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A Murder Most Tragic
With the price of gas skyrocketing and with momentum for oil drilling in Alaska, the release of director Chris Paine’s documentary Who Killed The Electric Car? could not be timelier. Paine’s documentary is bound to agitate and infuriate a few and, with any luck, enlighten many more. More
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Death to Smoochy looks at the man behind the mask
Welcome to the dark, sinister, deadly underworld of children's television. It's Jerry Falwell's wet dream-that the seemingly benevolent humans inside those fluffy, bouncy, brightly colored costumes are really degenerates, criminals, homosexuals! Danny DeVito's "Death to Smoochy" takes this premise to the edge, telling the story of a corrupt kiddie host, Rainbow Randolph (Robin Williams) who gets swiftly dropped from the network when he's busted for taking suitcases full of money from desperate parents who want their child on his hit show. Once Rainbow Randolph's booted, his reputation ruined (it's all over the New York papers -- imagine if Ba More
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Music
An Englishman in SF
London’s Whitey is coming to town and he’s bringing a gang of musicians with him to recreate the solo-produced tunes from his debut dance-friendly album The Light at the End of the Tunnel is a Train and his forthcoming album Great Shakes, which should start to slowly infiltrate the United States near the end of the year. Whitey, who will perform at Mezzanine on April 6th, spoke with SF Station during a phone interview from Los Angeles, where he was getting acclimated to the United States prior to the start of his tour. More
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Wine
While we are able to get Dungeness crab almost year round in this city, the month of February is actually crab season. So, in honor of that crustacean that captivates so many of us I have gone in search a few pairings that will help make the meal. More
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Music
Released by Drag City, 10/21/07
Have you ever listened to a vinyl spinning and then turned it off mid cycle? The sound gets slower and slower and, eventually, the record stops. When listening to White Magic’s second track “Very Late” featured on their new EP Dark Stars, this is what it sounded like. I felt like someone needed to turn up the tempo -- maybe it would have sounded better on fast forward. Particularly when esteemed crooner Mira Billotte’s somewhat screechy vocals and clever song writing seem to have more potential than the song allows. More
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Detroit-City rockers bring their juggernaut sound to the Bay
Webster's English Dictionary defines a simple machine as "any of various elementary mechanisms formerly considered as the elements of which all machines are composed--including the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw." In rock-and-roll speak, this translates into the sound of the White Stripes: raw, powerful, and 100% bullshit-free. More
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Literary Arts
The first weekly spoken-word show, Where Words Sustain Us has, for years, served as the nexus of Oakland poetry, empowering Bay Area poets to speak their minds. Run by a crew of varied characters who were all bitten by the spoken word bug years ago, Where Words Sustain Us has managed keep it down-to-earth for the long term, as old members leave and more new faces arrive. More
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Truth is Stranger than…
The powerhouse duo of Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth) enraptured countless in the 1950s with their yin and yang of manic comedy and suave charm. At the height of their popularity, the unfortunate appearance of a blonde corpse in their bathtub tarnished their formerly sterling reputation. While airtight alibis got them off the hook, the duo parted ways. Exactly what the truth is about their parting has remained a mystery for years. More
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The Search for a Killer in the Muslim World
Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? finds documentarian Morgan Spurlock training his cameras not on the artery-clogging cuisine served at McDonald’s, as he did somewhat memorably in 2004’s Super-Size Me, but on the Middle Easterners he encountered during a seven-month quest to find the world’s most elusive terrorist. More
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Literary Arts
At the Poets' Theater Jamboree, verse goes live on stage.
For most of human history, poetry was meant to be performed, not read to oneself. Even the most bookish work that seems esoteric on the written page can be transformed by actors into the cadences of characters and themes. This idea is at the heart of the Poets' Theater Jamboree, an annual event at San Francisco's Small Press Traffic. More
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