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On May 15, 2003, in the early days of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, I took a trip to al-Mufwrakiyya, a village on the banks of the Tigris River two hours south of Baghdad. A...
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In its 25-year history, Bay Area- based musical collective Negativland has never shied from controversy. The band once perpetrated a successful media hoax when it sent out a...
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One of my favorite things about appetite is also one of the most mysterious: the yearning for something specific, the certainty that I want fresh grapefruit juice this...
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It's OK to be slightly afraid of Hungarian movies. Even critics don't necessarily relish the thought of them, or look upon Budapest as a hotbed of filmmaking. As a matter of...
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Local actor Dan Wolf got an important letter from his grandfather; unfortunately, it had been delayed a little. "I got the letter 15 years after he died," Wolf explained in a...
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Let's be honest: It's easy to dismiss some contemporary art as bullshit. But John Knuth's paintings are literally made of shit -- fly shit, that is. Knuth encloses ordinary...
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In San Francisco's perfect political storm, a wave of earthquake destruction careens through the Richmond, Sunset, and Excelsior districts, toppling flimsy, wood-framed...
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"Is this Pavement?" a friend asked as Love as Laughter's new CD played on my stereo. He's the third person to ask me that in the last 10 days, which tells you two things. 1)...
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Dear Social Grace,
I work in an office. Like most offices, mine has a bulletin board in a public area of the office where people put newspaper clippings, postcards from...
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Adam Sandler cast as a former pro quarterback -- that laughable setup is about the only funny thing about this pointless, witless remake of The Longest Yard, which wasn't...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005
We were big fans of Richie's artwork in The Royal Tenenbaums, but because Richie was fictional, we knew someone else had to be behind it. We were...
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"Marking Time." Ever wondered how many strokes it takes to make a painting? Ask Robert Sagerman. Applying dollops of paint with a palette knife, he keeps track of every color...
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The Epoxies sound like the high school band formed by a gaggle of rough-and-tumble misfits with hearts of gold in a John Hughes movie. Stop the Future, the Portland-based...
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Blanca Cafe: 1441 Grant (at Green), 291-9944, www.blancacafe.com. North Beach. Spanish wine bar and tapas.
Blupointe: 239 Kearny (between Bush and Sutter), 986-4450,...
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It's fair to say that Madagascar, directed by one man who made Antz and another who used to work on Ren & Stimpy, is virtually plot-free -- nothing more, really, than a scene...
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Author Marguerite Duras knew no boundaries when it came to genre. Born in 1914 in French Indochina's Gia Dinh, a suburb of Saigon, she later moved to her parents' native...
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Cars were going to kill culture. Television was going to kill movies. Elvis was going to kill music. And now [insert modern technology here -- video games, TiVo, blogs, you...
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It's opening day at Golden Gate Fields, and we're faced with our first gamble: Are we going to pay $7 for valet parking and be a big shot? Or are we going to get back on the...
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Aimee Mann structured her new album around a single, pulp fiction- like story starring a washed-up boxer and a girl from the fair. But where you'd expect a concept album to be...
