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It Brings out the Laughs
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars.
Mike Judge is one of those guys who everyone knows, but he’s still somewhat of a cult phenomenon. Perhaps best known for "Beavis and Butthead", grunge era’s greatest adolescent comedy duo, he’s also responsible for "King of the Hill" (which recently ended its thirteen-year run). While his TV record has been more consistent, his film career hasn’t quite taken off. Office Space only took off on DVD and Idiocracy was barely released. But with Extract it seems as if he may finally have a hit. More
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Music
More Than a Handful
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, the latest band to rise in short order from obscurity in Brooklyn to darlings of the internet, have the sincere, fuzzy indie-pop thing down. The band returns to San Francisco less than two months after its last gig here for a show September 18th at Great American Music Hall. Kip Berman (vocals/guitar) spoke with SF Station during a phone interview from New York about the band’s quick jump in popularity after the February release of its self-titled LP, his love of Girls (the San Francisco band) and Jay Reatard’s recent Twitter tirade. More
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Music
Fresh, rather than Retro
For as many people that have called Mayer Hawthorne "retro", he’s not. While his falsetto voice draws comparison to Smokey Robinson, and his Detroit upbringing is a reminder of Motown, “retro” is too restricting. Mayer Hawthorne, born Andrew Mayer Cohen, is as Smokey as he is James Dewitt Yancey (J Dilla). Call Mayer Hawthorne “fresh", because he not only is soulful, he’s hip hop, he’s a skateboarder, and he’s surprising people with a voice he never knew he had. SF Station chatted Mayer before he embarked on his first US tour. More
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Clubs
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
As a true native of the Bay Area, DJ Don Lynch has been getting crowds dancin’ ever since he was a young lad. With residencies at some of the classiest clubs in San Francisco and San Jose, his beats always manage to garner attention because of his ability to incorporate everything from 80s rock to indie grooves. Taking some time to sit down and chat with SF Station, the well-spoken Don Lynch shares his thoughts. More
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Movies
An Amiable Misfire
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars.
The strange, improbable story of Woodstock has been documented exhaustively in print and on the screen, making it somewhat curious that Ang Lee has chosen to make it the subject of his first bona fide comedy since 1994’s Eat Drink Man Woman. Yet that’s just what we get in Taking Woodstock, a lighthearted look back at three days of peace and music whose more magical qualities fail to materialize here. More
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Specialty
For All Your Bee’s Needs
Since the middle of the last century, San Francisco has been known for its progressive political beliefs. Over the past few decades, it’s also been identified as a foodie haven. It only seems natural that in a blending of the two the city’s residents have embraced the urban gardening phenomena, the movement toward sustainably raising a certain amount of your own food within the limits of a major city. More
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Galleries
Funny Page Freedom
There is truly no medium that has not been transformed by the freedom and widespread availability of the internet. Music, television, film; even the more traditional media of drawing and painting have crossed previously unimaginable thresholds as a result of the all-pervasive yet intangible world wide web. And now, just as you can get your daily dose of news via your laptop, so, too, can you enjoy the funny pages online. More
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Movies
Youth Without Youth
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Somers Town, the most lighthearted offering to date from This Is England director Shane Meadows, could easily be dismissed as slight. At little more than an hour, it is amiably aimless, following two bored teenagers -- Tomo (Thomas Turgoose), a mysterious runaway from the Midlands, and Marek (Piotr Jagiello), the son of a hard-drinking Polish construction worker -- as they idle away their days on the streets of London. More
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Movies
Alien Nation
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Director Neill Blomkamp’s allegorical flourishes are unsubtle but effective in District 9, a sometimes brilliant sci-fi concoction that pits the people of Johannesburg against a community of alien refugees (known as “prawns”) who arrive on earth and are quickly scuttled into a shantytown surrounded by barbed wire. Victims of government-sanctioned apartheid that seems to grow more virulent by the minute, the prawns are afforded little compassion, and begin to lash out accordingly. More
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Music
Bring on Da Funk
Funk is alive and well with Dam Funk, a L.A. cat who got his music industry chops in the 90s working with artists in the then-thriving G funk scene. Now solo, the keyboardist is putting his own stamp on funk with breezy, electric instrumentals tailor made for the Bay Area’s Indian summers. Dam Funk returns to San Francisco for a set of original material and classic funk at Poleng Lounge on September 11th. He spoke with SF Station during a phone interview from L.A. More
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