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Yvonne Prinz’ The Vinyl Princess is a young adult novel set in the East Bay, primarily in a used record store on Telegraph Avenue, featuring a 16-year-old clerk whose...
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“Life’s candy, and the sun’s a ball of butter/Don’t bring around a cloud to rain on my parade!” So sang Barbra Streisand in the 1968 musical Funny...
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Recently, we heard someone say she was proud to be an American, because America is the home of the civil rights movement. Music lovers might add that America is also the home...
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"Comedian" is a small term for a person who does standup, but also directs, teaches, and wields PowerPoint like a light saber. W. Kamau Bell is all that and a political...
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A knot of fancy, sun-deficient artistes offer a new spectacle; Happy Forever: The Life and Death of an Italian Cat follows a vaguely historical path to and from a fishing...
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Yesterday's honky-tonk hero, Bad Blake, arrives at a Clovis, New Mexico, bowling alley. It's another in a string of low-pay, low-turnout gigs with pickup bands half his age,...
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When Wild Beasts released Limbo, Panto in 2008, the album introduced the English quartet's funk-wrought mechanics and Hayden Thorpe's bold, falsetto-leaning voice. Intricate...
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Barbacco: 230 California (at Front), 955-1919, www.barbaccosf.com. Financial District. Italian.
Beautifull: 816 Irving (at Ninth Ave.), 664-2033, www.beautifull.com. Inner...
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John Dennis sits in the back room of Perry's in Pacific Heights, reflecting aloud over a cup of tea on the personal liberties he believes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has...
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Sound Tribe Sector 9 bassist David Murphy has a noticeably folksy Georgia accent. The inflection evokes the group members' formative years in the Atlanta suburbs, where they...
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Animals Out of Paper: Rajiv Joseph's comedy, directed by Amy Glazer. Tuesdays-Saturdays. Continues through Feb. 27. SF Playhouse, 533 Sutter (at Powell), 677-9596,...
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In San Francisco, people who grow their own medical marijuana and their attorneys are celebrating the recent California Supreme Court decision that overturned the law limiting...
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San Francisco's parks department is expected to close hipster hangout Dolores Park for up to a year and a half in order to make repairs. Where will all the Mission hipsters...
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Artists' Television Access. The Black Rock: Kevin Epps' documentary on the African-American history of Alcatraz. Fri., Feb. 12,...
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Boulder Plan Does Not Rock
Sandbags could save surfers: There is an alternative to dumping riprap (boulders and rocks) on the beach to respond to the emergency situation at...
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Girls, the biggest S.F. indie band to blow up last year, are hyped for good reason. The band's jangly, sun-faded pop songs, which shine from the yearning soul of...
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For its six years of existence, Club Foot kept art alive in the San Francisco rock scene. Opened by artist Richard Kelly in 1980, the venue became the city's premier...
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Few DJs have helped boost dancefloor culture into the 21st century like New Yorker Adrian Bartos. As Stretch Armstrong, he teamed up with Robert "Bobbito" Garcia for most of...
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There's a fine documentary series, The Bachelor, currently airing on television. A single American male with a garden-variety yet manly job, like firefighter or power broker,...
