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ONGOING 10/1-24
October in San Francisco, with its glorious skies and fleeting warmth, seems an odd time to spend weekends indoors, but that's exactly what thousands of...
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Too Dam Negative
A defense of Environmental Defense: I was pleased that Matt Smith is encouraging your readers to support restoration of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite...
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Panthers -- the George W. Smith School Panthers, to be precise -- were my grade school's official mascots, but I'm pretty sure that these Panthers are exactly the kind of...
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Imagine it's a weekday morning, and you're at a trade conference in Finland. You're sleepy, maybe a little jet-lagged, as you prepare for the next speaker. He's a...
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SAT 10/2
Not much grows in sand, vegetatively speaking. But once a year the beach near the Cliff House sprouts a surprising number of other things: Buddhas, pyramids, even...
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When Zolar X was on the '70s Los Angeles music scene, audiences weren't sure what to make of spacesuited guys with Spock-like helmet hair playing over-the-top...
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The Czech drama Zelary brings to mind Bertolt Brecht's pointed observation that "war is like love; it always finds a way." In this instance, war creates the atmosphere in...
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DAILY 9/29-10/5
Almost anyone with a functioning libido cherishes a toe-curling cinematic sex scene, but those willing to brave the sticky seats at adult theaters or the...
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Ever since Sam Phillips famously found his "billion dollar" dream of a white artist "who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel," the music industry has been chasing after the...
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Myth, legend, and certain Iranian films aside, women in the Arab world are not strictly confined to medieval existences; indeed, several of the features screening in the...
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FRI-SUN 10/1-3
Everything old is new again, there's nothing new under the sun, yadda yadda yadda. In the case of old-timey music, the explosion of DIY production has...
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If the California indie rock realm were a high school, you might say that Earlimart's main man, Aaron Espinoza, was being primped for the position of prom king. After...
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Commentary by Gregg Rickman (greggr1@mindspring.com). Times compiled from information available Tuesday; it's always advisable to call for confirmation. Price given is...
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I went on vacation three weeks ago. It was a spontaneous trip. My best friend, Kevin, was about to head off to England for a year, and so on a Friday morning I decided to hop...
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There are few things as hopeful and jaunty as a new club. The owners have decorated it just so, the staff has been carefully chosen based on friendliness and dependability,...
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Morrissey fans know that, aside from James Dean and Oscar Wilde, pioneering '70s glam rockers the New York Dolls remain one of the most vital influences on the moody...
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In the late '90s, Japan's DJ Krush caught the hipster zeitgeist with his crackling Japanese-garden trip hop. Spare breakbeats cradled lush atmospherics (1996's Meiso), A-list...
