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Night&Day
Mission Craziness
By Nirmala Nataraj
Published: May 21, 2008
Carnaval isn't just an excuse for dancing in the streets and ogling Brazilian showgirls — there's also the food, the artwork, the rich tapestry of culture and history...
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Night&Day
Get Out on the PlayGround
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 21, 2008
O Happy Dagger is maybe the best name for anything, ever: kitten, debut album, vacation home, whatever. It's a quotation from Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, even), and usually...
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Night&Day
Art Collab
By Bonner Odell
Published: May 21, 2008
Depending on whom you ask, the Bay Area art world is either a major world center for creative innovation or a self-referential backwater prone to tunnel vision. If it’s...
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Night&Day
Fuck Club
By Michael Leaverton
Published: May 21, 2008
The outer reaches of porn are a little hard to fathom. Splosh films? Furry fetish? 2 Girls 1 Cup? (Wait — forget about 2 Girls 1 Cup.) Fortunately — or maybe not...
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Night&Day
Isadorables
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 21, 2008
It's Isadora Duncan's birthday, so naturally, someone is throwing her a dance party: the Dionysian Festival. Very few dancers perform Duncan's own choreography, but Mary Sano...
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Stage
Finishing touches put on Duke Ellington's opera
By Chloe Veltman
Published: May 21, 2008
Every day, artists get bored, distracted, or die, leaving their work in a state of limbo. The world's desk drawers must sequester untold numbers of semideveloped plays, novels,...
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Sucka Free City
Bleacher Report and other sports blogs fight for respect - and access
By Ashley Harrell
Published: May 21, 2008
On the sidelines of professional sports events around the nation, there's a less-discussed competition that can get more heated than the games themselves: the epic battle for...
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Reviewed
Foals
Antidotes (Sub Pop)
By Jonah Bayer
Published: May 21, 2008
The debut full-length from England's much-hyped rock import Foals is a kindred spirit to such innovative post-hardcore acts as Minus the Bear and Q and Not U. But Foals could...
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Music
Jamie Lidell sings from the heart, riffs on the absurd
By Ben Westhoff
Published: May 21, 2008
The blackest-singing white man since Rick Astley, Jamie Lidell is as delightfully inscrutable on his albums as he is charmingly unhinged in person. In between sips of a...
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Hear This
The smooth exoticism of Herb Alpert
By Doug Wallen
Published: May 21, 2008
The face of a thousand used LPs, trumpeter Herb Alpert and the smooth exoticism of his Tijuana Brass ruled the '60s' tame underbelly, racking up eight Grammys and countless...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: May 21, 2008
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Best-o-Burger: 493 Pine (at Belden), 986-3808, www.bestoburger.com. Financial District....
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Film
The Way You Make Me Feel
Harmony Korine creates a Neverland for celeb impersonators in the singular and sincere Mister Lonely.
By Jim Ridley
Published: May 21, 2008
A man in a Michael Jackson outfit — red shirt, black jeans, white face mask — rides hunched over the tiny frame of a clown bike. Jutting out to his side, attached...
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Film Feature
A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
By Scott Foundas
Published: May 21, 2008
Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of unlikely returns, beginning with that of Polish...
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Game On
Steven Spielberg goes direct-to-video-game with Boom Blox for the Wii.
By Chris Ward
Published: May 21, 2008
Steven Spielberg may rule Hollywood, but in the video-game biz — the more profitable of the two industries, becoming more so with each passing year — he's a...
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Sucka Free City
Postal employees not happy about working in the Tenderloin
By Joe Eskenazi
Published: May 21, 2008
Life seems so much simpler when you only read press releases. Take the one issued last week by the United States Postal Service. The residents of the Tenderloin wanted their...
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Reviewed
The Roots
Rising Down (Def Jam)
By Ben Westhoff
Published: May 21, 2008
If the recent Smirnoff showcase in New York — at which Common, Q-Tip, and KRS-One disconcertingly sold their skills to the vodka company for some quick stacks — is...
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Music
Germany’s Cluster still makes heads spin three decades on
By Andy Beta
Published: May 21, 2008
Very few bands can be considered the grandfathers of New Age, ambient techno, electro-pop, and underground noise. But Germany's Cluster, a duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and...
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Hear This
Sugar and Ice
By Andy Beta
Published: May 21, 2008
Don't write off Portland duo Glass Candy as simply an Italo-disco throwback. Aside from a few tracks, most of that genre is total dreck (see Strut's excruciating forthcoming...
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Film
The Terrible Infant Speaks
Harmony Korine talks about his new movie Mister Lonely and coming home.
By Jim Ridley and Jack Silverman
Published: May 21, 2008
The snapshot, smudged with soot, shows a man with a puzzled expression propped up in a hospital bed. He is clearly a patient of some kind. The object cradled in his arms...
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Film Feature
Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 21, 2008
CANNES, France—The competition for the Palme d'Or is ongoing as I write, but the story of the 61st Cannes Film Festival is Steven Soderbergh's two-part,...
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