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1. Feature

   A Time to Kill

   The SPCA is struggling to finance a new hospital, and one way to save money is to speed up euthanasia.

   By John Geluardi

   Published: June 11, 2008

   When feral kittens are put up for adoption at the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, it's usually the health-check technician who gives each one a...

2. Music

   Rapper Buckshot thinks, talks, and records for success

   By Ben Westhoff

   Published: June 11, 2008

   Few rappers give better interviews than Black Moon and Boot Camp Clik alum Buckshot. Naturally, the pioneering underground emcee sometimes refers to himself in the third person...

3. Eat

   Paris in the City

   The charming L'Ardoise Bistro turns the Duboce Triangle into the 21st arrondissement.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: June 11, 2008

   In one's dream of city life, certain factors are key: a pleasant, light-filled, quiet, and maybe even spacious apartment; easy parking or access to public transportation; and...

4. Film

   Supermarket Sweep

   Male fulfillment, and lack thereof, on full display in The Promotion.

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: June 11, 2008

   The screenwriter Steven Conrad writes movies about success and self-fulfillment in America — how we define it, the price we pay for it, and what it looks like depending...

5. Night&Day

   Jolly Rogers

   By David McClymonds

   Published: June 11, 2008

   Pirates and Ireland go hand in hand. Think about it: a small, rural island that produces Guinness, Jameson, and traditional music that is perfect for swabbing decks to....

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   When Did you Last See Your Father?

   Published: June 11, 2008

   Directed by Anand Tucker with the same intelligent tact he brought to Hilary and Jackie, and cleanly adapted by David Nicholls from a brutally frank memoir by British writer...

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   Surfwise

   Published: June 11, 2008

   For its first half, Doug Pray’s mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer health nuts operates in breezy colorful-geezer mode:...

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   Great Scott!

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: June 11, 2008

   When former White House press secretary Scott McClellan started making his own news early this month, Republicans, caught off guard, ran on a dead sprint to the cable news...

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   Female Trouble

   By Jennifer Maerz

   Published: June 11, 2008

   While Sex and the City projects the life of the single writer as being flush with designer labels and revolving-door dating, author Janelle Brown keeps things a little more...

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    Savage Love

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Adam Savage gets paid to improvise on camera, as well as blow up, shoot, and otherwise destroy things, so his presence tonight at Porchlight: A Storytelling Series will...

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    No Haneke-Panky

    By Michael Fox

    Published: June 11, 2008

    While the provincial Austrian town of Neustadt sleeps through another colorless night at the end of the '50s, a faceless vandal smashes the windows and mirrors of a line of...

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    Khush It Real Good

    By Michael Fox

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Today’s word, for all the vocabulary-expanders in the crowd, is khush. It means “ecstatic pleasure” in Urdu, as well as “happy” and “gay.” In...

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    IMOW Down Your BS

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 11, 2008

    The International Museum of Women is a local organization operating somewhat under the radar. It has no bricks and mortar location; it just surfaces here and there with art...

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    What's the Matter, Beautiful?

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 11, 2008

    If there were punk Latina editors at Cosmopolitan, they might turn out images like Sylvia Ji's paintings. But no fashion mag we've ever seen captures women with power vectors...

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    Break Ya Momma’s Back

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Every other day of the year, the Exploratorium inspires wonder in our young people. Today, it crushes it. Not all wonder is good wonder. Wondering if your life will head south...

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    Without a Paddle

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: June 11, 2008

    “It’s hard being a human, but being a common person in China is even more difficult,” one tearful shopkeeper says along the soon-to-be-submerged banks of the...

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    I Sea Food and I Paint it

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 11, 2008

    A stellar new exhibit opens today: "A Complicated Dominion: Nature and New Political Narratives." It takes "natural vs. unnatural" as its theme, and it includes some searching,...

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    Space Oddity

    By Michael Fox

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Half a century on, it’s impossible to grasp the full impact of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik launch in the fall of 1957. Sure, the Cold War between the USSR and the U.S....

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    Marriage and the City

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Andrew Sean Greer’s slim, delicate new novel, The Story of a Marriage, has a few head-slapping revelations that’ll make you rethink everything you’ve read....

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    Got Yer Nose

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 11, 2008

    At the exhibit "Hopeless and Otherwise," the main point is that it's depressing to live in this country right now. Curator Valerie Imus quotes F. Scott Fitzgerald to describe...