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Your Guide to the San Francisco International Film Festival

One World, Under Gorby

Gorbachev Foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?

Exporting the Dead

Every year, the corpses of hundreds of immigrants are flown from San Francisco to their home countries.

The Great Beyond

Every year, the corpses of hundreds of immigrants are flown from San Francisco to their home countries.

Underwater sirens stir local act Kitka to song

Every year, the corpses of hundreds of immigrants are flown from San Francisco to their home countries.

My Tunes: Kronos Quartet

David Harrington of the internationally respected string quartet

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David Harrington of the internationally respected string quartet

Bizarre World Harmony

Gogol Bordello's mutant genre blowout

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Gogol Bordello's mutant genre blowout

Repertory Film Listings

Gogol Bordello's mutant genre blowout

Take the Money and Run

Rebecca and Terry Solomon face charges of fleecing almost $20 million from investors, but not even the feds know where the couple is hiding.

Bounty Hunted

A man who pursued illegal immigrants for deportation found himself handcuffed by the feds and accused of impersonating a federal agent

Bewiched

A top chef expands his brand, and we follow

Letters to the Editor

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, August 2, 2006

Something Missing

Liev Schreiber adapts a best-selling novel, without the best results

Red Square Meals

Urges awakened by a trip to Russia are satisfied locally at the Cinderella Bakery and Café

Soap Scum

Serial sagas meet high camp

The House of Sour Cream

Our critic finds Russian food more artful than a Russian painter

Reps Etc.

Our critic finds Russian food more artful than a Russian painter

House of Tudor

A baptism of Firewater, some animated animators, and The Adventures of Prince Achmed

The Sedaris Story

Kooky siblings David and Amy and their saga of cheese balls and sweating disorders

House of Tudor

American Mullet, blues radical John Sinclair, and Nik Phelps' animation bounty

House of Tudor

Gogol Bordello's debauched Gypsy ferocities, and the Transcinema Festival's mind-altering new media

Rising Sun

Philip Kaufman directs Ashley Judd in a new thriller set in San Francisco

Reps Etc.

Film Reps List for 12-12-2001

Reel World

Screenwriter Steve Sobel says his latest work, Resin, a look at the horrors of drug laws, could only have been written in San Francisco

Dirty Money

President Bush says he's serious about cracking down on money laundering by terrorists. San Francisco's experience suggests otherwise.

Cleaning House

To work against terrorism, new money-laundering laws will have to be enforced in the world headquarters of cash-washing: the U.S. of A.

The Son and Heir

Cosmopolitan Cafe

Mission Implacable

Peter Glikshtern used a tire iron on four interlopers in his Mission District bar. Then he beat their lawyer's attempt to make the fight a political caues.

Postscript

From Russia With Sleaze

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Blind Faith

A new treatment for victims of severe emotional trauma involving rhythmic eye movements has therapists claiming almost miraculous results. Psychological researchers say the eyes just don't have it.

Dog Bites

A new treatment for victims of severe emotional trauma involving rhythmic eye movements has therapists claiming almost miraculous results. Psychological researchers say the eyes just don't have it.

Dog Bites

A new treatment for victims of severe emotional trauma involving rhythmic eye movements has therapists claiming almost miraculous results. Psychological researchers say the eyes just don't have it.

Dog Bites

A new treatment for victims of severe emotional trauma involving rhythmic eye movements has therapists claiming almost miraculous results. Psychological researchers say the eyes just don't have it.

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll. Korea.

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

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The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Slavic Soul Party

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Everyone Sing the Bay Area Media Songs!

Joyce GoldschmidGet out your banjo, Warren, and sing the company song!​On May 26, financier Warren Hellman invited throngs of hangers-on to a Great American Music Hall bash to celebrate the launch of the Bay Citizen, the news nonprofit he tossed $5 million.The highlight, apparently, was an offici ... More >>

Odessa Chen Talks to the Animals For New Album

Shoka ShafieeOdessa Chen​Odessa Chen decided four years ago that she was done with romance -- at least until her next CD. For her current project, Archives of the Natural World, the singer-songwriter cast aside songs for an ex named Jeff (not to be confused with Mr. Jeff Buckley, to whom she's oft ... More >>

At Thermidor, fine dining dishes from another era work best when updated

Shoka ShafieeOdessa Chen​Odessa Chen decided four years ago that she was done with romance -- at least until her next CD. For her current project, Archives of the Natural World, the singer-songwriter cast aside songs for an ex named Jeff (not to be confused with Mr. Jeff Buckley, to whom she's oft ... More >>

Thermidor: Can Retro Succeed Without Kitsch?

Lara HataLobster Thermidor: Maybe there's a reason we all stopped eating this?​Thermidor can feel as hard to penetrate as Don Draper's psyche. On one hand, chef Bruce Binn's dinner rolls and baked Alaska and pommes dauphine leave a buttery trail through memory, depositing you smack in the midd ... More >>

January's Literary Events

Lara HataLobster Thermidor: Maybe there's a reason we all stopped eating this?​Thermidor can feel as hard to penetrate as Don Draper's psyche. On one hand, chef Bruce Binn's dinner rolls and baked Alaska and pommes dauphine leave a buttery trail through memory, depositing you smack in the midd ... More >>

Man Busted For Smuggling Whale Teeth

What a smile​Here is a story that involve both sperm and teeth -- and it's still G rated.James Saunders was convicted yesterday in a San Francisco courtroom for scheming to illegally buy, sell, and smuggle sperm whale teeth from the far away country of Ukraine. The conviction was a crack in an nat ... More >>

Jewish Humor Traces Back to July 1661, Berkeley Prof Says

His origin has been traced to 1661...​At first, the notion of pinpointing the very day Jewish humor was born sounds every bit as crazy as Bishop James Ussher claiming the world was created on Sunday, Oct. 23, 4004 B.C. But U.C. Berkeley theater professor Mel Gordon tracing the origin of Jewish hum ... More >>

S.F. Producers DJG, Dials, and Jus Wan on the Local Bass Music Scene and Their New Compilation

​ There really is something in the water here. At least that's what it seems like, judging by the number of San Francisco electronic music producers touring across the Atlantic and releasing tracks on U.K. and European labels. Dubstep and bass-driven club music producers have been especially p ... More >>