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Sucka Free City
If Gavin Newsom were born to Sarah Palin ...
By SF Weekly Staff
Published: October 1, 2008
If you were born to Sarah Palin, your name would be... MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM: Flag Cobra Palin WILLIE BROWN: Dust Chinstrap Palin HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI: Slap Spear...
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Deerhoof
Offend Maggie (Kill Rock Stars)
By Ryan Foley
Published: October 1, 2008
The more idiosyncratic Deerhoof becomes, the more critics gush. The band's peculiar musical quirkiness breeds a genus of praise other artists can only envy. Lost in all this...
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FilmCap
Save Me
By Chuck Wilson
Published: October 1, 2008
Save Me's plot sounds like a ripped-from-the-headlines gay play circa five years ago, but the film itself subverts expectations. Mark (Chad Allen) is a young New Mexico man...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: October 1, 2008
Real Student Life 101 Addicts are people, too: Thanks to Trey Bundy for not portraying Steve and Rex as just some loser junkies, but as two people with other things going on,...
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Raphael Saadiq
The Way I See It (Sony Columbia)
By Clover Hope
Published: October 1, 2008
Since no idea is original, it's all in the way you freak it. Late last year, Boyz II Men released a respectable Motown remake album with a lousy title that only could've been...
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Growing
All the Way (Social Registry)
By Justin F. Farrar
Published: October 1, 2008
Social Registry puts out some righteous jams: Gang Gang Dance, Telepathe, and Psychic Ills are all top-shelf freaks. But the Brooklyn imprint shit the bed when it signed...
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Swedish Skull Crush
By Dave Pehling
Published: October 1, 2008
For the better part of two decades, Swedish death-metal band Opeth has been redefining its genre with audacious experiments in heaviness. Marrying the complex dynamics of '70s...
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Translating Gobbledigook
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: October 1, 2008
When it was first announced that Sigur Rós was releasing a single titled "Gobbledigook," I was certain it was a hoax. Iceland's earnest classical-music-meets-space-rock...
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Art House
Compiled By Hiya Swanhuyser and Michael Leaverton
Published: October 1, 2008
Compiled by Hiya Swanhuyser and Traci Vogel. To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. ATA Film & Video Festival: Opens with Craig Baldwin's...
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Artistic Love Affair
By Tony Ware
Published: October 1, 2008
There's certainly an art to throwing a good party, so leave it to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to organize another gala of undeniable magnitude. The seventh...
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BeatBox
New Old Romantics
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: October 1, 2008
Going solely by the tunes on Cut Copy's new disc, In Ghost Colours, you'd swear the Aussie trio dresses in frilly shirts, gravity-defying hairdos, and other accoutrements of...
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Bouncer
Psychos and sour grapes at the Casanova
By Katy St. Clair
Published: October 1, 2008
The Casanova has big glass grapes hanging from the ceiling, the kind you saw in your algebra teacher's family room when he had the class over for an end-of-semester party and...
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