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Radio City Music Hall hosted the nation's swankiest job fair in April. The annual two-day event, better known as the NFL draft, shaped the career fortunes of 255 well-fed...
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When I arrive to interview Black Fiction at leader Tim Cohen's Western Addition flat, three members of the band are marking Syd Barrett's recent demise in the best way...
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The appellation "small plates" can cover a multitude of things, ranging from cocktail nibbles such as olives and nuts through miniature sandwiches (themselves covering a...
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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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Poor Joan Crawford. Despite star roles in histrionic classics like Mildred Pierce and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, she was portrayed as a merciless, wire hanger-hating...
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Carole Shorenstein Hays remembers standing in line outside the Curran Theatre to catch A Chorus Line when it arrived in San Francisco in May 1976 from its triumphal Broadway...
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For most people, the words "role-playing game" conjure images of sweaty Dungeons & Dragons-obsessed weirdos, wearing cloaks and screaming "Lightning bolt!" at each other. ...
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Global Exchange is a San Francisco nonprofit known for pressing leftist causes by crashing sessions of Congress, stalking Hillary Clinton, agitating to be allowed onto...
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Listening to "Showtape '91," the nearly 12-minute compilation of self-deprecating concert intros that closes the bonus disc of demos, remixes, and outtakes that's part of the...
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Avenue G: 1000 Clement (at 11th Ave.), 221-7111, www.avenuegsf.com. Inner Richmond. International/San Francisco cuisine....
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One of the weakest and most ridiculous aspects of popular culture is its narcissistic now-ness. There's often no then or later, and without past experience or the messy...
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Instead of the lights going down in the Magic Theatre, they come up during the entirety of this one-man show, which blurs the lines between art imitating life, acting class,...
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Veronica Mars: The Complete Second Season (Warner Bros.)
Any concept along the lines of "high school hottie solves crimes" is bound to make for watchable TV, but who would...
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The traditional interpretation of government goes something like this: We citizens scurry along the busy paths of our lives, pursuing our best interests. Every few years we...
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Chinatown's Li Po Lounge — a former opium den sitting on Grant between Washington and Jackson — is one of the coolest fuckin' bars in San Francisco. Its exotic,...
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Even curriculum-clutchers might rather leave a child behind than let her learn from Half Nelson's Mr. Dunne (Ryan Gosling), a Brooklyn junior-high teacher whose off-the-cuff...
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A year and a half ago, former proud prostitute and porn star Annie Sprinkle teamed up with her partner, UC Santa Cruz professor Elizabeth Stephens, and committed to doing art...
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The Apartment (Lions Gate)
The Bill Cosby Show: Season One (Shout! Factory)
The Blue Light (Pathfinder)
Conviction: The Complete Series (Universal)
Dances With Wolves:...
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Anyone in San Francisco with a legitimate need for a truncheon, sickle, or short-range projectile weapon knows the correct place to go to find it, or at least where to ask...
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It isn't that remarkable to be a sample-happy producer.
But no producer is more creative at elevating the task of adding snippets to a higher art form than London's Matthew...
