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1. Feature

   He's No Angel

   They once called him a savior who helped people in need. Today, Edwin Parada is accused of taking money from Latinos unfamiliar with real estate laws.

   By Karina Ioffee

   Published: June 18, 2008

   It was evening when the stranger knocked on Carmen Ruiz's door. The young man with ruddy cheeks and gel in his hair said that he had heard from an acquaintance that Ruiz, a...

2. Music

   George Michael refuses to play the polite pop star

   By Kurt B. Reighley

   Published: June 18, 2008

   The passing years can be unkind to rebels. You survive booze, bad marriages, and car crashes, only to have the march of time leave its muddy boot print on your shining legacy....

3. Eat

   'Cue the Applause

   Excellent barbecue in an unexpected location: a golf course.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: June 18, 2008

   There are a lot of reasons a meal can become locked in our memories, surfacing from time to time as a pleasant, even compelling souvenir. As I've said before, I generally focus...

4. Film

   Back ... and Loving It

   Get Smart redux is a rare device: A TV remake for the big screen that works on its own terms.

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: June 18, 2008

   As old Broadway shows are revived, new Broadway shows get spun from old movies so that new movies may be fashioned from ancient TV series. It's an iron law of the culture...

5. Night&Day

   The Mother of Tears

   Published: June 18, 2008

   Smashed heads! Smashed faces! A woman disemboweled and hanged with her own guts! Vaginal impalement with, er, a snap-together vagina impaler! Already a vocal cult calls the...

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   Get Smart

   Published: June 18, 2008

   As old Broadway shows are revived, new Broadway shows get spun from old movies so that new movies may be fashioned from ancient TV series. It’s an iron law of the culture...

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   In Defense of Creepy Crawlies

   By Andy Wright

   Published: June 18, 2008

   Giant bugs always get a bad rap. From the unwieldy, pop-eyed ants of Them! to the billboard-sized tarantula of Earth vs. the Spider ("It must eat you to live!"), creepy...

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   American Chopper

   By Michael Fox

   Published: June 18, 2008

   In the carnivalesque early days of movie exhibition, a locomotive steaming toward the camera was sufficient to send patrons stampeding to the back of the theater. But the noise...

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   Return of the Mac

   By Tamara Palmer

   Published: June 18, 2008

   Those unfamiliar with rap culture might find it improbable to learn that Vallejo has a pin in it on the international rap map. But it does, thanks in large part to the...

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    Waking Dream

    By Michael Fox

    Published: June 18, 2008

    The demarcation between fiction and life — between stories and experience — grows fuzzier every day. Consider the groaning shelf of fake memoirs, not to mention...

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    Parts Unknown

    By David McClymonds

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Ask any train hopper: Riding the rails can be true bliss. The feeling of pulling out of a yard after hiding in the corner of a boxcar for 14 hours makes the slow, dirty trip...

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    Who Shot Miles Archer?

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Listen up, young people: The Maltese Falcon is an awesome movie, even though it is in black and white. Stop whining! See it right away: It's funny and gay and violent....

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    So Pretty

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Local chanteuse and pianist Katy Stephan's new record Saints of the Lost Cause Saloon is full of her signature pop-classicism laced with a brass-band festival sensibility; it...

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    King of Queens

    By Nathan Lee

    Published: June 18, 2008

    You come away from Chop Shop with a mood, the voluptuous sum of its fine-tuned parts: the way a rundown patch of Queens is always flooded with mud; hot dogs smoking from a...

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    Roller Girls Play Dirty

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: June 18, 2008

    At the height of professional roller derby, San Francisco’s own Ann “Banana-Nose” Calvello was known for outlandish makeup, unnatural hair color, and a ferocious...

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    His So-Called Life

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Memoirs about quitting smoking haven’t lit up like ones about drugs or stripping or working at Vogue, and let’s hope our luck holds: The last thing we need at the...

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    We're Real Proud of You, Honey

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Among the hundreds of events affiliated with the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade, one of our favorites is the big pink triangle on Twin Peaks. Volunteers put it...

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    Second Time’s a Charm

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Remember prom? All the bad dresses, bad hair, bad photos, bad dates, and the vigilantly guarded punch bowl? Or maybe you were one of those people mysteriously not in attendance...

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    Sex and Violence

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Lucha libre, or masked Mexican wrestling, started in the 1930s, and it's a given that every American generation will discover the sport and add its own artistic spin. But Los...

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    Brick Lane

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Bracket the fact that it’s an adaptation of Monica Ali’s great big treat of a 2003 novel about displacement and feminine emancipation, and British director Sarah...