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Russ Gardiner is a retired advertising executive who now serves as a volunteer extraordinaire with Sonoma State University -- an assistant golf coach at the moment -- and he...
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Following a decade of groundbreaking work, the Quannum Projects crew has reached iconic status in the world of underground hip hop. Maybe it's time the artists got their own...
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My tastes in food have always been adventurous. I'm interested in trying every ingredient that man has ever enjoyed eating, as well as every cuisine. This is such a given,...
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How does Mike Leigh do it? The years pass; film fashions come and go; Hollywood churns out its commercial pap. Careers sparkle; others fizz; whom the gods would destroy, they...
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Screenwriters supply dialogue. Directors control action. But it's a film's cinematographer who furnishes mood and nuance. Far more than just camera operators, these artists...
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William Golding's first novel, Lord of the Flies, tells the horrid little story of boys from an English boarding school whose plane crashes on a remote island without parents...
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I know you're all excited to dive right into this 15th annual SF Weekly Music Awards program guide, but indulge me for one second (I know what you're thinking: "Wouldn't be the...
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There are myriad reasons many San Francisco residents believe it's important that John Kerry beat George Bush.
Maria Elena Mestayer, 44, who lives in Park Merced, is a Bay...
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Midnight Movies isn't your stereotypical rock act. It doesn't bang out tortured, obsessive love songs about past paramours and current flames. And, although it's played a...
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The beauty of living in this global bouillabaisse is that on any given day you can sit down at the kitchen table with a world atlas, close your eyes, point to a random spot on...
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Testosterone contains what may be one of the greatest lines of movie dialogue recited this year, if not ever: "I'm a fag with a gun who needs a chain saw." How can you not want...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Longtime cartoonist/ first-time author Ted Rall thinks "pussy" is a really good way to describe President Bush. It's not a sexist term, according...
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Sure, it's Mel Brooks; sure, it started as a now-ancient film; and sure, taking it seriously just kills the fun. But The Producers feels old. You have the tasteless flaming...
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Blackalicious
Blackalicious may not have released an album since 2002's breakthrough Blazing Arrow, but this year the band members have continued to cement their reputation...
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For the past several weeks, more than 4,000 workers in the Unite Here Local 2 union have been on strike or locked out from 14 of San Francisco's swankiest hotels, including the...
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Whatever demons drove him, one thing's for sure: The late Elliott Smith had a gift for masterfully crafting intricately constructed, emotive pop-rock in the classic (1967-74)...
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Margo Channing cracked wiser. And her devious protégé cooked up better schemes to steal the limelight. Still, half a century after they lit up the screen, the...
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When we think of the weapons of war, it's usually guns and bombs and tanks that come to mind. But a major tool of destruction that's used globally is one that most people don't...
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"This part where I take the gun is, like, duh, important," Dedee Truitt informs the audience, near the start of The Opposite of Sex, a new musical based on Don Roos'...
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Americana
Hammerdown Turpentine
If it weren't for a beat-up old couch, the country/rock septet Hammerdown Turpentine might not exist. Back in 1995 in Charlottesville, Va.,...
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