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Puppets and Puppetry

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Watch E-40 as Puppet Pimp in Funny or Die's "Bitches" Video

    Just a week after Bay Area emcee E-40 dropped three brand-new albums under the series name The Block Brochure, he now pops up as a pimping puppet named Vladimir Checkabitch in a Funny or Die video called "Bitches." The video depicts the "biggest rap group in the world," the Dummiez, a felted posse ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 4, 2012

    "The Wild Bride": Berkeley Rep Spins a Dark Fairy Tale

    Just a week after Bay Area emcee E-40 dropped three brand-new albums under the series name The Block Brochure, he now pops up as a pimping puppet named Vladimir Checkabitch in a Funny or Die video called "Bitches." The video depicts the "biggest rap group in the world," the Dummiez, a felted posse ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 28, 2011

    Dark Fairy Tale Sheds Light on Reality

    Just a week after Bay Area emcee E-40 dropped three brand-new albums under the series name The Block Brochure, he now pops up as a pimping puppet named Vladimir Checkabitch in a Funny or Die video called "Bitches." The video depicts the "biggest rap group in the world," the Dummiez, a felted posse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Metallica Turns 30 with Ozzy, Danzig, Rob Halford, and a Roomful of Fanatics

    Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

  • Music

    September 14, 2011

    Trapeze Project: Show Preview

    Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 1, 2011

    How Do They Do That?!

    Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2011

    Blind Spot

    Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2010

    So Many Things

    Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 27, 2010

    Cuteoverload

    Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 23, 2010

    Before It Was Cool

    Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 31, 2010

    Drawn and Quartered

    Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 20, 2010

    Where the Wild Things Are

    Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 16, 2009

    Business as Usual

    Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Dia De Los Muertos Celebration Slideshow

    ​Photographer Hanna Quevedo hit the Dia De Los Muertos party in the Mission--where, she writes, "sugar skulls and candles meet bike-powered carriages and shadow puppetry in a mash-up of the traditional and the new."See the full slideshow here.

  • Calendar

    October 28, 2009

    Big River

    ​Photographer Hanna Quevedo hit the Dia De Los Muertos party in the Mission--where, she writes, "sugar skulls and candles meet bike-powered carriages and shadow puppetry in a mash-up of the traditional and the new."See the full slideshow here.

  • Music

    December 24, 2008

    Turning the Tables

    ​Photographer Hanna Quevedo hit the Dia De Los Muertos party in the Mission--where, she writes, "sugar skulls and candles meet bike-powered carriages and shadow puppetry in a mash-up of the traditional and the new."See the full slideshow here.

  • Calendar

    September 19, 2007

    The Zero Effect

    ​Photographer Hanna Quevedo hit the Dia De Los Muertos party in the Mission--where, she writes, "sugar skulls and candles meet bike-powered carriages and shadow puppetry in a mash-up of the traditional and the new."See the full slideshow here.

  • Home Entertainment

    November 8, 2006

    Burning the Yule Log

    ​Photographer Hanna Quevedo hit the Dia De Los Muertos party in the Mission--where, she writes, "sugar skulls and candles meet bike-powered carriages and shadow puppetry in a mash-up of the traditional and the new."See the full slideshow here.

  • Film

    January 18, 2006

    Repertory Film Listings

    ​Photographer Hanna Quevedo hit the Dia De Los Muertos party in the Mission--where, she writes, "sugar skulls and candles meet bike-powered carriages and shadow puppetry in a mash-up of the traditional and the new."See the full slideshow here.

  • Film

    September 21, 2005

    Love in Gloom

    Tim Burton is dead-on again in the darkly delightful Corpse Bride

  • Culture

    June 29, 2005

    Art Beat

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

  • Music

    June 29, 2005

    Rosin Coven

    Menagerie

  • Culture

    May 25, 2005

    Artbeat

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

  • Holiday

    November 24, 2004

    Kids' Gift Box

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

  • Music

    June 2, 2004

    House of Tudor

    Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2004

    Dark and Handsome

    When good bands happen to sad songs

  • Calendar

    November 19, 2003

    Not Daddy Warbucks

    Kids are bad people, too

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Kids are bad people, too

  • Culture

    December 18, 2002

    Moonwatcher: A New Tale of Chelm for Chanukah

    Three bumbling, stone-broke idiots trying to scrape up the dough to fight "weapons of mass aggravation"

  • Music

    August 7, 2002

    House of Tudor

    Outsider art, techno puppets, and Body Manipulations

  • Music

    May 29, 2002

    House Of Tudor

    Con artists, pre-pubescent pettiness, culture jamming, and sonic bedlam

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002
  • News

    November 22, 2000

    Death in Toon Town

    San Francisco's digital animation district is foundering, and Duke may be down for the count

  • Culture

    July 5, 2000

    Just So-So Stories

    The Jungle Book

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 17, 2000

    Best Gym Showers

    Crunch Fitness

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 17, 2000
  • Culture

    December 29, 1999

    Mad Poetry for All

    Megan and the Magic Compass

  • Music

    April 28, 1999

    Fanfare for the Common Band

    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

  • Film

    February 3, 1999

    Zoom Lens

    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

  • Calendar

    January 27, 1999

    Night + Day

    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

  • Music

    November 18, 1998

    House of Tudor

    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

  • News

    April 29, 1998

    Letters

    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

  • Calendar

    April 8, 1998

    Another Opening, Another Erotic Cabaret Carnival Sideshow

    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

  • Calendar

    February 11, 1998

    The Five Days of Eros

    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

  • Calendar

    June 11, 1997

    Night+Day

    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

  • Culture

    June 4, 1997

    Stage

    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

  • Calendar

    April 23, 1997

    Night+Day

    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

  • Music

    January 8, 1997

    Bang a Gong

    Gamelan lives (slight return)

  • Calendar

    October 11, 1995

    Night+Day

    Gamelan lives (slight return)

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