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Film
In the Heat of the Knight
Summer '08: Batman saved the season, while a little Sex went a long way and the indies went south.
By Scott Foundas
Published: September 3, 2008
And so another summer movie season comes to an end, not with a bang but a whimper — what else to call four new releases (Babylon A.D., Bangkok Dangerous, College, and...
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Our critics weigh in on local theater
By Molly Rhodes and Chloe Veltman
Published: September 3, 2008
Point Break Live! Keanu Reeves' legacy looms large over this most excellent theatrical spoof of Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 film about a Los Angeles cop who goes undercover to...
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Not Your Parents' Jazz
This year's San Francisco Jazz Festival rings in the new.
By Eric K. Arnold
Published: September 3, 2008
Jazz began as a live soundtrack for East St. Louis brothels and accompaniment for New Orleans funerals. Along the way it has engendered jive-talking hep cats, bongo-drumming...
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Music
Gettin' brassy with the Hornucopia Festival
By Kurt B. Reighley
Published: September 3, 2008
Music is entering a new Brass Age. French horns and trumpets are stepping out of symphony orchestras and jazz combos, adding oomph everywhere from Kanye West's marching band...
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Classical & Opera
Compiled By John Graham
Published: September 3, 2008
Classical New Century Chamber Orchestra Music director Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg starts the ensemble's season with "Nadja Plays Piazzolla," a celebration of South American...
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Let's Get Killed
Hair metal fantasies realized at Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: September 3, 2008
It was barely 10 a.m., and '80s rock stud Kip Winger was winking at me for the second time as he played bass. He was making me blush profusely. I could barely look at Kip, or...
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Art House
Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 3, 2008
Brava Theater Center. Postcards from Leningrad: A screening of the 2007 film followed by a Q&A with director Mariana Rondón and producer Marité Ugás, a...
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Relics Revisited
Art lovers, history buffs, and science geeks get their fill this fall.
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 3, 2008
I Feel I Am Free But I Know I Am Not Sept. 4–Nov. 20 at SF Camerawork, 657 Mission (at New Montgomery), S.F. Call 512-2020 or visit www.sfcamerawork.org. No passive...
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Reviewed
Birdmonster
From the Mountain to the Sea (FADER)
By Doug Wallen
Published: September 3, 2008
For a magazine touting itself as an adventurous tastemaker, Fader has settled on a surprisingly safe choice for its label arm with Birdmonster. The San Francisco band's...
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Visual Arts Picks
Compiled By Traci Vogel
Published: September 3, 2008
Group Show: The Wizard of Oz Artwork that takes L. Frank Baum's classic children's book as its theme. Since the show is at the California College of Arts' gallery, it promises...
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Reviewed
Daedelus
Love to Make Music To (Ninja Tune)
By Andrew Stout
Published: September 3, 2008
On Love to Make Music To, Daedelus' point of departure is the early '90s – specifically, rave culture's big awakening and the last of hip-hop's golden age. The dandified...
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Feature
Read This If You Want to Live
Litquake is an earthquake. Of literature. And it is coming for us.
By Jonathan Kiefer
Published: September 3, 2008
Okay, it's becoming obvious that nobody is going to say anything, because, well, who wants to be the buzzkill, right? But this whole Litquake situation? Something really has to...
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Witch
Paralyzed (Tee Pee)
By Doug Wallen
Published: September 3, 2008
There are concept albums, and then there are concept bands. Witch is the latter, a leftfield side project formed by Dinosaur Jr.'s J. Mascis and old friend Dave Sweetapple and...
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Fall Books by Bay Area Authors
Published: September 3, 2008
Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny (Sept. 30) By Cintra Wilson The San Francisco native satirist and cultural critic wonders how the insanely...
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Pretty cult machines: NIN and Deerhunter
By Tony Ware
Published: September 3, 2008
Nine Inch Nails and Deerhunter are two ensembles operating in the eclipse of their shamanistic frontmen. For NIN, that singular personality is Trent Reznor, who has been dosing...
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Magic Act
A Q & A with a historic theater's new chief.
By Chloe Veltman
Published: September 3, 2008
The Magic Theatre takes its name from a famous location in Herman Hesse's novel Steppenwolf: "Anarchist Evening at the Magic Theatre, for Madmen Only, Price of Admission Your...
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A Perfect Performance
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: September 3, 2008
The recent trend of bands performing classic albums in their entirety generates mixed feelings. The concept can be a gimmicky nostalgia trip, smacking of artists conceding that...
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Fall Theater Events
Published: September 3, 2008
Rock 'n' RollTom Stoppard's story of "Prague's rock revolution." Fans of Pink Floyd will appreciate the exploration of the life of the band's late founder Syd Barrett, who...
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Mogging for the Camera
By Ron Nachmann
Published: September 3, 2008
Many have heard guitar-heavy instrumental band Mogwai without knowing it. By the time the Scots had released their soaring 2006 album Mr. Beast, their tunes had repeatedly...
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Films on Location
The fall lineup features sex, lies, secrecy and Milk.
By Gregg Rickman
Published: September 3, 2008
San Francisco's fall film menu includes festivals, special film series at its many repertory theaters, and several interesting-sounding movies shot here in the city including...
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