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In a Dallas strip mall, in the neighborhood George W. Bush now calls home, sits a bright and fluorescent Blockbuster that, on this cold Thursday night in December, is...
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For this week's music section, SF Weekly scoured the local landscape, asking the people making, producing, DJing, and distributing music about the big ideas affecting the...
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Under the Gypsy Moon. Storylines don't really matter in a Teatro ZinZanni production; they just provide a loose framework for the circuslike acts everyone comes to see while...
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On a late March morning, the sun sits high in the Cape Town sky, illuminating the trapezoidal monolith of Table Mountain in the distance, while down by the city's busy...
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An air of mystery hangs over Portland, Ore., quartet Church, and not simply because of its vague name. The band's debut album, Song Force Crystal, is all over the place, and...
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The categorization of X as a punk band always seemed a bit odd. Sure, the L.A. act leans heavily on the frenzied mood of the genre, but it also relies on the raucous energy of...
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Yesterday's honky-tonk hero, Bad Blake, arrives at a bowling alley in Clovis, N.M. It's another in a string of low-pay, low-turnout gigs with pickup bands half his age,...
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Local singer-songwriter Odessa Chen is self-taught on guitar and classically trained in cello and voice; she belonged to choirs specializing in medieval styles. Her singing is...
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Does Nancy Meyers hate women? The thought ran through my head not very long into It's Complicated, Meyers' biennial stocking-stuffer about the romantic trials and tribulations...
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"Worst-Run City"Hits a Nerve
An elephantine problem: Just when I think San Francisco's fourth estate has gone into hibernation, SF Weekly wakes me up with "The Worst-Run Big...
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There's no city-clogging traffic jam in Nine, the musicalized version of Federico Fellini's movie-about-moviemaking ur-text 8 1/2, but the result feels like the celluloid...
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In DJ and producer Bobina (Dmitry Almazov), Russia finally has a major player on the international progressive house and trance scene, which has long been dominated by...
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It's rare to find someone who looks Dickensian in San Francisco, but I did. For the two or three people reading this who don't have a master's in English, by "Dickensian" I...
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Castro Theatre. "Hitch for the Holidays": This week: Strangers on a Train and The Man Who Knew Too Much, Psycho and Frenzy....