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Illustration by Graham Smith
The MS-13 gangster leans toward a Plexiglas window in the Glenn E. Dyer Jail in downtown Oakland, speaking loudly over the desperate sounds of a...
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For a brief moment in late 2008, it felt like the clouds were parting after eight dark years, and TV on the Radio's supremely great "Golden Age" might just be heralding the...
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A year or two ago, the language around popup restaurants was charged with ZOMG! levels of excitement. They were the solution to high San Francisco rents! They gave voice to a...
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What makes Johann run — and rob? Benjamin Heisenberg's second feature, The Robber, is as taut, lean, and fleet as its title character, played by Andreas Lust and based...
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Isadora Duncan is San Francisco’s (and up there with the world’s) most famous dancer. She invented her own kind of dance, inspired by the poses found on ancient...
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The statistics are dire. Nearly one-third of U.S. high school students drop out. And less than one-third of eighth-graders are up to where they should be in reading and math....
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In Paul Madonna’s San Francisco, which is ours too, the frisson of recognition feels like a reason to live. I know where that is, we say, meaning the geographic as well...
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Any therapist will tell you that to make a relationship work, you have to look at both sides. You have to consider each person’s history, tendencies, willingness to...
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We have a bad attitude, so we like to imagine the brainstorming session for the Walk Against Rape as a movie. Ours would be directed by Robert Rodriguez, so everyone would...
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Like your heart after you pound a Red Bull or two, the pedals of a fixed-gear bike are forever wheeling forward. Some folks find that scary; others ride that momentum down...
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It's hard to imagine the suspenseful works of Alfred Hitchcock without Bernard Hermann's spooky counterpoint. Or the giddy blockbusters of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas...
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You know how in the ’80s there were a bunch of big-time comedians whose style consisted of rapid-fire one- or two-liners thrown out in such power-joshing fashion, you...
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Twyla Tharp’s Surfer at the River Styx and Patrick Corbin’s Psychedelic Six Pack: The names alone tip you off. Company C Contemporary Ballet isn’t normal, and...
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Self-absorbed coastal types have never been particularly good at understanding rural America, but the last decade seems to have intensified our bewilderment. And that...
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In case you want to see the weirdest list of famous people ever, check Charlie Tweddle's website. The Santa Cruz-area guitar player also makes hats, and that's an...
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Remember Cypher from the original Matrix, who could see the world of the Matrix just by staring at its endless rain of code? John Patrick McKenzie’s new exhibition...
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In this age of recycling-awareness saturation and DIY everything, creating couture from used clothes for a runway fashion show should strike fear into very few designers....
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It’s been a little over a month since an 8.9 earthquake and the resulting tsunami devastated huge swaths of Japan. As residents of a similarly earthquake-prone region, we...
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Don’t ask, don’t tell. It’s a modern-day policy (albeit rescinded) that fits the modern-day acknowledgment that queer people do, in fact, serve in the military....
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A person can start the day with any number of inquiries, from “Who is that monster in the mirror?” to “Is five cups of coffee too many before noon?” Maybe...
