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Night&Day
Shelter
Published: March 26, 2008
Shelter bides its time with innocuous snapshots of local SoCal color—crashing waves, crystal blue skies, natives who pronounce the “r” in Louvre—before...
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Night&Day
More Than a Pretty Face
By Michael Leaverton
Published: March 26, 2008
Jeff Garlin is the big fellow on Curb Your Enthusiasm. As Larry David's manager he fits neatly into the background, content in his role as one of the star's orbiting planets,...
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Night&Day
Jesus Built His Hotrod
By John Graham
Published: March 26, 2008
In the past 25 years, Al Jourgensen has been many men, including a foppish New Wave fancyboy, a twitchy fuzz-disco pioneer, a shit-kickin' cowboy punk, an industrial-metal...
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Night&Day
Beefalo Gals
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: March 26, 2008
The women of Marabelle Phoenix are pretty and young — they don't look mean or dangerous at all. (Although frontwoman Donnelle looks kind of like she could take you if she...
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Night&Day
Double Your Pleasure
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: March 26, 2008
Twins are fun and sinister. At the African-American Shakespeare Company's production of The Comedy of Errors, director Raelle Myrick-Hodge takes the old story for all the...
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Game On
Online Turnoff
Who said first-person games need a second person?
By Gary Hodges
Published: March 26, 2008
Developers seem to believe that their first-person games are required to include online modes. Blame it on the few narrow-minded gamers (and critics) who constantly hammer away...
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Matt Smith
Let the Sun Shine, You Hypocrites
Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.
By Matt Smith
Published: March 26, 2008
During the summer of 1999, trucks containing almost 15,000 tons of contaminated dirt made their way from the Altamont Landfill near Livermore to a faraway facility reinforced...
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Reviewed
Del tha Funkee Homosapien
Eleventh Hour (Def Jux)
By Jonah Flicker
Published: March 26, 2008
"Never rearrange my stuff to sell units/Do it, then you can't come back again." So claims the Funkee Homosapien on "Raw Sewage," the first track on his battle-rap-laden Def Jux...
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Music
GZA: Going Back in Wu-Tang Time
By Jesse Ducker
Published: March 26, 2008
A little over a decade ago, the Wu-Tang Clan seemed unstoppable. The nine-member crew took hip-hop by storm, creating a dirty Staten Island sound that captivated millions of...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: March 26, 2008
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Bar888: 888 Howard (at Fifth St., in the Intercontinental Hotel), 616-6566. SOMA....
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Film
Counting Sheep
21 doesn't hit the jackpot. It doesn't even come close.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: March 26, 2008
Ben Mezrich's 2002 best-seller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions was a smart narrative about ... well, you did see...
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Encore
Also Playing
Our critics weigh in on local theater
By Chloe Veltman, Nathaniel Eaton and Molly Rhodes
Published: March 26, 2008
June in a Box. Playwright Octavio Solis and composer Beth Custer's latest theatrical collaboration retells the story of one of the strangest and most brutal kidnappings of the...
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Sucka Free City
We tell What Not to Wear locals who need wardrobe overhauls
By Joe Eskenazi and Will Harper
Published: March 26, 2008
In the next few weeks, you may receive a telephone call from someone making two claims: 1. He or she is a television producer; and 2. You look like shit. Well, don't be...
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Reviewed
Jim White
Transnormal Skiperoo (Luaka Bop)
By Dave Pehling
Published: March 26, 2008
For more than a decade, songwriter Jim White has pushed the boundaries of alt-country music with his leftfield lyricism and penchant for spacey, downtempo beats; call it gothic...
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Music
Texas Rap Legend Bun B Keeps It Trill
By Eric K. Arnold
Published: March 26, 2008
The joys of Bun B go much deeper than those of your typical Southern trap rapper. Ever since 1993, when Bun and Pimp C dropped "Pocket Full of Stones," listening to their...
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Film
Apolitical Theater
Iraq War movie Stop-Loss does its best not to mention the war.
By Scott Foundas
Published: March 26, 2008
Considering that the war in Iraq has proven to be Washington's shot-by-shot remake of Vietnam, it's only natural that Hollywood has followed suit, giving us a series of...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: March 26, 2008
Veep-y or Creepy? Point: The Gonzalez run proves that there is another generation of progressives ready to lead us away from the backbiting self-hatred and rationalizations of...
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Let's Get Killed
Outside Lands Festival Adds Marquee Names to Its Lineup: Wilco, Manu Chao, and Beck, and many more
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: March 26, 2008
When the Treasure Island Music Festival was announced last summer, it felt as though San Francisco proper had a destination music event for the indie set. But this year,...
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FilmCap
Blindsight
By Julia Wallace
Published: March 26, 2008
It's difficult to find anything bad to say about a movie featuring six adorable blind Tibetan children who are determined to climb a 23,000-foot peak just north of Mount...
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Arthouse
Art House
Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: March 26, 2008
Compiled by Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser. To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. Revival House Queer Cinema: New series of...
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