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There was a time not very long ago when San Francisco Bay Guardian Publisher Bruce Brugmann thought he was winning the war of the San Francisco weeklies, and, back then, he was...
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Down in the ramshackle basement studio of Tim Brown's Rockridge residence, the leader of local band Lunchbox points to a fortune cookie motto taped to a reel-to-reel machine....
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For years I told people that God himself would have to serve the eviction notice to dislodge me from my rent-controlled apartment in the Mission. I still feel that way, but...
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Cell phones and silk saris, dot-coms and arranged marriages -- Monsoon Wedding, the latest film from Indian-born director Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala),...
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In her photographs and films, Jona Frank has spent much of the last decade reliving the adolescent years most of us would prefer to forget. For her latest portrait series, a...
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The title of Greg Sarris' new play is an epithet, something like "house Negro." Mission Indians traded their freedom in the California deserts, beaches, and forests to lead...
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In New York, 18 refrigerated trailers contain one of the more bizarre mathematical problems ever contrived. The human remains within the trailers -- some 14,000 bits of...
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In these anxious times of war and terror, our nation's ties to the world around us are testy at best -- particularly with our Islamic allies like Turkey. Sure, the Middle...
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Monkey Business When Harry heard that the new restaurant opening at 2223 Union was named Night Monkey, he envisioned the creepy winged critters from The Wizard of Oz. But chef...
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Land Without Bread He's a poet, a puppeteer, and a provocateur. Fernando Birri, a venerated Argentine documentary and experimental filmmaker, will be saluted next month with...
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In recent years, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival balanced domestic and international works, but this year's 20th anniversary program emphasizes its...
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The question of freedom is at the heart of much of August Wilson's work, and The Piano Lesson is no exception. The story finds an African-American family in 1930s Pittsburgh...
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On a truly spectacular February day in Gilroy, Calif. -- the sun gloriously unhindered by clouds, the temperature comfortably in the mid-70s -- the world's first tree-themed...
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These are tough times. Our economy is in the toilet, we're at war with a mercurial enemy, and Limp Bizkit can't find a replacement guitarist. With these weighty issues hanging...
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Dear Social Grace,
A good friend of my partner is on our guest list for the handful of large parties we give each year. These parties are elaborate to create, and as a hobbyist...
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Man has emerged from the shadows of antiquity with a Peregrine on his Wrist. Its dispassionate brown eyes, more than those of any other bird, have been witness to the struggle...
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Playing the race chord The list of famous Asian-American musicians is pretty short. There's Yoko Ono of course, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, tiny bubbler Don Ho, and a bunch of second...
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The Chess Man of Market Street
Every morning, sometime between 10 and 11, 77-year-old Floro Bagasala leaves his Tenderloin hotel and begins his slow, stately walk to Fifth and...
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Bill Hayes' beautifully crafted treatise Sleep Demons: An Insomniac's Memoir is not just the musings of a tired man. The book is an ode to somnus, a loving embrace and...
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Not That We're In It for the Recognition
Thanks for your letter. We were getting tired of congratulating ourselves.: Congratulations to you on winning your very special award...
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