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   Blood, Sweat, and Tutus

   Tear your knee, wrench your back, pirouette, and bow: dancing at the San Francisco Ballet.

   By Joe Eskenazi

   Published: July 23, 2008

   In retrospect, the skirt was just too damn long. "I was a little concerned. But they said, 'Can you please try it at this length?' And I said okay — like every dancer...

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   Do A Little Dance

   By Nirmala Nataraj

   Published: July 23, 2008

   If food is the music of love, play on, but some modern dance to set the scene might be nice as well. Of course, a few munchies and libations aren't the only reason audiences...

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   Native L.A.

   By Michael Fox

   Published: July 23, 2008

   Los Angeles has always been a town of schisms and divisions. The movie stars and real estate developers bask in the bright lights, while the grinders and grifters bob and weave...

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   Watch Them Go

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: July 23, 2008

   Some of us can run only a block, and then only to catch someone selling bacon-wrapped hot dogs. Dean Karnazes isn’t one of us: In 2006, he ran 50 marathons in 50 states in...

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   Sometimes Tradition Is Good

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: July 23, 2008

   Honest, talented traditional dancing is a good bet for your entertainment buck: People do not spend years and years studying the art of their ancestors just to put on a...

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   Valley of the Dolls

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: July 23, 2008

   From the time you gave her a mohawk to the time you made her custom "clothes" to all the time you spent thinking about her feet, Barbie's had a hold on you. At "Twisted...

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   Down and Out in S.F.

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: July 23, 2008

   If you don’t like Broke-Ass Stuart and his guidebook, you and your Frommer’s can go fuck yourselves at the Ferry Building. That’s the impression we get when...

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   Omega, WTF?

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: July 23, 2008

   Our existential crises are not dignified: Big questions around here focus on degree of dorkdom. For example, if we are knee-jerk science fiction lovers, are we also...

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   Exquisite Corpses

   By Michael Fox

   Published: July 23, 2008

   At the beginning of the decade — and the millennium, not coincidentally — a local graphic artist dropped a pile of cash on a thousand blank journals. He...

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    The Gods Must Be Angry

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: July 23, 2008

    Tomorrow, in various lucky zones of northern hemisphere, the moon will snap over the sun like a lens cover, to borrow a metaphor from the writer Annie Dillard. The...

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    Cool Clear Waters

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 23, 2008

    Last time we saw Alice Waters, the famous food enthusiast was cooking Werner Herzog's shoe in Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, a great movie about shoes and movies and Werner...

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    UltraMarathon Man with Dean Karnazes

    Published: July 23, 2008

    A movie about the miracle man, who runs like God has a pistol trained on him. The movie UltraMarathon Man showcases his stunning feat in 2006, when he ran 50 marathons in 50...

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    Kabluey

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: July 23, 2008

    From the film appearances of the San Diego Chicken to the penguin-suited thug who gave Jean-Claude Van Damme a flipper-smacking in Sudden Death, I can’t think of a single...

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    Baghead

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: July 23, 2008

    Basically, this is a movie in which two half-assed couples—barely lit old flames Matt (Ross Partridge) and Catherine (Elise Muller) and more-like-siblings Chad (Steve...

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    Bustin' Down the Door

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: July 23, 2008

    The title of director Jeremy Gosch’s engaging, elegantly made surf documentary describes the oftentimes brash methods employed by a pack of scrappy...

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    Putting It Out There

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: July 23, 2008

    The final weekend of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival finds fest alumni and stage newbies gathering to see their visions realized in work that packs a punch. It includes...

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    What You Will

    Published: July 23, 2008

    Shakespeare -- who has the time? Unless you paid good money to study the Bard in college (excellent use of resources!), it's a pretty good bet that characters like Hamlet,...

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    They Make It Look Easy

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 23, 2008

    So Will Franken walks into a bar. No, really! At Comedy Speakeasy, that actually happened, when the weekly showcase featured the much-laughed-at actor/comedian in his last San...

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    Drug Out

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 23, 2008

    Installation artist Andy Diaz Hope loves drugs. Also, he hates drugs. Either way, he thinks they're pretty. Doesn't matter what kind: Herbs, powders, scrips, needles, and pills...

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    If Art Could Kill

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 23, 2008

    We thought our taste in art was too democratic: "We like pretty much everything," we told ourselves. "We should be more snobby." Michael Frank saved us from this line of...