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Willie Ratcliff can rev up from mild-mannered to full-blown outrage in two minutes flat. Or less.
At the May 9th Board of Supervisors meeting, he took to the podium looking...
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Much as the continuing freak-folk explosion draws heavily on the patchouli-soaked sounds of the Summer of Love, a growing movement of retrofitted hard-rock and metal bands has...
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The island of Sardinia, a semi-autonomous region of Italy, boasts two distinct food and wine cultures. On the coast, dotted with small fishing villages, fresh seafood rules....
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The fact that 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl was such a hit had much to do with viewers' pre-launch expectations, which were approximately none....
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If you're the type of person who sees death at every turn, climbing through the window with a slingshot or crouching in an alley with a ball-peen hammer, you’ll feel...
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An effective way to gauge how far civilization has progressed in the last 200,000 years since the species Homo sapiens first roamed the planet is to consider the evolving...
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The Matador (Weinstein)
Richard Shepard's spec script, sent to Pierce Brosnan's production company out of desperation, wound up as 2005's best buddy pic -- damned if I can...
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Now that S.F. media impresario Al Gore has burned a tanker's load of jet fuel toting his PowerPoint presentation around the globe, and compelled a million or so moviegoers to...
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"You were right to give the record a shitty review," Magik Markers' Elisa Ambrogio says via cell. She's referring to my scathing write-up (appearing last summer in this very...
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Apollo Deli & Market: 501 Fell (at Laguna), 255-6870. Hayes Valley. Soup and sandwiches, Mediterranean food.
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Slipped into the summer movie season like acid in your happy meal, Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly is a blockbuster of counterprogramming. No matter that the dude from...
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Are Americans really just a bunch of gangsters and puritans? This uneven mobster musical definitely wants us to consider the possibility. Happy End follows the clichéd g...
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When Rockstar Games, the company behind the infamous Grand Theft Auto series, announced that it would be making a title for Xbox 360, gamers naturally envisioned a game...
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Changes are afoot at the Metreon, the much-maligned shopping center at Mission and Fourth streets opened by Sony in 1999. Envisioned as a groundbreaking combination of movies,...
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In 1982, Afrika Bambaataa uncannily summarized the next two decades of DJ/producer struggle with his track "Looking for the Perfect Beat." Whenever it seems we've finally...
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If Crash grew a pair of cojones, it might look something like Larry Clark's cheerfully defiant Wassup Rockers, in which a pack of Latino skaters from South Los Angeles spend...
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How We First Met. Past performances of How We First Met — in which the love life of a couple from the audience is used as a source for improvised songs and sketches...
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Charlie's Angels: The Complete Third Season (Sony)
Cyberteam in Akihabara: Complete Collection (ADV)
Eastern Horror Double Feature: Satan's Slave and Corpse Master...
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When the taxi heading south on Third Street slows down outside AT&T Park, the autograph hounds pick up the scent of potential prey. Some two dozen men, most in their teens and...
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Despite the "for promotional use only" stickers marking their packaging, there's a whole cottage industry of Web sites, retail outlets, and manufacturers supported by the cash...
