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Anne Niven recognized the pattern. She'd been in the magazine business too long not to see it. The unanswered phone calls and e-mails. The frequent staff turnover. The promised...
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The rooftop terrace of the upscale Mission District eatery Medjool, with its urbanized Middle Eastern atmosphere and sweeping views, makes an appropriate setting for a chat...
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In rapidly gentrifying cities, where a search for affordable housing turns every neighborhood, no matter how sketchy, grubby, or charmless, into a possible one, it's the...
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There is no movie more overrated in recent history than Napoleon Dynamite; it's to cinema what the Doors are to rock 'n' roll, a thing blindly and inexplicably championed as...
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It doesn't happen every third Tuesday anymore, but Sketch Tuesdays is on for this Tuesday. All fans of Southern Exposure Gallery's famously superfun Monster Drawing Rally will...
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Suzan-Lori Parks' cataclysmic The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World is — to the detriment of the whole entire world — a play often discussed but...
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Gamers are so used to Mario that the fundamental weirdness of his exploits no longer raises an eyebrow: A dumpy Italian plumber journeys through a fairy-tale land, where...
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Heads had rolled by the time Bruce Macgowan showed up for work at KNBR's studios one morning in early May. The station's new owners, two days before assuming full control of...
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Nobody wants to be the fifth wheel, but as the fifth Beatle, Billy Preston was the musical lube that kept the high-strung Let It Be sessions from slipping off the rails. When...
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Originally, Ward Serrill set out to make a documentary — and a short one at that — about Bill Resler, an avuncular tax professor at the University of Washington who...
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Some theater types want to be Hamlet; others want to be Liza Minnelli. The smiling, hardworking performers in this new musical revue definitely fall into the latter category....
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By Jordan Harper, Jim Ridley and Robert Wilonsky Published:
June 14, 2006
Valley of the Dolls
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Fox)
Behold The Godfather and Godfather Part II of drag-queen cinema -- two movies that provide the gateway to a...
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Here's news to warm the hearts of wonky environmentalists: Tidal power in San Francisco has been declared officially feasible. And not only feasible, but also a damn good fit...
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"I always thought I was making dance music, I just didn't fuckin' know that people couldn't dance to it," laughs Miguel Depedro, aka Kid606, over the phone from a hotel room in...
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Given that John Singleton directed the second movie in the Fast and the Furious franchise, it makes a perverse kind of sense that Justin Lin would follow. Just as Singleton did...
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Solo performances often teeter on the uncomfortable edge between tiresome personal confessional and manic multiple personality disorder, but Leslie Jordan transcends the genre...
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All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise (HBO)
Aquamarine (Fox)
Beavis and Butt-head: The Mike Judge Collection, Volume 2 (Paramount)
Before the Fall (Picture This)
The Betty...
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Have you ever been so embarrassed for somebody that you felt it in your gut? I felt that way last Wednesday night as I watched our high-profile District Attorney, Kamala...
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Beyond grunge's punk bulldozers existed '90s alt-rock giants Afghan Whigs and the Screaming Trees; they were simpatico with the bombastic angst of the Northwest superstars, but...
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