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When the renovated de Young Museum reopened amid much fanfare over its architecture last October, a new gallery devoted entirely to its collection of spectacular wall murals...
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Mission District mainstay the Elbo Room features a highly eclectic selection of sounds, an ever-rotating amalgamation of salsa, metal, rockabilly, and funk. You never know...
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We might tend to think of fusion cuisine as a modern innovation, with French-tradition chefs using Asian ingredients and Asian-tradition chefs adopting French techniques. In...
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Granted, this may seem like a jarringly odd comparison, but like the recent dud Phat Girlz, Heading South deals with the hot-button issue of middle-aged women discovering...
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Janis Joplin's life has been a tug of war ever since it ended in 1970. The singer's fans have many opinions about who she "really" was. A new musical, Love, Janis, is based on...
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"While sitting upon the ruins of your remains, I pondered the course of history." Carrie Mae Weems' prophetic text about New Orleans was written in 2003 for "The Louisiana...
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Arrested Development: Season Three (Fox)
The final collection of Arrested Development discs feels sadly incomplete: only 13 episodes this time, the result of Fox's inability...
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The Port of San Francisco is preparing for a city land fire sale.
Port officials are attempting to lay the groundwork for the sale of a half-dozen lots of post-industrial...
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The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa is an excellent book about art that's bubbled up from unusual wellsprings. New York Times critic Michael...
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"Brian Ulrich." Think back to the first time you tripped out on the surreal beauty of a supermarket — the geometric stacks of products and the ominous yet soothing march...
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Have you ever looked into onrushing traffic and imagined how much damage you would cause with a simple crank of the steering wheel?
If so, FlatOut 2 is the racing game for...
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Last week, Frank Quattrone, the infamous Silicon Valley investment banker whose rapid ascension and precipitous fall mirrored the boom-and-bust dot-com era, had...
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In the mid-'60s, the phrase "Berkeley guitar" was essentially synonymous with the late John Fahey — the iconic Takoma Records founder who devised the mystical "American...
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When Mary Austin's boyfriend proposed to her, he letterpress-printed his question on a papyrus card. She didn't answer him right away; in fact, her immediate response was,...
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Akeelah and the Bee (Lions Gate)
American Gun (IFC)
The Castle of Cagliostro (Manga)
Desperate Housewives: Season Two (Buena Vista)
Stephen King's Desperation (Lions...
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Though delightful to us terminally single folk, the depressing television dating-game genre has gotten unsightly over the years. From its halcyon days of The Dating Game (on...
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Unlike such come-lately scribes as Jewel and Billy Corgan, Jamaican-born, U.K.-based "dub poet" Linton Kwesi Johnson had released books of his work years before he recorded a...
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"I wanted to have one guy who was just a total bastard ... and the other guy is a nice wee mommy's boy," explains Irvine Welsh, sitting poolside at the Phoenix Hotel during a...
