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Parade Grounds
By Toph One
Published: February 20, 2008
San Franciscans turn ordinary events into grand spectacles. Every May, up to 100,000 costumed (and possibly drunk) runners race across town, and each month hundreds of...
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Wonder Land
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: February 20, 2008
This is getting ridiculous. You don't even have to be a geek to get excited about WonderCon anymore, and that just doesn't seem right. Too many movie stars are on the way to...
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Factory Reject
By J. Hoberman
Published: February 20, 2008
Danny Williams, subject of Esther Robinson's documentary portrait A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory, was a '60s casualty. A Harvard dropout from an old...
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Picture Disks
By Tamara Palmer
Published: February 20, 2008
It's not just the vinyl record and cassette tape that have been dwarfed by the MP3; CDs are looking pretty quaint as well. But as the digital revolution forges on, "Collector"...
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G2 = Guitar Quartet
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: February 20, 2008
Classical 102.1 KDFC is the KALX of classical radio stations: It knows it's rad. It doesn't have to compare itself to other classical stations. KDFC DJs play the cream of the...
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So Smooth
By Sam Prestianni
Published: February 20, 2008
Pat Metheny is a complex figure in contemporary jazz. Throughout his extensive recording and touring career of more than three decades, the guitarist has explored a stylistic...
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Prim, Proper, Gay
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: February 20, 2008
The term itself is funny: Boston Marriage is code for "lady homosexuals," and it dates from the 19th century. Those who wish gayness didn't exist tend to stress that the term...
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Akin to Greatness
By Bonner Odell
Published: February 20, 2008
No matter what you fancy modern dance should be, chances are at least one piece on a Robert Moses' Kin bill will satisfy your criteria. Too inquisitive to consign himself to...
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Private Eyes
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: February 20, 2008
We dream sweet dreams of Barcelona, where the ladies all look like Penelope Cruz and the men all look like Gael García Bernal. (We fully realize that Bernal is Mexican,...
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Three Ladies
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: February 20, 2008
At this month's episode of one of our favorite art galleries' "Experimental Film & Video Art Series," audiences are treated to screenings of new work by Bay Area women...
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As American As Alvin Ailey
By Bonner Odell
Published: February 20, 2008
While the qualifier "American" in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater might seem superfluous, the nature of the wildly popular company's work and its international touring...
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Woman On Top
By Michael Fox
Published: February 20, 2008
Talk about a Rorschach test. Just minutes into Jennifer Fox's first-person, six-hour documentary Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman, you'll either want to hug her, strangle...
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Blood Money
By Ella Taylor
Published: February 20, 2008
When an Austrian filmmaker who makes no secret of the fact that his grandparents were Nazi sympathizers makes a fact-based movie (nominated by the Academy for best foreign...
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Old Wounds
By Michael Leaverton
Published: February 20, 2008
In 1969, the Rolling Stones embarked on a historic tour that culminated in Altamont, a show people insist on calling the end of an era instead of just a royally screwed up...
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Short Attention Span Theater
By Nirmala Nataraj
Published: February 20, 2008
Our culture's short attention span hasn't been a boon to the theater. Even among stage buffs, anything over a couple hours can make you want to kill the lights and call it...
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Nights of Cabiria
By Michael Fox
Published: February 20, 2008
When Giovanni Pastrone's three-hour, effects-laden masterpiece Cabiria burst onto Italian movie screens in 1913, some clever fellow coined the phrase "cinematographic opera."...
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Miss Misery
By Nirmala Nataraj
Published: February 20, 2008
The Japanese pop phenomenon known as "kawaii" encapsulates the cult of cuteness that's run amok over the last few years, but there are signs of subversion. Take the work of...
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Digging It Up
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: February 20, 2008
In his 1965 song "La Bohème," Charles Aznavour laments the changes he sees in a Paris neighborhood: "At the top of a staircase/ I look for an atelier/ Of which nothing...
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This Guy Does Not Play Sitar
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: February 20, 2008
Anyone who claims to be "universally revered" has a screw loose. No one is universally revered. If anyone were, some cynic would hate 'em just for that, instantly busting up...
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Gimme a "G!"
By Silke Tudor
Published: February 20, 2008
There's a little disagreement over the organization of the Ethical Decalogue in the Old Testament. (Is coveting your neighbors' wife and house one sin or two?) In any case,...
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