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Feature
An Inconvenient Plant
One of the world's rarest plants grows in the Presidio. Plans are under way to save it — and ax thousands of trees in the process.
By Joe Eskenazi
Published: April 16, 2008
A beer bottle cap sails off the porch and glides toward Baker Beach far below. Videogame music and howls of trash talk waft downward, along with the odor of kerosene-doused...
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Reviewed
Lyrics Born
Everywhere at Once (Anti-)
By Eric K. Arnold
Published: April 16, 2008
It's been five long years since the Bay Area's favorite gruff-voiced MC last graced us with a new album. Lyrics Born's emphasis on quality over quantity pays off on Everywhere...
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Music
Sifting through Thee Oh Sees' rehearsal space
By J. Pace
Published: April 16, 2008
Title be damned, Thee Oh Sees' new album, The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In, finds the band bursting out of the boudoir. All but gone are the folky, lo-fi...
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Eat
Chow in Dogpatch
Slow Club's new sister joins a clutch of eateries at Third and 22nd streets.
By Meredith Brody
Published: April 16, 2008
Not so very long ago, even longtime San Franciscans who heard the name "Dogpatch" would probably first think of the mythical hillbilly town in Al Capp's long-running comic...
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Film
Sad Sack Extraordinaire
Jason Segel uses his balls to great effect in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 16, 2008
Jason Segel is responsible for two of the most cringe-inducing, hands-in-front-of-your-face moments in the recent history of television, both of which occurred during the sole...
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Night&Day
Young @ Heart
By Scott Foundas
Published: April 16, 2008
From the washed-out images to the twee voice-over (courtesy of director Stephen Walker), this British television documentary about the titular Massachusetts-based...
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Night&Day
Zombie Strippers
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: April 16, 2008
During George W. Bush’s fourth term as president, the administration’s desire for crises and predisposition toward fuck-ups leads to the creation of a zombie virus...
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Art
YBCA women's show revives the F word
By Traci Vogel
Published: April 16, 2008
Quick, wake Pat Robertson from his afternoon nap: Feminism is about to become hip. Last year, two surveys of art from the bra-burning generation — "WACK! Art and the...
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Sucka Free City
Lucky Chances owner transfers card club to his sons
By Ron Russell
Published: April 16, 2008
Rene Medina, the San Francisco entrepreneur whose most lucrative enterprise over the years has been Lucky Chances Casino in Colma, may be a convicted felon, but apparently he...
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Reviewed
The Botticellis
Old Home Movies (Antenna Farm)
By Doug Wallen
Published: April 16, 2008
"It's not Alaska without the snow," sings Alexi Glickman on the opening title track of the Botticellis' debut album. He would know — there's something inescapably wintry...
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Film
Countdown to ... Murder!
Ridiculous Al Pacino stars in ridiculous running-down-the-clock thriller 88 Minutes.
By Ella Taylor
Published: April 16, 2008
Jon Avnet's cheesy new thriller, 88 Minutes, is 105 minutes long. Going in, I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up by Al Pacino chewing the furniture. Alas, it's worse...
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Stage
Future Me, a play about pedophiles, not as funny as it could have been
By Chloe Veltman
Published: April 16, 2008
There used to be a time when writers of dramas about Big Issues could get away with seeing the world in two colors: black and white. That's not to say that more complex...
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Artcap
"Ways and Means": SFAI Group Show
By Traci Vogel
Published: April 16, 2008
How do emerging artists emerge? By any means necessary, including renting a building downtown and holding a great big party — which is what 24 master's candidates at San...
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Sucka Free City
We score an exclusive interview with the Olympic torch
By Will Harper
Published: April 16, 2008
While thousands of San Franciscans were disappointed to miss the Olympic torch relay last week, SF Weekly managed to catch up with the torch — or Flame, as the aspiring...
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Reviewed
The Sword
Gods of the Earth (Kemado)
By Tony Ware
Published: April 16, 2008
There's no denying rock and all its bastard children existed before videogames, but more and more there's a feeling that music and electronics are locked in a developmental...
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Music
Kanye, Jay-Z, Mary J., and Rihanna clamor for diva status
By Eric K. Arnold
Published: April 16, 2008
As Ye-Day approaches, one question looms large: Can any arena contain Kanye West's massive ego? The 20,000-seat HP Pavilion, where hip-hop's favorite college dropout plays...
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Film
Unwelcome Visitor
Tom McCarthy's preachy liberal guilt dwarfs any good intentions.
By Scott Foundas
Published: April 16, 2008
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A lonely dwarf, a wisecracking Cuban American, and a grieving mother walk into each other's lives, laugh together, cry together, grow,...
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Artcap
"Green River": Nick Meyer at Iceberger Gallery
By Traci Vogel
Published: April 16, 2008
Iceberger Gallery opened in February, and, as its name punnily implies, it's about the size of a meat locker. Its founders, Erica Freyberger and Ginelle Hustrulid, have been...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: April 16, 2008
Woo-Woo Is a No-No Woo-woo is just a scam: Nobody really wants the services these people are providing [Free Parking for Sale," Feature, April 2], just as nobody wants Street...
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Reviewed
The Teenagers
Reality Check (XL)
By Doug Wallen
Published: April 16, 2008
It's easy to be conflicted about the Teenagers. Donning messy haircuts and oversize glasses, the Paris trio makes smarmy, jokey synth-pop that's part embarrassing and part...
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