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The Comedy Carnival You Never Knew You Wanted Is Finally Coming

2013-06-17 14:01:00

Funny or Die announced today that Dave Chappelle and Flight of the Conchords will headline FoD's first-ever Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival, which will take to the road for a multi-city tour ...

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Recent Acquisitions: 31 Bill Owens Photographs Gifted to Mills

2013-06-14 17:03:41

After this post, I'm retiring Recent Acquisitions. I began writing the column in January of 2012, shortly after I moved to San Francisco, and it enabled me to do what I love most: hang out in arch...

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The Write Stuff: Chris Cole on Improvisation Without the Jazz Hands

2013-06-14 17:00:29

The Write Stuff is a series of interview profiles conducted by Litseen, where authors give exclusive readings from their work. Chris Cole was born in Los Angeles before the Internet and now live...

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Two Dance Companies Feel the Heat of Spring

2013-06-14 16:55:16

Mark Morris Dance Group and LEVYdance both reveal the distinct physicality of their namesake choreographers. Mark Morris's works are linear, balletic without the fluidity of ballet, emphasize t...

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S.F. Father Named Hottest Dad in His 30s

2013-06-14 15:45:44

In celebration of Hallmark's most rugged holiday -- Father's Day -- iVillage, a website dedicated to womenfolk, rolled out its list of the nine Hottest Dads in America and, yes, a San Francisco p...

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Classifinds: Last Minute Father's Day Gifts on Craigslist

2013-06-14 10:23:11

You never know what you'll find on Craigslist, but each week we'll dive into the endless listings of classified ads to uncover the best, the worst, and the weirdest that fellow San Franciscans are...

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Q&A: SF Weekly Talks to Bunny Pistol, Burlesque Bump and Grinder Extraordinaire

2013-06-13 09:00:00

In a city where words like 'scrotal' and 'perineal' are bandied about like cotton candy at a carnival, it's nice to know there are still a few places where nudity is tasteful. And tasseled. We ca...

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Craigslist Missed Connections of the Week: Firefighters, Pizza Bulges, and the Robot Apocalypse

2013-06-13 00:00:17

Of Craiglist's many valuable services, perhaps the most important is the Missed Connections. Some can be as simple as a quick description of a person and a setting, and an explanation of how...

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The Director and Stars of "This Is the End" Talk About Getting Away With It

2013-06-11 16:19:00

This is the plot of This Is the End: Visiting from the Canadian motherland, Jay Baruchel meets up with his pal and countryman Seth Rogen in L.A., where they try to get past post-Rogen-sellout...

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A Walkthrough of Woody Allen's S.F.-Based Movie "Blue Jasmine" on the Occasion of There Being a Trailer

2013-06-11 11:30:36

San Francisco caught Woody Allen fever last year as residents tracked his every move while he was filming in the city. The phenomenon became known on twitter as #woodyspotting. The famed director...

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It's Grit and Gravel in "Terminus" at the Magic Theatre

2013-06-11 10:44:55

When director Jon Tracy first read the script for Terminus, Irish playwright Mark O'Rowe's dark and lyrical story which has its American premiere at the Magic Theatre, his biggest challenge was ...

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Speculations on Spectatorship: Walking Distance, Pageantry

2013-06-10 12:49:07

In live performance, audience members agree to enter a work on the terms presented in the theater. At the Walking Distance Dance Festival last week at ODC, Kate Weare and Company captured the ve...

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Read Local: Finally, The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia

2013-06-10 06:30:00

New York City might be home to the big houses, but this scrappy city just happens to be the epicenter of publishing on the Best Coast. Join Alexis Coe for Read Local, a series on books produced i...

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The Write Stuff: Andrew Touhy on Settling in to Depth

2013-06-07 14:50:05

The Write Stuff is a series of interview profiles conducted by Litseen, where authors give exclusive readings from their work. Andrew Touhy is a founding member of the Flat Earth Writing Colle...

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Artist's Statement: Ala Ebtekar on Coming of Age in Iran, and Finding His Early Muse in Hip-Hop and Graffiti

2013-06-07 13:10:27

It was Renoir who said that a work of art "must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, and carry you away." Interviews with artists should have a similar effect. With "Artist's Statement," our wee...

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San Francisco Is Named Most Romantic City in North America

2013-06-06 13:21:16

Screw holding hands in New York City's Central Park, San Francisco is officially the place for budding love. According to the dating/travel site, MissTravel.com, San Francisco was named the most...

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Classifinds: Craigslist is My Interior Decorator

2013-06-04 11:42:56

You never know what you'll find on Craigslist, but each week we'll dive into the endless listings of classified ads to uncover the best, the worst, and the weirdest that fellow San Franciscans are...

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Recent Acquisitions: The Asian Art Museum Now Guarded by (Bronze) Lions

2013-05-31 14:23:13

Cultural institutions in San Francisco continually search for new acquisitions. Alexis Coe brings you the most important, often wondrous, sometimes bizarre, and occasionally downright vexing find...

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How to Win the Date Site Arms Race: HowAboutWe.com Targets Couples

2013-05-31 13:26:34

Imagining San Francisco from his office in Brooklyn, dating site co-CEO Brian Schechter has no trouble spitting out sunny characterizations. His favorite: The West Coast city is "a playground for ...

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Contemporary Dance: Find Out What Exactly It Is

2013-05-30 14:13:13

What is contemporary dance? Guggenheim fellow Brian Brooks acknowledges the references to Cunningham, release, ballet, and street dance that appear in his solo I'm Going to Explode but explains...

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