Fire
By Dan Strachota
Published: June 3, 2009
On A Camp's Web site, the band explains why it recently covered Grace Jones' "Done It Again," saying, "The song manages to simultaneously seem nearly asleep and yet totally...
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Hundred Years’ War
By Michael Leaverton
Published: June 3, 2009
Robot battles are older than Google. Christ, they’re older than GeoCities. Still, robots do not fly. But they play soccer. Not combat robots, though; they just kick ass,...
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Miami Vice
By Silke Tudor
Published: June 3, 2009
When Bea Arthur died this spring, there were few articles that failed to mention the actress’ wild popularity among gay men. Of course, her formidable stature, husky...
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Reel Color
By Michael Fox
Published: June 3, 2009
One may be the loneliest number, but those who belong to two minorities -- black Jews, say, or Latina Supreme Court nominees -- have it considerably tougher. Kick it up another...
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The Sound and the …
By Chloe Veltman
Published: June 3, 2009
The U.S. immigration department disappointed Bay Area performing arts lovers last year when visa issues forced San Francisco’s Brava Theater Center to cancel the local...
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The Stuff of the Warrior
By Michael Leaverton
Published: June 3, 2009
Usually, when we encounter the samurai in works of art, we are watching something by Akira Kurosawa, Quentin Tarantino, or George Lucas (just scratch Star Wars a bit), and...
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Gee Whiz
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: June 3, 2009
Tom Shepard's film stars Ana Cisneros, Kelydra Welker, and Harmain Khan. They are not actors, or artists, or even old enough to move out of their parents' house. Instead,...
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