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Night&Day
Don't Forget the Motor City
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: September 24, 2008
It's a semi-creepy project: Robin Levitt's new book helps the would-be tourist appreciate the ruins of Detroit. The Michigan metropolis has one of the highest violent crime...
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Night&Day
To the Pain
By Traci Vogel
Published: September 24, 2008
Literature of the type created by Tom Perrotta and Katherine Taylor does not usually lend itself to put-up-your-dukes type fighting. But you never know what to expect at a...
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Stage
Hidden Dragon Lady
Amy Tan's opera puts Chinese culture into perspective.
By Chloe Veltman
Published: September 24, 2008
When most of us in the West think of Chinese culture, the word "epic" springs to mind. It's embarrassing, really: You might have hoped that this hackneyed view of the People's...
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Feature
Bouncers Gone Wild
Despite increasing regulation, clubs don't always check their bouncers' backgrounds.
By Lauren Smiley
Published: September 24, 2008
The bouncer industry has become a bit more regulated since the days of the Barbary Coast, where legend has it that unwitting patrons who wandered into "Shanghai" Kelly's tavern...
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Music
Legendary memories of Mission of Burma
By Mike Rowell
Published: September 24, 2008
When Boston quartet Mission of Burma broke up in 1983, the band had a modicum of fans, but its legend didn't snowball until the years following its dissolution. Eventually,...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: September 24, 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. The Front...
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Film
Very Minor Miracle
No matter the run time and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore.
By Scott Foundas
Published: September 24, 2008
On some level, you have to hand it to Spike Lee. There are probably fewer than a handful of directors working in Hollywood today who could put together the financing for a...
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Matt Smith
Facing foreclosure? Con man Paul Noe II has a deal for you
By Matt Smith
Published: September 24, 2008
Dunstanto Lopez stands at the center of the foreclosure storm that's boarding up neighborhoods around America. The value of his home in Hayward has recently plummeted by nearly...
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Music
Shoegaze dimmed My Bloody Valentine's brilliance
By Andrew Stout
Published: September 24, 2008
Even before the band fell off the face of the Earth in the early '90s, My Bloody Valentine was a legend in the making. Now a reunion tour gives one of the most influential acts...
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Film
Sex Crime
Choke adaptation needs the Heimlich.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: September 24, 2008
There's a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor Mancini with severe mommy...
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Arthouse
Art House
Published: September 24, 2008
Compiled by Michael Leaverton, Hiya Swanhuyser, and Traci Vogel. To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Alliance Française. La Haine: Wed., Sept. 24, 7 p.m....
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Sucka Free City
Lawyers may sue city for turning juveniles over to feds
By Matthew Hirsch
Published: September 24, 2008
Twice this summer, a group of lawyers dropped by Mayor Gavin Newsom's office to talk about his decision to help federal agents deport underage immigrants. San Francisco has...
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Let's Get Killed
DJs dig into '90s nostalgia
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: September 24, 2008
It was one of those balmy September weekends when San Franciscans can actually go sleeveless after 10 p.m. And yet in the line snaking outside Mission bar the Knockout for the...
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Sucka Free City
Tribe.net: Going the way of Friendster?
By Bonnie Ruberg
Published: September 24, 2008
Started back in 2003, San Francisco–based Tribe.net was a social network for proud freaks. With a user base of more than half a million that once rivaled MySpace, Tribe...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: September 24, 2008
The RAT Takes the Cheese It's not entrapment, it's an "opportunity": Entrapment? Give me a break ["RAT Entrap," Ashley Harrell, News, 9/17]! Entrapment would look like this:...
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Sucka Free City
Chronicle loses its books editors
By Will Harper
Published: September 24, 2008
If you're one of the few people still reading newspapers, you've probably figured out this truism: Print media is screwed. You know this because you've read several stories in...
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Reviewed
Kimya Dawson
Alphabutt (K)
By Doug Wallen
Published: September 24, 2008
Just because the mainstream took notice when Kimya Dawson dominated Billboard charts with the Juno soundtrack doesn't mean she's left K Records for a major. Rather, with...
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Reviewed
Davila 666
Davila 666 (In the Red)
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: September 24, 2008
Davila 666 is Puerto Rico's answer to the Black Lips and my answer to the question: When will a new band seriously brainwash me on its music? Since picking up Davila's debut...
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Reviewed
Calexico
Carried to Dust (Quarterstick)
By Kory Grow
Published: September 24, 2008
When we last heard from the Sergio Leone–worshipping Tex-Mex balladeers Calexico on 2006's middling Garden Ruin, it seemed the Man with No Name had finally died. The...
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Encore
Also Playing
Our critics weigh in on local theater
By Molly Rhodes and Chloe Veltman
Published: September 24, 2008
Red State. The San Francisco Mime Troupe's latest politically charged musical comedy tackles its worthy subject — citizens must hold government responsible for how their...
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