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Night&Day
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
By Jim Ridley
Published: June 25, 2008
A tightly wound bundle of everything and its opposite—an anti-authoritarian who ran for sheriff of Aspen, a peace-loving gun nut, an iconoclast who relished winners as...
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Night&Day
A Colorful Character
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: June 25, 2008
Willy Heeks is an old Rhode Island surfer dude. He's also a great painter who says his abstracts are sometimes inspired by the Atlantic Ocean's (meager) curls. Strangely, his...
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Night&Day
The Science of Bigfoot
By Michael Leaverton
Published: June 25, 2008
Ah, Bigfoot. Where to begin? He's really a bear, or a giant ground sloth, or a moonshine hallucination. Last August, two enterprising idiots, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton,...
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Night&Day
Laugh with Sal
By Michael Leaverton
Published: June 25, 2008
Gone are the days when the superrich could cement in a prime piece of S.F. coastline, drop a roof over it, and sell swimming tickets — but luckily for us, that day did...
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Night&Day
Tube Time
By Silke Tudor
Published: June 25, 2008
The Cardboard Tube Fighting League now has chapters in Seattle, San Francisco, and Sydney; given that founder Robert Easley, is from Santa Cruz, it seems that official...
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Night&Day
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
By Michelle Orange
Published: June 25, 2008
My first boyfriend was a juicer. Steroids were the drug of choice at my high school, having washed into the Canadian suburbs in the early ’90s on the same raft as...
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Summer Guide
Let the Games Beijing
Spend a day of Olympic proportions beyond the Dragon's Gate.
By Karen Macklin
Published: June 25, 2008
It's 2008, and it's summer. That means one thing: Olympics in Beijing! Yes, despite some setbacks for host country China, such as multiple protests against human-rights...
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Sucka Free City
Gay Weddings We’d Really Like to See
SF Weekly Staff
Published: June 25, 2008
Gavin Newsom and Dan Noyes How long together: One four-year term Their love story: Most viewed ABC7 TV reporter Mr. Noyes' hostile questioning of the mayor as evidence of a...
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Music
Fleet Foxes: the new buzz on Seattle's softer side
By Michael D. Ayers
Published: June 25, 2008
It's been nearly 20 years since the Northwest first affected pop culture in a profound way with the explosion of grunge. While the DIY-punk spirit of the early '90s still rages...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: June 25, 2008
Amisha Indian Cuisine: 1924 Irving (at 20th Ave.), 759-7007. Outer Sunset. Indian. Boccalone: Ferry Building Marketplace (at Embarcadero), www.boccalone.com. Embarcadero....
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Film
Deep Freeze
Gleaning lessons from the darkness, Herzog treks to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World.
By J. Hoberman
Published: June 25, 2008
Some say the world will end in fire, some — like Werner Herzog — say ice. Flying in the face of global warming, this profoundly idiosyncratic filmmaker leads an...
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Summer Guide
Park It for the Summer
A survival guide for outdoor musical events in the city.
By Mike Rowell
Published: June 25, 2008
Attending open-air summer music events has universal hazards, from scorching sun and drunken lunkheads to the abject horror of overflowing Porta Pottis. San Francisco also...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: June 25, 2008
A Time to Critique Rolled-up newspaper for Geluardi: Many current SF/SPCA staff spent hours in forthright conversation with your reporter John Geluardi about changes at the...
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Music
A brief history of vocal fakery from Zapp to "Lollipop"
By Tony Ware
Published: June 25, 2008
When the vocoder was first invented in the 1930s, it was intended as a telecommunications encoder for speech encryption and transmission. Okay, so the history is dry, but the...
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Film
Robots in Love
WALL-E blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie's gone before. And that's a good thing.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 25, 2008
Many will attempt to describe WALL-E with a one-liner. It's R2-D2 in love. 2001: A Space Odyssey starring the Little Tramp. An Inconvenient Truth meets Idiocracy on its way to...
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Sucka Free City
Things in S.F. Turning America Gay
Was it Gavin? Sourdough bread? We round up the suspects.
By SF Weekly Staff
Published: June 25, 2008
(On a scale of one to ten) Gavin Newsom Rating: 8 Sourdough bread Rating: 10 Hyphy Rating: 3 Gold's Gym Rating: 9 Mojitos Rating: 9 Same-sex marriage Rating: 8 Gay Pride...
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Music
Grandmaster Flash spins his story in new autobiography
By Tamara Palmer
Published: June 25, 2008
New York DJ Grandmaster Flash is credited as one of the godfathers of hip-hop music and culture. In his new autobiography, The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My...
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Let's Get Killed
Camper Van Beethoven at 25: from warm beer to funny ideas
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: June 25, 2008
A lot has changed since Camper Van Beethoven first launched in Santa Cruz during the fall of 1983. Selling homemade EPs on the road barely pays for a tank of gas in a tour van....
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FilmCap
Brick Lane
By Ella Taylor
Published: June 25, 2008
Bracket the fact that it's an adaptation of Monica Ali's great big treat of a 2003 novel about displacement and feminine emancipation, and British director Sarah Gavron's tale...
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Summer Guide
Taking a Shot for the Team!
A drinking game to get you through the Giants' dismal season.
By Maya Kroth
Published: June 25, 2008
Let's face it: Watching this season's Giants is a painful experience for all involved, especially now that the team owns the third-worst record in the National League. To take...
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