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1. Feature

   The Demise of Hyphy

   Thizzle, bling, and blunts may have helped bring down the overhyped hyphy movement. But KMEL pulled the trigger.

   By Eric K. Arnold

   Published: February 20, 2008

   After breaking through to mainstream pop-culture awareness in 2006, the Bay Area's youthful, party-oriented hyphy movement seemed poised to become the next big thing. Fueled by...

2. Music

   Noise Pop Preview: Mountain Goats Delve into Divine Dread

   By Michael Powell

   Published: February 20, 2008

   John Darnielle's songs operate with the grace of a slasher movie. They are precise in their depiction of messy situations, triumphant even in desperation, usually grisly,...

3. Reviewed

   Maceo Parker and the WDR Big Band

   Roots and Grooves (Heads Up International)

   By Andy Tennille

   Published: February 20, 2008

   In the spring of 1959, Ray Charles — 29 years old and hot off his chart-topping hit "What'd I Say" — recorded 12 covers backed by a string orchestra and an all-star...

4. Eat

   Local Kitchen & Wine Merchant: Bland Name for Bomb Food

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: February 20, 2008

   Expectations were high for the first meal at Local Kitchen & Wine Merchant. For one thing, I thought I knew what to expect. I'm a big fan of chef Ola Fendert's other S.F....

5. Film

   Teen Comedy Charlie Bartlett Could Use a Dose of Mean

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: February 20, 2008

   Like most wannabe heroes of eager-to-please teen comedies, poor little rich boy Charlie Bartlett is charming and quirky. Too charming by half and not nearly quirky enough, as...

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   Come On!

   By Silke Tudor

   Published: February 20, 2008

   It has been reported that 43 percent of American women are non-orgasmic and 70 percent can not reach orgasm by penetration alone. While such stats may seem fantastic in our...

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   Up Yours

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: February 20, 2008

   Thus far, the best moment in our dysfunctional awards season has been Amy Winehouse's adorable crack dance at the end of the Grammys. Can the Oscars top that? So far, the big...

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   Blowing It

   By Chloe Veltman

   Published: February 20, 2008

   It was while dividing his time between school and working a weekly hip-hop open mike in Providence, Rhode Island, that Tim Barsky had his first major artistic epiphany. One...

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   Watch 'Em Work

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: February 20, 2008

   The best live drawing event of the year, the Monster Drawing Rally, has so many contributing artists -- nearly 125 -- that organizers have to split them up into four one-hour...

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    Southland Tales

    Published: February 20, 2008

    The city stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Southland Tales is an epic story set over the course of three days that culminate in a massive 4th...

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    Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

    Published: February 20, 2008

    The genius of Mel Stuart's 1971 Wonka could never be upstaged by Johnny Depp, and it wasn't. The original film, starring a freakishly sublime Gene Wilder, masquerades as a...

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    Nick Catchdubs

    Published: February 20, 2008

    A talented remixer and DJ who ventures from rap to rock to electro on the dancefloor, New Yorker Nick Catchdubs (formerly an editor at music mag Fader) is helping to nurture...

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    The Mountain Goats

    Published: February 20, 2008

    New album Heretic Pride is more roughly cut than the Mountain Goats’ previous 4AD albums, and song titles like “How to Embrace a Swamp Creature” hark back to the...

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    British Sea Power

    Published: February 20, 2008

    The band has the sound (think Arcade Fire with a sense of humor), the look (Boy Scout anarchists), and now it has the songs. Do You Like Rock Music? is the album we always...

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    Michael Wolff Trio: Jazz, Jazz, Jazz CD (Wrong Records)

    Published: February 20, 2008

    In a perfect world, Herbie Hancock smacking down Amy Winehouse and Kanye West to win album of the year honors at this year’s Grammys would mean a flood of new jazz...

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    Long Live the Queen

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 20, 2008

    It's all here: Queensrÿche has everything you need in a metal band. Umlaut? Check. Male falsetto harmonies? Check. Charting late-'80s power ballad? Yes. Fans know the band...

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    2 Percent Jazz, 98 Percent Funky Stuff

    Published: February 20, 2008

    On Roots and Grooves, legendary James Brown sideman Maceo Parker delivers a double-disc album that focuses on the saxman’s musical origins and most famous compositions....

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    Do the Jane Fonda

    By Michael Fox

    Published: February 20, 2008

    Jane Fonda is a mellow, retiring tabby, but not so long ago she was a sex kitten and antiwar tiger of the first rank. Henry's daughter (and Bridget's aunt) was never more...

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    No Bottle of Rum, Though

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 20, 2008

    The old movie house out in the glamorous avenues is 81, which is the new middle age, in case you hadn't heard. To celebrate the Balboa Birthday Bash, its programmers screen The...

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    Smart Mart

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 20, 2008

    If the average mall gives you the jibblies, with its mass-produced crap and advertising that screams, "Why aren't you made of plastic yet, bitch?," we suggest you stop going....