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Getting a face-to-face interview with DJ Shadow is, well, a somewhat shadowy pursuit. Weeks of tersely worded e-mail communiques with his New York City-based publicist finally...
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According to the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau, business and leisure travelers are responsible for bringing more than $6.3 billion into San Francisco each year....
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Sometimes a place opens and from day one it's a hit; it fits into the landscape as if it had always been there. Just such a success was and is the iconic San Francisco...
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Amorous teenage rebellion is one thing. A sociopathic murder spree is another. In Jimmy and Judy, a brash and lurid bender into an Appalachian heart of darkness, first-time...
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For seven years in the 1990s, the Solo Mio Festival presented work by the best theatrical performers from the Bay Area and beyond. The 1996 event, for instance, featured the...
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Ben Fountain, the fiction editor of Southwest Review, has produced a debut story collection that should give lit-rag hopefuls pause. With pieces about places like Haiti,...
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In German playwright Frank Wedekind's Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, sexy heroine Lulu floated through the Berlin high society of the late 1800s and early 1900s, inflaming the...
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The cable car turnaround at the corner of Powell and Market was the usual melee of tourists, panhandlers, commuters, shoppers, and boom-box body-poppers on the evening of Aug....
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What could be more fun than monkeys trapped in plastic hamster balls?
That's the strange philosophy of Super Monkey Ball, a puzzle series that debuted in 2001. Much as with...
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It's fair to say our mayor has taken up with sleazy types in the past. Secretive moneybags behind favored development deals, and behind campaign hit pieces, are a couple that...
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Much like Stonesthrow in Los Angeles, San Francisco's Quannum Projects is sailing into uncharted waters with its current releases. Both labels were once thought of as primarily...
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Aslam's Rasoi: 1037 Valencia (between 21st and 22nd sts.), 695-0599, www.aslamsrasoi.com. Mission. Indian and Pakistani....
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An act, more than anything, of due homage and genuflection to David Mamet the '70s-'80s theatrical provocateur (as opposed to Mamet the '90s-'00s screenplay doodler), the film...
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One might think the initial attraction to see 21/One is that it takes place on a moving bus, but once the guests climb aboard, it's all about the jello shots. I recommend...
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California Attorney General Bill Lockyer last week opened an investigation into Hewlett-Packard, charging that its inquiry into press leaks of confidential information violated...
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You're the type of person who gives someone a second chance (and a third, and a fourth). Many of you were probably traumatized by Axl's catastrophic (in his own words)...
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Directed by Brian De Palma from the novel by neo-noirist James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia is a true-crime policier unfolding in late-'40s Los Angeles somewhere between the...
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Writer and performer Jacqueline Barnes has a sly, engaging presence, so it's unfortunate that she's not able to do more with it in this unformed one-person show based on her...
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Last month my husband and I trekked from sunny Potrero Hill north to Solfest, not a medieval holiday but a conference organized by Real Goods in Hopland, to become informed...
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Xtina, Paris, Jessica, and Beyonce have all just released records. Are you up to speed on your pop pabulum?
1) A "Freakum Dress" is:
a) A song on Beyonce's new album
b)...
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