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1. Feature

   Nonconformity Still Reigns!

   The top eccentrics of San Francisco, and that's saying something.

   By Lauren Smiley

   Published: July 2, 2008

   In the beginning of our city's love affair with odd ducks, there was Emperor Norton. A businessman in Gold Rush San Francisco who lost his pants on an investment in Peruvian...

2. Music

   Stevie Wonder's classic '70s albums and interviews with artists they influenced

   By Andy Tennille

   Published: July 2, 2008

   In sports, they call it "being in the zone." It's that magical, mystical place where athletes say the game slows to a standstill, the planets align, and the impossible suddenly...

3. Eat

   A More Refined Fire

   Korean goes upscale in the Inner Richmond

   By Brian Bernbaum

   Published: July 2, 2008

   Amid the upscaling that has swept nearly every Asian cuisine into a wave of fusion-heavy small plates, Korean food has been the exception in San Francisco, remaining stubbornly...

4. Film

   Superzero

   Hancock squanders potential greatness with lame humor and a half-baked hero.

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: July 2, 2008

   The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a dead man, was writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's breakthrough, but its follow-up, Unbreakable, starring Bruce Willis as the...

5. Night&Day

   Every Year’s Model

   Published: July 2, 2008

   Okay, so perhaps Elvis Costello has become a bit precious over the years, preferring to dabble in “grownup” genres of jazz, standards, and classical music rather than...

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   Don't Open It! Don't Open It!

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: July 2, 2008

   Katsudo benshi were a class of artists in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s who live-narrated silent movies. They were celebrities, with their own fans, and didn't stop at rehashing...

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   Let's See Some Hustle Out There!

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: July 2, 2008

   We have not read local author Jennifer Sey's book Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams....

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   Lit Up

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: July 2, 2008

   Although fire-art exhibits have lost some of their sparkly fascination, fire-art apocalypses remain a potent lure. The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival, set in a parking lot...

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   Creaky Machines

   By Silke Tudor

   Published: July 2, 2008

   Some believe Stonehenge was built as a massive analog computer to forecast coming eclipses, in essence a very long-term clock. But to maintain accuracy, the great stones would...

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    Million Fishes, Hundred Gourds

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: July 2, 2008

    For her New York solo show last March, dancer Nora Chipaumire (part of the renowned Urban Bush Women) stormed around unusual objects hanging from the ceiling -- gourds -- that...

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    Cinema on Ice

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: July 2, 2008

    You probably haven't heard of Matt Archbold, and here’s why: He was a surf phenom from San Clemente, way down in Orange Country, 20 years ago. So why is Henry Rollins...

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    So Crafty

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: July 2, 2008

    Thanks to the resurgence of small-batch DIY knitting and stitching among artists, we no longer have to bow down to the man when buying crafts. The Renegade Craft Fair, which...

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    Putting the Fun Back in Funeral

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 2, 2008

    This is not the worst locally produced zombie movie we've ever seen. Although RetarDEAD takes itself too seriously to be really quality schlock, it seems as though the makers...

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    In the Bag

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: July 2, 2008

    They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Case in point: plastic grocery bags, banned by San Francisco last year from city grocery stores. That historic...

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    Townies

    By David McClymonds

    Published: July 2, 2008

    Don't call Prairiedog a country band. It's "scrappy rock," says lead singer and songwriter Sarah Nelson. "The music is numb rock that you want to drink rum to." The cowboy...

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    Mother's Little Helper

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 2, 2008

    Ana Teresa Fernandez is interested in clean lines and double standards. Her paintings tend to show mysterious women in short black dresses and pointy heels, performing...

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    Hot Bach in the Summertime

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: July 2, 2008

    Summer is a quiet time for classical music around here, what with most of the region’s chamber music organizations touring or taking a break. Besides the San Francisco...

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    Hail S.F.

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: July 2, 2008

    Photographer Sean McFarland does wonderful things to San Francisco. He takes countless photos of particular settings -- from buildings, parks, and streetscapes to freeway...

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    Mute Witnesses

    By Michael Fox

    Published: July 2, 2008

    The myth still persists in some circles that the silent film era was a bastion of primitivism, a tedious mime show of bathetic sentimentality and clumsy artistry. A single...

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    Rated X-static

    By Michael Fox

    Published: July 2, 2008

    You know you’re a real San Franciscan when the term “deviant sex” barely ratchets your blood pressure. By this late date in this no-holds-barred town,...