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Jazz In-Store
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 9, 2008
Composer Ken Berman is sometimes compared to Keith Jarrett; that's a compliment. But the Ken Berman Trio's music makes us think more of drinking strong tea in the avenues on a...
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Silent Jazz
By Sam Prestianni
Published: April 9, 2008
Celebrating Club Foot Orchestra’s pioneering concept of performing live to enduring films from the silent era, SFJAZZ presents the Jazz + Silent Film Festival, a special...
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Spurlock Spelunks
By J. Hoberman
Published: April 9, 2008
Morgan Spurlock, the daredevil documentarian who lived on Big Macs for a month and turned this exercise in "body art" into the 2004 hit Super Size Me, returns -- this time...
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The Answer's Still Out There Somewhere
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 9, 2008
We once heard a teenager named Cuauhtémoc rail against the term "Latino." "We're not fucking Latin," he reasoned reasonably. He liked "Hispanic" even less, for similar...
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Do the Right Thing
By Michael Fox
Published: April 9, 2008
Privileged Western directors are regularly tempted to shine a spotlight on an evil social problem in the developing world, but they're trapped in a bind. To attract an...
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Sprang Time
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 9, 2008
Cheerful spring treats eventually sneak up on even the most morose: You see a cherry blossom, and you're feeling better, period. Silky air, tender greens, and longer days are...
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Don't Wanna Grow Up
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 9, 2008
If you live in the country, and if you are eleven years old or younger, you probably hang out in creekbeds and know what it feels like to hold a lizard. But if you're reading...
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Bag Ladies
By Michael Leaverton
Published: April 9, 2008
Fendi, Gucci, Chanel, Prada -- these names mean life or death to a certain type of someone. Thankfully, the counterfeiting industry has the matter firmly in hand, churning out...
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Wham! Variations
By Evan James
Published: April 9, 2008
It takes a special kind of pop-cultural devotion to execute a multimedia performance tribute to '80s pop legends Wham! (fittingly titled "Make It Big"), and for this we have a...
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Haunted Homeowner
By Michael Leaverton
Published: April 9, 2008
Over the course of her long life, Sarah Winchester, a somewhat batshit crazy woman who deserves every kind word you can think of, never stopped adding on to her house. Taking...
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Waiter, There's a Cultural Icon In My Sanctuary
By Evan James
Published: April 9, 2008
When local filmmaker Paul Festa set out to document thirty-one listeners' reactions to a ten-minute piece of monumental religious organ music by French composer, organist, and...
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Bad Infrastructure
By Silke Tudor
Published: April 9, 2008
At the beginning of the month, the Cardboard Institute of Technology (CIT) inaugurated the municipality of CardBurg, an apparition of whimsical urban planning created from...
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You Know You Wannabe
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 9, 2008
Madonna has a new record coming out, thus, many San Franciscans are about to remind everyone why they're called "gay." It's time for massive celebration, people! Time for dance...
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Smells Like Teen Spirit
By Michael Leaverton
Published: April 9, 2008
Andrew Foster Altschul's Lady Lazarus is a novel about a rock star who committed suicide, his crazy wife, and a world that went into spasms of mourning that will continue...
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The Fire Department
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 9, 2008
The people who run Oakland's industrial arts center the Crucible are like children. They're self-indulgent, fantasy-riddled, and overly optimistic. Of course, they love to play...
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Drumming It Up
By Michael Leaverton
Published: April 9, 2008
Nobody at the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival thinks, "All this for a flower?" The humble blossom has long been a source of national pride in Japan, the cornerstone...
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Transforming Tango
By Nirmala Nataraj
Published: April 9, 2008
It may take two to tango, but everyone -- from pianists to dancers to sultry bandoneonists -- will have their say in A Tango Trilogy, a luscious triptych of performances that...
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Mysterious Talented Silly Person
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: April 9, 2008
Although Leon Redbone claims to have been born on Black Monday, 1929, as the son of Niccolò Paganini and Jenny Lind, nobody believes him. For a while, David Letterman...
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Get On Board
By Nirmala Nataraj
Published: April 9, 2008
It's hard to conceive of an action flick more inane or entertaining than Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 cult sensation, Point Break. It ranks high on the beefcake meter, and with its...
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Hanging Around
By Silke Tudor
Published: April 9, 2008
Over the last 17 years, Project Bandaloop has danced on El Capitan and awed 1700 faithful hikers in the Dolomites. They've spent 18 days trekking across the Sierra Nevada...
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