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The Crème Brûlée Cart, Bike Basket Pies, Amuse Bouche, the Magic Curry Kart, the Sexy Soup Lady, the Tamale Lady — it seems like you can sell...
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If the success of last year's Visiter made the Dodos' rise to worldwide attention seem inevitable, the modest San Francisco outfit certainly didn't see it that way. "Visiter...
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A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats.
Batter Bakery: 555 California (at Montgomery), 706-8076, www.batterbakery.com....
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Early in Shane Acker's computer-animated debut feature 9, a diminutive anthropomorphic whatsit with wooden hands, copper fingers, and the titular numeral emblazoned on his...
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Free Shakespeare in the park. It's such a heart-warming proposition, a fine idea whose public value endures; with this production, SF Shakes has been at it for 25 years. But...
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It's a difficult task, finding a link among Kraftwerk, Muse, Daft Punk, and Miles Davis. However, the burgeoning phenomenon of 8-bit "chiptunes" music has created a connection...
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You might wonder how Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince could possibly be adapted for the stage. Central Works shows that it can be done, though the results might still...
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The Farm. Shotgun Players and director Jon Tracy have radically "remixed" George Orwell's Animal Farm into a seething hip-hop, postapocalyptic, dystopian fantasy — and...
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Boasting a dozen members, L.A.'s Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros conjure ambitious swaths of barefoot psychedelia that rival the Polyphonic Spree in uplifting breadth. It's...
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Last summer, Brooklyn trio Vivian Girls wowed the tiniest music blogs and The New York Times with a mix of '60s surf-rock, shit-tons of reverb, and three-part girl-group...
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Over the last few years and albums, Oakland's Lovemakers (Lisa Light and Scott Blonde) have been moving further away from the simple electro-based sound they favored earlier...
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It's full-circle time for BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs when it comes to visiting the West Coast. The vaunted U.K.-born veteran DJ first made her name in 1985 when she...
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Brooklyn-based DJ and producer Kingdom is unafraid to indulge in guilty musical pleasures like mixing American R&B and U.K. garage divas Aaliyah and Jazmine Sullivan into a...
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Lately I've been wondering if my strict adherence to atheism is really the correct way to go. There comes a time when logic gets the best of you, and you realize that being...