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Mental Breakdown
The mayor's mind games: "Mental Cruelty" (June 13, by Peter Byrne) was a fine piece, exposing the mayor's success at withholding crucial services from our...
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The sun is setting on another unseasonably hot June day. On a quiet street in Potrero Hill, several Young Turks practice tricks on a makeshift skateboarding ramp. Nearby, a...
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I began losing faith in the decency of human beings about a third of the way through our first rotation at Equinox. In case you've never heard of it, Equinox is one of those...
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Like countless European-American filmmakers before him, African-American filmmaker John Singleton tends to operate under the faulty logic that vengeance equals heroism. Anyone...
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SFMOMA's digital art exhibition "010101" may offer an inkling of what high-profile artists will create given a wad of cash and the techie means, but New Langton Arts'...
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By his own definition, Bruce Campbell is a "midgrade, kind of hammy actor"--a B-movie star, in other words, a man whose career unfolds, like a Swedish porn loop, on Cinemax in...
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It was a moment of severe cognitive dissonance for Lisa Rosen. The Seal Beach probation officer sat in the basement meeting room of a state office building in Sacramento. The...
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Whatever happened to reverb that shoots through your veins and widens your pupils like a drug? Whatever happened to moody vocals and drooping bass lines that leave trails...
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One of the best things about living in a broad-minded Pacific Rim city is that you don't have to settle for the usual Cantonese suspects when you get a hankering for Asian...
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The German filmmaker Tom Tykwer has a gift for fusing psychological complexity and crackling plot without forsaking the excitements of either. The success of Run Lola Run...
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As William Shakespeare noted in As You Like It, "All the world's a stage," and no other time of year fulfills that statement as well as summer. Although productions of the...
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Most actors know an older member of the profession who can recall a great bygone era of the stage. He'll be stuffed with stories about Sandra Bernhardt, or Henry Irving, or...
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News stories in the San Francisco Bay Guardian regularly damn the "yuppie" owners of live-work buildings that have "invaded" the Mission District. Guardian editorials rebuke...
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Last year Betty Blowtorch earned $45,000 on tour -- not a bad take for a then-unsigned all-chick sleaze-rock band with songs like "Shut Up and Fuck." Of course, Betty...
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Dear Social Grace,
I was brought up with fairly good social skills, but this one is stumping me.
Some friends are throwing me a 40th birthday party next month. We have many...
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Gay and lesbian cinema is at a crossroads, hampered to some degree by its own success. A sizable urban queer audience now exists, ready to embrace feel-good date movies like...
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Jeannie (Bethanny Alexander), who's been trying for more than a year to have a baby, doesn't want to be a nail in her company's teamworking bridge. But when, at a company...
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At the close of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation's 41st annual Journalism Awards Program, as the chartered cruise ship made one more round of San Francisco Bay and yet...
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The granddaddy of all rock reissues, the Nuggets series dates back to 1972, when Patti Smith's future guitarist Lenny Kaye assembled a two-LP collection of his favorite...
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Anyone paying attention to trends in Bay Area theater knows of the proportional lack of plays by Asian-Americans and about the lack of multicultural casting in the larger...
