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On the evening of Nov. 11, 2009, two San Francisco police officers found 74-year-old Marion Cope sitting on the ground in Huntington Park, clutching her bleeding right leg. The...
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I logged into Facebook, as I do every morning, and my news feed informed me that, overnight, seven of my friends had become fans of "Pretending to Text in Awkward...
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"The Cloud is coming to steal my music collection!" It sounds like a bad horror movie, and yet it might be true. The common way to listen to music has changed relatively slowly...
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In the era of pop-up restaurants and upscale street carts, are decor and food going through a divorce? Most restaurants are still designed to create a multisensory experience...
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Already a blogosphere punching bag for right-wing Christians, Creation — about Charles Darwin's writing of On the Origin of Species — commits the sin of...
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Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantinos Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainmentrich in fantasy and blithely amoral. It's also...
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Animals and people are all jumbled up in this hyperactive Belgian puppet animationas in A Town Called Panic's central ménage of Cowboy, Indian, and Horse. The...
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Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word childrens book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are may be the toughest adaptation since Tim Burton fashioned Mars...
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The forthrightly activist but fun-loving documentary The Cove has a natural hero and reformed sinner in Ric OBarry, a former trainer of dolphins for the popular 1960s...
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Already a blogosphere punching bag for right-wing Christians, Creationabout Charles Darwin's writing of On the Origin of Speciescommits the sin of thoughtfulness,...
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A rosy tale of racial reconciliation neatly wrapped in a triumphalist sports movie (and blessedly free of spurious Obama parallels), Clint Eastwood's new movie tells the story...
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In 1997, a killer whale breached the surface of the water off San Francisco, shocking a boatload of whale watchers (one with a video camera). It had a huge great white shark...
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NOMOs influences are intensely varied. While its logical enough to detect Afrobeat in the stuttered drums of the Michigan six-piece, theres also Krautrock in...
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When the chemical Bisphenol A reached freakout levels on the Whats Scaring Mommy? scale, the industry responded: BPA-free baby bottles quickly appeared on...
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The ingredients of Mates of State are so simple and few drums, organ, two voices, the infectious glow of marital bliss that youd think the band would be...
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The noise-music nom d'étage of Switzerland-born, Berlin-based performer Joke Lanz, Sudden Infant combines playful absurdity with unnerving gibberish to create what he...
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In his gracefully odd movements, the French writer-director-actor Jacques Tati resembled the adult offspring of General Charles de Gaulle and a large stork. From his leaning,...
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Few deny that the art of cooking lies solely in the finished dish; the process counts, hence all the celebrity chef cookbooks and the entirety of the Food Network....
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If you own anything made of velvet, you probably wonder: When should I attend the ballet? Drama queen, snobby freak, twee boy, corset girl, vintage clothing owner the...
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At the Women on the Way Festival, there's a wide range of live entertainment: poetry, plays, music, clowning, performance art, and more. Among the highlights are performances...