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Film
Prince (Less) Charming
Facing Indy at the box office, Narnia sequel ups the action and loses some magic
By Ella Taylor
Published: May 14, 2008
Things never happen the same way twice." Thus boometh Aslan the lion (Liam Neeson), alias the Son of God, popping his computer-generated shaggy head briefly into The Chronicles...
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Artcap
Beili Liu Lures Audience with Red String
By Traci Vogel
Published: May 14, 2008
According to a Chinese legend, all children are born with an invisible red string connecting them to their soul mates. Throughout life, the string grows shorter, drawing the...
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Sucka Free City
Animal Welfare Commission Wants to Outlaw Cruel Art
By Benjamin Wachs
Published: May 14, 2008
Still fuming over the San Francisco Art Institute's recent exhibition of videos showing six different animals being bludgeoned to death, the city's Animal Welfare Commission is...
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Stagecap
The Cooking Show Gives Us Something to Savor
Published: May 14, 2008
Multicultural food blends with progressive politics in this warm and amusing performance about what we put into — and what comes out of — our mouths. Mero Cochinero...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: May 14, 2008
"Punk" Rocks Musician gives sound advice: I very much enjoyed last week's cover story, and was so pleased to see an iconic family get some well-deserved coverage ["Punk Family...
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Artcap
Griff Williams Show Is Nothing If Not a Technical Feat
By Traci Vogel
Published: May 14, 2008
Griff Williams' pieces at Stephen Wirtz combine landscapes broken up into paint-by-number-like color blocks with the artist's signature overlaid graphics: birds and skulls and...
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Encore
Also Playing
By Chloe Veltman, Will Harper, Christopher Jensen and Nathaniel Eaton
Published: May 14, 2008
Figaro. People are so seduced by Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro that they tend to overlook the opera's anarchic roots. Historians today widely consider the 18th-century French...
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Game On
Niko Bellic and Grand Theft Auto IV are great, but is that enough anymore?
By Gary Hodges
Published: May 14, 2008
If you read reviews the way I do, you've already started by checking out the score, and now you're back here to see what the hell my problem is. Peace, brother. Grand Theft...
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Bouncer
Putting Sickly Dogs to Sleep: From Bouncer’s Canine to Hillary’s Campaign
By Katy St. Clair
Published: May 14, 2008
As some wise sage once said, timing is everything. Last week I showed up at Martuni's too early for the piano bar and too late for the happy hour. I watched the couple next to...
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Arthouse
Art House
Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 14, 2008
Artists' Television Access. OpenScreening: "Against Interpretation": Local abstract film and video. Thu., May 15, 8 p.m. $5. Other Cinema's Blobsquatch: Jason Jones' Son of...
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Hear This
Murder by Death: Mountain Menace
By Silke Tudor
Published: May 14, 2008
If Red of Tooth and Claw, the latest album by Indiana quartet Murder by Death, were a movie, its opening sequence would be a cinematic triumph. "I'm Coming Home" begins at an...
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Hear This
Japan's Miyavi reaches solo stardom with a distinctive rock hybrid
By Kirsty Evans
Published: May 14, 2008
Anyone who thinks that all Japanese pop sounds cutesy like Puffy Ami-Yumi is in for a shock when they hear Miyavi's This Iz the Japanese Kabuki Rock. The guitar prodigy has...
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BeatBox
Grime City follows British urban music off the deep end
By Darren Keast
Published: May 14, 2008
Despite its name, the Grime City crew plays few grime records these days, having followed British urban music off the deep end into the bass spelunking of dubstep, its mostly...
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