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An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that former California Senate majority leader, John Burton, supports Gavin Newsom's candidacy.
On a gray July morning in...
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Valium. Morphine. OxyContin. Fentanyl. Ketamine. MDMA. Methadone. Pot. Cocaine. This kind of drug name-dropping by members of local indie-rock outfit Girls, and by the writers...
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There aren't many reasons for foodies to travel to the outermost reaches of what's already termed the Outer Sunset, especially those last few blocks before the Great Highway...
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When, in the early '00s, I worked as a freelancer for a publication two floors below Vogue — this was pre–Devil Wears Prada — each sighting of Anna Wintour,...
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Artists' Television Access. Fever Night: Jordan Harris and Andrew Schrader's acid-trip horror film. Thu., Sept. 10, 8 p.m. $6....
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When A.J. Jacobs released his 2004 book The Know-It-All, detailing his effort to read all 44 million words of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, we weren’t surprised:...
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Mesmerizing manipulations of motion studies, Super 8 sequences of rhythmic light and color, and nonnarrative celebrations of Coney Island's Astroland all get their 15 (or...
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San Francisco artist David Ireland, who passed away in May at age 78, proved to be one of the most challenging figures in a field already brimming with ornery ideas:...
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With more than 40 handcrafted beers from seven local companies, Brews on the Bay means you can drink, seriously, while ostensibly probing the mysteries of hops. It also means...
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For the past five years, Frank Bruni was the chief restaurant critic for The New York Times, so you might expect that his memoir, Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time...
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Luis Arias Vera's pre-Incan signs and symbols, Casper Banjo's brick walls, and the sharply graceful lines of Juan R. Fuentes' linocuts are the bedrock iconography of "3...
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Local comedian Brent Weinbach’s second full-length album, The Night Shift (on S.F. label Talent Moat), is a surrealist audio collage far removed from conventional comedy....
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The U.K. was a major beneficiary of the Marshall Plan, along with Germany and the rest of Western Europe. Yet food rationing did not completely end in Britain until 1954,...
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We see the joy of drinking sake overcome many a Bay Area alcohol- and raw-fish enthusiast, and who wouldn’t want to elevate their pursuit? Ours is a town with plenty of...
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Nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner would have been mortified to hear himself compared to the enterprising queer party planners responsible for present-day San...
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The Bad Plus came to most people’s attention by covering “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” so it’s fitting that the rock-loving jazz trio should tackle another...
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The past few years have seen a clutch of young male crooners embracing the lost art of blue-eyed soul with no-nonsense prowess. Beyond the reinvention of Warp Records...
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In remote Russian villages, seasons are marked by boisterous celebrations such as the winter Koleda and summer Kupala, where young and old join in vibrant, and decidedly...
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Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s alarming Tony Manero—set in the dark days of the Pinochet regime and named not for its protagonist but rather his ego-ideal, John...
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While no one’s idea of an action film, Andrew Bujalski’s Beeswax feels less charmingly aimless than its radically slight precursors Funny Ha Ha (2002) and Mutual...
