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"This is such bullshit."
Luke Brugnara, San Francisco's most bombastic and, perhaps, pugnacious commercial landlord, looks around the Department of Public Health's shoddily...
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Rock 'n' roll is an art form that is practically bred on larceny. Elvis Presley stole from country and R&B artists, the Beatles swiped from Little Richard and Carl Perkins,...
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When Elisabeth Daniel opened for business at the edge of the Financial District a little over a year ago, the times were still ripe for a sumptuous new San Francisco...
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Over the last half-century, countless filmmakers great and obscure have stood in serious debt to The Bicycle Thief. But, for my money, no one has borrowed so cleverly or...
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Minimalism is by definition abstract and geometric, a style stripped down to its basic elements. It's not surprising, then, that German-American artist Eva Hesse would have...
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Los Angeles has the L.A. Times Festival of Books, which attracted about 120,000 people last year. New York Is Book Country lures more than a quarter of a million. There are...
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The mayor of San Francisco:
"Willie Brown is the biggest white honkie in San Francisco."
Lawyers in the City Attorney's Office:
"Who the fuck goes to law school to become a...
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Where some see jazz as a bop style that must be preserved, Vijay Iyer sees the form as a tradition of African-American experimentalism, open to and reshaped by the world's...
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Perhaps you've gone drinking in the Marina District and decided that, for whatever reason (say, the tendency of certain bars to become anchovy-packed with obnoxious, oxford...
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In the Shadow of the Stars "We sat there, like all of our colleagues, hating to be in competition with each other and wanting a win," says Berkeley documentary filmmaker Gail...
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Democracy seems a tad elusive these days, what with our off-the-charts prison population, a government taken over by Cold Warriors, and "zero tolerance" of just about anything...
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Carter Scholz's brilliant and densely researched first novel is a dizzying glimpse into the world of nuclear weapons research. Set in a compound similar to Lawrence Livermore...
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Once upon a time -- a time that now seems long, long ago -- San Francisco was seduced by a legend. Dot-com yuppies were moving into the city by the thousands and driving up...
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Antye Greie-Fuchs has never taken the easy route -- for either herself or her listeners. As the singer for the sultry German band Laub, she's gladly handicapped the group's...
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Dear Social Grace,
I live in an urban, residential area with possibly the scarcest street parking in all of San Francisco. The other night, when searching for parking near my...
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Times compiled from information available Tuesday; it's always advisable to call for confirmation. Price given is standard adult admission; discounts often apply for students,...
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In this follow-up to her novel Sister of My Heart, Bay Area author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni revisits the rebellious Anju and her beautiful but "luckless" cousin, Sudha....
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When asked about the nature of his profession, Marty Tuzman likes to raise an eyebrow or a glass and bumptiously announce that if the eyes are the windows to the soul, windows...
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There are certain artists to whom you can't be indifferent: Either you love them or you hate them, but there's no in between. These acts make you feel so strongly that when...
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"You know what I don't like about you, Dalton Chance?" asks a Southern girl in a flour-sack dress. "You're a good boy. A very good boy."
"So what's that mean?"
"It means...
