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N'awlins Cooking in the Outer Sunset
Next to a narrow shop selling vivid seashell necklaces and scarves sits Cajun Pacific Restaurant, a small slice of New Orleans in the Sunset. This little joint serves supper Thursday through Saturday, with a menu that changes weekly and includes classics such as gumbo ($6 cup, $7 bowl), bread pudding with whiskey sauce ($6), and andouille sausage corndogs ($8). Despite the intimate setting and the opportunity to don the Mardi Gras beads, we found the cooking uneven; the menu would benefit from a move away from the Pacific, and a concentration on the Cajun.
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Don't Call it Emo Rap
You know the dynamic of hip hop has changed dramatically when a white rapper from Rhode Island that still lives in the house he grew up in can come to San Francisco and hold an audience at The Fillmore for two consecutive nights. After a series of underground tapes and CDs, Sage Francis released his first official LP in 2002, Personal Journals, on Oakland's Anticon Records before joining Epitaph and releasing A Healthy Distrust in 2005 and his latest LP Human the Death Dance in May. Sage Francis spoke with SF Station en route to a tour stop in Florida.
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SF Station Blows It Up
Arcade Fire performed the first of two sold out shows at Berkeley's Greek Theater last Friday night. This being the second to last show of their current tour promoting their new album Neon Bible they put it all out and you could definitely see it. Richard Reed did something crazy like jumping into the aisle with a drum while Win's voice rang out over the screaming crowd. With amazing visuals and a sound so unique they simply killed it.
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Uneven Piaf Biopic Elevated by Star-Making Performance
Directed and co-written by Olivier Dahan (Ghost River, Tom Thumb), La Vie en Rose ("Môme, La") explores French chanteuse Edith Piaf's short, tragic life. Born Edith Giovanna Gassion in Belleville, Paris in 1915, Gassion (later renamed "Piaf", the French equivalent of the word "sparrow") loved and lost and suffered, combining her personal experiences with her prodigious singing talents to become one of France's, and later the world's, most beloved performers.
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What are the odds of this one being entertaining?
Truly, 2007 is shaping up to be the "summer of sequels". It's barely June and we've seen Shrek 3, Spiderman 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and now we have yet another installment of the adventures of the 21st century's ratpack, Ocean's Thirteen. An lucky number? Perhaps. But, with a cast including the likes of Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Matt Damon at the very least we've got some good eye candy if nothing else. Fortunately, this one delivers a little bit more than just eye candy.
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The Show Must Go On
Those who don't understand the significance of a full-scale Wu-Tang Clan reunion need only look at the body language of the group's fans when, after a tense and potentially dangerous delay, they finally appear on-stage. It is an electrifying spectacle, befitting the brazenly boastful hit single "Triumph" from their 1999 opus Wu-Tang Forever, and it should be enough to convey the import of the moment to anyone unfamiliar with their brief but legendary body of work. This isn't the Rolling Stones at Altamont -- it's bigger, and, at times, just as scary.
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Startlingly Original Anime
Calling all angels! André (Jamel Debbouze, best known to American audiences for his bit role in Amélie) is a luckless loser who is drowning in a sea of gambling debts. Worse yet, his creditors have lost patience, giving him a few scant hours in which to make good...or else. Stuck in Paris -- though claiming, rather dubiously, to own a posh apartment in New York -- André appeals to the American embassy, then to the Parisian police. When they turn him away, there is only one option left: suicide.
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Gifts for both Dads and Grads
Are you frantically puzzling over the conundrum of bestowing a gift upon the dads and/or grads in your life? Give your nails a rest, fair reader, and look no further than Excitations. This is not the name of an erotic services provider, but a company catered to bringing "the unexpected" to its customers.
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Mozart's Un-Repenting Rake
An evening at the opera, even a "school night" performance, promises something special. The night is even better with a pre-performance Prosecco at Jardiniere, a chance to bask amidst sweet smelling men in tuxedos and grand looking women in diamonds and stoles, and, in this case, the opportunity to enjoy what many consider to be the most perfect opera, the pinnacle of its form.
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A Bedtime Story for the Brave
There is a line towards the end of The Big Girls that comes from an unlikely source. The speaker is Angie, the Hollywood starlet who is counseling her boyfriend during a time of parental duress. She tells him that her acting teacher taught her that you must take responsibility before you can become an artist: all choices are meaningful only if you are responsible. Angie is not deep. Her most vivid memory is perhaps of learning how to cook ham with Coca Cola. She is not a "Big Girl" but she aspires to be one.
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Pride For All
Break out your rainbow flags and party hats folks, it's Pride time! But, the San Francisco Pride Celebration is about much more than partying. Pride is a wholly interactive experience, and the entire month of June is packed with loads of special events and parades in addition to the weekly parties that locals have come to love. SF Gay has highlighted the rest of the month for you and picked out the events best designed to give you the most complete Pride experience.
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