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You believe pro baseball has lost its soul. The national pastime is past its time, you tell your friends, reciting the charges as a prosecutor would list counts of an...
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Raise a glass to MC Naeem Juwan Hanks. "I had a shot [recently] in Baltimore called 'the bird,' and I think it's the best comparison to the Spank Rock collaboration," says the...
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The continuing wave of Chinese immigrants coming to the Bay Area has sparked a similar swell in the variety of Chinese restaurants. Where a generation ago we had mostly...
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It's clear by now that British director James Marsh regards America as a vaguely amusing madhouse — a reliably primitive, thoroughly benighted backwater infested with...
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Mark Twain is often quoted as having said, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." Although the author probably never uttered these words, the...
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Face paint? Check. NoDoz? Check. Deep wellsprings of violent nationalistic pride?
No doubt, mate.
Yes, it's time for the World Cup, that quadrennial spectacle that consumes...
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First, a pop quiz.
(A) Could it possibly be true that Dudley Perkins Harley-Davidson, a San Francisco institution since 1913 and the world's second oldest family-owned Harley...
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In the past few years, the U.S. has produced some fantastically cracked underground folkies deeply inspired by such tripped-out Brits from the '60s as Incredible String Band,...
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Apollo Deli & Market: 501 Fell (at Laguna), 255-6870. Hayes Valley. Soup and sandwiches, Mediterranean food.
Beard...
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Cars, the latest vehicle to roll off a Pixar assembly line that has thus far yielded nothing but spit-shined classics, answers that age-old question: What would Doc Hollywood...
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Here's a challenging American opera that embodies the mercurial spirit of a challenging American. Life and Times offers a moving depiction of one man's journey from the...
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By Jordan Harper, Jim Ridley and Robert Wilonsky Published:
June 7, 2006
The John Wayne/John Ford Film Collection (Warner Bros.)
Featuring the most epic pairing of director and actor in Hollywood history, this 10-disc box spews machismo all...
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Over the past six months, the University of California system has been rocked by a salary and compensation scandal that has provoked audits, the outrage of lawmakers, and...
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The two years since the Walkmen released their critically hailed second album, Bows + Arrows? Pure joy. The New York City band enjoyed every bit of a lengthy world tour, and...
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Like the Grand Ole Opry plopped into a fragrant barn at the county fair, Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion befits its roots in frosty Minnesota soil through its...
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Obviously, all the outraged folks screaming sacrilege over The Da Vinci Code haven't seen Terrence McNally's play Corpus Christi. When it was produced on Broadway in 1998,...
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Black Hawk Down: Extended Cut (Sony)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: The Ultimate Collector's Edition (Fox)
Charmed: The Complete Fifth Season (Paramount)
Dumbo: Big...
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Justice "The Monster" Smith is on his back, his hands protecting his face. Meanwhile, "Big" Shane Carwin is whaling on the 290-pound man, squatting on his chest, landing one...
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Since the mid '90s, Providence, Rhode Island, has produced a long list of mind-blowing underground bands including Lightning Bolt, Forcefield, Arab on Radar, and Olneyville...
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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...
