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1. Feature

   Too Cute to Shoot?

   The adoring public may have a problem with what San Francisco has in store for its troublesome invaders, the sea lions.

   By Ashley Harrell

   Published: October 7, 2009

   On a wet September morning about an hour after the sun rose over San Francisco's Hyde Street Harbor, two men carried a kennel onto the Kitty Kat, a tour boat bound for the...

2. Music

   A new postpunk festival highlights a genre's revival

   By Dan Strachota

   Published: October 7, 2009

   Professor, DJ, and journalist Michael Stock takes music-nerd obsessiveness to new levels. In 1999, when researching a film about Joy Division leader Ian Curtis, he not only...

3. Eat

   Castro's Starbelly dishes out a truly memorable meal

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: October 7, 2009

   The first meal I had at Starbelly — a delightful lunch during which two of us shared seven dishes and wished we had room for more — colored every other restaurant...

4. Film

   Are the Coen brothers self-hating or just everyone hating?

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: October 7, 2009

   The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie — a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or may not be a dybbuk — is pretty clumsy,...

5. Night&Day

   A Serious Man

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: October 7, 2009

   The shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie—Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or may not be a Dybbuk—tips its hat to the great...

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   Soul Power

   By Ernest Hardy

   Published: October 7, 2009

   Soul Power documents the three-day music festival that accompanied the iconic 1974 Muhammad Ali/George Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle” boxing match in Zaire. Culled by...

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   Clowns from Afar

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: October 7, 2009

   The wave of mime-hate that swept the nation in the early 2000s has subsided, but mimes and clowns still get a bad rap sometimes. Nobody seems to realize that every actor, no...

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   Truth Squads

   By Michael Fox

   Published: October 7, 2009

   In the camcorder and YouTube age, we will all truly get our 15 minutes in the spotlight. (Don’t worry, your time is coming.) Take the flamboyantly felonious family...

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   Move Your Feet

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: October 7, 2009

   As a self-described "logical extension of a free public library," our local free walking-tour company is, like most libraries, a fascinating mash of nerdy and white-hot rad....

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    Tropicália’s Swedish Stars

    By Dan Strachota

    Published: October 7, 2009

    It was bound to happen eventually. One day, some Brazilian musicians woke up and thought, "Hey, you know, Os Mutantes were a pretty cool band." So they threw away all their...

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    The Art of the Crease

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 7, 2009

    All mathematicians need to work their magic is a pen and paper. Take away the pen and you get Dr. Robert J. Lang, a pioneer in the field of math-infused origami. If you...

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    Housewife Gossip and Assorted Gay Drollery

    By Evan James

    Published: October 7, 2009

    Everybody’s favorite historic gay movie house pumps up the local laugh quotient this month, unveiling a new monthly series of live comedy programming, complete with...

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    What What-ers?

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: October 7, 2009

    From the damaged grind of 1987’s classic album Locust Abortion Technician to 1996’s Beck-like fluke single “Pepper,” Butthole Surfers have veered from...

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    Curried Favors

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 7, 2009

    Curry is hard to pin down, like mole and salsa and drinks mixed by a college student. It exists in so many forms, in so many countries, that many of us never move beyond red,...

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    Can Somebody Please Start a Riot?

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 7, 2009

    In the early 20th century, Futurism was sexy — motorcars! Cement mixers! Buildings taller than 20 stories! Advances in technology were easy to wrap your head around, in...

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    Under Exposure's Spell

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 7, 2009

    At "Bellwether," nonprofit art center Southern Exposure celebrates its new home with sensitive airplanes, grand collaborative processions, and illegal art-liquor. The theme...

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    Always on a Sunday

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 7, 2009

    "The Future Project: Sunday Will Come" is a collaboration among many people, mainly actor-writer Sean San Jose and dancer Erika Chong Shuch. The performance involves...

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    Line Dance

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 7, 2009

    People who ghostride the whip, or their parents' Chevy Aveo, are pioneers in daredevil car-body movement. We wish they would stop. Much better to leave it to the professionals...

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    Beyond the Keffiyeh

    By Michael Fox

    Published: October 7, 2009

    Even the most fervent adherents to a cause or country grow weary of polemics. So the challenge for Palestinian filmmakers is to find fresh ways to talk about the occupation...

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    Renaissance Man

    By Andy Wright

    Published: October 7, 2009

    In 1987, The Princess Bride was released in theaters; an entire generation of children has lines from the eminently quotable film seared into their brains. One of those lines...