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Illustration by Andrew J. Nilsen
Chris Daly was belittling his allies. His disgust was palpable. That could have been any Tuesday at City Hall, but moments later the lame...
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"Me and Ariel Nuñez walked into the public access TV studio on a Friday in 2002, and they gave us a time slot for that Monday!" Halline Overby, who performs under the...
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The "Stefano" painted over the awnings of Stefano Restaurant is underlined in a stripe of red, white, and green. The placemats inside are decorated with a map of Italy. Murals...
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Martin Scorsese's first foray into 3-D family filmmaking centers on its title character, played by Asa Butterfield, a just-pre-pubescent orphan squatting in a train station...
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In view of the Occupy Movement, this year’s commemoration of the Occupation of Alcatraz takes on a much deeper resonance for non-Native Americans, and it offers fresh...
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Known for its junkies, hookers, thieves, and an ever mushrooming homeless population in dire need of services, the Tenderloin contains 586 apartment buildings within one...
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I read it for the articles. That was a common defense of men who were caught with Playboy magazines in past decades. Although sometimes it wasn’t true and probably never...
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You’d be hard-pressed to find an Etsy fashion seller who doesn’t owe his or her second income to Project Runway or Lady Gaga. This unlikely duo took the idea of...
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Whither the observational comic? These days we associate observational comedy with 1980s hacks in cheap ties telling bad jokes about airline food. Maybe the grim early days of...
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We’re awash in data. More news and information exist on your smartphone than even the best-connected journalist could access as recently as 20 years ago. Yet...
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Anyone who’s taken a road trip across the country knows that remnants of “that old, weird America” Greil Marcus referred to are plentiful if you take time to...
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English actor and comedian Russell Brand has described himself “an S&M Willy Wonka,” except that instead of sweetmeats, Brand has surrounded himself with other...
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Imagine if the San Francisco Giants won three more championships by the end of the decade. We'd have one of the greatest sports dynasties, rivaling New York and … other...
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Like a John Hodgman who isn't bullshitting everybody, digital archivist and artificial intelligence master Brewster Kahle has dedicated himself to nothing less than...
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Don't underestimate the Hollywood musical. Just consider the turbulence of the 1960s – the civil rights movement, the pill, war protests, women’s liberation. Sure,...
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Usually in black and white, photographer J. John Priola presents a vista, a wall, a window, an object, or a space that evokes something much bigger than that vista, wall,...
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A.C.T. has staged A Christmas Carol for 35 years, but in today’s political and economic climate, Carey Perloff and Paul Walsh’s adaptation of the Dickens novella...
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Ideally, art exhibits offer an "ah-ha" moment, when you stand transfixed and realize, "This speaks to me like nothing before." This exhibit contains pieces that scream "ah-ha"...
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Imagine if the San Francisco Giants won three more championships by the end of the decade. We'd have one of the greatest sports dynasties, rivaling New York and … other...
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I hate how girls are supposed to be these, like, flavorless non-people, these meek little things, just so we can be some dude's cumbucket and squirt out his awful...
