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These are not your run-of-the-mill potheads jammed into the long, narrow classroom at Oaksterdam University, a tiny campus with no sign to betray its location on busy San...
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For the last 10 years, Tim Sweeney has spent his Tuesday nights in the basement of New York University's freshman dormitories, despite the fact that he graduated from the...
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Mayes Oyster House has catered to the great and near-great from all over the world since it was established 69 years ago," restaurant critic Ruth Thompson wrote ... 73 years...
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Is this a commercial for the National Tourism Council of Ireland or for the conditioner Amy Adams uses in her hair? Either way, both look fabulous. Then there's the movie, a...
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Its a wonderful story: A patriarch of a respectable French family dies, the family noses around the attic, and 30 reels of porn from the turn of the century are...
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You know how Florence Henderson became Mrs. Brady: three very lovely girls, hair of gold, met this fellow, more than a hunch, somehow formed a family, and so on. But despite...
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Early in this mildly involving riff on Thomas Frank's nonfiction bestseller, the author appears at a bookstore signing to summarize his starting point: How did the Republican...
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Someone made a list of the most interesting people in San Francisco. Dont feel bad if you werent on it; we werent either. Neither was Ali Wong or Cecil...
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One of the few bright spots of last summers widely attended and critically panned Great American Food and Music Fest in Mountain View was the appearance of...
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San Francisco is so picturesque largely because of plate tectonics (the hills) and the ballsy T-square manipulations of great thinkers in tweed trousers...
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Brand-new buildings get photographed for glossy real estate brochures and corporate literature. Its not art, exactly, but it nets a paycheck. Add a handful of hard-worn...
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It is the law of easy money that people inside a bubble never know where they are there's just an oily sheen to everything, which they mistake as the glisten of money...
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The first month of a new, potentially apocalyptic decade means one thing for sure: makeovers, makeovers, makeovers. As such, Tiara Sensation, that most unpredictable and...
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Maybe you think you know everything about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. already. But let us be the first to say it you dont. The legends are rightly repeated, the...
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Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, the wicked talent behind Adult Swims Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, swan dive into bizarre and unproven comedy waters (the...
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Lovers of the lively, the encyclopedic, and the lavish labyrinth of American history can take heart in a kaleidoscopic new survey of the Land of the You-Know-What. A New...
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The curse that afflicts brilliant filmmakers from Keaton to Welles to Altman is that its essentially impossible for future audiences to grasp how bold and...
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Australias Chris Hearn has long made music as Alps, although hes currently going by Alps of New South Whales. The name is a play on the Aussie state of New South...
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Named after an underground comic strip, the Yummy Fur was an underground band from 1990s Glasgow, two of whose many members went on to form Franz Ferdinand. Mainstay John...
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At "Santos y Otros Creatures," the art is made by adults with developmental disabilities. The art is indistinguishable from and in many cases plain superior to that made by...