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1. Feature

   The Principal Matter

   Teachers said Principal Gil Cho was dictatorial. Students said he manhandled them. The school district said he was doing a good job.

   By Ashley Harrell

   Published: July 9, 2008

   Around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, June 11, a graduating eighth grader on the honor roll took the podium to speak at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School's graduation...

2. Music

   Matmos find inspiration in the Armpit, USA

   By Kurt B. Reighley

   Published: July 9, 2008

   Electronic duo Matmos always seems to be switching gears. Supreme Balloon, its latest record, marks yet another departure. M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel not only moved into new...

3. Eat

   Feeling Lucky?

   Take a gamble on the lengthy menus at two Macanese spots. They can be hit or miss.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: July 9, 2008

   With the recent arrival of Macao Friends Restaurant on Irving, a street already dense with inexpensive ethnic eateries, San Francisco now has a second place in which to sample...

4. Film

   Devil May Care

   Big Red returns in a mindless, revved-up Hellboy sequel.

   By Chuck Wilson

   Published: July 9, 2008

   Hollywood's Endless Superhero Summer rolls on with the arrival of Hellboy II: The Golden Army from Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro, but before this review goes any...

5. Night&Day

   Gentlemen Shooters

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: July 9, 2008

   If a camera could steal your soul, it would not be a Coolpix. It would be something big and metallic and smoky, a machine from the golden age of photography that had to be...

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   Women Faking It

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: July 9, 2008

   In the world of identity theft, we're going to guess that belly dancers usually aren't involved that much. But at "Counterfeit," a big gang of shimmy shakers try to convince...

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   You Look Like a Bachinksy

   By David McClymonds

   Published: July 9, 2008

   Dave Bachinsky is coming up in the world of skateboarding. The young professional skater was thrown into the spotlight a couple years ago after hucking himself down 20 stairs...

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   Listening To Daphne

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: July 9, 2008

   We take Daphne Gottlieb for granted sometimes: She's our performance poet, dreadlocked Amazon, and general object of desire, all six feet of her pierced, tattooed, and thought...

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   Want Some Candye?

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: July 9, 2008

   The title of tonight’s lineup-rich show, "For the Love of Candye: A Benefit for Candye Kane" carries an ominous tone: What’s wrong with our favorite globetrotting...

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    Labor of Love

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: July 9, 2008

    The site-specific theater company Scrap and Salvage has been rooting around the city’s offbeat areas for a while now — notably the Cadillac dealership on Van Ness and...

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    Project Yourself

    By Michael Fox

    Published: July 9, 2008

    The days are long gone when a geeky goofball like Kevin Smith could propel himself from a bedroom crammed with comic books to a million-dollar independent-film career in three...

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    Chris & Don: A Love Story

    By Ernest Hardy

    Published: July 9, 2008

    Tina Mascara and Guido Santi’s Chris & Don: A Love Story is a charming, illuminating portrait of the complex and storied queer romance—one lasting three...

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    Elsa & Fred

    By Jean Oppenheimer

    Published: July 9, 2008

    Seventy-seven-year-old Elsa (Uruguayan actress China Zorrilla) has what might charitably be called “an outsized personality.” Exuberant, garrulous, completely...

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    Chickundead

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: July 9, 2008

    How often have you pondered the unearthly mystery of a McChicken Sandwich slathered in special sauce? Leave it to low-budget-movie impresario Lloyd Kaufman to delve into the...

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    The Last Mistress

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: July 9, 2008

    Catherine Breillat hitches her wagon to the hottest of European stars, Asia Argento, in a highly entertaining adaptation of Jules-Amédée Barbey...

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    Wear Your Tiara

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 9, 2008

    The round room of the Florence Gould jewel-box theater is fitted with beautiful moldings and decorated with angels in the plaster; the ceiling is covered in a delicate mural....

17. Night&Day

    We Don't Need No Maga

    By David McClymonds

    Published: July 9, 2008

    The do-it-yourself counterculture continues to protest the idea that artists need large amounts of money to be creative. From stenciling sidewalks to setting up renegade...

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    What Cats Think

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: July 9, 2008

    When Jaws came out, shark researchers got all shouty, claiming that Steven Spielberg misrepresented the evilness of great whites. The same did not happen among alligator...

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    Riding for Keeps

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: July 9, 2008

    Every summer, the Tour de Fat bike festival rolls through many bike-friendly places — Portland, Austin, Durango — pitches some beer tents, and has a party. That's not...

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    Star Search

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: July 9, 2008

    Beauty pageants are perhaps the least gender-neutral of all sanctioned community rituals. Sure, you get the occasional beefcake-on-a-catwalk extravaganza to add a little...