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In San Francisco, at times, we behave normally in spite of ourselves. For example, here, as in the rest of the world, our elected officials have a hand in determining the...
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What's a “litnic?” We're not really sure, but we are sure it's a real thing because it's happened before in San Francisco. As best we can tell from the folks at...
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We are guilty of swing dancing before, during, and after it had that cool moment in the '90s, so we can safely say it's still fun. And cardio, of course. Plus, as said...
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Dan Cummins uses his laid-back demeanor as a secret weapon: He’s so skilled at playing the genial everyman that his pitch-black punchlines come as a genuine surprise....
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Balint Zsako is one of those people who makes the rest of us look like slackers. In the 10 years since he received his bachelor’s in photography from Ryerson University...
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The words of the day each begin with “F.” The first is fireworks (natch). We can’t think of anything more affixed to Independence Day than fireworks. Unless, of...
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We’re not sure how our nation’s founders defined “patriot,” but in the past few decades a group of (mostly) men has mutated the word to mean “person...
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That which we now call a "music video" is more than it seems to be — the idea is immutable, obvious, and at least as old as visual recording devices. "Soundies" are the...
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To most of us, North Korean cinema, like North Korea itself, is a blank wall. We assume it’s pure propaganda, generated by a strange clique that portrays itself as gods...
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Some artists make large-scale art for dubious reasons, including egomania as well as the continued and maddening presence, despite a steadfast regimen of creams and capsules...
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Dear Neko Case, after you're done blissing out the crowd at the outdoor park show, here are some things San Francisco might do for you. (Besides having brung you your pals the...
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San Francisco's several storytelling series are growing. Many have added Berkeley or Oakland shows. One recently had an L.A. event. One is drawing national names to its stage...
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"The circus is tough and beautiful," says a talking head in Aaron Schock's Circo, a documentary on the small, struggling, family-owned Circo Mexico. It's an apt description of...
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Nobody cries, "Stop the presses!" in Andrew Rossi's Page One: Inside the New York Times; no one would dare. There's a palpable fear that it could actually happen. Are we...
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A deceptively light time-travel romance, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris uses fairy-tale devices as a way to get to the filmmaker's familiar themes. A nebbishy screenwriter...
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Fleshy, dark-haired, stuttering Paul Noe II sits at a document-laden table with an elderly veteran. Noe asks the man about his military years, about what life has been like...
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Recent Census data show that there are fewer children in San Francisco than there were 10 years ago. Why are some families with kids leaving the city?
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Way to Go
A fascinating way to see the state: I love road trips and am familiar with almost every mile covered in this odyssey ["In Transit," Joe Eskenazi, Feature, 6/22]....
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It's an immaculate summer day, and we are interrupting Sonny Smith. He's sitting under an umbrella at Dolores Park Cafe, eating a cup of yogurt he'd been carrying in his...
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Sizzle
• My Morning Jacket led an epic Southern revival Friday night at the Fox: nearly three hours and 26 songs of huge, crowd-pleasing jams, with frontman Jim James...
