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France

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2011

    Deconstructing Adele's Sanity-Preserving Video for "Someone Like You"

    It's humiliating to be imparted a thuddingly obvious life lesson by an individual 14 years your junior. They've circumvented the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. In the new video for her massive hit "Someone Like You" (at 7.9 million YouTube views and counting), English soul singer Adele t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 6, 2011

    Beauty Turned Inside Out

    It's humiliating to be imparted a thuddingly obvious life lesson by an individual 14 years your junior. They've circumvented the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. In the new video for her massive hit "Someone Like You" (at 7.9 million YouTube views and counting), English soul singer Adele t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    France's Revolver on Learning English From the Beatles, and Why It's Tough to Cover Elliott Smith

    Revolver ​Maybe America isn't ready for Revolver. Or maybe Revolver isn't ready for America -- after all, its Myspace page is still partially in French. This Paris trio sounds like what would happen if Franz Ferdinand was on Saddle Creek Records, replacing bass guitar with cello to create a d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Tonight: Paris on the Tongue

    Gil Riego Jr./SFoodie​Elizabeth Bard and Lunch in Paris: A Love Story Where: Omnivore Books, 3885a Cesar Chavez (at Church), 282-4712 When: 6-7 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: SFoodie overheard some flashy types at Sunday's Stag Dining event, boo-hooing about not getting to visit France this ... More >>

  • Music

    December 15, 2010

    Tricky the Wanderer

    Tricky won't stay put — musically or physically

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Paris Surf Minstrels La Femme Talk Censored Cover Art and American Adventures

    ​Contrary to what you might quite reasonably expect, Parisian post-surf-rock outfit La Femme is, well, not very feminine at all. Besides a variable cast of sultry chanteuses, the group comprises three to four vaguely shadowy young Frenchmen who, to hear them tell it, spend most of their time in a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    San Francycle: How SF's Impending Bikeshare Will Work

    ​Bikesharing: crazy, right? The expense, the hills, the repairs, the theft -- it seems like it would never, in a million years, work. Except it does, in plenty of cities from Montreal to Budapest to Washington, D.C. And it's getting a little embarrassing that San Francisco isn't one of them. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Casual Fan's World Cup: Les Incompétents

    paris-match.comEn le crappeur​Editor's note: From time to time, The Snitch, being at best a casual fan of World Cup soccer, will provide glimpses into the experience of same.  Your good old nameless Americans suffered quite the historic setback on Friday, but at least they're not French: as t ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 16, 2010

    Forever de Young: Masterworks from the d'Orsay still evoke strong emotions

    paris-match.comEn le crappeur​Editor's note: From time to time, The Snitch, being at best a casual fan of World Cup soccer, will provide glimpses into the experience of same.  Your good old nameless Americans suffered quite the historic setback on Friday, but at least they're not French: as t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Local Frequency: Bay Area Artist Q&A w/ General Elektriks

    ​Hervé "RV" Salters is best known locally as the keyboardist from Honeycut and a frequent collaborator with fellow Quannum Projects mates Blackalicious. A few years ago, while on downtime from Honeycut, Salters decided to record his first solo effort, Cliquety Kliqk, under the moniker General El ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 18, 2009

    Room for Dessert

    ​Hervé "RV" Salters is best known locally as the keyboardist from Honeycut and a frequent collaborator with fellow Quannum Projects mates Blackalicious. A few years ago, while on downtime from Honeycut, Salters decided to record his first solo effort, Cliquety Kliqk, under the moniker General El ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2009

    Oblivion

    ​Hervé "RV" Salters is best known locally as the keyboardist from Honeycut and a frequent collaborator with fellow Quannum Projects mates Blackalicious. A few years ago, while on downtime from Honeycut, Salters decided to record his first solo effort, Cliquety Kliqk, under the moniker General El ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    Drink the Way the Good Lord Intended: Wine Week Celebrates All-Natural Vino

    R. LauristonTerroir: Talking up the benefits of natural.​If you're a bit fuzzy on the term "natural wine," you're not alone. Here's a brief explanation, just in time for the San Francisco Natural Wine Week (August 24-30). Natural wine is similar in principle to biodynamic and organic wines, p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    Bon 14 Juillet -- 'Official' Bastille Day Events Range From Predictable to Très Bizarre

    Two hundred and twenty years ago today a Parisian mob overwhelmed the 82 geriatric soldiers (and 32 able-bodied ones) guarding the seven prisoners housed in the Bastille. As stormings go, this wasn't exactly the most impregnable fortress -- but it did trigger the French Revolution. So, today, you ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2009

    Hervé Mons Camembert

    It's not quite as good as the real raw-milk thing, but I've had worse in France.

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2009

    Tasty Tomes: Writers' Favorite Recipes (from the National Book League of Great Britain)

    Thackeray (of whom I've read, well, not much, but I have seen movies based on Becky Sharp and The Luck of Barry Lyndon, and I have a subscription to Vanity Fair!) once said "Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them."To which I ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2008

    Mad As A Wet Haine

    Thackeray (of whom I've read, well, not much, but I have seen movies based on Becky Sharp and The Luck of Barry Lyndon, and I have a subscription to Vanity Fair!) once said "Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them."To which I ... More >>

  • Dining

    November 28, 2007

    Meredith Brody in the Palm of Palmetto on Union

    Thackeray (of whom I've read, well, not much, but I have seen movies based on Becky Sharp and The Luck of Barry Lyndon, and I have a subscription to Vanity Fair!) once said "Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them."To which I ... More >>

  • Film

    January 10, 2007

    Repertory Film Listings

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    January 3, 2007

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    August 2, 2006

    Repertory Film Listings

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  • Film

    June 21, 2006

    Repertory Film Listings

    Repertory Film Listings

  • Film

    August 3, 2005

    Reps Etc.

    Repertory Film Listings

  • Film

    July 27, 2005

    Reps Etc.

    Repertory Film Listings

  • Film

    June 22, 2005

    Reps Etc.

    Repertory Film Listings

  • Film

    June 15, 2005

    Reps Etc.

    Repertory Film Listings

  • Music

    June 15, 2005

    Blame Canada

    Thus arrives another musically savvy Canuck, Leslie Feist, with a sultry voice and a bottomless bag of tricks

  • Film

    April 27, 2005

    Reps Etc.

    Thus arrives another musically savvy Canuck, Leslie Feist, with a sultry voice and a bottomless bag of tricks

  • Film

    April 20, 2005

    Reps Etc.

    Thus arrives another musically savvy Canuck, Leslie Feist, with a sultry voice and a bottomless bag of tricks

  • Film

    September 29, 2004

    Reps Etc.

    Thus arrives another musically savvy Canuck, Leslie Feist, with a sultry voice and a bottomless bag of tricks

  • Film

    September 1, 2004

    Reps Etc.

    Thus arrives another musically savvy Canuck, Leslie Feist, with a sultry voice and a bottomless bag of tricks

  • Music

    July 23, 2003

    H_Foundation

    Environments

  • Film

    April 16, 2003

    Real to Reel

    Life abroad, through the lens of film

  • Film

    August 14, 2002

    Reps Etc.

    Life abroad, through the lens of film

  • Film

    June 5, 2002

    Reps Etc.

    Life abroad, through the lens of film

  • Film

    January 9, 2002

    Spy, But Why?

    Charlotte Gray went to war, and all she came back with was this lousy movie

  • Film

    July 18, 2001

    ZOOM LENS

    The Jewish Film Festival

  • Dining

    June 20, 2001

    Frjtz

    Remembrance of Fries Past

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Best Way to Pretend You're in a Foreign Disco While Staying at Home

    Medium Rare Records

  • News

    March 21, 2001

    The Best Ambassador Money Can Buy?

    Republican mega-donor Howard Leach is reportedly headed to France. At least we're not sending him to an important country.

  • Dining

    February 28, 2001

    Paris in the Springtime

    Grand Cafe

  • Dining

    May 17, 2000

    En Español

    B44

  • Dining

    January 12, 2000

    Around the World in 1,000 Years

    LuLu

  • Film

    April 21, 1999

    New France

    LuLu

  • Music

    March 31, 1999

    The House of Tudor

    LuLu

  • News

    May 28, 1997

    The Pain of It All

    Bay Area bread-makers challenge the French for world baking supremacy

  • Film

    April 30, 1997

    The S.F. International Film Fest, Week 2

    Bay Area bread-makers challenge the French for world baking supremacy

  • Dining

    December 20, 1995

    Globe-Trotter

    Carta proposes a different cuisine every month

  • Dining

    November 22, 1995

    Dish

    Carta proposes a different cuisine every month

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