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Matt Smith
SFPD polygraph expert's controversial views
By Matt Smith
Published: August 19, 2009
Editor's Note: In the opening paragraph of this column, Matt Smith listed theoretical examples of "uncomfortable questions" that could elicit a physical response. Smith did not...
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Music
Kurt Vile loses job, gains indie clout
By Doug Wallen
Published: August 19, 2009
Kurt Vile recently got fired. For the past six years, he operated a forklift at a Philadelphia brewery while moonlighting as a home-recording musician and songwriter. Now...
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Feature
The Regulars
Bouncer visits bars in three very different S.F. neighborhoods and discovers people everywhere all want the same thing: companionship. Oh, and booze.
By Katy St. Clair
Published: August 19, 2009
Bars and their patrons have a symbiotic relationship. Bar owners need customers, and customers need their bars. These are the regulars, those folks who come in just about every...
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Eat
Down-home goes upscale at Wexler's
By Meredith Brody
Published: August 19, 2009
It's easy to imagine the earliest form of cooking — throwing meat onto a wood fire, from which it emerges smoky and charred — evolving into what we now celebrate as...
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Film
In a triumph of his will, Tarantino makes Holocaust revisionism ridiculously fun in Inglourious Basterds
By J. Hoberman
Published: August 19, 2009
Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment — rich in fantasy and blithely amoral. It's also...
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Night&Day
Afghan Star
By Ella Taylor
Published: August 19, 2009
If you think it’s impossible to underestimate the cultural significance of American Idol, go see British filmmaker Havana Marking’s documentary about its Afghani...
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Night&Day
Pressure Cooker
By Michelle Orange
Published: August 19, 2009
Wilma Stephenson runs her high school culinary arts class like a Marine sergeant: She’s loud, cranky, and prone to threatening bodily harm. Stephenson, a central figure in...
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Night&Day
Straight Talk About Brain Slices
By Evan James
Published: August 19, 2009
Most of the time, our brains are a big mystery. One minute, sparkly synaptic action urges our bodies to become one with the mid-'90s rhythms of La Bouche, and the next minute...
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Night&Day
Cash Could Win Money
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 19, 2009
We’ve seen Eric Cash pull a grapefruit out of a coffee mug, but that was a long time ago. YouTube shows him putting fire in his mouth and spitting it out again, and his...
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Night&Day
Kind of Blue
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 19, 2009
We've admired Quinn DeVeaux's music for years, whether he's in a hot-jazz New Orleans getup sweating the hipsters, scraping hearts raw with his extra-old-fashioned blues getup,...
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Night&Day
MAPP Quest
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 19, 2009
The Mission Arts and Performance Project (MAPP) is a great example of what makes the Mission District so special. If you've never heard of it, perhaps you've seen it: Every two...
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Night&Day
Z Owns It
By Michael Leaverton
Published: August 19, 2009
We love walking around Project Artaud Theater in the low hum of the Mission’s warehouse district, wondering why hardly anybody ever performs there. That’s set to...
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Night&Day
More Like Plus One Million
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 19, 2009
Scott McCaughey is unsung. He's in four major bands — R.E.M., the Young Fresh Fellows, Robyn Hitchcock's backing band the Venus 3, and the Minus 5 — plus a gang of...
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Night&Day
Runner Up
By Michael Leaverton
Published: August 19, 2009
The Plate to Plate 5K Run/Walk starts at the ball park and crosses home plate, but it does not round 175 or so bases in the interim. Rather, it immediately heads away from the...
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Night&Day
Liss Is More
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 19, 2009
Local choreographer Liss Fain is known for her love of weird music. She’s BFF with the compositions of Eastern European protopunk/experimento-classical composer...
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Night&Day
Running with the Bulls
By Silke Tudor
Published: August 19, 2009
The bullfight has been celebrated in art and literature as the embodiment of man’s ability to overcome his fear of death. In Spain, the country where the passionate,...
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Night&Day
Hotel Room, Here We Come
By Tara Jepsen
Published: August 19, 2009
Gay prom? Goth prom? '80s prom? So many choices have been available to hot young people in recent years, each one tailored to a lifestyle. If you’d like to open it up...
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Night&Day
Start It Up
By Dan Strachota
Published: August 19, 2009
Joe Pernice is a god to the people who love Nick Hornby novels — mainly dorky boys who are as likely to name-drop their record collections as get to second base. So...
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Night&Day
Pin Ups
By Michael Leaverton
Published: August 19, 2009
Insert the tip of the pin into the thorax, and press. Spread the wings, and affix. Use as many stainless-steel pins as you want; now is no time to be timid. Continue to impale...
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Night&Day
My Author Lives in the City and Reads to Me
By Tara Jepsen
Published: August 19, 2009
Stephen Elliott, the man capable of such simply stated poetry as put forth in novels Happy Baby and A Life Without Consequences, turns his often obscenely literate (in a...
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