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1. Feature
Fall Gal
By Ron Russell Published: November 22, 2006In the autumn of 2000, the more than 600 people crammed into Chinatown's cavernous Meriwa Restaurant for a dinner hosted by the venerable San Francisco Neighbors Association...
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2. Music
California Psychedelia
By Mike Rowell Published: November 22, 2006The new CD from San Francisco's Andrew Douglas Rothbard, Abandoned Meander, is one of those captivating, outta-nowhere masterworks. Recorded over three years on Rothbard's...
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3. Eat
Instant Italian
By Robert Lauriston Published: November 22, 2006What accounts for a restaurant's success? The conventional wisdom is that location is paramount, but while Tadich Grill has had a line out the door since it moved to California...
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4. Film
Fountain of Shame
By J. Hoberman Published: November 22, 2006Solemn, flashy, and flabbergasting, The Fountain — adapted by Darren Aronofsky from his own graphic novel — should really be called The Shpritz. The premise is...
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5. Night&Day
Gomez Spreads Cheer
By Tamara Palmer Published: November 22, 2006Through stage shows with names like Marga Gomez's Intimate Details and Single Wet Female, it would be fair to say that Gomez -- groundbreaking in the ´80s as one of the firs...
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6. Night&Day
Super Size Art
By Michael Leaverton Published: November 22, 2006Typically, people who react to museum art with physical symptoms (temporary heart stoppages and ambulatory failure, or just a hand thrown to the forehead as if feeling faint)...
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7. Stage
Greed Is Great
By Chloe Veltman Published: November 22, 2006When writer and activist Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes first appeared in 1939, some critics warmed to the play's brittle social message about the destruction wreaked by...
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8. DVDish
Bad News With Al
By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky Published: November 22, 2006An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount) This isn't exactly the kind of DVD you buy to watch again and again; the ending doesn't get happier, and there are no twists to decipher...
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9. Matt Smith
Two Cents Too Much
By Matt Smith Published: November 22, 2006As starving artists' paintings are to Motel 6 rooms, "man-on-the-street" features are to newspapers — that is, their cliched way of punching up bleak tableaux. Yet I've...
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10. Music
Downtuned Apocalypse
By Dave Pehling Published: November 22, 2006"We're really good. People should just trust us," cracks Melvins guitarist/founder Buzz Osborne during a telephone interview with an audible smirk. "We know what we're doing."...
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11. Fresh Eats
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town
Published: November 22, 2006A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mailfresheats. The Alembic: 1725 Haight (between Cole and Shrader), 666-0822, www.alembicbar.com....
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12. Film
The Man Who Loved Women
By Rob Nelson Published: November 22, 2006Men are literally disposable in Pedro Almodovar's Volver. But the film, particularly for fans of the gynophilic, flamboyantly color-coordinating maker of loco melodramas, is...
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13. Stagecap
Big Pharma
Published: November 22, 2006Jennifer Berry takes exception to the fun and smiley television advertisements for antidepressants that feature women riding horses, running through grassy fields, and laughing...
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14. Game On
Encore Performance
By Chris Ward Published: November 22, 2006Guitar Hero gave party games a much-needed kick in the ass. No one expected this rhythm game -- sold with a miniature plastic guitar -- to play to sellout crowds. But it...
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15. The Apologist
Sports Flight
By Matt Palmquist Published: November 22, 2006The Bay Area sports landscape could look far different in just a few years. This month, both the 49ers and the A's announced major moves out of their historic city homes. Over...
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16. Music
Local Area Network
By Tamara Palmer Published: November 22, 2006True, MySpace may be a cesspool of Internet predators and bands that never should've grabbed a guitar pick or a drumstick without severe punishment from a firing squad. But,...
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17. Film
The Whole World in His Hands
By Jim Ridley Published: November 22, 2006For progressives lifted, however temporarily, by the swell of a turning tide, Bobby can be seen clearly for what it is — an Airport movie with the assassination of Robert...
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18. Stagecap
Reckless
Published: November 22, 2006It's Christmas Eve, and Rachel, a loving mother and wife, has just discovered that her husband has taken a contract out on her life. This realization causes her to step out the...
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19. What Else Is New?
Our top DVD picks for the week of November 21:
Published: November 22, 2006American Slapstick (Image) Alias: The Complete Fifth Season (Buena Vista) Boston Legal: Season Two (Fox) The Cry Baby Killer (Buena Vista) Devil Times Five (Code Red)...
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20. Sucka Free City
Game Play
By Karen Zuercher Published: November 22, 2006If you don't play a lot of videogames — that is, if you have a life — it's hard to understand why anyone would wait in line for days to buy a new console. And despite...
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Turning the Tables Police have made a number of arrests and seizures of DJ equipment at underground parties and clubs. Is it enforcement or harassment?
