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Feature
The Chief Is In (for Now)
With homicide cases going unsolved and morale in the police department sinking, Heather Fong's days as chief may be numbered.
By Ron Russell
Published: August 6, 2008
About three dozen people are gathered at the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center for a meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission, and the questions they're hurling at...
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Music
Poetic emcee Ise Lyfe coulda been a gangsta
By Eric K. Arnold
Published: August 6, 2008
If you crossed the social awareness of '70s jazzy wordsmith Gil Scott-Heron with the slick-tongued slang of Too $hort, you might end up with someone like Ise Lyfe. Unabashedly...
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Eat
Palace of Fine Price
In this city, 12 bucks for a steak dinner seems too good to be true. It isn't.
By Meredith Brody
Published: August 6, 2008
I can't count how many times I've driven by the corner of Mission and Cesar Chavez and noted the restaurant on the northeast corner whose big sign with bold blocky black...
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Film
About a Boy
What happens when a child murderer grows up?
By Ernest Hardy
Published: August 6, 2008
"So fuckin' delicate, people ... they die so easily," says a supporting character to the titular Boy A, whose barely audible two-word reply — "She didn't" —...
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Night&Day
The Franz
By Traci Vogel
Published: August 6, 2008
Love him, hate him, Oprah outcast Jonathan Franzen has a place on bookshelves across the country. His 2001 novel The Corrections provided fodder for cocktail gossip while...
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Night&Day
Kvetches and Sketches
By Traci Vogel
Published: August 6, 2008
Oy vey, what would your mother say? If your moms is Jewish, she'll probably find a lot to laugh about at Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad, actually. This sassy, sexy revue sets the...
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Night&Day
Go Grove
By Traci Vogel
Published: August 6, 2008
It ain't over 'till the -- well, that's just insulting. Let's just say the SF Opera closes out Stern Grove's summer season with their usual impeccable line-up. Headliner Sylvia...
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Night&Day
Grizzly Demise
By Andy Wright
Published: August 6, 2008
The grizzly bear has scored its fair share of movie roles. It’s the beleaguered cub of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s ode to nature, The Bear, the object of ill-fated Timothy...
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Night&Day
Howling at the Rune
By Traci Vogel
Published: August 6, 2008
Late at night, we’ve all been there: You’re serving up sushi on the waxed chest of a young hottie when three wolves suddenly decide to style your hair. Fortunately, a...
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Night&Day
Getting the J.O'B Done
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 6, 2008
Maybe you're not a fan of war. Maybe military history seems like a weird thing to celebrate. Even so, trust us here: Liberty Ship the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien is major brain candy...
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Night&Day
Bringing Femme Fatale Back
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 6, 2008
Snarky as we are, it's hard for us to write the words "hip" or "sexy" without those scare quotes around them. But it's even harder to think up any other words to describe the...
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Night&Day
Ear Ear
By Traci Vogel
Published: August 6, 2008
We keep our eyes open as we walk around the city, but we tend to keep our ears closed, avoiding the whoosh of the bus and the conversations of passersby -- or plugging...
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Night&Day
It’s Raining Amens
By Traci Vogel
Published: August 6, 2008
As all good fetishists know, God and the erotic are two great tastes that taste great together. There’s an especially sweet place in heaven, however, for those who grow up...
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Night&Day
Music from Big Pink
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 6, 2008
You can choose to see the wine industry as a soulless, disease-inducing, water-table–decimating scourge, or you can look on the bright side, and agree that it also brings...
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Night&Day
B.A.R.E. Your Butt
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 6, 2008
Tap dance is about fifty times harder than it looks, since the audience can't see or hear the many tiny movements of ankle tendon and leg muscle it takes to make that flap-step...
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Night&Day
Who’s Your Mimi?
By Will Harper
Published: August 6, 2008
Here’s something we bet ya didn’t know about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: She loves chocolate. She just can’t get enough of the sweet stuff. That’s just one...
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Night&Day
Philip Glass' Progeny
By Traci Vogel
Published: August 6, 2008
Grumps of the "classical music is dying" variety should be heartened by the existence of Nico Muhly. The fresh-faced 27-year-old Juilliard graduate creates music that combines...
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Night&Day
How Not to Lie
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 6, 2008
In the face of deeply bizarre behavior among high-profile authors and members of the publishing industry, it seems safe to imagine that a writing class won't hurt you. Local...
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Night&Day
Doo Ron Ron
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: August 6, 2008
He's sort of the Ambrose Bierce of surf photographers: At "The Ron Stoner Show," the star surf photographer of the 1960s California scene is on display at his artistic acme....
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Night&Day
Robots and Social Systems
By Traci Vogel
Published: August 6, 2008
Professor Ken Goldberg, of UC Berkeley, plays games with robots. Like his namesake, Rube Goldberg, he's interested in complex connections that lead to a simple outcome. At this...
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