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Mad As A Wet Haine
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 17, 2008
Matthieu Kassovitz' 1995 film La Haine is sort of hard to watch, but it's even harder to muddle your way through the world without it. In the hardheaded look at the unhappy...
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Boston Marriage
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 17, 2008
The author of Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir, can hardly be described without using the Shaft theme song, so go put it on, please. OK, if you're ready: "Who's...
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Prim, Proper, and Totally Perverted
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
The Folsom Street Fair is a chance to air your fetishes, but not everyone gets off on leather chaps and butt plugs. For those whose secret thrill involves prim librarians in...
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Black, White, and Art Cred All Over
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
Adrián Arias is a poet, artist, and provocateur, which makes him the perfect host for "Illusion 7." At this annual art happening, guests dress in black, artists dress in...
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Kickin’ It
By Nirmala Nataraj
Published: September 17, 2008
Leave it to the Brazilians to bring soccer to the beach. The country of capoeira dancers, baile funk, and Carnaval imported the same informal esprit de corps to soft-sand...
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Iran Through the Lens
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 17, 2008
Kaurismaki, Kusturica, Kiarostami: These are directors to live by at the moment. The last of the three is profiled at the Iranian Film Festival in two documentaries by Irish...
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Cyclecidal Tendencies
By John Graham
Published: September 17, 2008
Cable cars, the Golden Gate Bridge, Lombard Street? Sweet. Gourmet restaurants, gorgeous scenery, great shopping? Yeah, yeah, yeah … all fine and glamorous. But when we...
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What Isn't Art?
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 17, 2008
Tom Marioni's signature artwork, "Free Beer: The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art," pisses some people off. Their fury is partly understandable: The...
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Let Us Atom
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
Rarely has a roof gotten so much attention. But like the rest of the $484 million building, the “green” roof of the new California Academy of Sciences — formed...
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Wait Until Next Year
By Michael Fox
Published: September 17, 2008
Even the most pin-encrusted, garlic-fry-huffing San Francisco Giants fan must concede that this has been a dismal year for the home team. But let’s forestall, at least for...
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Frida Be You And Me
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was a polio victim, and suffered lifelong pain after an early bus accident, but she created dream-like, evocative paintings that continue to draw...
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A Quick Buck
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 17, 2008
A quiet voice comes from the cowboy slumped against the arena fence: "Is my head okay?" he asks the doctor. In the Professional Bull Riders Web site video, Colby Yates has just...
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A Little Obsessed
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
Lawrence Rinder curated at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (he assembled the 2002 Whitney Biennial). He was dean of graduate studies at California College of the...
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Elder Flower
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: September 17, 2008
For all the insanity of Augusten Burroughs’ parents, they produced a pair of excellent memoirists. Burroughs is the author of Running with Scissors, which wryly chronicled...
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Luke Here
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
Charles Ross is not just a solo performer, he is Hans Solo. And Luke Skywalker. And R2D2. The Canadian actor leaps around the stage in One Man Star Wars Trilogy, acting out...
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Ich Bin Ein Californian
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
Christopher Isherwood was one of the most famous denizens of the waning Weimar Republic. Between 1929 and 1933, the Englishman lived in pre-Nazi Berlin, taking full advantage...
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Bike Kitchen Anniversary Party
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
The Bike Kitchen operates on the fishing principle: give a man a bike, he rides for a day; teach a man to repair his bike, and he rides for a lifetime. But the truly awesome...
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Fortunate Sun
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 17, 2008
A slew of solar power companies march on San Francisco armed with powerful weapons: Information, magical gadgetry, and the world's most obvious solution to a lot of problems....
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The Nade
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 17, 2008
Remember when everyone loved Ralph Nader -- everyone except the automobile industry bigwigs, anyway? Remember the guy who brought us seat belts? No? Not very many other people...
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What? Poetry with no BS?
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 17, 2008
Most of what we know about Poetry at the 33 is that Kim Addonizio either used to hang out there or still does. That may sound like it isn't very much to go on, but Addonizio is...
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