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Feature
Room with a Few
A young San Franciscan’s dream: A room in a nice house, affordable rent, and a built-in social network.
By Ashley Harrell
Published: August 20, 2008
It wasn't meant to be one of those damned open houses. They — the innumerable aspiring Tiger House roommates — were supposed to come for their appointments at...
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Music
Schedule Outside Lands trip with playlists of our favorite artists
By Tony Ware
Published: August 20, 2008
Golden Gate Park has seen its share of Human Be-Ins since it was reclaimed from the dunes in the late 19th century. Now add to those events the first Outside Lands Music and...
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Eat
Abbondanza
Joey & Eddie's brings the Bronx, and old-fashioned Italian-American cooking, to North Beach.
By Meredith Brody
Published: August 20, 2008
After several years of the tapas-inspired small-plates trend influencing practically every new restaurant in San Francisco, could big plates be the next new thing? If the...
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Film
Not to Be
Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 20, 2008
In its final 10 minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise, and nonsense. Those are 10 perfectly enjoyable minutes: It's hard to knock any sequence that climaxes with a...
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Night&Day
Feast and Famine
By Traci Vogel
Published: August 20, 2008
Put down that burger and listen: We have created a world in which nearly a billion people don’t get enough to eat, while another billion are overweight. So says Raj Patel...
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Night&Day
Lady Liberty Would Like It
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 20, 2008
Juxtapositions and new contexts are the twin engines of a lot of visual art; think Marcel Duchamp's early-20th-century found art, for example, in which ordinary objects,...
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Night&Day
Brokeback Mohammed
By Jim Ridley
Published: August 20, 2008
Muslims, Jews, and Christians may have their, oh, occasional differences, but as an Islamic scholar observes in Parvez Sharma’s documentary A Jihad for Love, there is one...
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Night&Day
Pull Back the Curtain
By Michael Fox
Published: August 20, 2008
The lunatic is on the grass. Or in this case, asphalt and concrete. The identity of the acid-test pioneer who first paired Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz is lost...
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Night&Day
Hala Back
By Traci Vogel
Published: August 20, 2008
It’s hard to figure out where we’d be in modern times if not for the ancient Arabs. The brainy race invented algebra, soap, and distillation, thus creating both...
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Night&Day
Lock, Stock, and Workshop
By Alejandro Perez
Published: August 20, 2008
Locks, like borders, are manmade inventions that define ownership, not just of property but of people (think of chain gangs or suspects in a jail cell). The lock has also...
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Night&Day
Resistance Is Fertile
By Traci Vogel
Published: August 20, 2008
They came carrying signs and babies. Eighty-year-olds in sweat suits and 28-year-olds in business suits, staging die-ins and blowing tubas and, sometimes, weeping. On March 20,...
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Night&Day
Getting A Blowout
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 20, 2008
Jennifer Blowdryer is the girl version of John Waters, only she's not a director, or from Baltimore, or as famous. Still, for a moment in the late 1970s, punk rock had a sense...
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Night&Day
Indie Achy Breaky
By Doug Wallen
Published: August 20, 2008
“I’m 15 centimeters tall” is the first line Caitlin Gutenberger sings on Two Sheds’ new self-titled EP. There’s something similarly modest about the...
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Night&Day
Make It Work
By Traci Vogel
Published: August 20, 2008
The Mission District becomes the official center of the DIY universe today, as hardscrabble underground craftspeople, music makers, and artists all converge on the...
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Night&Day
They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 20, 2008
Bellissima, a film made by Luchino Visconti in 1951, concerns the fate of a young girl who isn't pretty enough. The adults around her think it's perfectly OK to publicly judge...
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Night&Day
Che In Spain
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 20, 2008
Robert Crumb pal and compere Spain Rodriguez follows the near-mythical life of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, from book-filled childhood to Bolivian jungle death in Che: A Graphic...
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Night&Day
The Artists, United
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 20, 2008
Two main components make up this huge, sprawling show of work by latino artists: cartoon art and photography. The Bay Area is rich in both, as you can see at "Mes...
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Night&Day
Warchild
By Gregg Rickman
Published: August 20, 2008
A young mother whose child disappeared during the Balkan wars of the 1990s catches a hint she might be alive and moves heaven and earth to find her in this engrossing work by...
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Stage
Ballad of Edgar Cayce Hard to Figure
By Chloe Veltman
Published: August 20, 2008
One of the mysterious things about art is the role played in its creation by the unconscious. From the paintings and poetry of William Blake to the psychedelic experiments of...
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Sucka Free City
"Conservative" Arizona couple gets judge to gag gay SF blogger
By Lauren Smiley
Published: August 20, 2008
While Violet Blue couldn't get restraining orders against her online foes (see main Sucka Free story), a couple have persuaded a judge in Arizona to issue one banning S.F....
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