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While the phenomenal popularity of Guitar Hero suggests the public adores six-string shredders, there are sadly few Jimi Hendrixes among the current crop of real-life rock...
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Under the parking lot misters at the Greens Hotel in Sacramento, models with stilettos longer than their shorts are practicing their swagger across the stage. It's a sweltering...
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The local jazz scene hasn't really thrived since the days when the Fillmore played host to Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and John Coltrane, while Miles Davis held court at...
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Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Why? Because it's thick with sludge. Moving briskly through a stranger-than-fiction, serpentine narrative that is still...
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Humpday opens with a pair of breeders in bed. A youngish married couple, Ben (mumblecordeon Mark Duplass) and Anna (Alycia Delmore), confess that they’re too tired to...
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The new California Academy of Sciences opened its doors one year ago this weekend, and one thing has been missing: the big cats. This weekend, we get the big cats....
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You, the Living flips through 50-some single-panel vignettes, many very funny, arranged by Roy Andersson, a Swedish director best known for his commercial work and 2000’s...
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Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Why? Because it’s thick with sludge. Moving briskly through a stranger-than-fiction, serpentine narrative that is still...
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Brooklyn-based author Alix Lambert’s book The Silencing investigates six murdered Russian journalists, juxtaposing photos of the murder sites with interviews with people...
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In much the same way that countryman Sergio Leone reinvigorated the all-American genre of the Western, Italian director Dario Argento infused “B” horror films with...
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The Foul Play theater company performs in black and white. The current production’s source material is in black and white, after all. Staging a series of film adaptations...
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Three photographers make the old new, the destructive creative, and the bad good at "Lightning, Lava, and Bombs." Ben Nixon, Hendrik Paul, and Susan Seubert use ye olde...
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“Despair is collaboration with the enemy,” says Ken Jacobs, who’s been serving up vibrant films and acerbic quotes since the mid-1950s. His Brooklyn-bred...
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Music collective Classical Revolution is a response to the stuffiness in the world of classical music, hence the name. Its members tend to be young, just out of conservatories,...
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The last year has been a big one for wizened, shit-talking comic legend and plastic surgery art installation Joan Rivers. She starred on The Celebrity Apprentice with her...
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In 2008, expectations of bland food at the World Veg Festival shattered amid creative combinations and vibrant flavors that danced off the plates. This year, the San Francisco...
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Since 2004, the Found Footage Festival has presented an odd assemblage of clips -- weird training videos, bizarre commercials, lamentable home movies, and the like -- to...
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Known as “America's most beautiful run,” the Bridge to Bridge 12K and 7K Run/Walk is proud of its location, sure. But maybe the people who call it that are referring...
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“Shared Legacies” reunites mentor Sara Shelton Mann and past protégés, including dance/music duo La Alternativa (formerly MOTIONLAB). La Alternativa...
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Among wordsmiths, Jesse Sheidlower is not only famous — he’s the editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary — but also infamous — he’s the editor...
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