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Feature
The USF Dons Have Gone from National Champs to National Chumps
By Ron Russell
Published: February 27, 2008
It's a gloriously sunny afternoon, and Eddie Sutton has slipped away from his tomblike office at the University of San Francisco to return a phone call from the relative quiet...
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Night&Day
Starting Out In The Evening
Published: February 27, 2008
Leonard Schiller, a novelist in his 70s, wakes every morning, puts on a jacket and tie, and sits at his typewriter for a specified number of hours each day, attempting to...
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Night&Day
Industry Tools
By Michael Leaverton
Published: February 27, 2008
Try as we might, we've been unable to read Dan Kennedy's book Rock On cover to cover, instead rifling through it like a bowl of candy. The nonfiction tale concerns his years in...
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Matt Smith
Supes Spread Manure
Their anti-Newsom campaigning is preventing more affordable housing
By Matt Smith
Published: February 27, 2008
Imagine the most bitchin' personal ad in the history of self-promotion. It would conjure a man both wealthy and sensitive, possessing ambition and clout, with madly idealistic...
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Sucka Free City
Dancing Mime Gets Kicked Off the Golden Gate Bridge
By Ashley Harrell
Published: February 27, 2008
On a recent cloudless Saturday afternoon, Ashley Lauren Saks pirouetted across the Golden Gate Bridge wearing white face paint, red lips, a black tutu, gray ballet slippers,...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: February 27, 2008
Ghost-Riding the Whip ...Into Oblivion Don't go dumb: If it weren't for the fact that Clear Channel has this "progressive" Bay Area enthralled in its dumbing-down schemes, I...
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Sucka Free City
San Francisco's Slave-Disclosure Ordinance Reveals Little
By Benjamin Wachs
Published: February 27, 2008
San Franciscans laud themselves for being enlightened so often that it's sometimes hard to tell if we're really enlightened or just congratulating ourselves. Last week the...
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Sucka Free City
Kiva's Microloans Underwriting Cockfighting in Peru
By Lauren Smiley
Published: February 27, 2008
At Kiva's Web site (www.kiva.org), you can plunk down a loan of $25 to spot a farmer for pineapple seeds in Nicaragua, or help a fish seller buy cooking oil in Kenya. Started...
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Music
Rick Rubin Digs Howlin Rain's Distorted View of the '70s
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: February 27, 2008
The best artistic creations spring from dualities. There Will Be Blood's villainous oil baron vs. the naive preacher kid. The Road's barren apocalypse vs. the tender father-son...
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Reviewed
Willits + Sakamoto
Ocean Fire (12k)
By Doug Wallen
Published: February 27, 2008
It's risky, making an ambient record about the sea. One false move, and you're in the quagmire of New Age. Luckily, Bay Area tinkerer Christopher Willits and Japanese legend...
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Reviewed
Lenny Kravitz
It Is Time for a Love Revolution (Virgin)
Ben Westhoff
Published: February 27, 2008
Lenny Kravitz hates it when critics call him retro, contending that love, revolution, and smooching should belong to every generation. But the problem with his new album, It Is...
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Music
Ladysmith Black Mambazo Views South Africa Through a Complicated Icon
By Rachel Devitt
Published: February 27, 2008
In 1987, Ladysmith Black Mambazo released an album, Shaka Zulu, named after the 19th-century founder of the Zulu empire. The record was both the group's proper international...
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Reviewed
Terrence Brewer
QuintEssential (Strong Brew Music)
By Ezra Gale
Published: February 27, 2008
There's a moment about midway through "Decidedly Mopey," the first track on guitarist Terrence Brewer's new album, QuintEssential, where the Alameda local's fleet-fingered solo...
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Music
The Dodos' Foot-Stompin' Chemistry Detonates Staid Duos
By Dave Pehling
Published: February 27, 2008
For all the permutations of acoustic roots music the experimental neo-folk movement has produced, the style's gravitation toward wispy, soft-rock redux can leave a listener...
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Music
Magnetic Fields: Stephin Merritt Goes Heavy on the Deadpan
By Rob Trucks
Published: February 27, 2008
Ethan Frome. What a terrible book. Edith Wharton's bleak novella tells the tale of its doomed titular "hero," who, in an effort to do the right thing, marries Zeena, the woman...
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Bouncer
Depth of a Salesman: Parsing Economic Philosophy at Paragon
By Katy St. Clair
Published: February 27, 2008
There's a line in the Bible that reads, "There are many rooms in my father's house." I have no idea what this means, but it often runs through my head when I am traveling...
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Hear This
Danish Garage Rockers Storm the Independent
By Mark Keresman, John Graham, Ernest Barteldes and Tim Pratt
Published: February 27, 2008
When legendary U.K. space-rockers Spacemen 3 split circa 1991, member Jason Pierce channeled its lysergic drone into the eclectic, song-oriented Spiritualized while Pete...
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BeatBox
Caught Up in the Rapture
By Tamara Palmer and John Graham
Published: February 27, 2008
New York–based Satoshi Tomiie is business partners with house music's two most famous DJs, running his label, SAW Recordings, as part of Frankie Knuckles' and David...
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Eat
You Can Have Paris
The food at Le P'tit Laurent is like the French: indifferent
By Meredith Brody
Published: February 27, 2008
Into each life some rain must fall, and it was already pouring when I walked into Le P'tit Laurent to find a little more gloom. On the other side of the velvet curtain, hung to...
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Eat
PROMOTION: SOMA's Fifth-Floor Restaurant in Hotel Palomar Recools Itself, Thrillist Says
Courtesy Of Thrillist.com
Published: February 27, 2008
This article is brought to you by Thrillist.com, our homies. There's a rich tradition of classic institutions dialing back their stuffiness to stay relevant: Rolls Royce...
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