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Stagecap
PianoFight's skits in ShortLived better than SNL
By Nathaniel Eaton
Published: May 21, 2008
PianoFight productions encourages audience members to brown-bag their own booze; the crew even throws a couple of Budweisers and miniature whiskey bottles into the crowd right...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: May 21, 2008
Vetting Geluardi SFAVC members miss meetings, point: I am writing in reference to the piece written by John Geluardi ["The Vet Offensive," Sucka Free City, 5/14] about...
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Let's Get Killed
‘The Worst Music Ever’ pulls Smash Mouth from the crapper
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: May 21, 2008
If you ever want to hear really terrible music, just go to a wedding. No matter how good your friends' tastes in life partners may be, their taste in wedding DJs is usually...
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Film
Going to Pieces
Fugitive sucks the poetry and the life out of the Holocaust survival tale on which it is based.
By Ella Taylor
Published: May 21, 2008
Canadian poet Anne Michaels' beautiful 1996 novel, Fugitive Pieces — about a Jewish writer immobilized by the memory of his Polish family's murder at the hands of the...
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Encore
Also Playing
Our critics weigh in on local theater
Published: May 21, 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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Sucka Free City
Bar Association gives its qualified support for judge
By Matthew Hirsch
Published: May 21, 2008
If ABC News were covering local elections, George Stephanopoulos might have already called the San Francisco judicial race for the incumbent, Superior Court Judge Thomas Mellon...
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BeatBox
Choirgirl-cum-club diva DJ Colette headlines the 11th Annual Etd. Pop
By Tamara Palmer and J. Niimi
Published: May 21, 2008
Chicago DJ and producer Felix Da Housecat (aka Felix Stallings) has been a fixture on the international dance scene since the early '90s, when he first came to prominence with...
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Stagecap
This Whore is good filthy fun
By Christopher Jensen
Published: May 21, 2008
John Ford's 17th-century tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore takes an exuberant interest in taboo and revenge. It isn't a prim play. The plot concerns a coquettish maiden who gets...
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Film
A Four-Letter Word
By Ed Gonzalez
Published: May 21, 2008
In praise of Larry Kramer's Faggots, specifically its forked satire, author Reynolds Price wrote: "It offers us oddly entertaining, generally exaggerated copies of foolish or...
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Arthouse
Art House
Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 21, 2008
Compiled by Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser. To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. Sebastiane: Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress' 1976...
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Bouncer
Drinking in pint-sized secrets at Nap’s
By Katy St. Clair
Published: May 21, 2008
Cabs are a crapshoot in San Francisco. It always burns my chuff, whatever that is, when I call to reserve one. First of all, the fact that I have to phone for one is lame. Any...
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