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Miss Millie's Reincarnates in Oakland's Rockridge District
What is it that makes the perfect brunch? Is it the shortness of the wait? The enormity of portions? The strength of the champagne cocktails? No. The best brunches are all about the potatoes. Somerset's potatoes are absolutely stunning: well-cooked but not too crispy, salty but not overseasoned, small enough that you can pop one in your mouth without looking like a pig. If we could only eat one item for breakfast for the rest of our lives, it would be these potatoes.
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Moving the Movement
With the fate of the hyphy movement resting on his shoulders, Mistah F.A.B. is working to keep a subgenre alive that he says people still don't fully understand. The Oakland rapper independently released Da Baydestrian (Thizz/SMC Recordings) in May to maintain visibility while waiting for Atlantic Records to set a released date for his major label debut Da Yellow Bus Rydah (F.A.B. says he expects the album to be out around the end of the year or early 2008). Mistah F.A.B. spoke with SF Station from a studio in Los Angeles where he was putting finishing touches on his freestyle mixtape The Realist Shit I Never Wrote.
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SF Station Blows It Up
US Air Guitar returned to the Independent last week for the regionals and if you were there you got a treat. With crazed guitarness and pretty interesting choices of clothing these giants of air guitar competed for the chance to rep SF in New York for the US Championships.
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Roll Out!
It's not uncommon for huge expectations to be thrust upon your average summer tentpole flick. These films often make or break a studio for the year. Enter the most anticipated summer film in years, Transformers. You've got diehard transformer geeks who expect a film that will be true to the spirit of the cartoons, a $150 million dollar budget to recoup, and a ton of summer blockbusters already in the theater to compete with.
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Jilted at the Altar
License to Wed is the kind of film that has all the potential in the world to be enormously funny. You've got Robin Williams playing a manic, wacky reverend who specializes in a "marriage preparation course". You have an attractive, funny, soon-to-be wed couple in Mandy Moore as Sadie and John Krasinski as Ben. You even have a director who has helmed several hysterical episodes of NBC's sitcom hit, "The Office". The end result is something far from hysterical.
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A Tale of Good Sheep Gone BAAAAD!
40 million sheep reside in New Zealand. Fluffy, white, friendly sheep lope around beautiful green pastures without a care in the world. Well, there are the periodic sheerings, occasionally unfortunate shaggings, and the painfully necessary slaughterings. But, otherwise all is well in the sheep world. That is until one overly ambitious sheep farmer; Angus Oldfield (Peter Feeney) sets his sights on creating an über-sheep.
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Romantic Comedy with Indie-Art Pretensions
The late, great John Cassavetes is known among cineastes as the godfather of indie filmmaking. Beginning in 1959 with Shadows. His children, Nick and Zoe, have followed in his footsteps. Nick has directed films such as Alpha Dog and The Notebook while Zoe has written and directed two feature-length films, 2000's Men Make Women Crazy Theory and now Broken English, a light, lightweight romantic comedy with indie-art pretensions.
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Zombies are People Too
Just when you thought the zombie sub-genre was dead and buried, along comes Fido, a slyly subversive, satirical horror/comedy co-written and directed by Andrew Currie (Sleep Murder, Mile Zero). Mixing and matching multiple genres, from the zombie horror sub-genre initiated by George A. Romero in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead, 1950s-era melodramas that critiqued social conformity, and 50s-era boy-and-his-dog family films, Fido is wonderfully campy from start to finish and, for genre fans, occasionally gory too.
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More Choices than Just Itsy-Bitsy, Teeny-Weeny and Yellow Polka-Dots
While riding my bike a couple months ago down 18th Street, I spotted a bikini store on the left hand side of the street. I really couldn't believe there was a bikini store in the Mission. Natives and visitors alike are well aware what kind of weather San Francisco is known for, and it's not beach weather.
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A Children's Book for Twenty-Somethings
If you remember how Norman Juster's classic juvenile novel The Phantom Tollbooth started, you will remember that the bored character of Milo finally notices a box that says: "For Milo who has plenty of time." Once he opens the box, he constructs the tollbooth therein along with one of the signs: "Please have your destination in mind.?
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