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This week's Matt Smith is a comic.
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This week's Feature is a comic.
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The real Chrome Dreams is a legend in Neil Young mythology. He'd intended it as an album of original works, but scrapped the project in the late '70s, choosing instead to...
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Ghostface Killah is a brilliant storyteller and lyricist, and is the only Wu-Tang Clan member still making relevant solo albums. He's a prolific and increasingly media-savvy...
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Even while fighting a driving rain with an inadequate cheap umbrella, walking up from the Financial District into the heart of North Beach is pretty damn delightful. Along the...
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American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal as its title, Ridley Scott's would-be epic...
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Pulitzer Prize–winning author Michael Chabon is the keynote speaker at the S.F. Jewish BookFest. The author, who won the big one for The Adventures of...
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Most dancers glide, but others fly. At least that's how it is with the sky-borne performers who comprise SkyDancers: Women Who Fly Through the Air, a festival of aerial dance...
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After prompting people to rid themselves of their old clothes, SwapSF turned its gaze on something else cluttering our lives: old books. Hence, the SwapSF Book Swap, which...
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There's a moment in the 2002 film Adaptation during which someone asks why one of the characters doesn't get his missing front teeth replaced. "It strikes me as almost...
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As we learned from a certain episode of Maude, nobody comes to a fundraising party for a black militant if you inform them beforehand of your intention to shake them down for...
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When we last saw Herschell Gordon Lewis, he was fielding questions and accepting kudos after a typically irreverent presentation at the Direct Marketing Association's annual...
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The veil between the living and the dead grows thinner at the beginning of November, according to ancient Mexican tradition and the ancient traditions of about ten other major...
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Each fall, everybody in San Francisco gets together to read the same book, much in the way that everybody in France eats baguettes and everybody in Rio wears a thong. Meaning:...
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In the first five minutes of his movie Four Sheets to the Wind, director Sterlin Harjo finds an image David Lynch wishes he'd made: A man puts his dead father in a lake,...
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If you're normal, you sit around wondering where all the cool people are tonight. Where are the creative, confident, bizarre people who very likely might be famous someday?...
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When the Oscar nominations were announced last January, the trend-obsessed American press heralded directors Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), Alejandro González...
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One year ago, the Park Life Store opened its doors with excellent patron-bait: an art show by Andrew Schoultz, featuring his snorting warhorses and bird storms, and containers...
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You know that theme music for Grey's Anatomy, that twinky-winky electronic pop with the coy girl vocals? Well, imagine a bunch of Brits off in a forest trying to re-create...
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Trained as a socialist realist painter during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (that's Mao Tse-tung's epic freakout in the 1960s, for those of us born in the U.S. of...
