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Relevant After 400 Years

Tracking Down Jewish Food in France

Joan Nathan and Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous Where: Omnivore Books on Food, 3885a Cesar Chavez (at Church), 282-4712 When: Wed., May 18, 6-7 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Sure, you had falafel in Paris junior year in college, at that little Jewish place in the Marais that seemed so utterly co ... More >>

Me and Orson Welles

Joan Nathan and Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous Where: Omnivore Books on Food, 3885a Cesar Chavez (at Church), 282-4712 When: Wed., May 18, 6-7 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Sure, you had falafel in Paris junior year in college, at that little Jewish place in the Marais that seemed so utterly co ... More >>

Richard Linklater's Orson Welles puts on quite a show

Joan Nathan and Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous Where: Omnivore Books on Food, 3885a Cesar Chavez (at Church), 282-4712 When: Wed., May 18, 6-7 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Sure, you had falafel in Paris junior year in college, at that little Jewish place in the Marais that seemed so utterly co ... More >>

Sf Gov InAction: Special Faux-Guest Edition!

Do you ever get tired of doing the same thing every week? Me too. So this week I decided to imagine how SF Gov InAction would look if it were written by five of this city's most ... um ... noteworthy ... pundits. You say "parody," I say "homage." Either way: Enjoy. Monday, June 29 11 a.m. ... More >>

Blood, Sweat, and Tutus

Tear your knee, wrench your back, pirouette, and bow: dancing at the San Francisco Ballet.

Ill-Cuomo

Weezer's frontman is certifiably nuts. So why doesn't he write better songs?

Reps Etc.

Weezer's frontman is certifiably nuts. So why doesn't he write better songs?

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Hair Story

Combing the aisles at the World Beard and Moustache Championships

Like Mamma Used to Make

Viewing The Restaurant gets our critic hungry for old-fashioned red-sauce Italian

We Petty Men

Julius Caesar is best when we don't push the modern parallels

Julius Caesar

A stylish, suspenseful first act gives way to a stiff second act

Child's Play

Teenage actors stage a world premiere about an American girl mysteriously transported through time to become a gladiator

Hunting With Hawks

The trials and satisfaction of falconry in 21st-century America

Past Imperfect

Herb Caen-inspired nostalgia is no substitute for dealing practically with the dot-com boom

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Titanic & Julius Caesar

Most Bourgeois Radical Group

The Workers World Party

Water Sports

Metamorphoses

Night Crawler

Warrior Worship

Farewell to the Pathetic Aesthetic

On Knock Knock, Smog's Bill Callahan rejects lo-fi recording and finds a higher purpose

Off the Marc

A Family Affair

Retouching Evil

Using detailed instructions from Orson Welles, film editor and sound designer Walter Murch has remade "the best B-movie ever" -- Welles' Touch of Evil

Disco Duck

Using detailed instructions from Orson Welles, film editor and sound designer Walter Murch has remade "the best B-movie ever" -- Welles' Touch of Evil

Lighten Up

Julius Caesar overplays Shakespeare's cynical theme; Connecticut Yankee engages with sweet silliness