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Design by Andrew J. NilsenShortly after 9 on a windy night in March 2010, 25-year-old Rick S. was desperate for a fix. The all-too-familiar symptoms of OxyContin withdrawal...
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It was around 10 o'clock on a Friday night in December when Ricky Reed walked into a meeting at the Sony Music building in Beverly Hills with no idea what to expect. Less than...
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Shortly after opening in 2008, Lers Ros became the rare Thai restaurant in San Francisco where you'll hear as much Thai as English, and where chef-owner Tom Silargorn doesn't...
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"You just have to get crazier" was advice mighty choreographer Pina Bausch once gave to one of her dancers, who fondly recalls the moment in Wim Wenders's soaring 3-D tribute...
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Ginger Murray, editrix of a magazine called Whore!, embodies a dangerous mix of literary, political, social, and sexual savvy, and she’s known for assembling lineups of...
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SFMOMA’s fifth-floor bridge stretches across space under the museum’s signature skylight. Last year even those of us with a gut-clenching fear of heights were...
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Unless you regularly grab life by the throat, you’ll probably never have the inclination or knife skills to butcher a whole animal. You’ll probably never even have...
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San Franciscans love to hate Muni. The bus smells like a bathroom. The train station smells like a methylated ashtray. The recent GPS-tracking upgrade has some passengers...
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"The people at the grey hotel / Are either aged or unwell." That's the uplifting first page of The Iron Tonic (Or, A Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley), one of the...
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Hardcore foodies know that it takes a lot of work keeping up on The Places to Be, The Dishes to Try, The Chefs to Follow, and The Next Big Cocktail. And now that the holidays...
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Our city is a political circus. Joshua Norton declared himself emperor of the United States during the Gold Rush. Punk rocker Jello Biafra and comedian Will Durst ran for...
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Natasha Leggero is a seasoned stand-up you may have caught on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno or in any number of character features on The Sarah Silverman Show and Reno 911....
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Simon Sheppard's reading series has been attacked on Fox News, and it's no wonder. First of all, he writes gay porn, and the very name of the long-running smut reading series...
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Between the ages of 12 and 30, much Jesus of Nazareth’s life is a mystery. According to some scholars and theologians, he used those years to log miles. He’s been...
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If you find American TV spots entertaining and clever, you should see the brief bits of brilliance concocted by the whiz kids on the other side of the Atlantic. The British...
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Throughout its first decade, Noir City mixed well-worn classics and long-forgotten obscurities with a bracing chaser of guest appearances by appreciative elder icons. Nothing...
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Any gay or bisexual man will tell you that finding a quick hookup with another man in San Francisco (or anywhere in the world, really) is so easy it runs right through comical...
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Produced by his youngest daughter, Gina, this profile of Harry Belafonte, foregrounding the 84-year-old actor and singer's political activism, is a moving if occasionally...
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Is there any comic more suited to an old-time radio play than John Hodgman, with his everyday suits, sometimes-mustache, and thin, delicate fingers? Of course not. He appears...
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An egalitarian study of crime and punishment in a small southern town, Into the Abyss is also an unmistakably Herzogian inquiry into the lawlessness of the human soul. That...
