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Feature
The Demystifying Adventures of the Amazing Randi
By Michael J. Mooney
Published: August 26, 2009
On a stage in a spacious Las Vegas banquet hall sits a nervous-looking, dark-haired Danish woman named Connie Sonne. The 46-year-old retired police officer made a name for...
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Music
Outside Lands Picks Part 1: Five Ways to a Fitter You
By Andrew Stout
Published: August 26, 2009
Download your menu for the Outside Lands(Right click or option-click the link and choose "Save As" to download this file.) If Coachella is for backpackers and Bonnaroo is...
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Eat
Trademark invades a Eurocentric street with fresh American fare
By Matthew Stafford
Published: August 26, 2009
August is the best eating month of the year. Now is when the blackberries ripen along trails and roadsides; the tomatoes and peaches burst with warm, sun-kissed fecundity; the...
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Film
Taking Woodstock does nothing more than recycle the same late-'60s tropes
By Melissa Anderson
Published: August 26, 2009
"If you remember Woodstock, you probably weren't there," the expression goes. And if you were, can you please stop gassing on about it? Aquarian Nostalgia is the most...
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Night&Day
Mania
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 26, 2009
The Beatles are interesting for many reasons, including the flip. Because indubitably, the Fab Four flipped: We can't think of any other band that completely changed in image...
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Night&Day
In the Night Museum
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 26, 2009
Get ready to Beatle-scream: Maurice Sendak is the raddest rock star ever. Are we wrong? At “There’s a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak,” a series of video...
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Night&Day
All Town, No Gown
By Scott Foundas
Published: August 26, 2009
Commissioned by the Eurostar train company as part of the promotional campaign for its new high-speed rail service from London to Paris, Shane Meadows’s Somers Town may...
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Stage
So what if August: Osage county won a Tony? It's still boring and bloated
By Chloe Veltman
Published: August 26, 2009
The young Thomas Mann learned a lesson about overindulgence when his father took him to a patisserie and told him he could stuff his face with as many cream puffs as he liked....
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Sucka Free City
Doyle Drive rebuild won't displace quirky Presidio pet cemetery
By Erin Sherbert
Published: August 26, 2009
With any major construction project, there's always a legion of folks out there fighting to protect the habitat of an endangered flower or critter. With the county and state's...
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Music
Outside Lands Picks Part 2: Dead Weather
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: August 26, 2009
Supergroups, by nature, are volatile beasts. All that individual talent and reputation comes together in the calculated hope that the sum will exceed its celebrated parts. But...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: August 26, 2009
A weekly listing of new dining spots around town. To recommend a place, e-mail fresheats@sfweekly.com. Carte415: 101 Second St. (at Mission, in the atrium lobby), 567-0415,...
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Film
Somers Town gets at the heart of working-class London
By Scott Foundas
Published: August 26, 2009
The title of Shane Meadows' Somers Town refers to the bleak working-class neighborhood that lies in the shadow of London's St. Pancras train station, where, in the fall of...
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Stagecap
The Frogs
Published: August 26, 2009
Woodside's Theatre in the Woods — it's not kidding; just follow that winding one-lane road for a long while into what feels like the absolute middle of nowhere — is...
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Sucka Free City
Black Rock Flock: A Burning Man preparation guide
By Michael Leaverton
Published: August 26, 2009
Burning Man is just days away. How are you preparing? • Ass tanning. • Scraping North Face logos off new camping gear. • Burning roommate's art. •...
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Sucka Free City
Higher stadium fees drive recreational soccer leagues from S.F. to the suburbs
By Alastair Bland
Published: August 26, 2009
For decades, dozens of teams with the Golden Gate Women's Soccer League and the men's San Francisco Soccer Football League played their home games at San Francisco's Boxer...
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Arthouse
Arthouse movie listings for August 26-September 1, 2009
Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 26, 2009
To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. "Return and Report": Free Form Film Festival presents short experimental films. Thu., Aug. 27, 8...
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Stagecap
The Farm
By Nathaniel Eaton
Published: August 26, 2009
Shotgun Players and director Jon Tracy have radically "remixed" George Orwell's Animal Farm into a seething hip-hop, postapocalyptic, dystopian fantasy — and it works....
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Let's Get Killed
The Outside Lands alternative: In the Pines
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: August 26, 2009
This is a big weekend for music festivals tucked into scenic locations. And, really, there's nothing like breaking free from the dark concert hall standard for a night or two,...
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Encore
Also Playing
Our critics weigh in on local theater
By Chris Jensen, Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 26, 2009
Too Big to Fail. Theatrically speaking, Too Big to Fail is as solid as anything you'll see in the Bay Area this summer. The newest production from the Tony Award–winning...
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Hear This
Dave Douglas
By Sam Prestianni
Published: August 26, 2009
From his thrilling jousts with avant-garde bad boy John Zorn in Masada to his more accessible compositions for numerous award-winning solo projects, NYC trumpeter Dave Douglas...
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