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Seven seconds remain in the second quarter of a game against Portland when Golden State guard Derek Fisher clanks a three-pointer. A Trail Blazers forward snags the rebound...
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Honesty and rock 'n' roll have always enjoyed an uneasy truce. For every group that bleeds sincerity there's another that revels in absurdity. Elefant, fronted by the...
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Despite its promising provenance (based on the book by Anthony Bourdain, created by Darren "Sex and the City" Star, and starring a host of cute guys), Kitchen Confidential,...
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The brain is a beguiling thing. One evening, you're talking to a friend on the phone. Sometime later, you find yourself in a subway car, passing through an urban landscape....
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There are few things that Stephen King hates more than adverbs. In his part-memoir, part-manual On Writing (2000), the best-selling author expresses his deep misgivings about...
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Ask gamers of a certain age about Resident Evil, and a vivid memory springs to mind: They're inching down a long, quiet hallway. Suddenly, a zombie dog crashes through a...
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I was working on my laptop last week when it suddenly appeared: the dreaded spinning pinwheel of death. It's a multicolored rotating ball that signifies one's Apple computer...
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In the wake of Jamie Foxx's Billboard-chart-topping Unpredictable and Sex and the City hunk John Corbett's solo album, it's easy to forget where the actor-turned-singer...
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(415) Asian Restaurant & Lounge: 415 Presidio (at Sacramento), 409-0400. Pacific Heights. Pan-Asian, sushi.
Be My...
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Anyone who remembers the 1977 Wes Craven film The Hills Have Eyes, which was and remains a piece of Milwaukee-beer shit, remembers it because A) he had a memorable...
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Written in 2003, but taking place in post-Emancipation Pittsburgh in 1904, the ninth in August Wilson's 10-play cycle examines freedom in a patchwork of touching stories. The...
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The Tenants (Sony)
Fifteen seconds into the video for "Nuthin but a G Thang," it was obvious that Snoop Dog had charisma to spare. More than a decade later, with his...
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To hear AC Transit President Greg Harper tell it, Mayor Gavin Newsom and his underlings are cooking up a conspiracy to commit chicanery on the city's behalf.
"They look at...
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It doesn't take a club full of forest nymphs in potato sacks to understand that the earth-rocking neo-hippie has gained prominence in the modern music world. The loose rhythms...
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A star who turned into a black hole somewhere between the release of, oh, The Wedding Planner and Sahara (or How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Two for the Money -- really,...
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Have you ever been in your apartment and wondered about all the debauched couplings that must have transpired there before you moved in? Perhaps playwright Moira Buffini...
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The Best of the Best of The Electric Company (Shout Factory)
Breaking News (Palm)
Buster Keaton: 65th-Anniversary Collection (Sony)
The Californians (Hart Sharp)
Curse...
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In San Francisco's poorer neighborhoods, when most folks hear the word "developer," their ears perk up, and impromptu armies of residents form to fight against gentrification...
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Long before Ali G, there was Nardwuar the Human Serviette, a very peculiar Vancouver DJ and musician who peppered interview subjects with oddball questions in a squeaky,...
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It can't be easy making films about war. It's so inherently dramatic that, as a setting for art, it's overdetermined; it drips with meaning even before the first scenes are...
