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Feature
Adjust Your Television
The YouTube-ification of public-access TV in S.F. is about to begin – and the old cast of kooky cable programmers doesn’t like it one bit.
By Lauren Smiley
Published: August 12, 2009
Twenty San Franciscans who moonlight as producers on public-access TV strode into the Market Street studios on a recent Wednesday night, ready for a fight. It's a crowd that...
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Music
Tanya Tagaq modernizes Inuit vocal traditions
By Ezra Gale
Published: August 12, 2009
Tanya Tagaq's new album, Auk/Blood, is a portrait of a primeval past that is also quite futuristic. Animalistic grunts and howls mix with beatboxing and sensual gasps, the...
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Eat
54 Mint offers boldly flavored fare at a charming downtown location
By Meredith Brody
Published: August 12, 2009
More surprising than the fact that the address of 54 Mint is actually 16 Mint Plaza is that there's a new Italian restaurant in town that not only doesn't specialize in pizza...
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Film
Alien invasion as apartheid metaphor? It works in District 9
By Scott Foundas
Published: August 12, 2009
The aliens have been with us for 20 years already at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp's fast and furiously inventive District 9, their huddled masses long ago...
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Night&Day
The Limits of Control
By J. Hoberman
Published: August 12, 2009
Jim Jarmusch's anonymous antihero hitman (French-Ivorian actor Isaach De Bankolé), identified in the credits of The Limits of Control as the Lone Man, exists only in...
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Night&Day
Tyson
By Scott Foundas
Published: August 12, 2009
Director James Toback’s documentary about former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson isn’t a traditional nonfiction portrait so much as a feature-length interview, in...
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Night&Day
Let's Get Groovy
By Dan Strachota
Published: August 12, 2009
The Fruit Bats' new album, The Ruminant Band, further proves that Sub Pop has a nefarious desire to turn back the clock. One of the tracks on the record, "Singing Joy to the...
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Night&Day
Related to Each Other
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 12, 2009
This is big. The Jazz Mafia is a coordinating, cooperating conglomeration of bands equaling roughly 50 people. Its prolific, inspired mix of jazz and hip-hop led to the...
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Night&Day
Diz and the Gang
By Michael Leaverton
Published: August 12, 2009
In 1965, the year of the Watts riots and the murder of Malcolm X, and goaded by Charles Schulz, Oakland’s Morrie Turner unveiled Wee Pals, the first fully integrated comic...
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Night&Day
One Day, One Night
By Silke Tudor
Published: August 12, 2009
In the video created for “Un Día” — the title track from Juana Molina’s exquisite fifth album — the face of the Argentine singer appears in...
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Night&Day
Comedy Upgrade
By Michael Leaverton
Published: August 12, 2009
Television clip shows are notoriously unwatchable, except for The Soup and, if you hate yourself, TMZ. Television clip shows that focus on Internet clips, however, are the hot...
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Night&Day
Celebrating Rogue Handbills
By Evan James
Published: August 12, 2009
Newspapers may go the way of the buffalo as future generations of children begin communicating through indecipherable tweets alone, but rest assured: Independent-minded...
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Night&Day
Sidewalk Smorgasbord
By Evan James
Published: August 12, 2009
Everyone loves to eat food in the street lately. City people everywhere can be seen nibbling on fricasseed frog legs from the backs of trucks, sitting on abandoned loading...
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Night&Day
Can Remember, Was There
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 12, 2009
He has always been a writer, but Peter Coyote became a movie star and a notorious hippie before he got around to publishing a book. Sleeping Where I Fall is the autobiography...
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Night&Day
Devil May Care
By Michael Fox
Published: August 12, 2009
Say what you will about Mel Gibson, but he’s one of the few directors with a real appetite for human sacrifice (The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto). He always couches...
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Night&Day
Tap Tap Tap
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 12, 2009
The U.S. has two major traditions in tap dancing, as far as we can tell: the corny one, and the one that's fun to watch. Little girls wearing bow ties, ruffled butt fabric, and...
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Night&Day
Nice Peaches
By Michael Fox
Published: August 12, 2009
True artists refuse to keep repeating themselves, no matter how lucrative the style or formula happens to be. Experiment and grow, or copy and die — those are the choices....
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Night&Day
He Went So We Can Stay
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 12, 2009
Dan Hoyle wondered, as we all do: What's wrong out there? People in the flyover states have bad fashion, and pretend they're not gay. Why why why? Unlike most of us, however,...
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Night&Day
Come to Blows
By Michael Leaverton
Published: August 12, 2009
Josh Healey is one of the Bay Area's, not to mention the country's, most active spoken-word poets, with loads of accolades, community work, and teaching jobs. His delivery is...
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Night&Day
To the Moon
By Michael Leaverton
Published: August 12, 2009
Moontel Six, Part 1 has much to recommend it: The play was written for teens by Constance Congdon, the talent behind many intergalactic scripts as well as her adaptations of...
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