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1. Sucka Free City
Newsom quotes the giant within
By Joe Eskenazi Published: October 14, 2009Gavin Newsom is a handsome and charismatic enough speaker that he could grab a microphone and spend 10 minutes detailing the meteorological conditions affecting British...
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An Education
By Scott Foundas Published: October 14, 2009The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir about the crash course she received in the “university of...
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The Wedding Song
By Ella Taylor Published: October 14, 2009Like her appealing first feature, La petite Jérusalem, Karin Albou's The Wedding Song probes the threats to an intimate bond between two Semitic women. Here, World War...
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Barbara Rose Brooker
By Jonathan Kiefer Published: October 14, 2009Even with Nikki Sixx's Heroin Diaries, Stephen Elliott's Adderall Diaries, and my own forthcoming Flintstones Vitamins Diaries (just you wait) on the scene, the topsy-turvy...
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A Big-Tent Party
By Hiya Swanhuyser Published: October 14, 2009Bright, toothpick-scale architecture crawls up broken banisters at “The Collaspe.” Local art superstar Michael Arcega’s new show grins pragmatically at a...
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The Following Preview Is Heartily Approved
By Michael Leaverton Published: October 14, 2009We love all manner of film geek, from the guy who always finds a way to say “Truffaut” in public to the woman who haunts the night in front of flickering silent...
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Soulfully Cerebral
By Bonner Odell Published: October 14, 2009Soul and extreme technicality are rare companions in the art world, perhaps because the brain and the gut speak fundamentally different languages. There exist some rare...
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Local Heroes
By Michael Fox Published: October 14, 2009Every fall for more than 20 years, the Film Arts Foundation showcased the best new work by Bay Area filmmakers in one ferociously crammed weekend. The venerable organization...
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Friends, Not Food
By Hiya Swanhuyser Published: October 14, 2009Factory farming’s days are numbered. Michelle Obama’s organic garden at the White House is pissing off chemical pesticide companies. Sometimes, it seems we’ve...
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Art Trip
By Michael Leaverton Published: October 14, 2009San Francisco is known as a city of neighborhoods, but people can live here for decades and draw a total blank on the words West Portal. Some of us let years pass between North...
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La Crème de la Disco Dancing
By Evan James Published: October 14, 2009As another enduring San Francisco warm season filled with gay-ish festivals draws to a close, party people hang up their threadbare technicolor tanktops, their adventurous jean...
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Neil and Pray
By Tara Jepsen Published: October 14, 2009Finding a comedian who accessorizes with a couple of highballs these days requires socializing at a venue called a country club. But if you're not ready to crawl out of your...
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“Paint Another Orgasm, Dude”
By Michael Leaverton Published: October 14, 2009Context is nothing. At least, that’s the idea behind “Snippets,” local artist Lori Gordon’s ongoing exhibit. She takes phrases that have a bite-size meaning...
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Back from the Dead
By Michael Leaverton Published: October 14, 2009People who celebrated the glory days of Halloween in the Castro can call up any number of memories, from “I puked all over Hartford Street” to “I got shot.”...
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Boom Riggins
By Doug Wallen Published: October 14, 2009Based in the same Idaho stomping grounds that spawned Built to Spill, boy-girl-girl trio Finn Riggins has been invited to join that band on tour next month. It’s a huge...
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Nonsense Is Freedom
By Hiya Swanhuyser Published: October 14, 2009"Indie film" can mean anything, from a philosophical Super-8 production shot by someone with a love of self-expression and 50 clams to a multimillion-dollar Lionsgate...
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When You Grope for Luna
By Hiya Swanhuyser Published: October 14, 2009Selene Luna is a real nice lady. Never mind that she takes her clothes off in public, tells dirty jokes onstage, and makes mean fun of bigots. What makes her nice is that she...
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Lethem Drops Chronic
By Dan Strachota Published: October 14, 2009Jonathan Lethem's last two novels — 2003's Fortress of Solitude and 2007's You Don't Love Me Yet — steered away from the sci-fi leanings of his early work. The...
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Warm and Soft
By Hiya Swanhuyser Published: October 14, 2009Are white vinyl walls with embedded speakers friendlier than plain white walls? Or are they merely more 2001: A Space Odyssey? Jacqueline Gordon's space-age soft sculpture has...
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Keats and Brawne on Your Side
By J. Hoberman Published: October 14, 2009Set in the bucolic suburbs of early-19th-century London, as fresh and dewy as a newly mowed lawn, Jane Campion’s Bright Star recounts the love affair between a tubercular...
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Turning the Tables Police have made a number of arrests and seizures of DJ equipment at underground parties and clubs. Is it enforcement or harassment?
