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Matt Smith
Dubious UCSF Study Claims Cops Extort Sex
By Matt Smith
Published: September 10, 2008
Amid the hubbub of the 22,000 academics, bureaucrats, and policy wonks attending last month's International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, one presentation suggested grave...
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Music
Sic Alps makes cracked genius look easy
By Mike McGonigal
Published: September 10, 2008
Over the last year, local duo Sic Alps has become massively popular in a small scene of record fiends and lo-fi garage-band freaks. Through record sales and touring, guitarist...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: September 10, 2008
Basil Canteen: 1489 Folsom (at 11th St.), 552-3963. SOMA. Thai. Bonbon Patisserie: 308 Kearny (at Bush), 956-5005, www.bonbonsf.com. Financial District. Sandwiches, French...
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Film
Ladies Light
Once grand, The Women is now just another chick flick.
By Ella Taylor
Published: September 10, 2008
"What do you think this is?" cries a lady who lunches in Diane English's remake of George Cukor's The Women. "Some kind of '30s movie?" Even without the 14-year struggle to...
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Stage
SF Fringe Fest Is Small, Not So Edgy
By Chloe Veltman
Published: September 10, 2008
Late summer wouldn't be late summer without the traditional Fringe Whinge, when arts journalists across the world vent their misgivings about "the state of the Fringe." The...
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Sucka Free City
Become a San Francisco Dog Poop Detective
By Gordon Young
Published: September 10, 2008
One of the joys of city life is stepping in a fresh pile of dog shit offloaded by one of San Francisco's estimated 120,000 canines. Lieutenant Le-Ellis Brown, the field service...
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Music
International crate digging gets new life online
By Ross Simonini
Published: September 10, 2008
Frank Gossner, aka DJ Franc O, recently spent three years living in West Africa for the sole purpose of crate-digging. He scoured 30-year-old private collections and the homes...
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Artcap
"Garry Winogrand: The Sixties"
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 10, 2008
Garry Winogrand was looking for answers. Unlike most of us, he looked for his through the viewfinder of a 35mm Leica, snapping the 1960 Democratic National Convention, hippie...
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Sucka Free City
Law Requires Lobbyists to Disclose Little
By Joe Eskenazi
Published: September 10, 2008
When it comes to obfuscation, some city lobbyists have apparently taken Bill Clinton's seminar regarding what the meaning of the word "is" is. San Francisco's 43 registered...
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Let's Get Killed
New local music making the grade
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: September 10, 2008
It's been a while since I've lived by the semester schedule, but looking at all the college kids hunting for places to live around town, I'd say it's back to school time in the...
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Encore
Also Playing
Our critics weigh in on local theater
By Chloe Veltman
Published: September 10, 2008
Cabaret. Based on John Van Druten's play I Am a Camera (which in turn was adapted from novelist Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories) Joe Masteroff, Fred Ebb, and John...
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Artcap
"Beautiful Eyesores: Luther Thie and Bijan Yashar"
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 10, 2008
Whoever deemed us the "wireless society" hasn't taken a look out the window lately. Power lines, streetcar cables, and telephone wires crisscross this city like fetish straps...
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Reviewed
Tricky
Knowle West Boy (Domino)
By Phil Freeman
Published: September 10, 2008
After the seething, explosive brilliance of Tricky's first two albums, 1995's Maxinquaye and 1996's Pre-Millennium Tension, inspiration is spreading thin. Later releases Angels...
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Clickable Clit
Wait, You had an Entire Cybersex Apartment?
By Bonnie Ruberg
Published: September 10, 2008
The Clickable Clit continues this week with more adventures from the personal diary of an SF-based cybersex expert. Sunday, September 7th “As far as what I like to do in...
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Reviewed
Paris
Acid Reflex (Guerilla Funk)
By Ron Nachmann
Published: September 10, 2008
If Barack Obama's candidacy was supposed to take the wind out of black nationalist hip-hop — by imposing racial reform via presidential elections — nobody told Bay...
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Reviewed
Annihilation Time
Annihilation Time III: Tales of the Ancient Age (Tee Pee)
By Dave Pehling
Published: September 10, 2008
The collision of '70s hard-rock riffs and '80s hardcore aggression has long been a volatile combination, successfully mined by the likes of Zeke, Nashville Pussy, and the...
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Hear This
Yay Area Grammar
By Tamara Palmer
Published: September 10, 2008
Rapper Nelly has won Grammys, sold millions of albums, and put St. Louis on the international rap map. Interestingly, he has spoken about the influence of Bay Area hip-hop...
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Hear This
Prurient Noise
By Ross Simonini
Published: September 10, 2008
Prurient's Dominick Fernow uses a microphone, an amp, and old distortion pedals to produce soundtracks to unforgettably horrific nightmares. He punches and roars at his...
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Hear This
The Australian Evangelist
By Mark Keresman
Published: September 10, 2008
The Go-Betweens were one of the classiest, most literate new wave combos of the 1980s. The Australian act was led by Grant McLennan and Robert Forster, who combined plaintive...
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BeatBox
The Juan MacLean scuffs soles
By Tony Ware
Published: September 10, 2008
With a distinct aim to scuff soles on the dancefloor, John "Juan" MacLean released the fibrous 13-minute burner "Happy House" back in March, and its titular, plinky,...
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