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Rules and Regulations
For this, the electrifying 13th installment of San Francisco's Noise Pop music festival, we bring you the second annual NOISE POP THE...
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I can't say I missed having a convenient Trader Vic's when I moved to San Francisco, even though, if you poked around in the back of my china closet, you'd find a few ceramic...
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Give Dan Harris, the writer/ director of Imaginary Heroes, plenty of credit for boldness and ambition. Not many kids fresh out of Columbia University would have the...
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I'm sure I'm not the only woman who prefers the cuter guys, more realistic sex, and lack of horrifying breast implants in gay male porn. So expect some ladies in the audience...
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Reviewers of plays adapted from other art forms invariably devote an alarming number of column inches to worrying about the extent to which the production in question is...
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In the usually spite-soaked rag that is local San Francisco politics, it was refreshing to run across Supervisor Jake McGoldrick last week sharing warm, friendly banter with...
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Five steps toward becoming Tori Amos:
Step 1: Be the kid of a preacher man and drop out of music school.
Step 2: Release two elegantly, ridiculously intimate solo albums,...
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For a long time, my sister-in-law, Liz, has espoused the theory that if you put two or even three foods together that you love, you will create something that tastes two or...
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You've got to have balls to use a pickup line like "You'll see me tonight in your dreams" and get away with it. But in Days of Being Wild, York, affectionately known as Yuddy...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
At this point, it's a given: The infamous WMDs the Bush administration used as a premise for the invasion of Iraq never existed. But at the time,...
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Wandering into a bookstore isn't always a pleasant experience. Take a recent jaunt to the newish Borders close to my work. (I'll still choose an independent whenever possible,...
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Marking the first time a major pro sports league in North America lost an entire season to a labor dispute, the National Hockey League last week called off its schedule of...
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I came dangerously close to insanity last year when I heard that Spoon's new record wouldn't be out until 2005. I was nearing straitjacket territory when a friend slid...
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First, the good news. Uncharacteristically for a February release targeting African-American viewers, Diary of a Mad Black Woman is not a yuppie romantic comedy featuring...
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Veronica Klaus is nothing short of a Bay Area performance icon. For decades the transgendered chanteuse has injected San Francisco with much-needed high style and some of the...
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By SARK
Fireside (2005), $23
Farwell, Mich., my hometown, has 855 residents, eight churches, three bars, and one blinking yellow light suspended above Business U.S. 10 to...
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Dog Bites is far too young to have gotten wasted or shot guns with Hunter Thompson, so we asked friends to remember him. Because today, during a moment of unreasonable...
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Kings of Leon are the sons of a Southern evangelist, and they play music coated in the dirt of a backwoods beer bash and descended from Creedence and Blind Lemon Jefferson....
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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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ONGOING 2/23-4/16
The Bay Area poetry scene seems to be getting some national attention, what with the preponderance of award-winning slam/spoken-word performers, and...
