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Night&Day
It's A BANner Year
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: July 9, 2008
At "Bay Area Now 5" — arguably the most important San Francisco art exhibit since the last one in '05 — the big names aren't the draw. Instead, it's the little guys...
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Night&Day
Transmutation and Transformation at Dinner
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: July 9, 2008
Overeducated and slightly batty winemaker Abe Schoener studied the classics and philosophy. His current take on them makes us think of Donna Tartt's novel The Secret History,...
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Night&Day
Getting All Dusty
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: July 9, 2008
A certain kind of woman makes you wonder: Does her power emanate from her hair, or does her might affect her coiffure? Aretha Franklin, Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, and Cher come...
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Art
The anger and the ecstasy of Kiki revisited
By Traci Vogel
Published: July 9, 2008
In the summer of 1993, San Francisco was not a happy place. Ravaged by AIDS and crushed by a slumping economy, the city was full of people stuck in the dark gloom of waiting...
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Matt Smith
Air Heads
SFO officials deserve some blame for an air disaster in Honduras. By Matt Smith
By Matt Smith
Published: July 9, 2008
Efrain Vanegas, a reporter with La Tribuna newspaper in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, emphatically agrees when I propose the word "chaos" to describe the situation in his country...
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Music
The Melvins continue to moon the music industry
By Erin Broadley
Published: July 9, 2008
Despite its slick vinyl interior, the Cha Cha Lounge in Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood is still a gum-under-the-table kind of joint. Dale Crover, drummer of the Melvins,...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: July 9, 2008
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats.
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Film
Going Down
Brendan Fraser falls into a deep, deep hole at the Center of the Earth.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: July 9, 2008
At the top, let's be clear about one thing: Journey to the Center of the Earth is more a demo reel than a narrative feature. It's a decent, if overly familiar and yawningly...
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Stage
Audience member does Keanu Reeves role in Point Break play
By Chloe Veltman
Published: July 9, 2008
Strange things are afoot at the Xenodrome. I'm not talking about George Carlin stepping out of a tricked-up phone booth to help Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter pass their history...
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Sucka Free City
Jefferson Elementary gets unnecessary $4.1 million wheelchair ramp
By Alastair Bland
Published: July 9, 2008
At Jefferson Elementary School in the Sunset District, contractors broke ground last month on a $4.1 million renovation project aimed at rendering the school compliant with the...
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Music
Children’s music aims for the sophisticated tykes
By Ryan Foley
Published: July 9, 2008
The stigma that children's music is pure sonic piffle is going the way of Barney the purple dinosaur. The industry that once proffered artists like Raffi Cavoukian, who would...
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Film
Heaven Can Wait
Storylines and cultures crash in this German/Turkish import — and isn't it arty?
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: July 9, 2008
The Edge of Heaven disembarks stateside still flush from an award-reaping Eurasian tour. That the European Film Awards tossed Fatih Akin's intercontinental, cross-cultural...
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FilmCap
The Wackness
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: July 9, 2008
The Wackness is a mix tape of clichés, with writer-director Jonathan Levine taking cuts from a dozen or more "life-affirming" coming-of-age melodramas and setting them...
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Artcap
Lafe Eaves: Let It Bleed
By Traci Vogel
Published: July 9, 2008
Lafe Eaves' first solo exhibition kicks off the Shooting Gallery's side project Gallery Three, a nice airy space tacked on to the front of the gallery's studio. Eaves' ink and...
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News
The Price of Failure
Empty seats abound at Giants home games – and it's not just the team that's losing.
By Joe Eskenazi
Published: July 9, 2008
On a recent sweltering evening, Big Mike (aka Cab Man) took out his frustrations on a heaping plate of thighs and wings at Louisiana Famous Fried Chicken, just a Barry Zito...
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Let's Get Killed
King Khan and the Shrines gorge on psychedelic soul
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: July 9, 2008
San Francisco has a mighty sweet tooth for vintage soul and R&B. The July calendar alone for the SF Soul Scene blog lists DJs serving up crate-scavenged classics on a weekly...
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Arthouse
Art House
By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: July 9, 2008
To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. Romántico: Doc follows musician Carmelo Muñiz from S.F. to Mexico. Thu., July 10, 7:30...
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Stagecap
Buried Child muffled by flawed sound design
By Christopher Jensen
Published: July 9, 2008
Sam Shepard's Buried Child — which premiered at San Francisco's Magic Theatre in 1978 and won a Pulitzer the following year — begins as a Midwestern Gothic...
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Sucka Free City
The queer race to be chair of SF's Democratic Party
By Joe Eskenazi
Published: July 9, 2008
A koan for San Francisco: If an election pits a straight candidate against a gay candidate, and if a straight member of a gay political club promises said club will blackball...
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Reviewed
Keak da Sneak
Deified (Koch)
By Eric K. Arnold
Published: July 9, 2008
Apparently no one told Oakland's reigning hoodstar about hyphy's demise. Fashionably late — by about two years — for his own movement, Keak da Sneak makes it seem...
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