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A mud-splattered Jeep Cherokee pulls over on the shoulder of an empty road and stops. It is a gray, 40-degree January day, too cold for dallying. A man dressed in black with...
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John McCrea and his band, Cake, have gone the distance, and more than a few times. Maybe more than he would have liked. McCrea is the declarative voice of a band that came of...
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Since the era of Anubis and Osiris, we've considered the heart the organ in charge of the emotions. It's belief so ancient that it has become embedded in a hundred idiomatic...
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Fresh from Sundance, Miguel Arteta's amiable Cedar Rapids is a mild comedy of embarrassment, set in the dark heart of Middle America and starring sitcom secondario Ed Helms...
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"There's a lot of pride and memory in these houses," says Lena (Omozé Idehenre), one of many well-meaning urban dwellers who populate the stage in Bruce Norris'...
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Spectators in Hong Kong watched a Chinese New Year Parade extravaganza last week featuring two cheerleading squads from Louisiana State University, a baton-twirling team from...
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Pretty much the first thing anyone ever says about Smith Westerns is that the band members are young. We're gonna start there, too, but instead of the usual, "Can you believe...
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One Love Bake Sale
By John Birdsall
Valentine's Day can feel depressingly shrinkwrapped. If you're in a relationship, you don't need sweatshop roses or a Twilight box set to...
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The Eagle, directed by Kevin Macdonald and adapted from Rosemary Sutcliff's 1954 historical novel, The Eagle of the Ninth, a bestselling tale of second-century Roman legions...
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It's the end of the world as we know it, and three teenage boys who've formed a happenstance family don't feel fine at all. In Henry Murray's postapocalyptic doomfest directed...
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Around a decade ago, BART moved to boot all food vendors off its property. The delicious story behind that decision told by old agency hands is that a former BART director sat...
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Sizzle
• As if the first Low End Theory SF party wasn't crowded enough, organizers announced that Flying Lotus will perform at the next edition on March 4. You might...
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A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats.
Atelier Crenn: 3127 Fillmore (at Pixley), 440-0460, www.ateliercrenn.com. Cow Hollow....
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In past years, the theatrical release of the Oscar-nominated live-action and animated shorts has provided a fun peek into intriguing bite-size cinema from across the globe....
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By Anna Pulley, Nathaniel Eaton, Keith Bowers and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published:
February 9, 2011
Clue. It's worrisome when the preshow announcement to a play based on a 1985 cult classic film includes a caveat that audience-goers should probably be drunk, and also that we...
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Social networking company Twitter is threatening to move its offices to Brisbane, Calif., unless San Francisco makes concessions. What concessions is Twitter...
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Sic Alps may seem like the perennial also-rans of the local garage-rock scene, but this nearly-decade-old trio deserves higher esteem. And if earning the approval of indie...
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Chris Daly Rocks the Boat
Good start, but looking for more stories like this: This is a great article ["Captain Outrageous," Joe Eskenazi, Feature, 2/2]. I especially like the...
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You know those sequences in movies and TV shows where a character is brainwashed by being forced to watch a bunch of seemingly unconnected clips flickering by at hyper-speed?...
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Watching Karl Denson's Tiny Universe perform feels like an optical and auditory illusion: You can't help but ponder how the sax of bandleader and former Lenny Kravitz...
