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His walker screeched across the floor as Lonnie Morris entered the San Quentin conference room, where his 15th parole hearing was supposed to have started hours ago. The...
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Black Sabbath's monolithic 1970 debut inspired legions of lumbering, down-tuned disciples, but few individuals have refined the ominous sonic template with as much creativity...
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Lori Baker and Jeff Banker, owners of the two-month-old Baker and Banker in Pacific Heights, are not the ones to break a winning streak. They're the third pair in a row to run...
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"Did you shoot my daughtah?" is the question posed, in flat-voweled Bostonian, in the trailer for Edge of Darkness. And Mel Gibson, much-bereaved and much-vengeful, from Hamlet...
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Chris Smith’s one-man doc on veteran doomsayer Michael C. Ruppert holds less interest as another sky-is-falling dispatch than as the filmmaker’s return to...
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Batman is many things to many people: hero, gay icon, debonair billionaire, foiler of world-domination plans. He's also an historical figure suitable for course credit and...
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The Devil, apparently, lives in an out-of-the-way gingerbread Victorian, just past the cemetery, where college sophomore Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) is lured for overnight...
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Neoclassical French drama is most famous for its rigid adherence to the theory that nothing interesting must ever be shown onstage. Instead, the plot is advanced by the...
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Anybody can rattle off a few good “yo mama” jokes, but it takes a true roasting artiste to put down his subject in such a way that the victim laughs as hard as the...
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Today, the expansive eight-day Mostly British Film Festival turns Mostly Australian, with three of the six features originating from the rough-and-tumble land of charming...
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The dance world already knows: Local choreographer and dancer Sean Dorsey brings. Balletomanes and whatever contemporary-dance enthusiasts are called have been on this tip...
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At first glance, Maya Hayuk’s art might make you timid: Her bold, colorful graphic shapes hint at an earlier era, when abstract art was a confusing thing for serious...
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Comedian Ali Wong changed her hairstyle from “wackadoodle double topknot” to “sleek, grown lady” — this hurts our feelings, of course. But at the...
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If Alice in Wonderland were retold by the Mad Hatter, it might look something like the 3-D, stop-motion Coraline, in which the bored, blue-haired 11-year-old of the title...
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New York artist Bradley Castellanos’ Retreating features a cabin set in the woods, three hunters out front sitting before a fire. It's got cinematic quality, a theatrical...
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It was a time when Gondwana roamed, the eustatic oceans teemed with rudists, and lo, it was the longest period of the Phanerozoic eon. Megacontinents were riven, calcareous...
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Even in the afterlife, relationships are complicated. In local filmmaker Tom Pankratz’ sleek Limbo Lounge (screening today at 7:15 p.m.), a newly dead dude gets the...
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Contrary to what you might expect, the Stupor Bowl Heavy Metal Chili Cookoff looks to be as rigorously refereed as the big game. Here’s a few rules: “All chili must...
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Margaret Harrison's bemuscled specimens at "The Bodies Are Back" are superheroes on their way, sporting a cacophony of gender-signifying genitals, upper-body arrangements, and...
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From Feb. 5 through 14, some people are going to be so drunk. Also during this time, Alice Waters determines what food goes well with what beer. So does chef Ruggero Gadaldi of...
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