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Sucka Free City
The 12-year-old behind the Craigslist cockatiel scam
By Joe Eskenazi
Published: July 30, 2008
John Fetto's wife, Rita, loved their bird, Valentine. Five years ago, Rita died of breast cancer at age 47. So when Valentine flew out of John's car window in Bernal Heights on...
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Music
Mötley Crüe stages a Mötley Crüe Broadway musical.
By Ben Westhoff
Published: July 30, 2008
If you go to a show on Mötley Crüe's current tour, you aren't so much seeing Mötley Crüe as a Broadway musical version of Mötley Crüe. The band...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: July 30, 2008
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Amber India: 25 Yerba Buena (at Mission), 777-0500, www.amber-india.com/sanfrancisco....
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Film
Soul and the City
A "lost" classic, 1961's The Exiles gets its long-overdue theatrical debut.
By Jim Ridley
Published: July 30, 2008
"The old people remember the past," a narrator says early in The Exiles over a prologue of Edward S. Curtis photographs — faces of aged Native Americans who may have had...
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Stage
Roger Rees reps Shakespeare at A.C.T.
By Chloe Veltman
Published: July 30, 2008
When I was at grad school on the East Coast, the bane of every theater student's life was a mandatory class called "The Rep Ideal." Every week the head of the program, the...
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Sucka Free City
Guv candidate Gavin Newsom eligible for $48,000 campaign donations
By Joe Eskenazi
Published: July 30, 2008
If you've got a soft spot in your heart for Gavin Newsom — and, say, $48,200 burning a hole in your pocket — the mayor would like to speak with you. Now. Newsom...
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Music
Kronos Quartet bridges war-torn cultures
By Andy Beta
Published: July 30, 2008
Read any article about Kronos Quartet, and it will be abundantly clear that David Harrington gushes with unbridled ardor for music the world over. The violinist, who founded...
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Film
Change You Can't Believe In
Presidential candidates vie (and pander and plead) for one heart and mind in Swing Vote.
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 30, 2008
Swing Vote is an election-themed comedy that's about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you wish it were. The clever premise, which would...
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Bookcap
Herbert Gold, still alive and still cranky
By Meredith Brody
Published: July 30, 2008
Subtitled "A Memoir," this easy-to-read assemblage of previously published essays and new material from one of San Francisco's favorite literary beatnik sons is a cri de coeur:...
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Music
Torche: metal with a big pop buzz
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: July 30, 2008
Listening to the colossal wallop of the Florida underground metal outfit Torche is a pleasure. Making that colossal wallop is equally fulfilling, but as I discover upon ringing...
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FilmCap
Kabluey
By Jim Ridley
Published: July 30, 2008
From the film appearances of the San Diego Chicken to the penguin-suited thug who gave Jean-Claude Van Damme a flipper-smacking in Sudden Death, I can't think of a single...
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Film
Corpse Fried
The Mummy franchise has seen better days.
By Vadim Rizov
Published: July 30, 2008
I was 13 when Stephen Sommers' 1999 remake-in-name-only of The Mummy came out — just about the ideal age. Sommers is definitely some kind of junk-addled auteur, and if...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: July 30, 2008
Tutu hasty to judge Blood, sweat, and free physical therapy: Ballet is difficult and injuries happen — that is obvious ["Blood, Sweat, & Tutus," 7/23]. However, what is...
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Reviewed
NOMO
Ghost Rock (Ubiquity)
By Ezra Gale
Published: July 30, 2008
The Detroit-based instrumental group NOMO used to get tagged as an Afrobeat band, but that label was always too narrow. On two previous full-lengths — 2004's self-titled...
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FilmCap
XXY
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: July 30, 2008
On the remote Uruguayan seaside, Alex's parents have sequestered their daughter away, hoping to keep her secret hidden from the world. That secret is a "difference," betrayed...
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Bookcap
Evison's debut novel a Lulu
By Annika Dukes
Published: July 30, 2008
The quirky, well-drawn characters of Jonathan Evison's first novel make adolescence angst almost enjoyable — at least, when you're reading about it rather than living it....
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Sucka Free City
Jim Jones: Cult leader, killer, supporter of suicide barrier on Golden Gate Bridge
By Matthew Hirsch
Published: July 30, 2008
Every righteous cause needs a righteous leader. The gay community had Harvey Milk. The Green Party had Matt Gonzalez. And the antisuicide movement? Without a charismatic...
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Reviewed
Beck
Modern Guilt (Interscope)
By Doug Wallen
Published: July 30, 2008
Danger Mouse's presence as co-producer doesn't drastically alter what we've come to expect from Beck on the dude's eighth album: sleepy intonations, collage imagery, and...
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Clickable Clit
A Cybersex Column
Where do all the artsy, sexually adventurous San Fran hipsters go to date online?
By Bonnie Ruberg
Published: July 30, 2008
The Clickable Clit continues this week with more online adventures from the personal life of a SF-based cybersex expert… Friday, July 25, 11:17 p.m. A few interesting...
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Reviewed
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst (Merge)
By Nicholas Hall
Published: July 30, 2008
Oberst has the tendency to be heavy-handed with metaphor and with language in general, often reading like a hipper, more literate version of a 16-year-old's poetry journal. His...
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