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1. Matt Smith
SFPD polygraph expert's controversial views
By Matt Smith Published: August 19, 2009Editor's Note: In the opening paragraph of this column, Matt Smith listed theoretical examples of "uncomfortable questions" that could elicit a physical response. Smith did not...
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2. Music
Kurt Vile loses job, gains indie clout
By Doug Wallen Published: August 19, 2009Kurt Vile recently got fired. For the past six years, he operated a forklift at a Philadelphia brewery while moonlighting as a home-recording musician and songwriter. Now...
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3. Feature
The Regulars
By Katy St. Clair Published: August 19, 2009Bars and their patrons have a symbiotic relationship. Bar owners need customers, and customers need their bars. These are the regulars, those folks who come in just about every...
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4. Eat
Down-home goes upscale at Wexler's
By Meredith Brody Published: August 19, 2009It's easy to imagine the earliest form of cooking — throwing meat onto a wood fire, from which it emerges smoky and charred — evolving into what we now celebrate as...
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5. Film
In a triumph of his will, Tarantino makes Holocaust revisionism ridiculously fun in Inglourious Basterds
By J. Hoberman Published: August 19, 2009Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment — rich in fantasy and blithely amoral. It's also...
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6. Night&Day
Afghan Star
By Ella Taylor Published: August 19, 2009If you think it’s impossible to underestimate the cultural significance of American Idol, go see British filmmaker Havana Marking’s documentary about its Afghani...
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7. Night&Day
Pressure Cooker
By Michelle Orange Published: August 19, 2009Wilma Stephenson runs her high school culinary arts class like a Marine sergeant: She’s loud, cranky, and prone to threatening bodily harm. Stephenson, a central figure in...
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8. Night&Day
Straight Talk About Brain Slices
By Evan James Published: August 19, 2009Most of the time, our brains are a big mystery. One minute, sparkly synaptic action urges our bodies to become one with the mid-'90s rhythms of La Bouche, and the next minute...
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9. Night&Day
Cash Could Win Money
By Hiya Swanhuyser Published: August 19, 2009We’ve seen Eric Cash pull a grapefruit out of a coffee mug, but that was a long time ago. YouTube shows him putting fire in his mouth and spitting it out again, and his...
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10. Night&Day
Kind of Blue
By Hiya Swanhuyser Published: August 19, 2009We've admired Quinn DeVeaux's music for years, whether he's in a hot-jazz New Orleans getup sweating the hipsters, scraping hearts raw with his extra-old-fashioned blues getup,...
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11. Night&Day
MAPP Quest
By Hiya Swanhuyser Published: August 19, 2009The Mission Arts and Performance Project (MAPP) is a great example of what makes the Mission District so special. If you've never heard of it, perhaps you've seen it: Every two...
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12. Night&Day
Z Owns It
By Michael Leaverton Published: August 19, 2009We love walking around Project Artaud Theater in the low hum of the Mission’s warehouse district, wondering why hardly anybody ever performs there. That’s set to...
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13. Night&Day
More Like Plus One Million
By Hiya Swanhuyser Published: August 19, 2009Scott McCaughey is unsung. He's in four major bands — R.E.M., the Young Fresh Fellows, Robyn Hitchcock's backing band the Venus 3, and the Minus 5 — plus a gang of...
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14. Night&Day
Runner Up
By Michael Leaverton Published: August 19, 2009The Plate to Plate 5K Run/Walk starts at the ball park and crosses home plate, but it does not round 175 or so bases in the interim. Rather, it immediately heads away from the...
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15. Night&Day
Liss Is More
By Hiya Swanhuyser Published: August 19, 2009Local choreographer Liss Fain is known for her love of weird music. She’s BFF with the compositions of Eastern European protopunk/experimento-classical composer...
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16. Night&Day
Running with the Bulls
By Silke Tudor Published: August 19, 2009The bullfight has been celebrated in art and literature as the embodiment of man’s ability to overcome his fear of death. In Spain, the country where the passionate,...
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17. Night&Day
Hotel Room, Here We Come
By Tara Jepsen Published: August 19, 2009Gay prom? Goth prom? '80s prom? So many choices have been available to hot young people in recent years, each one tailored to a lifestyle. If you’d like to open it up...
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18. Night&Day
Start It Up
By Dan Strachota Published: August 19, 2009Joe Pernice is a god to the people who love Nick Hornby novels — mainly dorky boys who are as likely to name-drop their record collections as get to second base. So...
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19. Night&Day
Pin Ups
By Michael Leaverton Published: August 19, 2009Insert the tip of the pin into the thorax, and press. Spread the wings, and affix. Use as many stainless-steel pins as you want; now is no time to be timid. Continue to impale...
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20. Night&Day
My Author Lives in the City and Reads to Me
By Tara Jepsen Published: August 19, 2009Stephen Elliott, the man capable of such simply stated poetry as put forth in novels Happy Baby and A Life Without Consequences, turns his often obscenely literate (in a...
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Turning the Tables Police have made a number of arrests and seizures of DJ equipment at underground parties and clubs. Is it enforcement or harassment?
