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As with any San Francisco dogfight, myriad organizations have piled on to the civic battle to pressure Sutter Health to rebuild St. Luke's Hospital at César...
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It's easy to forget that Sierra Frost, the leader of the Downer Party, is only 19. That is, until she asks who Gram Parsons is, begins assigning best friend status to multiple...
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Guests at the Ruby Skye nightclub on the last night of this year will dine on herb-crusted filet mignon with mustard sauce, curried crab with sliced almonds on brioche, and...
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'Tis the season for comfort food, for bountiful platters of rich, soul-stirring grub brimming with fresh veggies and juicy cuts of meat and hillocks of pasta and potato and...
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Aside from Morgan Freeman, who makes a fabulous Nelson Mandela, there's this to savor about Invictus, a rosy tale of racial reconciliation neatly wrapped in a triumphalist...
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Recent American films about families, like Rachel Getting Married, all too often pierce eardrums with shrieks of dysfunction. Amid the din, French filmmaker Claire Deniss...
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Orson Welles lives on not only in posthumously restored director's cuts of his movies but as a character in other peoples novels, plays, and filmsnotably Richard...
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Dancer, filmmaker, and performance artist Catherine Galasso returns to S.F. with a dance/theater/video extravaganza about Roy Sullivan, the real-life, Guinness Book-verified...
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Set in the bucolic suburbs of early-19th-century London, as fresh and dewy as a newly mowed lawn, Jane Campions Bright Star recounts the love affair between a tubercular...
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With the storm clouds of revolution apparently gathering just beyond their gates, and the doldrums of decorum weighing heavily on their souls, a fictional British royal family...
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When a local nonprofit hell-bent on building social consciousness through digital culture decides to open up a product-focused space supporting designers of...
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Jamaica Dyer is the new Ariel Schrag. If you don't know what that means, then
you're not a comics geek. The point is, Dyer's innovative watercolor Web-comic, Weird...
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Everyone knows about flamenco divas: They're mean and gorgeous. Local dancer Yaelisa, fearless leader of Caminos Flamencos Spanish dance company, is no exception. One look...
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Surveillance cameras can get pretty small. So when you put one on the nonbusiness end of your eyeliner pencil, it doesn't even interfere with your workflow. And the results are...
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Not everyone can grow a mustache in four weeks. Some people can grow only a gentle patch of downy meadow grass or a few sprouted outposts lashed to an otherwise barren upper...
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Kenneth Anger grew up in the '30s and '40s in glorious Southern California, a rare boy for whom the toxic proximity of the Dream Factory overshadowed the sun and sea. A child...
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Christmas music sucks. Most of it is saccharine, faux-pious, emotionally manipulative crap, recorded embalmingly. To the rescue is local blues and jazz singer Kim Nalley, who's...
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When todays torture porn makes old slasher films look like after-school specials, Alfred Hitchcocks movies must seem mighty quaint. Unless, that is, one muses on...
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No time like the holiday-worn present for a wee spot of catharsis. While the usual wintertime opportunities for relaxation still apply, laughter is the next best medicine, if...
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With most holiday sing-alongs, you simply show up, get over yourself, and open up whatever pipes you got, ideally greased by seasonal vodka-nog. The Sing-It-Yourself Messiah is...