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Sucka Free City
Mount Flushmore
Jokesters want to 'honor' President Bush.
By Alastair Bland
Published: June 4, 2008
A furtive movement is gaining power in the political bowels of San Francisco. Motivated by left-leaning public opinion and gaseous presidential ineptitude, this mounting force...
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Music
Santogold: pop's new Gwen Stefani
By Andy Beta
Published: June 4, 2008
By now the buzz on Santi White, the 32-year-old Brooklyn singer making her debut as Santogold, has grown deafening. Her résumé gets particular play among the...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: June 4, 2008
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Amisha Indian Cuisine: 1924 Irving (at 20th Ave.), 759-7007. Outer Sunset....
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Film
Kick Ass
Tae kwon do comedy The Foot Fist Way stars a truly cringetastic Danny McBride.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 4, 2008
The Foot Fist Way has been trying to break into theaters since clawing its way down film-fest row, beginning at Sundance in '06. It took Will Ferrell and his comedy life...
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Game On
Castle of Shikigami III tests the bounds of Wii loyalty
By Gary Hodges
Published: June 4, 2008
John Edwards might see two Americas, but this simpleminded little game enthusiast is more preoccupied with America's two Wii owners. One is the Nintendo fan: the cat who bought...
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Music
Firewater chases the perfect album to the end of the world
By John Graham
Published: June 4, 2008
Getting secretly doped by locals in India, attacked by malicious intestinal bugs in Pakistan, and solicited to buy AK-47s near Afghanistan — these are not the average...
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FilmCap
Love Songs
By Scott Foundas
Published: June 4, 2008
If the great movie musicals of yesteryear put a song in your heart, Christophe Honoré's Love Songs leaves you with a funny taste in your mouth. How else to describe...
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Encore
Also Playing
Our critics weigh in on local theater
By Will Harper, Chloe Veltman, Nathaniel Eaton and Christopher Jensen
Published: June 4, 2008
7 Sins. Halfway through James Judd's entertaining 75-minute solo show, it dawns on you: Who the hell is this guy and why am I laughing so hard? While autobiographical...
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Let's Get Killed
Warner Bros. vet launches music site for baby boomers
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: June 4, 2008
From the television screen to the magazine rack, music coverage generally skews young. It makes sense, given that the most rabid consumers are kids with time on their hands and...
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FilmCap
Stuck
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 4, 2008
In October 2001, Fort Worth nurse's aide Chante Mallard struck 37-year-old Gregory Glenn Biggs with her 1997 Chevy Cavalier, lodging him in her windshield; she allowed him to...
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Stagecap
Squeeze Box
By Molly Rhodes
Published: June 4, 2008
What could have been a simple, sweet tale about a woman finding herself gets a jolt of saltiness in Anne Randolph's hands. Or, really, it's her face, with her large eyes and...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: June 4, 2008
Out of Control Housing boom in 98: Yes on Proposition 98 ["Eminently Logical," Matt Smith, 5/28]. Renters have nothing to worry about. First, all rent-controlled units are...
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Reviewed
The Black Angels
Directions to See a Ghost (Light in the Attic)
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: June 4, 2008
We're well into the dawn of the drone by now. That sultry guitar hum introduced to the punks by the Velvet Underground and blown out to the shoegazers by Spacemen 3 and the...
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Stagecap
Headspace
By Nathaniel Eaton
Published: June 4, 2008
Boxcar Theatre prides itself on creating both experiential and experimental theater; the company did a past show on a moving bus, and is in negotiations to do next season's The...
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Reviewed
Black Stars:
Ghana's Hiplife Generation (Out Here)
By Phil Freeman
Published: June 4, 2008
The image of African music, as seen through American eyes, goes through phases. Right now, we're experiencing a retro moment: It would be easy to look at the recent deluge of...
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Reviewed
Usher
Here I Stand (LaFace/Sony BMG)
By Ben Westhoff
Published: June 4, 2008
You really can't fault entertainers who claim "playa for life" status. At least they're being honest; everyone from Rod Stewart to video performer-turned-tell-all-author...
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Hear This
Talib Calls Her Invincible
By Jonathan Cunningham
Published: June 4, 2008
Few MCs straddle the line between artist and activist the way 27-year-old rapper Invincible does. The Detroit-based lyricist fuses hip-hop with social change as a way of life,...
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Hear This
Senegalese Sound
By Ezra Gale
Published: June 4, 2008
If you were an alien charged with reporting on the complexities of recent human history, you could do a lot worse than researching Orchestra Baobab. The Senegalese group, named...
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BeatBox
Iberican Boys
By Tamara Palmer
Published: June 4, 2008
Chus & Ceballos coined the term "Iberican" (an amalgam of Iberian and American) to define their aesthetic. While their slang has yet to catch on, the duo's music has elevated...
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Arthouse
Art House
Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: June 4, 2008
Compiled by Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser. To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. Warren Sonbert 3: Narrative Vertigo: A...
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