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On a recent Saturday morning, Theresa Sparks strode into Rasselas Jazz Club in the Fillmore in her size 11 leopard-print flats, peeled off her sunglasses, and sized up a tough...
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Of all the gags perpetrated on the music-going public, none has had the staying power of the Mummies and their so-called "legacy." It's been nearly 18 years since these clowns...
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If anything demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit, it's the way San Franciscans have kept their highly attuned taste buds nurtured and cared for through these months...
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Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to the mass cult followings of...
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We call it soccer, but for the Brits, it’s football, and it’s damn serious business. From 1968 to 1974, Brian Clough (Michael Sheen), a manager/coach from the tiny...
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From the gang that brings painful tears of joy wherever it goes comes Halloween done right, at Lucha VaVOOM. Men in tights, women dishing out beatdowns, teh ghey, and ladies,...
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Don Imus’s hateful, racist 2007 remarks about “nappy-headed hos” underscored the immense fear of and fascination with the hair follicles of African-American...
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Curator Lance Fung likes big, sprawling projects. He organized the "Snow Show" for Italy's 2006 Winter Olympics, pairing architects and artists for works made out of frozen...
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Taraneh Hemami of San Francisco and Ghazaleh Hedayat of Tehran teamed up to curate “One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran,” describing life in the city through...
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While foreign filmmakers not named Almodovar or von Trier have a tougher time than ever getting into U.S. theaters , French directors reap one success after another. The Class,...
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Día de los Muertos (or "Day of the Dead," for the infinitesimal fraction of English-speaking California residents who haven’t picked up a smattering of holiday...
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When your mother, a very pissed-off mermaid, says, "It is not in my power to grant you death. I can only grant you peace," you're in for it. You've been a bad, bad girl. If...
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Edgar Allan Poe’s work comes into schoolchildren’s lives when they’re about 12. Strangely enough, kids who have just discovered that they hate everything,...
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A Web site devoted to complaining about Muni — okay, we get it. (Actually, we love it.) But a night of storytelling dedicated to our maligned transportation service?...
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San Francisco street food hit celebrity status a while back, but now we’ve reached a new plateau: the street-food celebrity chef. The duties are the same as for ordinary...
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Ravi Shankar's life has been as well-traveled as his music. Since taking up the sitar in the late 1930s, the Indian musician has released more than 40 albums, composed for film...
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This lucid Swedish indie gem, adapted for the screen by John Ajvide Lindqvist from his novel and directed with imagination and restraint by Tomas Alfredson, releases the...
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Few who have experienced Montana’s Glacier National Park would argue that it takes the cake for epic scenery among U.S. parks. But if global warming continues at the...
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Plenty of theater companies have a focus — Shakespeare, maybe, or adapting novels to the stage. The Bawdy Caste, though, is exceptionally cohesive: These ridiculous...
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Local heavyish shreddin' indie-rock band Citay lists Black Sabbath as an influence on its MySpace page, so the group's Halloween tribute to Ozzy and the boys isn't coming out...
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