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1. Feature

   Time Bomb

   Weather Underground leaders claimed their bombings were devised to avoid bloodshed. But FBI agents suspect the radical '70s group killed an S.F. cop in the name of revolution.

   By Peter Jamison

   Published: September 16, 2009

   On the night of Feb. 16, 1970, Brian McDonnell was sorting through bulletins on the Teletype machine at Park Police Station in the Upper Haight. The respected 44-year-old...

2. Music

   On Land Festival brings sounds from the experimental periphery

   By Mike Rowell

   Published: September 16, 2009

   While San Francisco has no shortage of music fests, the artists performing at this weekend's On Land Festival are an especially unusual, esoteric bunch. Over the course of...

3. Eat

   Aicha serves flavorful Moroccan food at popular prices

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: September 16, 2009

   At Aicha, a modest new Moroccan restaurant on Polk Street, you'll get all the highlights you'd find on the menus of fancier North African places around town — garlicky...

4. Film

   The Informant! gets cute with massive corporate scandal and blows the story

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: September 16, 2009

   As evidenced by The Informant!, it's a hell of a tricky thing turning real-life pulp into floss sugar. The story of Archer Daniels Midland biochemist exec turned crooked...

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   No Impact Man

   By Aaron Hillis

   Published: September 16, 2009

   The bold environmental project Colin Beavan began in the fall of 2006—to expunge his carbon footprint by giving up material consumption, electricity, non-local foods, and...

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   Amreeka

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: September 16, 2009

   The thriving subgenre of immigrant displacement dramedy gets a confident new spin from Cherien Dabis, a Palestinian-Jordanian raised in the United States. Divorced,...

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   Dysfunction Functions

   By Bonner Odell

   Published: September 16, 2009

   Choreographer Amy Lewis is a smart cookie. Her 2006 piece Conversion, in which five dancers performed a visual version of the complex musical fugue form in total silence, was a...

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   La Vie en Rosé

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: September 16, 2009

   Cédric Klapish's new feature film looks a little saccharine. It's a chick flick, to be sure. A feel-good movie. Tisn't going to advance the art of cinema. But what of...

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   What’s Inside

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: September 16, 2009

   Kim Cogan paints the best cityscapes of San Francisco we’ve ever seen. Also the best storefronts, alleyways, rooftops, etc., especially when he bathes his hard exteriors...

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    Don't Forget It, Jake

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 16, 2009

    Before Wayne Wang was a famous director, he was an art-school punk who made Chan Is Missing, one of the scrappiest and greatest San Francisco films of all time. A screening of...

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    The Goodis Touch

    By Michael Fox

    Published: September 16, 2009

    David Goodis rode a bumpy rocket to hell. Fresh out of college, he published his first novel in 1939. Universal threw him a wad of cash to pen a screenplay, and magazines...

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    Found Masterpiece

    By Michael Fox

    Published: September 16, 2009

    Thanks to pioneering Bay Area film artists Bruce Conner and Craig Baldwin, as well as the less sophisticated wits behind the subtitled variations on Hitler’s Downfall rant...

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    Hip and APAning

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 16, 2009

    Local gallery/school/literary incubator the Kearny Street Workshop is dedicated to encouraging Asian Pacific American creativity. It does such a good job that there isn't...

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    I Love a Bike Parade

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 16, 2009

    Thanks to the Extra Action Marching Band, our city has the alternative marching band thing dialed. So does Portland, Oregon, with its MarchFourth Marching Band. Which ragtag...

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    Trannies of the High Seas

    By Evan James

    Published: September 16, 2009

    Trannyshack may have closed its doors as a weekly club after more than a decade of blending high and low art in pantyhose, but that doesn’t mean mistress of ceremonies...

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    Owned!

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 16, 2009

    José Montesinos’ trailer for his unfinished film Hell’s Kittens had us all rolling on the floor laughing, so SF Weekly forked the local filmmaker some dough...

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    Welcome to the Gayest Show on Earth

    By Evan James

    Published: September 16, 2009

    The annual Folsom Street Fair is always a lively spectacle, with fetish-wear-flaunting and freak-flag-flying the order of the day. Even the most jaded of voyeurs can’t...

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    You What?

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 16, 2009

    People are likely to say the worst: Ask anyone with a "funny" name, or an obvious ethnicity, or one arm, or whatever. When you first meet people, they generally don't take the...

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    Giddy, Yup

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 16, 2009

    Hot cowgirls: Are there ever enough? Digital artist Deborah Oropallo rustles up a herd of them at "Wild Wild West.Show," in the form of her signature glossy-ghost figures, here...

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    In a Flash

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 16, 2009

    Hiroshi Sugimoto plays with fire in the presence of flammable chemicals. At "Lightning Fields," the photographer's process recalls Benjamin Franklin's kite-flying, as he uses a...