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Night&Day
Former President of Botswana
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 17, 2008
Botswana, as a country, is dramatic and rich: It houses a big chunk of the Kalahari Desert, and diamond mining is a major industry. But maybe you know how it goes in...
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Night&Day
A Wiry Guy
By Jim Ridley
Published: September 17, 2008
Part caper movie, part real-life superhero saga, and entirely engrossing, James Marsh's documentary recounts in Rififi-like detail how a Parisian street performer and wire...
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Night&Day
Deathbowl to Downtown
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 17, 2008
There are skate flicks and then there are skate flicks. Deathbowl to Downtown strives to hop the rail from skateboard movie to anthropological study by documenting how New York...
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Night&Day
Cumbia Cumbia!
By Alejandro Perez
Published: September 17, 2008
Consider the cumbia, that most humble yet versatile musical genre. Born, as the story goes, from the rhythmic shuffling of shackled legs belonging to African and Indio-mestizo...
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Stage
Yellowjackets stings Berkeley High's rep
By Chloe Veltman
Published: September 17, 2008
High schools in the United States don't often serve as settings for plays. But if any high school in America deserves to have a drama written about it, it's Berkeley High. A...
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News
RAT Entrap
Police are luring the homeless into crime. Is this time well spent?
By Ashley Harrell
Published: September 17, 2008
One chilly October evening in the Bayview, Shakka Clyde Jones was standing near a bench when trouble stumbled in his direction. The trouble — a scrawny white guy in...
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Music
Treasure Island picks: in haiku form!
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: September 17, 2008
The Treasure Island Music Festival is one of our favorite San Francisco music events. Sure, we've been hit with a barrage of multiday concerts this summer, but this one in...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: September 17, 2008
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Bangkok Express: 333 Bush (at Kearny), 981-9333. Financial District. Thai. Basil...
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Film
Ricky Gervais Sees Dead People
And they bring him to life in Ghost Town.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: September 17, 2008
It takes a good while for Ricky Gervais to warm up in Ghost Town; it takes even longer for the audience to warm to Ricky Gervais. During the opening minutes of Ghost Town...
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Encore
Also Playing
Our critics weigh in on local theater
By Chloe Veltman and Molly Rhodes
Published: September 17, 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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Sucka Free City
Channel 29 producer Ace Washington's shows canceled
By John Geluardi
Published: September 17, 2008
Free speech has always been a cherished aspect of San Francisco's political and cultural life, but apparently speaking your mind goes only so far at a local bastion of...
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Music
Al Green goes back to the basics
By Tamara Palmer
Published: September 17, 2008
Today's multiplatinum pop artists too easily bend their signature sounds into formulaic molds. They all seem to carry some variation on the stuttery Timbaland beat or T-Pain's...
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Sucka Free City
SF Weekly theater critic inspires play
By Chloe Veltman
Published: September 17, 2008
As a theater critic, when I see my name on a press release, it's usually attached to a quote pulled from one of my reviews. I'll come across exclamations like "'Brilliant!'...
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Let's Get Killed
Talking Music series emphasizes the brains behind the songs
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: September 17, 2008
The entertainment at live shows is usually formulated into the same split: 90 percent music, 10 percent banter. Generally, that's a fine balance. Hearing some conversationally...
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Sucka Free City
Gavin Newsom's out-of-town businesses with SF addresses
By Matt Smith
Published: September 17, 2008
What with his expensive suits, recent A-list wedding, and patronage from the Getty oil fortune, Gavin Newsom doesn't seem the kind of man who would need to moonlight to make...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: September 17, 2008
Dead Men Don't Vote No time for DNA on the campaign trail: As Gavin Newsom devotes more and more of his time to running for governor, John Geluardi had a timely article about...
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Reviewed
Metallica
Death Magnetic (Warner Bros.)
By Phil Freeman
Published: September 17, 2008
It's great to hear guitarist Kirk Hammett soloing again, and Lars Ulrich pounding a kit that sound like drums instead of trash-can lids. And hey, James Hetfield's voice has...
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Clickable Clit
The Clickable Clit: Cybersex at 30,000 Feet
By Bonnie Ruberg
Published: September 17, 2008
The Clickable Clit continues this week with more adventures from the personal diary of an SF-based cybersex expert. Cybersex at 30,000 feet Sunday, September 14th American...
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Reviewed
George Duke
Dukey Treats (Heads Up)
By Andy Tennille
Published: September 17, 2008
For the 37th album in his storied 40-plus-year career, George Duke went there: straight for the poop chute. It's not that much of a surprise: Duke has always been down with the...
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Reviewed
Bart Davenport
Palaces (Antenna Farm)
By Doug Wallen
Published: September 17, 2008
Bart Davenport's electro-funk side project Honeycut earned Gnarls Barkley comparisons in 2006, but his latest solo outing isn't so easy to pin down. Nor should it be,...
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