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Feature
Homeless SF State students struggle to stay in school and stay loaded
By Trey Bundy
Published: September 17, 2008
Rex reaches over a chain-link fence and sticks a gyro sandwich, a two-liter bottle of Coke, and his skateboard between the branches of a tree. After a quick glance over each...
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Music
TV on the Radio bring new levity to Treasure Island
By Andy Beta
Published: September 17, 2008
TV on the Radio guitarist Kyp Malone is trying to explain the ins and outs of negotiating success as he walks down the street in his South Williamsburg neighborhood. "It's what...
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Eat
A Pair to Bet On
A terrific lunch leads to an even better dinner.
By Meredith Brody
Published: September 17, 2008
A wonderful lunch at a new neighborhood restaurant in Oakland later led us across the bay to an even more wonderful dinner at a restaurant that has been feeding its...
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Film Feature
Biblical Proportions
The best four-plus hours, plus Jesus, round out this year's Toronto film fest.
By Scott Foundas
Published: September 17, 2008
The most vital movie I ended up seeing at this year's Toronto International Film Festival didn't have its first screening until the festival's final day and is, in the words of...
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Film
Your Friends and Neighbors
Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace.
By Scott Foundas
Published: September 17, 2008
Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned out to be a blond, blue-eyed...
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Night&Day
Obama’s Poster Boy
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
Graphic artist and illustrator Shepard Fairey, whose street adaptations of propaganda have been “manufacturing quality dissent since 1989,” has found a non-ironic...
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Night&Day
Shine a Little Light
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 17, 2008
We're squeamish. We can hardly believe people even get Brazilian bikini waxes, let alone give them for a living. It seems so invasive; isn't that hair there for a reason? Yet...
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Night&Day
Dog Is My Co-Pilot
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
In the early 1990s, it looked like indie bookstores were on the way out. Amazon.com dominated, and big-box stores were booming. Between then and now, the American Booksellers...
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Night&Day
Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?
By Andy Wright
Published: September 17, 2008
If you've ever wanted to watch some people throw a bunch of art in the middle of the street and run that shit over with a steamroller, "Roadworks" is for you. At the annual...
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Night&Day
Your Vision Getting Blurr-y
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 17, 2008
Let's hear it for weird old art guys! Specifically, let us now praise Buz Blurr, who spells his name buZ blurr and is famous among hobos for his fabulous cryptic train...
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Night&Day
Daughters of Ida Lupino
By Michael Fox
Published: September 17, 2008
According to the venerable distributor Women Make Movies, just six percent of the 250 top-grossing films last year were directed by women. That isn’t an indicator of...
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Night&Day
Coin-Operated Relaxation
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
Perhaps no space in the city is more hotly contested than the parking space. So when the creative folks at design collective Rebar went looking for alternative uses for these...
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Night&Day
Warhol Superstar
By Michael Fox
Published: September 17, 2008
In the sprawling scrapbook of Warhol divas, the legends Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Candy Darling, and Holly Woodlawn still hold sway over lesser mortals. But to the cognoscenti, any...
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Night&Day
Crouching Stereotype, Hidden Forerunner
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 17, 2008
When we heard that a local theater would be screening a silent kung fu movie with live accompaniment, we were excited. It somehow didn't occur to us that a lot of movies from...
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Night&Day
And the Band Played On
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
Such is the state of anti-touchy-feelyness nowadays that it’s worth noting when The New York Times calls something “triumphantly sentimental.” Especially when...
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Night&Day
Barry Good
By Andy Wright
Published: September 17, 2008
The girls who populate cartoonist Lynda Barry’s work are scrubby, scraggly-haired, befreckled, and awkward. Barry's most famous creation, Marlys, has a curt line of a...
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Night&Day
Why Him?
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
People who read the recent New Yorker profile of Alec Baldwin, which essentially outlined the actor's persecution complex, seemed to have one of two reactions. Some dismissed...
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Night&Day
Wheel People
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
The Greasy Hearts Cycle Club is fixated on one thing: fun on wheels. The group describes itself as "your friendly neighborhood bicycle-loving queers," and it gathers each...
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Night&Day
Squeeze Play
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
Ann Randolph performed with the Groundlings, the Los Angeles comedy troupe that has spawned Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, and Cheri Oteri, among others. Instead of going to...
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Night&Day
Giant Party!
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 17, 2008
A pre-game party in Lot D (we're dreaming it includes sago't gulaman, but we can't make promises), Filipino music and dancing, a Giants Filipino Heritage Night II hat, and a...
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