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1. Feature

   No Linkup for You!

   In the world of online community, one authoritative man can dictate your social life

   By Lauren Smiley

   Published: December 12, 2007

   Firinn Taisdeal will tell you straight up: "It's tough being around me. No secret there." Yes, his relationships have been volatile: His siblings have stonewalled him for more...

2. Music

   Seventies funk icon Darondo talks limos, ladies, and his Bay Area legacy

   By Sam Chennault

   Published: December 12, 2007

   When crate-diggers unearthed the long-forgotten Bay Area '70s soul hit "Didn't I" by Darondo Pulliam in the early years of this decade, they stumbled onto one of the greatest...

3. Reviewed

   Sigur Rós

   Hvarf/Heim XL

   By Michael Alan Goldberg

   Published: December 12, 2007

   In its first year, Von — the 1997 debut disc from Sigur Rós — moved a whopping 313 copies. A decade and nearly a half-dozen releases later, the ethereal...

4. Eat

   Sens and Sensibility

   Exotic Southern Mediterranean fare with a point of view and a sea view

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: December 12, 2007

   The room, once the home of the rather lackluster French-like Monte Cristo, now down for the count, hadn't changed at all. There were the oddly Flintstonesian rocks punctuating...

5. Film

   Grounded

   Controversy aside, The Kite Runner just won't fly

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: December 12, 2007

   Kites fly high over the San Francisco Bay and Kabul (okay, China), but not much else soars in Marc Forster's flaccid adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's vivid 2002 novel, which...

6. Night&Day

   David Sedaris: Grinch?

   By Nirmala Nataraj

   Published: December 12, 2007

   Forget the nutcrackers, the miracles on 42nd Street, and other seasonal boilerplates. Instead, celebrate some good old-fashioned holiday angst. David Sedaris's The SantaLand...

7. Night&Day

   Decked

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: December 12, 2007

   No art is as marked for time as a freshly stamped skateboard graphic. In the old days (the late '80s), they used to be protected by rails, but skaters quickly decided that such...

8. Night&Day

   Cute Overload

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: December 12, 2007

   Where did the "country kitchen" aesthetic come from? What's with the geese? We don't get it. The copper pots and greyish-blue fabric mania that seems to have much of our fine...

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   The Wilder One

   By Frako Loden

   Published: December 12, 2007

   It's tough to forget goonish, heavy-lidded character actor Timothy Carey once you've seen him. He tosses beer in Marlon Brando's face in The Wild One. He shoots a racehorse in...

10. Night&Day

    Fun With Veggies

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: December 12, 2007

    In this season of robust, often virtuoso eating, braced by a free-range turkey on one end and a pineapple-topped aw-fuck-it Christmas ham on the other, let's take a moment to...

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    Sugarplums Danced

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: December 12, 2007

    If ever there was a time to dress up and get crazy, it's … well, right about now. You can join the rest of the gothic drag queens, vaudeville vixens, and gender-bending...

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    Here To Stay

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Twenty years is an eternity for any organization. Even families don't always last that long, let alone non-profit art galleries. So "In the Fullness of Time: Celebrating Twenty...

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    On the Download

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: December 12, 2007

    In a world where faster is commonly construed as better, the Long Now Foundation stands out in the stream of convenience-store consciousness, fostering patience with majestic...

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    Cries and Whispers

    By Michael Fox

    Published: December 12, 2007

    The Mexican director Carlos Reygadas has made just three films, beginning with Japon and Battle in Heaven, but he's already giving signs of becoming the next Bergman. (And God...

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    New Graf

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Graffiti art continues to move from the alleyways to the galleries, and often retreats structurally from explosive outlaw murals to smaller, more traditional canvases. This...

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    A Muse Meant

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Two known entities, Instant City magazine and local writer and vegetable enthusiast Sarah Fran Wisby, pique our interest in "Mixed Muse: A Celebration of Words and Music," but...

17. Night&Day

    Holiday in Baghdad

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Adel Abidin's travel agency installation "Abidin Travels" is gruesome, sarcastic, and pretty funny. The artist, a Baghdad native, lives in Helsinki now. Imagine writing, of...

18. Night&Day

    Reading the Leaves

    By Michael Fox

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Until pretty recently, Lipton's Orange Pekoe was the only variety of tea most Americans had ever tasted. Basic black may be considered appropriate for many occasions, but once...

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    The Thin Man

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Hot on the heels of his smashing screen success with Down Syndrome and snails in 2005's What Is It?, dashing auteur and man-about-town Crispin Hellion Glover brings breathless...

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    Very Very Mary

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: December 12, 2007

    We saw Mary Wilson, the normal Supreme, last time she was here. She's not the mean diva, she's not the cheated one and she's not the replacement: She's the original, and what a...