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Design by Andrew J. Nilsen.
In October of last year, large trucks rumbled up to Pat Curcio's office and dumped several tons of dirt and manure on his doorstep. Not long...
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In the past decade or so, psychedelic rock has moved from enjoying cyclical periods of resurgence to a state of perpetual revival, particularly here in the genre's spiritual...
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At 331 Cortland, the small culinary market at the top of Bernal Heights, the five burgeoning businesses in the narrow space are all in it together. Salmon-and-cream-cheese...
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Joe Wright's dust-blowing new adaptation of Anna Karenina faces a towering mountain of precedent: not only the greatest novel by the man Nabokov called "the greatest Russian...
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If you’ve been in San Francisco for a long time, you’ve probably heard the phrase, “No one is from San Francisco.” This isn’t technically true,...
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At Midwood's I.S. 318, where up is down, and the geeks have inherited the earth, Katie Dellamaggiore follows several kids on the country's top-rated junior high chess team...
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Early in Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins with a sack of fat connecting chin to neck) walks the red carpet at the premiere of his 1959 chase film,...
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Have you ever been at a long and boring show and wished you could change it to fit your own preferences? That's exactly what happens at Family Drama, a completely improvised...
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San Francisco has seen its fair share of impressive building projects lately, and our skyline is nowhere near done. SFMOMA's new wing will completely reshape the museum's...
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An ear here, a life there: Vincent van Gogh, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath each had their own way of dealing with mood disorders. In her new graphic novel, cartoonist and...
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Alfred Hitchcock’s great contribution to postmodern unease was thrusting murder into the center of everyday life. Killing was no longer the exotic province of cunning,...
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Contrary to popular belief, the holidays really do bring out the worst. Freezing temperatures force us into stores where we’re met with a reductive mix of awful holiday...
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Late 20th-century San Francisco history is usually represented in popular culture by such media-friendly events as the hippie movement in the 1960s and gay liberation in the...
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The conceit of toys with rich internal lives has entertained generations from Pinocchio to Toy Story but none as beautifully as The Velveteen Rabbit. Seemingly written for...
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Michael Xavier knows you’ve heard the story of the Salem Witch Trials before, and that you might even remember Abigail Williams, the young girl who first cried...
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Radical social and political upheaval in 18th century France came at a cost, and you know who suffered the most? Decorative arts enthusiasts. Aristocratic and religious...
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Early in the second act of Superior Donuts, produced by Custom Made Theatre Company, Arthur (Don Wood) explains how his immigrant heritage shaped his consciousness: "The root...
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Saul Bellow referred to his adopted hometown as "Chicago, that somber city" — and six days of the week it may well be. But on Sunday, denizens of the City of Big...
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Sizzle
• Former Girls singer Christopher Owens debuted his new solo album, Lysandre, at an intimate show in S.F. The album finds Owens more mature and subdued, his...
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Sometimes, it can feel like "street food" is synonymous with "what people are eating in Hanoi."
That's not always the case. Gerald Luna's b.street waffles use a Belgian...
