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Night&Day
By Hiya Swanhuyser
The big problem with basketball is that its too hard. Practically impossible. Very dangerous. Maybe thats why its so fun to watch? At the San Francisco Gay...
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Night&Day
By Andy Wright
In 1964, Zero Mostel opined from a Broadway stage that if he were a rich man, he'd fill his yard with "chicks and turkeys and geese and ducks for the town to see and hear."...
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Night&Day
By Michael Leaverton
Most writers hate their juvenilia: Adrian Tomine spends nearly the whole introduction of 32 Stories, a rerelease of his collected early work, slamming it. He uses the words...
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Night&Day
By Hiya Swanhuyser
In this country, when we want to impress someone with the passage of time, we say, "This thing is literally a hundred years old." This habit must be hilarious to the rest of...
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Night&Day
By J. Hoberman
Step two in Francis Ford Coppolas reinvention as a self-financed, off-Hollywood, personal filmmaker, Tetro -- a moody job shot in carefully-framed widescreen and...
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Night&Day
By Hiya Swanhuyser
The Soviet Union admitted that yes, it mass killed 15,000 Polish POWs and then blamed it on the Nazis. Unfortunately, the soldiers were offed in 1940, and the admission didn't...
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Night&Day
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Using the same concept, an amateur (that's you!) would probably wind up with a bunch of really stupid snapshots. But at "Kenneth Josephson," the artist takes excellent...
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Stage
By Chloe Veltman
Alongside the deadly crime of uttering the word "Macbeth" within earshot of any actor, director, or stage manager involved in staging the legendarily cursed Scottish Play,...
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Matt Smith
City employees are bleeding the city to death. One way is legal and the other is not.
By Matt Smith
It would be hard to imagine a more pathetic hero than Alexander Deanda, who used to manage the water-meter repair shop for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. The...
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Music
By Eric K. Arnold
Who needs a hyphy movement when you have the Jacka? The Pittsburg turf rapper is a one-man phenomenon. Though independent, he has as much street cred as any major-label rap...
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Fresh Eats
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats.
54 Mint: 16 Mint Plaza (at Jessie), 543-5100, www.54mint.com. SOMA. Italian.
5A5: 244...
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Film
By Jim Ridley
Want to know how a city works? Start by watching 1974's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a primer in which subway hijackers test how long it'll take a million bucks to pass...
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Stagecap
By Chris Jensen
Theater in gorgeous outdoor settings can be somewhat critic-proof, especially when the show in question takes place at the top of Mount Tamalpais. If you're in the mood to pack...
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Sucka Free City
By Peter Jamison
Last August, Amy Brown, director of San Francisco's real estate division, stood before a Board of Supervisors committee and made the kind of promise that gets elected...
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News
By Andy Van De Voorde
Fifteen months after Bay Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann received a staggering $16 million judgment in his predatory pricing lawsuit against SF Weekly and its parent company,...
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Music
By Phil Freeman
Renowned audio engineer Steve Albini has spent most of the last two decades running hundreds of recording sessions out of Chicago's Electrical Audio studios. Music geeks know...
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Stagecap
By Nathaniel Eaton
J. Conrad Frank avoids the pitfalls of many drag shows that rely too much on kitsch, shakily sung parody songs, and trashy banter. Frank's alter ego, the Russian countess Katya...
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Sucka Free City
By Chris Roberts
Ever wandered through Union Square and spotted some smartly dressed folks sporting matching red vests and hats? They are the Union Square Ambassadors. These knowledgeable...
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Encore
Our critics weigh in on local theater
By Nathaniel Eaton, Hiya Swanhuyser and Michael Leaverton
Fukú Americanus. After finding great success bringing Dave Eggers' novel You Shall Know Our Velocity to the stage (Sacrament, 2004), the Mission's Campo Santo is...
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Sucka Free City
By SF Weekly Staff
The Attorney General of South Carolina recently threatened Craigslist management with criminal prosecution for prostitution ads on the site. (He later backed down.) What are...
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