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Marilyn Monroe’s screen persona, defined in The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot, is that of the ditz spilling out of her dress, endearingly unaware of the effect she...
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The economy, housing, jobs, foreign policy — all of it, still wrecked. Is it time? That’s beside the point, since The Obama Roast is going off regardless of how...
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For Californians dismayed by our state's dysfunctional politics, I offer a sign of hope: Last week it was possible to buy copies of the DVD Blond Cougar from Down the Street...
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Whether crafting the thematic arc of an album or collaborating on a multidisciplinary project, Odessa Chen isn't afraid to be vulnerable. She embraces the creative process...
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Cafe La Taza: 4230 18th St. (at Collingwood), 525-4921, www.cafelataza.com. Castro. Pastries and salads.
Cultive Frozen Yogurt: 1998 Union (at Buchanan), 345-8865,...
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Detective stories imply that mysteries can be solved, or at least rationally explained. Even the most debased example is a secular article of faith that also confirms a...
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Cirque du Soleil: Ovo. Cirque du Soleil's worldwide success has fed its dilemma of needing to invent something original with each successive touring show while adhering to its...
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Heklina, the founder of San Francisco's iconic drag show, Trannyshack, has stopped so many club promoters from using her trademarked Trannyshack name that you could almost...
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Easily one of the most important figures in 20th-century music, the folklorist Alan Lomax was also among the earliest proponents of multiculturalism, or, as he called it,...
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Directors Allen and Albert Hughes were raised by an Armenian mother and African-American father. With such a background, it would be difficult...
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The city recently started talking tough regarding the ever-expanding real-estate acquisitions of Academy of Art University, hinting at a lawsuit over its serial violations of...
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Last week, David Chiu, president of the Board of Supervisors, announced his intention to eliminate dozens of overly bureaucratic city fees. What are some of the fees targeted...
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For more than a decade and a half, Oakland's the Coup has been using hip-hop rooted in '70s funk and 808 trunk explosions to push its subversive, ultraleftist agenda....
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The mish-mash of musical styles on White Denim's new album, Fits — or on last year's debut, Explosion, and a handful of prior EPs and singles — meshes surprisingly...
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A one-film cabinet of curiosities, The Lovely Bones turns the most successful CGI director of the '00s loose on one of the decade's prime literary phenomena. Cults collide as...
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Radio Slave (Matt Edwards) toils among the techno proletariats of Berlin. He runs the Rekids label and makes hallucination-evoking, bass-burrowing dancefloor tunes that would...
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How Many Joints Are Too Many?
It's on a weed-to-know basis: Dave Ferrell's article about marijuana reform was very interesting and informative ["Weed Takes Root," Feature,...
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Producer, MC, and DJ Edan Portnoy and vaunted old-school photographer Ricky Powell represent the weird side of hip-hop craft. That makes them a perfect pairing for this...
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Artists' Television Access. Deep Leap Microcinema: Sacred Geometries: Program of short experimental video works. Sun., Jan. 17,...
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Unfortunately, there are plenty of men who are always perceived as gay, even though they're straight. I say "unfortunately" because these are guys who would like to attract...
