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1. Sucka Free City

   Newsom quotes the giant within

   By Joe Eskenazi

   Published: October 14, 2009

   Gavin Newsom is a handsome and charismatic enough speaker that he could grab a microphone and spend 10 minutes detailing the meteorological conditions affecting British...

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   An Education

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: October 14, 2009

   The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir about the crash course she received in the “university of...

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   The Wedding Song

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: October 14, 2009

   Like her appealing first feature, La petite Jérusalem, Karin Albou's The Wedding Song probes the threats to an intimate bond between two Semitic women. Here, World War...

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   Barbara Rose Brooker

   By Jonathan Kiefer

   Published: October 14, 2009

   Even with Nikki Sixx's Heroin Diaries, Stephen Elliott's Adderall Diaries, and my own forthcoming Flintstones Vitamins Diaries (just you wait) on the scene, the topsy-turvy...

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   A Big-Tent Party

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: October 14, 2009

   Bright, toothpick-scale architecture crawls up broken banisters at “The Collaspe.” Local art superstar Michael Arcega’s new show grins pragmatically at a...

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   The Following Preview Is Heartily Approved

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: October 14, 2009

   We love all manner of film geek, from the guy who always finds a way to say “Truffaut” in public to the woman who haunts the night in front of flickering silent...

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   Soulfully Cerebral

   By Bonner Odell

   Published: October 14, 2009

   Soul and extreme technicality are rare companions in the art world, perhaps because the brain and the gut speak fundamentally different languages. There exist some rare...

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   Local Heroes

   By Michael Fox

   Published: October 14, 2009

   Every fall for more than 20 years, the Film Arts Foundation showcased the best new work by Bay Area filmmakers in one ferociously crammed weekend. The venerable organization...

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   Friends, Not Food

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: October 14, 2009

   Factory farming’s days are numbered. Michelle Obama’s organic garden at the White House is pissing off chemical pesticide companies. Sometimes, it seems we’ve...

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    Art Trip

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 14, 2009

    San Francisco is known as a city of neighborhoods, but people can live here for decades and draw a total blank on the words West Portal. Some of us let years pass between North...

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    La Crème de la Disco Dancing

    By Evan James

    Published: October 14, 2009

    As another enduring San Francisco warm season filled with gay-ish festivals draws to a close, party people hang up their threadbare technicolor tanktops, their adventurous jean...

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    Neil and Pray

    By Tara Jepsen

    Published: October 14, 2009

    Finding a comedian who accessorizes with a couple of highballs these days requires socializing at a venue called a country club. But if you're not ready to crawl out of your...

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    “Paint Another Orgasm, Dude”

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 14, 2009

    Context is nothing. At least, that’s the idea behind “Snippets,” local artist Lori Gordon’s ongoing exhibit. She takes phrases that have a bite-size meaning...

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    Back from the Dead

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 14, 2009

    People who celebrated the glory days of Halloween in the Castro can call up any number of memories, from “I puked all over Hartford Street” to “I got shot.”...

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    Boom Riggins

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: October 14, 2009

    Based in the same Idaho stomping grounds that spawned Built to Spill, boy-girl-girl trio Finn Riggins has been invited to join that band on tour next month. It’s a huge...

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    Nonsense Is Freedom

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 14, 2009

    "Indie film" can mean anything, from a philosophical Super-8 production shot by someone with a love of self-expression and 50 clams to a multimillion-dollar Lionsgate...

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    When You Grope for Luna

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 14, 2009

    Selene Luna is a real nice lady. Never mind that she takes her clothes off in public, tells dirty jokes onstage, and makes mean fun of bigots. What makes her nice is that she...

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    Lethem Drops Chronic

    By Dan Strachota

    Published: October 14, 2009

    Jonathan Lethem's last two novels — 2003's Fortress of Solitude and 2007's You Don't Love Me Yet — steered away from the sci-fi leanings of his early work. The...

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    Warm and Soft

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 14, 2009

    Are white vinyl walls with embedded speakers friendlier than plain white walls? Or are they merely more 2001: A Space Odyssey? Jacqueline Gordon's space-age soft sculpture has...

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    Keats and Brawne on Your Side

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: October 14, 2009

    Set in the bucolic suburbs of early-19th-century London, as fresh and dewy as a newly mowed lawn, Jane Campion’s Bright Star recounts the love affair between a tubercular...