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Ever since Mars Attacks!, Tim Burton has mostly been in the adaptation business, rendering dark and becurlicued Sleepy Hollows, Alice in Wonderlands, and Charlie and the...
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San Francisco has its fair share of sky lounges, those hotel bars that offer a panoramic view of the city. I'm not sure why the View is my favorite one, but there's something...
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Yeah, all right already, we get it about suburbia — it's a topography of middle-age despair hidden under a sunny beige façade. Also: Suburbia's dark underbelly...
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The one surefire punchline in Taken 2 is unintended, a bitter laugh. Ex-CIA operative Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), delivering his trademark crisis-control cell phone coaching to...
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A bigger government is a hard sell in these times. Or so you'd think listening to national political discourse. But here in San Francisco, it's boom times: The city's budget...
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Precious director Lee Daniels' Southern Gothic noir presents itself with the doubtful come-hither hospitality of a gator-filled swamp. Moistly set in South Florida in the...
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Being socially ostracized truly sucks. A major upside? Outcasts often go on to write great songs about being outcasts. The title track of Saint Vitus' 1986 record, Born Too...
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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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Broad-stereotype comedy is slathered in shameless bathos in Butter, Jim Field Smith's tale of a heated Iowa butter-carving competition between former renowned champion Bob's...
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As Pitch Perfect opens, its lead group of lady nerds, the Bellas, botch their lackluster performance at an a capella championship with neurotic perfectionist Aubrey's (the...
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Post-rock isn't a genre where much changes — both within the style's fundamental sound and the post-rock scene at large — but Mono's music is as strong an argument...
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Franchised Gang
S.F. has fair share of other drug-connected gangs: Well, there are the Norteños and Sureños, both major franchises, so this article seems kind of...
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On Negotiations, the fifth album by Portland, Ore.-based The Helio Sequence, singer-guitarist Brandon Summers and drummer-keyboardist Benjamin Weikel return as a lean,...
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8: The Play: Chronicles the historic trial of the constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8. Sun., Oct. 7, 7 p.m. $50-$100. American Conservatory Theater...
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Masterfully arranging samples that brought explosive, oblique jazz rolls to drum 'n' bass, Amon Tobin made his name pushing the boundaries of subwoofer punishment. Over the...
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In the faux-found-footage horror anthology V/H/S (containing material directed by Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard, Ti West, and others), a crew of droogs given to videotaping its...
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Artists' Television Access. The Invisible Present: Video art from Iran. Fri., Oct. 5, 8 p.m. $6. 992 Valencia (at 21st St.), 824-3890, atasite.org.
The Castro Theatre. 17th...
