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The sun is disappearing behind the Golden Gate Bridge, the lights of San Francisco's skyline are shimmering in the early-evening twilight, and Chris Grasteit, who has come...
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Barry Burns, a keyboardist and guitarist for Scotland's Mogwai, is downright jubilant. "We've been in Rotterdam, so people have been bringing me joints all day," he announces...
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On the whole, though I find film festivals more festive when I'm attending them in a city not my own (where mundane matters like, oh, cleaning the house and dental...
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Trotted out like ol' Trigger whenever there's a movie with saddles and six-shooters, the term "revisionist Western" would surely be a cliché if there were enough...
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It's been more than a decade since the Bosnian War ended. But like all major human traumas, repercussions from the fighting among Bosnian Serbs, Croats, and Muslims —...
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Yet another Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has come and gone, and this one was the biggest yet.
Exhibitors know all too well that a strong showing at E3 -- an event...
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In a future San Francisco, workers disembark at Downtown factories at space-age, rooftop zeppelin moorings, then assemble high-tech clipper-ship masts.
Or there's the...
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Youngblood Brass Band rocks without guitars, backspins without turntables, and features a world-wise palette of adventurous rhythms (from Cajun zydeco to Cockney drum 'n'...
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Ararat Mediterranean Tapas: 4072...
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When kids of all ages discuss comic books and superheros, there is inevitably one question that comes up time and again: If that one guy and that other guy had a fight, who...
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Nuclear families occasionally explode, and this sparkling production of Paul Weitz's startling new play captures the moment of detonation in all its hilariously heartbreaking...
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By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky Published:
May 24, 2006
Boston Legal: Season One (Fox)
David E. Kelley's latest legal drama is nothing more than a TV show about TV shows; hence the casting of Captain Kirk and Murphy Brown, with...
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Last week, San Francisco officials welcomed a visit from members of the U.S. Olympic Committee, in town to explore the city's interest in a bid for the 2016 Summer Olympic...
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For sarcastic bastards who wallow in the Country Teasers' muddy outlook on life, there's much to marvel in humanity's ugly underbelly. The Teasers flick flippant lines,...
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Commentary by Gregg Rickman (greggr2006@yahoo.com). Times compiled from information available Tuesday; it's always advisable to call for confirmation. Price given is standard...
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Impact Theatre does not suffer from a lack of diversity in its audience. On the night I attended this production, my row was populated by two white women in their late 60s, a...
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Africa Screams (Image)
April's Shower (Liberation)
Back Door to Hell (Fox)
Bloodrayne (Uwe Boll Productions)
The Closer: The Complete First Season (Warner Bros.)...
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Mares eat oats, and does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy. A goat will eat most anything, but not California broom grass, a tough, woody plant that grows in scruffy clumps...
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When Chicago-based performance group the Ritualistic School of Errors made its West Coast debut at Edinburgh Castle recently, it was quite the spectacle. Fronted by artist...
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The moldering schoolhouse tradition of spelling bees has inspired a cultural deluge of late, from Myla Goldberg's 2001 novel Bee...
