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Released on Matador Records, 4/6/08
Remember the first time you put on goggles and sank to the bottom of the pool and watched what the water does to noise? The music of Matmos doesn’t sound too different from that. On its seventh album the electronic duo is at their weird, experimental best. They’re off the deep end, as it were. More
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Music
SF Station Blows It Up
There's nothing like roasting in the sun…well unless you're also listening to some good bands and watching some interesting people at Coachella. This year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival was really hip, with every kind of hipster band you could imagine from Justice to Cut Copy but also with some old favorites like The Verve, Portishead, Roger Waters and Prince gracing the stage. Overall, it was an interesting mix of new and old with some great highlights like Roger Waters performing the Darkside of the Moon in its entirety, Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip mix it up and The Raconteurs rocking the main stage. More
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Music
A "Natural Kind of Girl"
You don’t have to be a fan of oysters to enjoy San Francisco’s 9th Annual Oyster Fest that returns to the Great Meadow at Fort Mason on May 17th. Just ask Juliette Lewis, the actress turned rocker who performs during the two-day festival along with the Dropkick Murphys, She & Him and others. She can stomach cinematic ultra-violence (see: Natural Born Killers, Kalifornia), but apparently has a harder time with small sea creatures. Lewis spoke with SF Station during a phone interview from her home in Los Angeles near the end of a two-month break from her music and acting career. More
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Literary Arts
Joe likes Nancy
For Joe Brainard love hit like a freight train the first time he spied Nancy: “The first time I saw Nancy she was eating a chicken salad sandwich at Joe’s, just around the corner from my father’s hardware store. I didn’t know what to do, she was just so beautiful. So I just stood there, looking. Bright red lips. White oval face. (Soft) big black eyes.” To be clear, Brainard’s talking here about the cartoon character Nancy and the year is 1963. More
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Beauty
Affordable Services for the Urban Epicure
A few days ago, I discovered a place that delivers on…well, exactly the opposite of all the things I lament in a respectable spa establishment. La Petite Rose is tucked away in an alcove just off Taraval Street (in the Sunset, in case you’re mulling). Set foot inside the cozy, modest-yet-luxurious digs, and it’s likely that the only sounds you’ll hear are the barks of neighborhood dogs or the clickety-clack of the surface street car. More
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Restaurants
No Invitation Required
Everyone loves the idea of a “neighborhood” restaurant -- that little gem just down the street where you can almost always snag a table and run into someone you know. In San Francisco, or in any city for that matter, the concept seems to mostly be just that: a concept. In the case of Bar Jules however, chef/owner Jessica Boncutter seems to have created a true neighborhood spot. More
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Movies
A Losing Hand
Deal is a movie made by poker enthusiasts for poker enthusiasts, and your appreciation of it depends largely on your passion for the game. For those who have passed hours of their lives playing virtual strangers online, or studying the strategies of World Poker Tour aces like Doyle Brunson or Phil Hellmuth, it may prove a worthy diversion, either for its brisk but predictable tournament action or its laughably earnest philosophy, which suggests that the game is just a metaphor for life. If poker’s not your thing, well, there’s always the welcome sight of Burt Reynolds, on hand as a retired legend hungry for one last score. More
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Movies
Life can change in an instant
Diana (Evan Rachel Wood) is relishing the waning days of her senior year in high school indulging in drugs, sex, and whatever else she can get her hands on to escape the boredom and monotony of her small town existence. Life has yet to begin…or so Diana thinks. In an instant, a tragedy changes Diana’s life completely. More
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Movies
War on Terror Enters the Stoned Age
Whether Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay could have succeeded in spawning a franchise on its own is questionable, but as a politically charged follow-up to the winning 2004 comedy that introduced the pair as twenty-something stoners in search of the perfect late-night snack, it hits more often than it misses. More
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Movies
Cinema for the Masses
San Francisco’s premier film festival is upon us and couldn’t be better timed. The period from the beginning of the year through April is often a challenging time at the multiplex. Films released during this period are often those that didn’t quite make the cut from the previous year. Not too surprisingly, you don’t see a lot of stellar films (P.S. I Love You, anyone?). More
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