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Night&Day
Experiments in Solitude
By Michael Fox
Published: March 12, 2008
In addition to their many other virtues, Jennifer Reeves' avant-garde films are a poetic response to a violent, deranged world. Lest that sound soft and squishy, rest assured...
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Night&Day
25 Questions for a Jewish Mother
Published: March 12, 2008
Judy Gold and award-winning playwright Kate Moira Ryan traveled around the U.S. for five years, interviewing over 50 Jewish women of different ages, ethnicities, and...
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Night&Day
Creepshow
By Nirmala Nataraj
Published: March 12, 2008
Given the number of political psychodramas that populate the stage, Orwellian theatre reached its apogee long ago. All the same, foolsFURY Theater Company makes its new...
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Night&Day
It's Pronounced "Sfee-Ahf"
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: March 12, 2008
Local filmmaking hero Wayne Wang is in the official spotlight at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, just where he belongs. We left our hearts in his...
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Night&Day
Let's Jam
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: March 12, 2008
All you need to know in order to be a responsible audience member at the Mitch Marcus Session Four-Year Anniversary Show is this: Clap for the solos you like. For complete jazz...
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Stage
Edna O’Brien’s Tir na nÓg Loses Its Magic
By Chloe Veltman
Published: March 12, 2008
Since I attended the world premiere of Edna O'Brien's new play, Tir na nÓg, at the Magic Theatre last week, Chris Smith has been on my mind. Smith, who is leaving the...
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The Snitch
Ka-Ching!
The Guardian hits the jackpot — but don't count the money yet, Bruce.
By Andy Van De Voorde
Published: March 12, 2008
The Bay Guardian hit the lawsuit lottery for the second time in its history last Wednesday, winning a $15.6 million judgment against SF Weekly and its parent company, New Times...
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Listen Up
Techno Tease
The dirtybird crew gives kinky dance jams playful tweaks.
By Tony Ware
Published: March 12, 2008
This isn't a Philadelphia story, even though it has brotherly love. It's not a St. Louis story, despite being full of spirit. This story isn't about the Motor City or the Big...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: March 12, 2008
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats@sfweekly.com. Bar888: 888 Howard (at Fifth St., in the Intercontinental Hotel),...
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Game On
Pounding Headache
Patapon marches to the same damned drummer, over and over again.
By Gary Hodges
Published: March 12, 2008
You'll know in the first few minutes exactly what Patapon has going for it. There's the goofy premise, which casts you as the tribal god Patapon, lord of a band of creatures...
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Sucka Free City
ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports on Socialist Holiday
By Matt Smith
Published: March 12, 2008
Arriving in the Port of Oakland at 6 a.m. last Thursday, the grey-blue colossus auto carrier Century Highway No. 3 carries enough cars to fill all the parking lots surrounding...
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Listen Up
Electro Selectors
DJs Jefrodesiac and Richie Panic keep dancefloors crammed with Frisco Disco and Blow Up.
By Evan James
Published: March 12, 2008
When you imagine hundreds of chic indie twentysomethings crowded into a cramped San Francisco dive, it's hard not to include Jefrodisiac and Richie Panic in that vision, with...
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Film
Look Who's Back!
After the unspeakable Grinch, a surprisingly strong Seuss adaptation.
By Ed Gonzalez
Published: March 12, 2008
Was Dr. Seuss, né Theodor Seuss Geisel, oblivious to his own genius? The allegory of his charming Horton Hears a Who! remains fluid today, and, like its crafty rhymes,...
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DVDish
Three the Hard Way
By Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper
Published: March 12, 2008
No Country for Old Men (Paramount) "A horror comedy chase" is how a grinning Tommy Lee Jones describes No Country for Old Men in the making-of — meanwhile, his fellow...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: March 12, 2008
Daring Aaron Peskin, down and dirty: John Geluardi's article ["Who You Gonna Call?," March 5] about the war between our two leading pols, Gavin [Newsom] and Aaron [Peskin],...
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Listen Up
Producer, Label Honcho, Performer, Journalist
Pat Thomas is San Francisco's musical catalyst.
By Mark Keresman
Published: March 12, 2008
Over the past decade, Pat Thomas has done more for Bay Area music than nearly anyone whose name is not Tom Donahue, Ralph J. Gleason, or Bill Graham. Steve Wynn, founding...
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Film
Austin City Limits
Man vs. nature deep in the heart of Texas in The Unforeseen.
By Jim Ridley
Published: March 12, 2008
For those growing up in weather-beaten West Texas, someone says early in Laura Dunn's The Unforeseen, "nature becomes God." A God who hands out abundance at times, to be sure,...
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Encore
Also Playing
Our critics weigh in on local theater
By Chloe Veltman and Molly Rhodes
Published: March 12, 2008
Endgame. Humanity is at the center of Rob Melrose's new production of Samuel Beckett's sepulchral 1957 masterpiece. This is no small achievement when you consider that the play...
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Sucka Free City
The 24 Real Reasons Matt Gonzalez Chose to Run with Ralph Nader
By Joe Eskenazi and Benjamin Wachs
Published: March 12, 2008
1. He wants to get out of politics. 2. His experience being vastly outspent and losing will prove invaluable. 3. He needs a bigger Wikipedia entry. 4. Lesson learned: When...
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Listen Up
Soul of the Tenderloin
Hubba Hubba Club and the Hop inject classic oldies into the queer dance scene.
By Jess Scott
Published: March 12, 2008
To the city's young gays looking for something outside the "superthumpy, Vocoder-Cher-style music" to dance to, Seth Bogart promises "You'll never hear that shit at my club."...
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