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If you were to track the location of the GPS unit cinched to Mr. C's ankle on a recent Thursday at dusk, the red dot would veer northeast on Market and then head north on...
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The Most Unintentionally Hilarious Lyrics of 2009
The lowest common denominator having been achieved in 2005 with the release of the Black Eyed Peas' Monkey Business, popular...
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Saturday, just shy of midnight, and the squat sandwich board on the Mission Street sidewalk bears a wrinkled paper sign advertising street-food ramen. Like a strip club barker,...
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Enticing Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 children's movie Surf's Up, the filmmakers sent the actor a video of an animated penguin declaiming a few of...
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Your self-improvement regime for the New Year likely pales next to Spidermans: The 28-year-old Rio kingpin, whose given name is Juarez Mendes da Silva, wants to quit the...
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Jonathan Bursteins portraits are exactly the sort of thing we like to see from the Art on Market Street Kiosk Poster Series: Stuff that makes us stop walking,...
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Frederick Wisemans magnificent La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet offers a portrait of suppleness and agilitynot just that of the dancers bodies but also of the...
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During last Chinese New Year, Shen Yun made headlines when people walked out of its Radio City Music Hall performance. The objection? Woven into the opulent display of...
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Just one week ago, on YouTube, a woman watched Ramblin Jack Elliott play "San Francisco Bay Blues" on Pete Seeger's old TV program, Rainbow Quest. Impressed, the woman...
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Taking a flamethrower to age-hate and woman-hate, Jane Juska wrote a book about her sex adventure: At age 66, she took out a classified ad in The New York Times saying, in...
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You, the Living flips through 50-some single-panel vignettes, many very funny, arranged by Roy Andersson, a Swedish director best known for his commercial work and 2000s...
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Politicians and news outlets have started using the term "WPA" again have you noticed? The Works Progress Administration, of course, put people to work during and after...
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Moshe Cohen returns home again with his lyrical, insightful, and altogether mirthful clowning masterwork, Mr. YooWhos Holiday, featuring collaboration with Theater of...
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We first saw Grand Lake at Artists' Television Access, the best possible way to get to know a band. People talk trash about ATA's sound quality, but we think it sounds great....
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It isnt every day that you feel a little bit smarter after spending a couple of hours with a drag queen. Brain Farts, however, calls upon any of you eager to test your...
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This production being a Broadway import, you might expect just another generic and generally unchallenging extravaganza. Arguably, it is, but how appealing that the most...
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In 1992, Mark Whitacre (played here by Matt Damon, beneath 30 pounds of pudge and a toupee) was a golden boy at Archer Daniels Midland with a big problem: His attempts to...
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The specter of the South may loom large in the songs of the Builders and the Butchers, as do God and the Devil, but the five-piece has its origins much further north. Based in...
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It takes not only literary prowess but also a fine-tuned ability to count to write a proper six-word memoir. Lacking in the former (I walked to the store yesterday)...
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Steven Severin and Siouxsie Sioux carried the postpunk banner longer than nearly all of their contemporaries, from the mid-'70s through the mid-'90s. Since the Banshees broke...