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Feature
Bones of Discontent - Andrew Galvan carves a unique, controversial role in relocating Native American skeletons
By Ron Russell
Published: November 21, 2007
In the shadow of San Francisco's oldest building, surrounded by 200-year-old tombstones on the grounds of Mission Dolores, where he is the curator, Andrew Galvan elicits rapt...
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Reviewed
Alicia Keys
As I Am (J Records)
By Rossiter Drake
Published: November 21, 2007
Alicia Keys can be forgiven if she is no longer content to serve as leader of the neo-soul pack. Not that she's abandoned the plaintive songs of star-crossed romance and the...
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Music
Einstürzende Neubauten: The Industrial Revolution Has New S.F. Headquarters
By Mike Rowell
Published: November 21, 2007
On a darkened soundstage South of Market, Einstürzende Neubauten lead singer Blixa Bargeld is ready for his close-up. Well, almost. First, the lighting crew needs to get...
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Eat
Robert Lauriston Gets Yunnan Chinese Fix at Z & Y Garden
By Robert Lauriston
Published: November 21, 2007
Z & Y Garden bills itself as the only restaurant in the Bay Area serving the cuisine of Yunnan, an inland Chinese province that borders Laos, Myanmar, Tibet, and Vietnam....
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Film
Like a Complete Unknown
By J. Hoberman
Published: November 21, 2007
I'm Not There and the changing face of Bob Dylan on film. I'm Not There is the movie of the year — but to whom does Todd Haynes's Bob Dylan biopic actually belong, and...
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Books
Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson Proves Good Bathroom Reading
By Christopher Jensen
Published: November 21, 2007
Hunter S. Thompson's suicide probably shocked no one. He certainly didn't hide his intentions. A few days before he died on February 20, 2005, he sent a note to his second...
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Sucka Free City
Oil Spill Alert -- Bay Ships Getting Bigger, Ports To Get Busier
By John Geluardi
Published: November 21, 2007
As the U.S. Coast Guard desperately tries to spin away its responsibility in a shipping accident that dumped 58,000 gallons of oil into the bay and could cost taxpayers more...
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Reviewed
Jose Gonzalez
In Our Nature (Mute/Imperial Recordings)
By Jonah Flicker
Published: November 21, 2007
It was only a matter of time before a Jose Gonzalez song appeared during the sappy monologue that closes every episode of Scrubs. His sensitive acoustic songcraft, built around...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: November 21, 2007
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. 1300 on Fillmore: 1300 Fillmore (at Eddy), 771-7100, www.1300fillmore.com. Fillmore....
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Film
One of Us Must Know
The elusive Bob Dylan, masterfully considered, in I'm Not There
By Scott Foundas
Published: November 21, 2007
"Something about that movie, though, well I just can't get it out of my head/But I can't remember why I was in it or what part I was supposed to play" — Bob Dylan,...
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FilmCap
Romance & Cigarettes
By Michelle Orange
Published: November 21, 2007
John Turturro's third and loopiest film is prime film-studies fodder, perhaps best suited to the tail end of a musicals seminar, along with Dancer in the Dark and other...
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Stage
Sex Sells Itself at the Aurora Theater in Berkeley
By Chloe Veltman
Published: November 21, 2007
When she was released from jail for transgressing indecency laws with her 1926 play Sex, Mae West told reporters that her play about a street-smart prostitute's adventures in...
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Sucka Free City
Ticketmaster Chases Roboscalpers to SF
By David Downs
Published: November 21, 2007
For years, Ticketmaster has known about a new breed of online ticket scalpers armed with automated ticket-buying programs. These programs let one person — or, as techies...
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Reviewed
The Devil Makes Three
The Devil Makes Three (Milan)
By J. Poet
Published: November 21, 2007
The Devil Makes Three doesn't have a drummer, but the band doesn't need one. Cooper McBean's percussive banjo accents and Lucia Turino's forceful slaps on her bass supply more...
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Music
Band of Horses Fend Off a Critical Backlash
By Ben Westhoff
Published: November 21, 2007
Few bands received more attention at this October's CMJ than Band of Horses. The increasingly-hippie-sounding indie band from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, by way of Seattle...
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Film
What a Toad
Fairy-tale land and the real world collide to no good end in Enchanted
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 21, 2007
Hard to believe that it's been 20 years since the release of The Princess Bride, if only because it hasn't aged a day — the mark of something truly, blessedly timeless....
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Bookcap
Magical Moments of Change: How Psychotherapy Turns Kids Around
By Frances Reade
Published: November 21, 2007
By Lenore Terr, M.D. W.W. Norton, $27.95 Magical Moments of Change is possibly the cheesiest title ever applied to a deeply fascinating book on the human psyche and the...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Life Imitates Apatow; Moped Bitches Lash Out
Published: November 21, 2007
Life Imitates Apatow Faux-slackers have all the fun: I find your article ["Slacker Guys and Striver Girls," Nov. 14] very difficult to believe. I feel you definitely have...
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Reviewed
The Shotgun Wedding Quintet
The Shotgun Wedding Quintet (Jazz Mafia)
By Toph One
Published: November 21, 2007
The Shotgun Wedding Quintet is an engaging jazz and hip-hop group in the same Bay Area tradition that birthed the likes of Alphabet Soup and the Broun Fellinis. On the band's...
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Let's Get Killed
The Fears of a Clown: MC Frontalot Gets Trapped in Unfunny Nerdspeak
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: November 21, 2007
With regular old bad songwriting, at least there's the occasional hooky melody or propulsive beat listeners can grab on to. With bad comedy bands, the demands are much higher....
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