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An Argentine Steakhouse in North Beach
For anyone who's enjoyed grilled meats prepared in the Argentine fashion, a trip to an Argentine steakhouse is rife with anticipation. Will they have the gargantuan, grilled cross-cut short ribs that seem to be attainable only in South American restaurants? How are the empanadas, sweetbreads, blood sausages and chorizo? The chimichurri sauce? Is the wine list rife with excellent Malbecs? According to some connoisseurs, San Francisco's El Raigon has slipped from its place of high regard in the handful of years since its opening.
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The Stoned Raiders Return with Rock the Bells
In an era of massive rock festivals that punctuate the summer with mouth-watering lists of performers, it's rare to get a traveling roadshow close to the same caliber in your own backyard. But for San Francisco, on Aug 18th, and a handful of other cities, the drought is over. A who's who list of musicians -- mostly hip hop -- will grace the makeshift festival grounds of the McCovey Cove Parking Lot (near the ballpark) when Rock the Bells makes its San Francisco debut. The recently reformed Rage Against the Machine, Wu-Tang Clan, Cypress Hill and The Roots headline the festival.
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The Best Shows for August
With music evolving faster than we can define it, we are lucky to have a few of the originators who have broadened the sound of music come through SF this month. While some may claim that the city was built on rock-n-roll, it has been the boundary pushers that have given this city its soul. So here's a quick look at the genre-bending mad men, sultry chanteuses and crazy boys coming through town to bless up the sound.
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SF Station Blows It Up
The outfit from Canada hit the stage in front of a full house this past Monday and blew the house down. P-Thugg and Dave 1's use of synths and guitar is a great intermixing of 80s pop/indie/altrock and electro. Performing hits from their current album Fancy Footwork and some old classics the boys made the kids sweat.
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Released on Cochon Records, 7/10/07
Oakland's Gravy Train is back in the saddle with their third salvo of dance floor madness, another collection of loud, salacious, punch drunk anthems guaranteed to have you up and dancing. The quartet -- Chunx (vocals, keys, drums), Funx (vocals, keys, drums, bass, guitar), Hunx (vocals, keys, drums), and Junx (guitar, bass, harpsichord) -- is wilder, more tuneful and sexier than ever with a musical mash up of punk, funk and garage club beats that's impossible to resist. Think The Ramones backing up Prince, or Rick James sitting in with the B 52s.
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Released on Firebird Field Recordings, self-released 2007
This debut release from Los Angeles based singer/songwriter Carl Jordan flies by like so much time on a warm summer day. Three minute pop songs in the vein of Grandaddy meets a less tragic Elliot Smith at a mid-June picnic, they fall in love and have two babies -- Ween and The Shins. There you go.
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Released on Verve Records, 6/05/07
We All Love Ella (and we all do) is a marquee studded vocal tribute to none other than Ella Fitzgerald, one of the finest, greatest legends from the Big Band Era. Dubbed as "the first lady of song", her legacy has been long recognized with thirteen Grammy awards and sold over forty million albums.
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A Tale Nearly Two Decades In The Making
After nineteen years of mishaps, pratfalls, and screwups, the epically moronic Homer Simpson finally has his shining moment of glory in the big screen version of "The Simpsons". I think not. One of America's favorite idiots is in fine form in his big screen debut.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Sometimes having a fabulous life is not all it's cracked up to be, especially if you're a disagreeable person. What's the point of having friends if they put up with you only because they feel they have to? Daniel Auteuil stars as François, an arrogant, cutthroat, ruthless (and middle-aged) antique dealer in Paris who thinks his life is pretty fabulous. One day when he's at a dinner party with what he considers his dearest acquaintances, he's mortified to learn the truth: that none of the people there actually likes him.
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Familiar and Occasionally Satisfying
Stop me if this premise sounds familiar: a single, career-oriented (and obsessed) woman becomes her niece's legal guardian after her sister dies in a tragic accident. Somewhere along the way, the woman meets a suitable member of the opposite sex and, after a few false starts, learns the value of balancing her work life with her newly invigorated personal life. Sounds like a remake of 1988's Baby Boom starring Diane Keaton, right? Actually, it's not.
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Hidden and Found in Cow Hollow
Tucked inside a blushing Queen Anne Victorian above street level and in a large bay window lays a creamy pink room with a cast iron bed strewn with a lace and pearl thong. Cast atop a nightstand lays a pink suede blindfold. Just beyond the bedroom, shelves of glittering private and demure pleasures beckon. Here, at IntimaGirl, we find an affair of intimate indulgences.
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