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Night&Day
The Struggle to Survive
By Sam Sweet
Published: May 28, 2008
At age 31, Ben Byer, an aspiring actor and playwright from Chicago, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the fatal neurodegenerative disorder also known as Lou...
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Night&Day
High School Grotesque
By Michael Leaverton
Published: May 28, 2008
In 2005, artist Mike Kelley -- the guy behind the stuffed animals on Sonic Youth's Dirty -- made the New York art world tremble with his groundbreaking exhibit "Day Is Done."...
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Night&Day
Dirty Country
Published: May 28, 2008
The pair behind the Found Footage Festival, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, direct a film about Larry Pierce, the raunchiest country music singer in America. Pickett and Prueher...
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Night&Day
All Together Now
By Michael Leaverton
Published: May 28, 2008
Imagine going to a play and finding yourself wearing headphones, sitting in a "power circle" of 15-20 people, and readying yourself for a "soul journey." Sounds a wee creepy,...
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Night&Day
Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout
By Silke Tudor
Published: May 28, 2008
In its three short years of existence, the Stars and Garters Theatre Company has woven a love spell around this city. Its first offering, The Curse of the Goddamned Ship, a...
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Night&Day
The Stupids Dance
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 28, 2008
If you've ever wished for a long-lost tribe, a sort of nebulous cultural group to take you in no questions asked, welcome to Brass Menazeri. Your new fictional Eastern...
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Night&Day
Annette Would Not Approve
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: May 28, 2008
Although the band's name comes from the Annette Funicello song of the same name, Pineapple Princess is far from wholesome, "square," or conservative, all defining qualities of...
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Stage
SF Playhouse's Bug gets under your skin
By Chloe Veltman
Published: May 28, 2008
At the top of the second half of Tracy Letts' 1996 play, Bug, Peter, a troubled young man who claims to have escaped from an Army hospital, squats over a microscope,...
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News
Pay to Sway
Developers are funding junkets, buying equipment, and throwing parties for city planning staff. It doesn't smell right.
By Joe Eskenazi
Published: May 28, 2008
Stop us if you've heard this one: A developer and a city planner walk into a bar ... Actually, it's not so much a bar but a "gala." And all the drinks are free — paid for...
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Reviewed
Scarlett Johansson
Anywhere I Lay My Head (Atco)
By Noah W. Bailey
Published: May 28, 2008
Doing justice to an artist with the gravitas of Tom Waits is a challenge for any singer, much less a 23-year-old actress making her musical debut. But that's exactly what...
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Music
Swervedriver returns from shoegazer history
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: May 28, 2008
Over the phone from London, Swervedriver frontman Adam Franklin listens as I remind him of the last time I interviewed him. It was toward the end of 1998 — the band was...
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Hear This
Celestial Septet
By J. Niimi
Published: May 28, 2008
Los Angeles–based electric guitarist (for Wilco and the Nels Cline Singers) and experimental composer Nels Cline has been called a "guitar god" by Rolling Stone and "the...
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BeatBox
Chillout Folk
By Tamara Palmer
Published: May 28, 2008
It's been three years since U.K. artist Kieran Hebden released a full-length album as Four Tet, but he's recently remixed friend Thom Yorke of Radiohead and released his own...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: May 28, 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
Epic Bore
The Children of Huang Shi is just another sweeping, extraordinary journey to redemption.
By Ella Taylor
Published: May 28, 2008
Reluctant though I am to carp about any director who has devoted chunks of his career to bringing the nonwhite world's suffering to Western attention, Roger Spottiswoode's The...
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Sucka Free City
VideoGate cop injured on duty at his desk job
By Lauren Smiley
Published: May 28, 2008
In a report released earlier this month, a police consulting firm suggested San Francisco's finest should slash the number of precinct stations in half to streamline...
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Reviewed
No Age
Nouns (Sub Pop)
By Randall Roberts
Published: May 28, 2008
Nouns, the new record by L.A. band No Age, is the best punk album of the 21st century. The duo's first real full-length release (following last year's singles collection,...
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Music
New disc and tour celebrate Miles Davis’ Indian influence
By Mark Keresman
Published: May 28, 2008
Miles Davis remains one of the planet's most influential musicians and bandleaders. From the 1940s until his death in 1991, the trumpeter consistently reflected, catalyzed, and...
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Hear This
Boys don't cry, except when it's with the Cure
By Ezra Gale
Published: May 28, 2008
When the Cure canceled last year's entire North American tour at the last minute, the news was enough to make longtime fans smear their lipstick and wear their best mopey...
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Film
Army of One
A Russian grandmother visits the troops, and brings light to their misguided mission in Chechnya.
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 28, 2008
Spare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity, Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra is founded on contradiction. Musing on war in general and the Russian occupation...
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