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    Wifely Duties

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Fundamentalist Christians, Nazis, Communists: So many groups would bump off gay transvestite furniture collectors if they had their way. In a new production of I Am My Own...

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    Back to You, John

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: January 23, 2008

    As both a staff writer and the Senior British Correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, John Oliver exists in an ethereal realm of striking and working at the same...

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    Hayes' Spade

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Take him anywhere, play him for anyone, and the response is always the same: People want more. They'll write down the name if they don't know it already: It's Sean Hayes, our...

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    Come Out of the Closet!

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Call us sick and twisted, but the Bay Area has an appreciation for the ridiculous musical humor of R. Kelly, the embattled R&B star who's expected to finally go to trial this...

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    Capacitor Gets It Right

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: January 23, 2008

    While the world's many environmental crises provide a trusty source of emotional poignancy for the art and entertainment industry, it's generally inadvisable to look to screen...

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    What Is This, Paris?

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: January 23, 2008

    A crowd spills onto the sidewalk. People sway, drink, and close their eyes in rapt appreciation as young musicians work up a smirking sweat. It's a familiar enough scene, but...

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    Imagination Is Funny

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Paint the Golden Gate Bridge gold and tilt Coit Tower: Those were some of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poetic plans to make San Francisco better as he accepted the title of...

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    Imagination Is Funny

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Paint the Golden Gate Bridge gold and tilt Coit Tower: Those were some of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poetic plans to make San Francisco better as he accepted the title of...

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    Just Add Water

    By Michael Fox

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Yes, fellow Earth dwellers, the latest signs of global warming are disturbing. Yes, American diners, the "Do Not Eat" list of fish and seafood species is distressingly long....

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    The Rockette

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: January 23, 2008

    In a document salvaged from the St. Catherine's Home for Wayward Girls, which once stood at 21st St. and Potrero, a list shows the status of each inmate. In entries from 1865,...

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    Blues States

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: January 23, 2008

    The operative word here is "verbatim": The Word for Word theater company performs short stories that way. In this case, the company takes on every single letter of Sonny's...

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    Avant-Vietnam

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: January 23, 2008

    When it comes to keeping a finger on the pulse of global developments in the performing arts, we've got to hand it to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The curators have taken...

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    Rat You Out

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Two words that work really nicely together: lucky money. At the Vietnamese New Year's Tet Festival, celebrating the Lunar New Year means plenty of it, handed around in magical...

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    Bowled Over

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Featuring more than 80 dealers from around the world, the San Francisco Arts of Pacific Asia Show is part solemn museum experience and part collectors' free-for-all. Unlike at...

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    Best Buy

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: January 23, 2008

    When you buy a plant at the S.F. Botanical Garden, you get something extra: status. Buying one at the garden's Lunar New Year Flower Market offers something even greater:...

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    Using Your Illusion

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: January 23, 2008

    In Illusion 2, Takami and the MoBu Dance Group create a hazy, limpid world of beauty using sculpture, sound, and movement. They also include a curve ball: audience...

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    Bay Area Bombshells

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Despite the rising interest in fetish communities and marginalized forms of sexuality, it's still pretty rare to come across images of women that stray from perky, perfectly...

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    Goooaaalll!

    By Michael Fox

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Soccer — or football, as it's called by the vast majority of its hundreds of millions of fans worldwide — is heralded as the ultimate team sport. Every lineup, from...

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    Ridin' Organic

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Although the Rural Route Film Festival was born in New York, its organizers weren't — they're all transplants from small towns across our fertile plains. As a result, the...

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    Cracking Some Eggheads

    By John Graham

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Whenever the 23five Inc. music organization hosts its annual Activating the Medium festival — an ongoing series of avant-garde electronic and minimalist noise performances...