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1. Feature

   My Tunes: Intro

   Published: December 5, 2007

   The holidays are a time for family, schmaltzy Christmas commercials that somehow make you cry, and, if you are involved in music journalism, listmaking. Lots and lots of...

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   It's Always Tropical Romance In Here

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: December 5, 2007

   The warm, misty interior of the Victorian greenhouse beckons: "Color: A Winter Carnivale" is the Conservatory of Flowers' new special exhibit. It features a "living rainbow" of...

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   Harry Belafonte, Patriot

   By Silke Tudor

   Published: December 5, 2007

   From the outset of his recording career, Harry Belafonte took a stand. He refused to appear in the segregated South, vocally and financially supported Martin Luther King Jr.,...

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   Going Live

   By Silke Tudor

   Published: December 5, 2007

   Between the 1920s and 1940s, audio theater in every form enjoyed an ardent following, but imagination and inventive Foley artists were no competition for the flicker and flash...

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   Faux to Joy

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: December 5, 2007

   It looks hoaxy: The "Centennial Celebration of the Elationists" is presented as an exhibit of items from a lost San Francisco art movement. This is unlikely, but we don't care....

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   Song Sung New

   By Alejandro Perez

   Published: December 5, 2007

   As a poetic celebration of life and resistance, nueva canción's roots lie in Latin American protests and popular struggles from the 1960s to the present. It sprouted everywhere...

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   Manga Mania

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: December 5, 2007

   As a topic for obsessive study, manga can be as daunting as Hong Kong cinema, and ardent fans do not suffer fools. Thank God for Jason Thompson, a longtime manga editor who is...

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   Sick, Sick People

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: December 5, 2007

   Lemony Snicket and Lisa Brown would like to cause your offspring harm. Whether they're telling famous tales of woe concerning the Baudelaire children or producing...

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   Fun Naked People

   By Nirmala Nataraj

   Published: December 5, 2007

   Holiday parties are rather predictable -- a little mistletoe here, an indiscreet coworker there, and some strong libations to stave off the season's ennui. If you're itching to...

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    Ugly Business

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: December 5, 2007

    Wage has turned six. For those of you late to the non-X-rated adult-doll scene, Wage is the original Uglydoll, a wee monster created by David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim in 2001....

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    Resident Experts

    By Michael Fox

    Published: December 5, 2007

    In the post-Warhol world, artists are defined by their image and celebrity far more than by talent or originality. So how to relate to an iconoclastic San Francisco group such...

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    "I'm Still Kicking Ass"

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: December 5, 2007

    She's the only singer ever to be backed by all four Beatles. The Rolling Stones opened for her. Most of the Ramones and most of the Beach Boys were obsessed with her. Brian...

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    All Bucked Up

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: December 5, 2007

    Local getup Red Meat may be Bay Area born and bred, but its sound is pure Bakersfield. For those of you who don't own Wrangler jeans, the Bakersfield sound is the slick...

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    Bummer, Man

    By John Garmon

    Published: December 5, 2007

    As a member of the Skygreen Leopards, Glenn Donaldson released a dewy pop/soft-psych album called Disciples of California, which, true to its title, sounded like the work of...

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    Nuts to You

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: December 5, 2007

    There's no fantasy quite as befuddling and beloved as E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. Tchaikovsky's ballet version, far from a pretty platitude, never...

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    Rake It Up

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: December 5, 2007

    In November 1947, W. H. Auden flew to Hollywood to create a new opera, A Rake's Progress, with Igor Stravinsky. The basic outline for the work came into being through one...

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    Chaplin's Big Finish

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: December 5, 2007

    The ten-day series PFA at the Castro: Charles Chaplin ends today with an appropriately groundbreaking film: The Great Dictator, Chaplin's first talkie and his most...

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    What Are You, Chicken?

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: December 5, 2007

    If you're among the contingent of otherwise-venturesome art junkies in the area who keep telling themselves they really should see more modern dance, then Margaret Jenkins...

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    Who's Afraid of the Morality Police?

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: December 5, 2007

    Once upon the 1950s, the world was even more dangerous and complicated for gays than it is now. As a result, they had to make more and better jokes. A document of this...

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    Burt, Baby, Burt

    By Michael Fox

    Published: December 5, 2007

    The '70s were all about big hair. TV star Farrah Fawcett's golden shag shone from thousands of suburban bedroom walls, while movie star Burt Reynolds showed off his hirsute bod...