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Illustration by Yuko Shimizu
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There were glass shards in the street, murdered family members in the car, sirens in the distance growing louder. The...
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"That Nosferatu poster is literally one of a kind. Well, maybe." Kirk Hammett laughs, indicating the iconic, hook-nosed visage of F.W. Murnau's vampire hanging above his...
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With the Giants approaching the playoffs and the 49ers re-emerging, it's the season for chicken wings in S.F. The spicy appetizers are as ubiquitous on bar menus as cheap...
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When it comes to cost-cutting, downsizing, and philosophical and practical compromise, how low is it possible to go before there's nothing left to cut — and nowhere to...
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In a pair of acclaimed documentaries, local filmmaker Micha X. Peled tracked globalization’s footprints from a big-box store in Virginia (Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes...
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Returning from sold-out shows and rave reviews in New York, Smuin Ballet brings the inventive, much-lauded, and uncomfortably resonant Oh, Inverted World back home. In this...
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Slowly, the Central Market area grows more inviting. Stretching roughly from Mint Plaza on one end to United Nations Plaza on the other, the neighborhood has seen a healthy...
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We never watched the The Fifth Element, in theaters or anywhere else. But we noticed the posters, to be sure. Milla Jovovich wearing nothing but an arrangement of bandages...
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Now on tour at American Conservatory Theater, the Tony Award-winning revival of The Normal Heart features a mode of acting we don't see often in the Bay Area. Character after...
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It's a strange fact, but there is no significant Crips presence in the Bay Area. The Crips, after all, are one of the most widespread gangs in America, C-Walking through...
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Sizzle
• The newest music venue in the Mission is called Preservation Hall West at the Chapel — and when it's not the West Coast home of New Orleans' Preservation...
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When Blue Bottle's new book, Craft of Coffee, hits shelves Oct. 9, be prepared for an enlightening and in-depth education on growing, roasting, and drinking coffee. As you...
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Raconteuse, epigrammatist, and mythomaniac, peerless fashion editor Diana Vreeland (1903–89) might have loved words as much as she loved Balenciaga. As Harold Koda of...
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You might not have noticed, but the anniversary of the Constitution just passed. Lately I have become absorbed by the idea of "originalists," those conservatives who claim to...
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Casting a tapered, vase-slender silhouette and speaking in a Transylvanian accent with a touch of Borscht Belt, Hotel Transylvania's de-fanged Count Dracula is introduced in...
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Early on in Rian Johnson's time-travel thriller Looper, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) sits at a diner and chats with his self from 30 years in the future (Bruce Willis). When the...
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The Board of Supervisors' adoption last week of the long-planned CleanPowerSF program was a major milestone for those who've toiled to break San Francisco of its addiction to...
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As the saying goes, "Wrong music, wrong place, wrong night ... three wrongs make it right!" At least, that's the tagline Sweater Funk used to go by when it set up shop in the...
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A weekly listing of new dining spots around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats.
1058 Hoagie: 180 Seventh St. (at Mission), 552-8984, 1058hoagie.com. SOMA....
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As someone who was in college when Napster happened, I'd love to see a period piece re-creating teen life during the last moments before technology began to change media...
