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Music
Local tech companies remove the music middleman
By Ezra Gale
Published: September 2, 2009
Chicken Little would have plenty to scream about if she were watching the recent trajectory of the music business. CD sales have dropped off precipitously as the ease of...
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Eat
Delicious small plates from the Philippines, Vietnam, and China star at Poleng Lounge
By Meredith Brody
Published: September 2, 2009
You'd have to be living under a rock not to know that the Bay Area has fallen in love with street food. There's the legal kind, sold from licensed trucks as well as from...
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Film
Mike Judge goes back to work with Extract
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: September 2, 2009
Mike Judge began writing the screenplay for Extract not long after Office Space opened and closed in a matter of weeks in the late winter of 1999. The two movies were always...
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Night&Day
Drag Me To Hell
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: September 2, 2009
Often a drifting virtuoso in the years before finding his Spider-Man gig, with Drag Me to Hell director Sam Raimi defaults to the horror romps that made his name (namely, the...
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Night&Day
Still Walking
By Anthony Kaufman
Published: September 2, 2009
What's remarkable about Still Walking, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's seventh feature film, is that the familiar comes across as fresh. Despite recycling potential...
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Night&Day
The Baader Meinhof Complex
By J. Hoberman
Published: September 2, 2009
Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Ulrike Meinhof, the Red Army Faction were the Weather Underground, Symbionese Liberation Army,...
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Night&Day
Home Is Where the Art Is
By Evan James
Published: September 2, 2009
The Mission District remains a hotly debated locale — a place that some people call hip, some people call home, and some people just call all sorts of nasty names —...
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Night&Day
Small Is Beautiful
By Michael Fox
Published: September 2, 2009
With a single tongue-in-cheek image — a naked, tattooed couple sharing an oversized pair of boxers — the San Francisco International Festival of Short Films poster...
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Night&Day
Feed the World
By Michael Leaverton
Published: September 2, 2009
This Labor Day, more than 220 Eat-In potlucks take place nationwide to support Slow Food USA’s Time for Lunch Campaign, which hopes to put better food in the mouths of our...
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Night&Day
Birds of a Tacky Feather
By Andy Wright
Published: September 2, 2009
Erik von Markovic has given peacocks a bad name. Better known to television audiences as Mystery, the pickup artist who teaches inept gentlemen how to more effectively pester...
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Night&Day
Bali High
By Evan James
Published: September 2, 2009
Thank the traditional performing arts of the Indonesian islands for this afternoon of colorful Balinese fancy-dancing and Sundanese gong-bonging galore. Gamelan Sekar Jaya...
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Night&Day
Fresh Peach Tasting and Preserves Swap
By Michael Leaverton
Published: September 2, 2009
The Dry Creek Valley in Sonoma County is home to more than 60 wineries and one peach farm. We’re partial to the peach farm. For the past 50 years, Dry Creek Peach and...
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Night&Day
Canvassing the City
By Tara Jepsen
Published: September 2, 2009
Food festivals, street fairs, and giant white commemorative T-shirts are all effective ways to celebrate the neighborhoods of San Francisco, but an art show is capable of...
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Night&Day
Rogue Wave Gains Strength
By Dan Strachota
Published: September 2, 2009
Back in 2006, Rogue Wave drummer Pat Spurgeon's kidney did what few bodily organs can do: It made national headlines. The East Bay–based musician was actually born with...
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Night&Day
Asking For It
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 2, 2009
Who would write a book that practically begs geeks to challenge its accuracy? Who wants to go up against fanatics? Frank Portman, is that you, waving your hand and pleading...
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Night&Day
High Times
By Sam Prestianni
Published: September 2, 2009
Local multi-instrumentalist Ralph Carney is well-versed in countless styles, from pop to jazz to experimental, but he can make beautiful music out of pretty much anything that...
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Night&Day
Watts Towers
By Tara Jepsen
Published: September 2, 2009
It’s easier to describe Reggie Watts’ appearance (imagine if Lisa Bonet and Zach Galifianakis had a child) than his broad range of talent. Here’s a shot: He can...
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Night&Day
The Stuff of Miracles
By Michael Leaverton
Published: September 2, 2009
With a main character who can't hear, see, or speak, who must emote to the back seats without stumbling into a chair or into some slapstick, staging Helen Keller can be...
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Night&Day
Inglourious Basterds
By J. Hoberman
Published: September 2, 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
Mary Go-Round
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 2, 2009
Mary Van Note comes from the awkward-silence school of humor, meaning she’s the kind of comedian who gets labeled "Andy Kaufman-esque." She also makes wince-inducing...
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