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Feature
Dancing with Words
Choreographer Erika Chong Shuch imagines a strange future.
By Nirmala Nataraj
Published: September 3, 2008
Erika Chong Shuch and her much-lauded company, the Erika Shuch Performance Project, have been making dreamlike, profoundly theatrical pieces that toe a line between the...
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Music
Mexican bribes and high gas prices: The May Fire's tour diary
By The May Fire
Published: September 3, 2008
After hearing repeated newscasts about the ways high gas prices are affecting four-wheeled travelers of all income levels, we asked local indie act the May Fire to document the...
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Eat
The Secret Garden
One of the city's nicest outdoor spaces is tucked away in Hayes Valley.
By Meredith Brody
Published: September 3, 2008
One of the delights of San Francisco is its wide range of eateries, not only in price and presentation, but also in location and surroundings. You can feast on a multicourse,...
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Film
San Francisco in Canada
Lots of locals in the Toronto Film Fest.
By Meredith Brody
Published: September 3, 2008
A number of movies with ties to the Bay Area are playing at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival (September 4-13), in search of distribution, publicity, or just...
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Night&Day
Welcome to the Land of Chocolate
Published: September 3, 2008
According to Roget’s Thesaurus, there are only five synonyms for the verb drool. We, however, can think of others — they’re the names of the more than two dozen...
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Night&Day
Street Art on Screen
By Aaron Hillis
Published: September 3, 2008
The ongoing trouble with docs about artists is that too few are very artfully made themselves, or else they flat out fail to demonstrate any insight into their subjects'...
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Night&Day
Making Eating an Art
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 3, 2008
John Updike called her “the poet of the appetites.” W.H. Auden said, “I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose.” And yet Mary...
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Night&Day
Wheel Change
By Nirmala Nataraj
Published: September 3, 2008
The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is here to let everyone know that life on two wheels really can be better. Sure, city cyclophobes are swelling their ranks faster than you...
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Night&Day
Get Vertical
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 3, 2008
Forget the hovercraft: Where the heck are our jet packs? In this, the futuristic year 2008, you’d think we’d all be zipping around in our own private strap-on flying...
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Night&Day
Putting Lace in Its Place
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 3, 2008
Doilies are synonymous with fussiness. Gaining popularity during the Victorian era, the frothy decorations protected armchairs from icky, greasy men and kept crockery from...
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Night&Day
A Thousand Hands Clapping
By Nirmala Nataraj
Published: September 3, 2008
Chinese-born artist Shen Shaomin is something of a contemporary shaman. Instead of regurgitating a bunch of art school sleights of hand or investing in gallery world pother,...
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Night&Day
Shake It
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 3, 2008
If we have to tell you how the Fringe Festival works, you're either very young or a dipwad. Some of both of you are out there, so here's how it goes. There are lots of plays....
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Night&Day
For the Love of Tomatoes
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 3, 2008
Some people think tomatoes are green, square, and crunchy. They "don't like tomatoes." In our opinion, such people have a) been robbed, and b) never tasted a tomato. Amy...
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Night&Day
Walk Right In
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 3, 2008
David Hochbaum, Travis Linquist, and Colin Burns are living in an art gallery. They're just kinda in there, making art, scratching themselves, doing whatever artists do. Not...
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Night&Day
The Long Then
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 3, 2008
New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson reads from his new novel, Anathem, and waves a shovel around onstage this evening. In conversations with...
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Night&Day
Yes and Noh
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 3, 2008
Korean composer Hyo Shin Na's work for piano inspired Paige Starling Sorvillo to dance; not a unique experience, but truly good to know about. The performance tonight, in...
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Stage
Larceny Makes the World Go 'Round
Bill English pilfers from Sam Mendes, with mixed results.
By Chloe Veltman
Published: September 3, 2008
Sometimes a particular production of a play or musical casts such a spell over the theater community that it practically comes to define the work. For example, the British...
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Feature
Dance Events to Check Out This Fall
By Nirmala Nataraj
Published: September 3, 2008
Inbal Pinto Dance Company Seeing an Inbal Pinto Dance Company show is akin to experiencing Cirque du Soleil without all the commercial flourishes and dumbed-down...
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Music
From hair gel to guitar picks, musician necessities in price bind
By Ryan Foley
Published: September 3, 2008
Portland, Ore.'s Blind Pilot garnered headlines this summer when the band announced its members would be traveling by bicycle this fall. Having kicked off in Bellingham, Wash.,...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: September 3, 2008
Aroma Tea: 1806 Polk (at Jackson), www.aromateashop.com. Russian Hill. Tea bar. Basil Canteen: 1489 Folsom (at 11th St.), 552-3963. SOMA. Thai. Bonbon Patisserie: 308 Kearny...
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