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Power Up

Gamers get their show

By Michael Leaverton, Hiya Swanhuyser

Published: November 30, 2005

FRI-SUN 12/2-4 Your average gamer, manning his Taco Bell register or trying once again to whittle down his semester course load, usually doesn't get much out of videogame conferences, which...

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Quite the Catch

Montana's Excellence

By Michael Leaverton, Hiya Swanhuyser

Published: November 23, 2005

TUES 11/29 In the 1980s, you could find mural-size photographs of 49ers quarterback Joe Montana in the atriums of downtown banks: San Francisco truly loved him. He retired in the mid-1990s,...

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Mount Up

Miller takes you Higher

By Michael Leaverton, Hiya Swanhuyser

Published: November 16, 2005

FRI 11/18 Higher Ground is Warren Miller's 56th film in so many years -- 56th! -- so we can forgive him if his famed bemused narration, typically peppered with non sequiturs, is a...

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Rise of the Machines

Robots settle the score

By Karen Macklin, Michael Leaverton

Published: November 9, 2005

SAT-SUN 11/12-13 Maybe you grew up, as I did, with brothers brooding behind closed doors, building and manipulating their own mechanical inventions or trying to figure out how to upgrade the...

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Alcatraz Razzmatazz

Touring the Rock on celluloid

By Hiya Swanhuyser, Karen Macklin

Published: November 2, 2005

SAT-SUN 11/5-6 It was once a grimly celebrated fact that Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was "inescapable." The swim across the frigid, choppy, mean mile and a half of San Francisco Bay was for...

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His Story

Love through the ages

By Hiya Swanhuyser, Michael Leaverton

Published: October 26, 2005

SAT 10/29 Lots of people know about Finocchio's, the "gender illusionist" cabaret that in the 1940s and '50s sat where Enrico's is now (it was often mobbed during Fleet Week, apparently). But...

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Skate Night

Sporty, spicy girls

Published: October 19, 2005

SAT 10/22 Roller derby is one of those sports you generally associate with corny B-movies. Maybe you've seen it live before -- it's full of badass, beer-swilling punk rock babes with aliases...

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Street Scavenging

Go for the gold

Published: October 12, 2005

SUN 10/16 We know what a lot of you do on Tuesdays: You head to the pub to indulge your obsessive nature at trivia night. For some people, answering questions is about the joy of obscure...

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Let Me Ride

Cycling on celluloid

Published: October 5, 2005

WED-SAT 10/5-8 My bicycle sits in a dusty corner of the garage, attached to garden implements by the late-stage webbing of several fat spiders. But I'm squarely with cyclists, politically....

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Shuck, Swallow, Repeat

Eat the good life

Published: September 28, 2005

TUES 10/4 At McCormick & Kuleto's annual Shuck & Swallow Oyster Challenge , 15 teams from Bay Area restaurants will have 10 minutes to a) shuck as many oysters as possible, which should be...

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What a Trip

A hundred years of movies on Market

Published: September 21, 2005

SAT 9/24 It's been 100 years since a guy stuck a camera on the front of a trolley car and filmed A Trip Down Market Street 1905 . It was September, less than a year before the big one in...

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Ghost Tree Blooms

Watch it dump, from a safe place

Published: September 14, 2005

THURS-SAT 9/15-17 When I grew up, attending a surf movie was a rite of passage, with feral packs of monosyllabic surf hippies and radioactively tan grommets descending on unsuspecting...

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In the Club

Moscone gets green

Published: September 7, 2005

WED-SUN 9/7-11 If your inner Boy or Girl Scout has been pounding on the door lately, hit Sierra Summit 2005 , the Sierra Club's National Environmental Convention & Expo. But please, don't...

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Dead = The Dead

Ghosts love Haight

Published: August 31, 2005

ONGOING 9/2-12/31 Everyone's got a ghost story, so here's mine: I was working at a bakery and noticed that I kept seeing people out of the corner of my eye, but when I turned to look, no one...

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Launch Party

Winter hits the 2800 block of Fillmore

Published: August 24, 2005

SAT 8/27 On paper Icer Air 2005 sounds solid: They're building a ski jump on Fillmore Street, which Jonny Moseley and his pals intend to attack, spinning like nut jobs before landing 60...

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Visiting Vertigo

Hitchcock scholar mans a bike

Published: August 17, 2005

SUN 8/21 I must pass Jimmy Stewart's Vertigo apartment on Russian Hill 20 times a month, but it's wholly rare when I'll pause and think: " Vertigo apartment." Like city dwellers...

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Killing Bulls in Spain

Papa would be proud

Published: August 10, 2005

SUN 8/14 Edward Lewine 's book Death in the Sun: A Matador's Season in the Heart of Spain primarily concerns the comeback year of Francisco Rivera Ordóñez, a matador descended...

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Island Living

Get a plate lunch in the Presidio

Published: August 3, 2005

SAT-SUN 8/6-7 Last summer on Oahu I succumbed to the haole curse: I'd eat four deep-fried Leonard's malasadas for breakfast, pass out on a towel, wake up to a pound of kalua pork, pass out...

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The Wheel World

Ride like a kid again

Published: July 27, 2005

SAT 7/30 As youngsters, we tricked out our tricycles with fuzzy pompoms and decked ourselves out like superheroes for after-school cruises through the neighborhood. This Saturday, the Tour...

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Teeny-Boppers

Bust out a can

Published: July 20, 2005

SAT 7/23 Onstage spray-can mural painting, tons of food, and a slew of DJs, MCs, and live music: sounds like a party. But intelligent, artistic teens have other reasons to come to the San...