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The Royal Treatment
Have you had dinner in a quiet restaurant lately? We haven't either. But if you're looking for somewhere to celebrate with a date or family and actually converse; you couldn't pick a more tranquil spot than the recently renovated dining room at the Hotel Majestic on Cathedral Hill. Awash in cream tones and soft lighting, the booths and tables are set comfortably apart -- allowing diners to enjoy a leisurely meal in a peaceful environment. The staff is friendly and proud to be there, eager to share their favorite picks on chef Ian Begg's menu.
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Married to the Music
The amps are loud, the drums pound, and they're not afraid to get a little bloody. San Francisco's throwback garage girl group The Husbands is returning to the stage for local promoter Michelle Cable's Panache Farewell Soiree on July 21. The Husband's vocalist/guitarist Sarah Reed spoke with SF Station.
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SF Station Blows It Up
The Deftones are a band that is hard to classify and in my eyes they are their own mish mash of sound . Last Monday night they definitely proved that they can still rock a crowd because from the first sound out of Chino's mouth the entire floor became a mosh pit. With an impressive light show and an even more impressive sound, the boys from Sac showed the crowed that they were still on top performing songs from their current album Saturday Night Wrist.
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Released on Drag City, 8/28/07
The fourth release from local guitar legend Tim Green's solo project, Concentrick, is a folk-inspired instrumental rock album for seventies purists and post-prog rockers alike. To say that it is lush would be an understatement. Aluminum Lake is dense.
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Released on Ultra Records, 4/04/07
The word is that Thomas Lorello got his moniker from an orange LSD tab and thus, Tommie Sunshine was born! Tommie Sunshine Presents Ultra.Rock Remixed is a portmanteau of his hybrid art of modern rock unraveling with dance hall wonder stuff. Tommie Sunshine has found a unique way of blending the mid-80s sound with electro-dance without you feeling dated.
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Harry Grows up and Gets Darker
By the time Harry Potter reaches 18, it wouldn't be surprising if he will have dyed his hair black, pierced his face, gotten a few tats and walked around wearing a Joy Division t-shirt. Such is the arc of this young man's angst-ridden, tumultuous life. Of course, author J.K. Rowling's final edition to her beloved Harry Potter series comes out on July 21st and who knows who Harry will turn out to be. What can be said is that the film adaptation of book 5, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is as dark, mysterious and wondrous as ever. Much like adolescence itself.
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Where it all began
As this town's antidote to the onslaught of summer blockbusters, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, now in its twelfth year, provides an ever-satisfying look back into the early decades of the 20th century when films leapt off the silver screen in all their monochromatic glory, accompanied by the true surround-sound of live music. This year's festival spans the silent era of filmmaking -- from its earliest days to the peak of its maturity -- and includes eye-popping treats from France, England, and Italy.
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Urban Biopic Scores
Kasi Lemmons' (Eve's Bayou) latest film, Talk to Me explores, in microcosm, the African American struggle embodied as embodied by the Civil Rights Movement. Through Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con-turned-radio personality who made a name for himself during the Civil Rights Movement in Washington, D.C., Talk to Me also explores the conflict between assimilation and "keeping it real".
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Riveting Vietnam War Drama
Written and directed by Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Nosferatu, Aguirre: Wrath of God) and based on the documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly Herzog directed ten years ago, Rescue Dawn, a Vietnam War-era action-drama about an escape attempt from a Laotian prison, returns Herzog to where he's seemingly most comfortable, the natural world of the jungle where men either lose themselves to megalomania and barbarism or overcome physical, mental, and emotional obstacles.
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Rushmore with a Swiss-German Accent
Directed and co-written by Fredi M. Murer (Full Moon, Alpine Fire), Vitus is a leisurely paced, sentimental, whimsical coming of age tale, centered on, like Searching for Bobby Fischer and Little Man Tate before it, a child prodigy trying to make his way in a world that wants to celebrate him for his talents, but simultaneously treat him as a child, with all the lack of choice that treatment implies.
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Let Us Eat Cake!
Encased behind protective glass counters like diamonds in a jewelry store, displays of cupcakes may soon become not only a girl's new best friend, but also everyone's new guiltiest indulgence. Like diamonds, these baked creations come in different sizes. They glisten with buttercream and Italian meringue frosting. Colors and brilliancy range from vanilla white to pearly pink. Best of all, they come in their own version of Tiffany boxes without the Tiffany prices.
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Prepare for Enchantment
Whether or not you were the kind of kid who practiced pulling a bunny out of a hat ad infinitum for third-grade show and tell, most of us have likely been indoctrinated with the idea that magic is a serious business. That would, after all, explain the pinched expressions of concentration that have graced patricians of spectacle like the Davids (Copperfield and Blaine) for eons. And sure, there's virtue in spectacle -- particularly when accompanied by Las Vegas pyrotechnics and nubile assistants -- but it's hard not to extricate megalomaniacal stunts from the hyuk-hyuk ridicule that's invariably heaped upon their makers.
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