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Dancing with WordsChoreographer Erika Chong Shuch imagines a strange future.By Nirmala NatarajWednesday, September 03Erika Chong Shuch and her much-lauded company, the Erika Shuch Performance Project, have been making dreamlike, profoundly theatrical pieces that... More >> -
Dance Events to Check Out This FallBy Nirmala NatarajWednesday, September 03Inbal Pinto Dance Company Seeing an Inbal Pinto Dance Company show is akin to experiencing Cirque du Soleil without all the commercial... More >> -
Not Your Parents' JazzThis year's San Francisco Jazz Festival rings in the new.By Eric K. ArnoldWednesday, September 03Jazz began as a live soundtrack for East St. Louis brothels and accompaniment for New Orleans funerals. Along the way it has engendered... More >> -
Classical & OperaCompiled By John GrahamWednesday, September 03Classical New Century Chamber Orchestra Music director Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg starts the ensemble's season with "Nadja Plays Piazzolla," a... More >>
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Relics RevisitedArt lovers, history buffs, and science geeks get their fill this fall.By Traci VogelWednesday, September 03I Feel I Am Free But I Know I Am Not Sept. 4–Nov. 20 at SF Camerawork, 657 Mission (at New Montgomery), S.F. Call 512-2020 or visit... More >>
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There Goes the Hood
A legendary underground filmmaker from Sistrunk surfaces to make a movie about Florida homeboys
By Deirdra Funcheon
Don't make like this is Beverly Hills. This is the real goddamned hood. The motherfuckin'... More >>
Dallas
Six Pac
The Cowboys are counting on NFL outlaw Pacman Jones to pop the top on their sixth Super Bowl.
By Richie Whitt
Father murdered. Mother imprisoned. Drugs. Fights. Guns. Lies. Suspensions. Handcuffs.... More >>
Denver
William Orr's quest for better, cheaper gas left him facing prison time
By Alan Prendergast
Few dreamers believe in their dream the way William Orr did.
He chased his idea, a search for... More >>
Houston
Hope for the Houston Texans?
Gary Kubiak and team search for their first winning season
By Richard Connelly
The Houston Texans are about to embark on their seventh NFL season. In only one of the previous... More >>
Kansas City
Home Sweet Parking Lot
When a workingman doesn’t have a home in Johnson County, a Wal-Mart parking lot is the next best thing.
By Nadia Pflaum
Times are tough all over.
Today, several families are visiting the office of Catholic... More >>
Miami
Skateboard Film Pits Overtown Against Sistrunk
Go behind the scenes of this hood war.
By Deirdra Funcheon
"Don't make like this is Beverly Hills. This is the real goddamn hood. The motherfuckin'... More >>
Minneapolis
Tim Pawlenty: Jilted for Sarah Palin
The Minnesotan governor now knows how Carol McCain feels
By Jonathan Kaminsky
Wearing a striped polo shirt and a forced smile, Gov. Tim Pawlenty last week handled the... More >>
Phoenix
Warring US Airways and America West pilots have the merged company in a real tailspin
By Sarah Fenske
David Braid doesn't look like a gangster.
A pilot for US Airways, Braid has the friendly... More >>
St. Louis
Perverts Beware: St. Louis area police have your number
By Kathleen McLaughlin
Earlier this summer, Roderick McArthur shuffled into a courtroom at the Thomas F. Eagleton... More >>
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News & Booze Saturday Edition - Can the City "Advise" the School District to Resegregate?
Sat Sep 6, 2:13 PM
Carmen Chu wants the city to rethink its incredibly byzantine formula deciding what students go where: that's a good idea. The only problem? Without it, schools get segregated fast. Do we still care? Meanwhile the Academy of Art has an... More >>
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Double Bogey Muni's bogus tax shelter and theGuardian's bogus lawsuit.Wednesday, September 03How many people in San Francisco are involved in multimillion-dollar illegal tax shelters? Would you believe: more than 200,000? That's how many... More>>
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Unhealthy S.F. Alleged violation of S.F.'s universal healthcare law exposes its limits.Wednesday, September 03A shop for the polite and etiquette-conscious, the Crane and Co. stationery boutique in the Financial District is now the first company to face... More>>
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Identity Plagiarism A blogger steals someone else's life story and calls it her own.Wednesday, September 03There's a new member on the popular San Francisco–based online sex forum AskIsadora. Her name, apparently, is Jo. She purportedly joined to... More>>
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SF Weekly Letters
Wednesday, September 03Academy of Art Jeer-Leader Pump up the volume: I'm always interested in the Academy of Art's antics, and this is pretty amazing ["Going for... More>>
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Wednesday, September 03
Academy of Art Jeer-Leader
Pump up the volume: I'm always interested in the Academy of Art's antics, and this is pretty amazing ["Going for... More >>
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