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Workplace Dispute
Shun-unemployment: No wonder we are behind in so many categories when it comes to competing on a global stage ["Funemployment," Peter Jamison, Feature, 6/3]....
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On a damp Wednesday evening, while chain-smoking on the patio at a Tenderloin gay dive bar, Stephen Gray decided he wanted to rehearse. His performance, which would be part of...
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Carting a crate of used CDs to your local record store so you can make rent is a rite of passage as ancient as it can be tearful. But what about those MP3s and iTunes songs...
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There may have been no more eagerly anticipated restaurant opening this year than that of RN74, familiarly known as "Michael Mina's new wine bar." Fans of his complicated and...
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Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers' solipsistic, terminally-apologetic-for-being-solipsistic...
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Did you know that the guy who directed The Warriors also directed 48 Hrs., Another 48 Hrs., Trespass (with Ices Cube and T), Crossroads (the Karate Kid!) and a zillon other...
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The direct appeals of his melodramatic groundswells have long made Oscar-nominated Iranian director Majid Majidi a dismissed old-school counterpart to Abbas Kiarostami and...
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Filming the most ambitious superhero comic book ever written, director Zack Snyder has managed to address the cult while pandering to the masses. The master of the vid-game...
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Queer nightlife in San Francisco renews itself constantly, forever drawing stunned and watchful admirers with its untamed aesthetic by turns flashy, fly-by-night, and...
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For some of us, spending a summer at dads meant a systematic and voracious consumption of Top Ramen. Cycling through the flavors Chicken, Beef, and Oriental (unbelievably...
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You know how people say how sex is a celebration of life? The Air Sex Championships arent like that. The Air Sex Championships are pretty messed up. Director Kevin Smith...
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Is this country in a magical time for comedy, or are we just in a good mood? San Francisco has Ali Wong, Kamau Bell, Brent Weinbach, and Beth Lisick. The greater U.S. has Zach...
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You can have "Killing Me Softly with His Song." Roberta Flack's most famous song is a grand treasure, a thing of beauty, and an artwork that makes us proud to be American. And...
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It's an oversimplification to say that Balkans like to sing, dance, and drink. And yet, these are the activities most often found in the Balkan art that makes its way...
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The zombie genre first tried to die in 1933, a year after Bela Lugosis White Zombie. It found out it couldnt it was undead. The zombie genre will never die,...
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Betty Crocker was a feminist and loved foreigners. That's our interpretation of available information about the television face of Betty Crocker from 1949 to 1964, Adelaide...
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We know of a high school history teacher who once left her lesson on the Trail of Tears to a substitute. Luckily, the sub was excellent and the class left shell-shocked,...
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Long described and too-often defined by the first three letters of the phrase sexual orientation, the LGBT community has grown up. Sure, the annual San Francisco...
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Daniel Rozin is a mirror artist. You havent heard of many mirror artists because theyre all down at the craft fair, gluing mosaics and listening to Steppenwolf....
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Every city gets the queer performance festival it deserves, and San Francisco is no exception. That is why there are highly skilled gay Appalachian clog dancers at the Fresh...