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1. Feature

   Misdeeds

   An investor finds that he has been swindled, and that the schemer was aided by a mortgage industry lacking oversight.

   By Anna McCarthy

   Published: August 5, 2009

   Before the auctioneer could begin the first trustee sale bid on the Bay Point property that sweltering June afternoon, Andy Narraway handed him a flyer: "This foreclosure sale...

2. Music

   Sunn O))) slowly inverts expectations

   By Andy Beta

   Published: August 5, 2009

   Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson, the duo behind Sunn O))), embody the doom-drone aesthetic wholly within the folds of their druid robes. Read any article about the band,...

3. Eat

   Mercury Lounge presents tasty pan-Asian fare before bringing the noise

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: August 5, 2009

   M.F.K. Fisher once said never to eat dinner in a room with a dance band. Since din with dinner is not our preference, we've tended to avoid places that tout music and live DJs....

4. Film

   We praise the Julia half of Julie & Julia

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: August 5, 2009

   It was the best of movies. It was the worst of movies. Which is to say: There's half of a great movie in Julie & Julia — but since Meryl Streep has already starred in one...

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   Thirst

   By Jim Ridley

   Published: August 5, 2009

   Finally, there’s a vampire movie worthy of the title The Hunger—even if it arrives under a more potable name. Carnal appetite, not a parched palate, is the accelerant...

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   Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: August 5, 2009

   Did you know that goy god Steve McQueen got an early walk-on on a Jewish television sitcom? That’s just one of the tasty tidbits in Aviva Kempner’s celebratory but...

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   "Louise LeBourgeois, Hunt Rettig, and Kim Frohsin"

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: August 5, 2009

   Rettig has invented a novel way to capture light: He loops strips of paper and metal into biomorphic teardrop and petal shapes, which he then covers with acrylic resin. Hung on...

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   The Voice of the Mission

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: August 5, 2009

   At "El Grito de la Misión," teen artists show their work — you know how rare teen artwork is these days? It's about as common as a Mensa birther. Art instruction in...

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   Torrini on Ice

   By Dan Strachota

   Published: August 5, 2009

   Without Björk and Grey's Anatomy, there would be no Lykke Li or Bat for Lashes or Emiliana Torrini. The world would not be safe for cuckoo girl singers who know a thing or...

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    The Barb

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: August 5, 2009

    One of the comedians at the new Barbary Coast Comedy night is from Santa Cruz. At first glance, we figured the Santa Cruz connection automatically meant that Grant Lyon would...

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    J-Culture

    By Michael Fox

    Published: August 5, 2009

    The big-screen release of a new mood-enhancing Hayao Miyazaki film (such as this week’s Ponyo) is big news to the growing cadre of Japanese animation aficionados, who...

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    Kiss Me, Rodent

    By Evan James

    Published: August 5, 2009

    Let’s mix metaphor: In The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare’s most misogynistic masterpiece, a small, long-nosed mammal named Katherina Minola ties her sister to a...

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    The Manly Dance

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: August 5, 2009

    Theater nerds will know what we mean when we say that In My Corner is a manly-man version of A Chorus Line. It's as if the Al, Paul, and Mike characters from that beautiful...

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    Cunning Linguists

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: August 5, 2009

    The puns fly fast and hard at the S.F. Drag King Competition, aka the Oscars of the male impersonation world. The names alone take some cakes: “Papa” Don Preach (the...

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    S.F. Ink

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: August 5, 2009

    Tattoos are irresistible to look at, unless they’re on a sorority sister’s ankle. But it's impolite to stop people on the street and ask to look at their neck art for...

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    Side Out?

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: August 5, 2009

    Last year, when beach volleyball was all over the television during the Olympics, we wondered: Do people really like this much beach volleyball? Or is it because the...

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    Zowie

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: August 5, 2009

    There was something a little uninviting about the dancefloor during the mid-'90s. Not that swing dancing didn’t look like fun, but if white jazz wasn’t your bag and...

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    A New Queer Smorgasbord

    By Evan James

    Published: August 5, 2009

    If the macabre, joyless pageant that passed for Pride this year left you disappointed — that is, if you would’ve rather celebrated vibrant music and art instead of...

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    Learning Can Be Fun

    By Tara Jepsen

    Published: August 5, 2009

    The realm of specialty drink crafting needs you. In case you aren’t intuitively dialed in to unexpected flavor combinations (we’re way beyond strawberries and...

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    Neo Griot

    By Dan Strachota

    Published: August 5, 2009

    In this country, if people amble around while singing to themselves and telling random stories, they're called crazy or homeless or both. In West African states such as Guinea,...