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Alas, the Third Time isn’t the Charm
For his third directorial effort (Good Night, and Good Luck, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind), actor/writer/producer/director George Clooney choose sportswriters-turned-first-time-screenwriters Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly’s period screwball comedy, Leatherheads, an homage-laden, occasionally engaging, sporadically entertaining, affectionately nostalgic celebration of the early days of professional football. More
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Released on Mute Records, 3/11/08
Dave Gahan rises from the ashes again, like the phoenix that he is, with another solo effort called Hourglass giving birth to a sub collection called Hourglass Remixes. More
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Released on Mute Records, 3/31/2008
What does a frenetic night of nostalgic clubhopping sound like? This may depend on who you’re with, what you’ve had to drink and what other chemical substances might be coursing through your veins. It’s safe to say that Moby has had more than his fair share of experiences with these kinds of evenings. This was, after all, the inspiration for Last Night. Moby makes a valiant attempt to capture the moods, emotions, and energy of an 8-hour evening and condense it into a relatively compact 65-minute album. More
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SF Station Blows It Up
The French are back and they’re bright and loud and nowhere was this more apparent than at last Thursday's Justice show in San Francisco. There was a crazy light show that rivaled the biggest bands, and beats that that drove the sold out crowd out of their minds. I must say the show did date me a little because it reminded me of my rave days with kids just dancing all night long for fun and just letting themselves go to the music. The duo is something to watch but def bring earplugs and your dancing shoes. More
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The Best Shows for April
First off, big-up to Justice and Diplo for throwing down one of the best live shows of the year at the Concourse/Design Center. Who would have thought those two Frenchmen would rock our worlds so hard! Diplo really got the joint jumping with his M.I.A. and hip-hop heavy set -- making one of the week-night shows feel like a Friday night. Then over at The Independent, Mick Jones and his new crew Carbon/Silicon showed that they still got it going on in Badrock City. So here’s a quick look at the genre-bending mad men, sultry chanteuses, crazy party boys and sexy electro girls coming through town to bless up the sound in April. More
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Eluded by Dead Presidents
Named after a small town in southwest Ohio, Enon (pronounced ee-nan) has had audiences that rival its namesake’s population. The power trio of John Schmersal (guitar/vocals) and Toko Yasuda (bass/vocals) of Philadelphia, and Matt Schulz (drums), who lives in New York, return to San Francisco in support of Grass Geysers…Carbon Clouds, released last October on Touch and Go Records. Schmersal spoke with SF Station on the eve of a U.S. tour that will be followed almost immediately by a European tour. More
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More Like A Rough Cut, Unpolished Gem
Directed by Michael Radford (The Merchant of Venice, Il Postino, 1984) and written by Edward Anderson, Flawless is a 60s-set heist film starring one old pro, Michael Caine, and co-starring another, less-old pro, Demi Moore, wending their way through a maze of mostly predictable obstacles on their way to a big money day, a serious beatdown, and pleasant smiles all around. Although Flawless is smoothly paced, skillfully directed, it is far from the perfection suggested by the title. However, it’s as entertaining as a character-first, heist-second film can be. More
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Actually, It is Just a Game
Loosely based on (actually "inspired by") Ben Mezrich’s non-fiction bestseller, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, 21 is an underwritten, clichéd, implausible, contrived film that fits all too neatly into the rise-fall-redemption narrative structure we’ve seen countless times before. Directed by Robert Luketic (Monster-in-Law, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, Legally Blonde) from Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb’s screenplay, 21 is part morality play, part wish-fulfillment and pure Hollywood hokum. More
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More a Marathon Than a Sprint
With its blushingly romantic tone, copious (if harmless) pratfalls, charming moments, and well-intentioned characters, Run Fat Boy Run hits all the right marks to qualify itself as lighthearted matinee fare that does no harm and shatters no clichés. More
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Browsing Shops, Hiking Bluffs, and Cozying up by the Fire
The Bay Area is full of good days. One of the mellowest and most rewarding is to be found 1.5 hours north, in the small towns that ring Tomales Bay, the shallow, cigar-shaped body of water that peacefully straddles the San Andreas Fault just east of Point Reyes National Seashore. More
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