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Night&Day
Nice Folks
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: February 13, 2008
Who pushed the Everly Brothers in the dirt? If that famous 1960s ecstatic-tenor folk duo were to morph into something a little more bitter and crouchy, it could be the Moore...
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Night&Day
Old Jazz Hand
By Sam Prestianni
Published: February 13, 2008
Downtown New York City players are known for combining world-class musicianship with avant-garde extremism. Yet even in such company, pianist Uri Caine stands apart. The...
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Night&Day
Never Say Done
By Michael Leaverton
Published: February 13, 2008
Many first-time novelists list the crap jobs they've had under their author photos, presumably to show how much they've "lived" (read: suffered) before they were touched by the...
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Art
Packard Jennings Giddy, Anarchic at the Catharine Clark Gallery
By Traci Vogel
Published: February 13, 2008
Artist Packard Jennings, born and raised in Oakland, is a prankster of the brainy variety. His series of Market Street kiosk posters, "Postcards from Our Awesome Future!" (done...
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Sucka Free City
Osama Hunter Greg Shade Captured on IndieFest Doc American Hero
By Ashley Harrell
Published: February 13, 2008
The New York Post called Greg Shade a "daring Yank." Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a longtime friend, told CBS that Shade was the "Wild Bill Hickok of the frontier."...
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Reviewed
Dub Trio
Another Sound Is Dying(Ipecac)
By Dave Pehling
Published: February 13, 2008
If Dub Trio keeps putting out albums as bludgeoning as Another Sound Is Dying, the threesome may come under Better Business Bureau scrutiny for false advertising on the basis...
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Music
Baby Dee: A Little Buzz in a Big Bee Costume
By Frances Reade
Published: February 13, 2008
Let's start with Baby Dee's fun facts. She's a batty middle-aged lady from Cleveland who left a life as a avant-garde musician in New York for a career as a professional...
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BeatBox
Italians Always Do It Better: Joakim and Glass Candy
By Vickie Chang and Tamara Palmer
Published: February 13, 2008
Born and raised in Chicago, Common is no stranger to critical acclaim, receiving rave reviews from the press since his 1992 debut, Can I Borrow a Dollar? One feud with Ice...
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Eat
Monte Carlo Kicks It Creole in the Bayview
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Published: February 13, 2008
This article is brought to you by Thrillist.com, our homies. While Lou's Pier 47 can surely serve up a Hurricane faster than the Atlantic Ocean in August, Mardi Gras is a...
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Film
The Spiderwick Chronicles a Fearsomely Funny PG Netherworld
By Ella Taylor
Published: February 13, 2008
Freudians disheartened by the Bearded One's fall from psychotherapeutic grace may be cheered to learn that ol' Sigmund lives and prospers at the movies, at least in...
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Matt Smith
New College Out of Money: Teachers Unpaid, Not Teaching
By Matt Smith
Published: February 13, 2008
Katie Paul, a tall, brown-haired psychology student, is driving south along the peninsula, watching her future recede in the rear-view mirror. "I wanted to go into a public...
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Reviewed
Basia Bulat
Oh, My Darling (Rough Trade America)
By John Vettese
Published: February 13, 2008
Think of Basia Bulat as one woman's answer to Antony and the Johnsons. The honeyed melodies and romantic melancholia contrived by the Canadian songwriter echo New York's...
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Music
Eight Turntables, Four Mixers, Two Wax Wizards: The Hard Sell Tour
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: February 13, 2008
There are myriad perils in crafting a live performance using only vinyl 45s. At least according to a highly amusing "educational" film that plays at the outset of DJ Shadow and...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: February 13, 2008
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Apollo: 1064 Divisadero (at Turk), Western Addition. Coffee, panini, and...
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Film
Israeli Hit The Band's Visit Uplifts, Elates
By Scott Foundas
Published: February 13, 2008
Last fall, The Band's Visit made headlines after being disqualified as Israel's foreign-language submission to the 2008 Academy Awards — an ironic fate, indeed, for a...
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Artcap
"Shot": Zbigniew Rogalski and Michal Budny
By Traci Vogel
Published: February 13, 2008
Two young artists from the much-talked-about Warsaw gallery, Raster, show at Jack Hanley this month, and the installation they've paired up on — their U.S. debut —...
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Sucka Free City
Reader Quiz: Which Willie Brown Quotes Are Stranger Than Fiction?
By Will Harper
Published: February 13, 2008
Former Assembly speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown just released his memoir, Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times. Try to guess which of the following excerpts are from...
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Music
Remembering Miserable Major-Label Drones: Rock On
By Jonah Bayer
Published: February 13, 2008
Anyone who has worked in the music industry is probably aware of the massive difference between the people who release records and the consumers who buy them. However, no one...
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Film
Definitely, Maybe Rejects the V-Day RomCom Bliss
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: February 13, 2008
Sandwiched somewhere between the American Spirit commercials and the Clinton campaigning that comprise Definitely, Maybe is a surprisingly rewarding romantic comedy — one...
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Stagecap
Disney & Deutschland
By Molly Rhodes
Published: February 13, 2008
Imagining the details of a historically documented 1935 meeting between Walt Disney and Adolf Hitler is a great spark for a play, but playwright and director John J. Powers'...
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