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Image Consciousness

Michael Garlington -- an enormously talented art photographer with a penchant for the macabre -- has a drunken, wild-man persona. Or is that a canny self-promoter we see behind the curtain?

By Nathaniel Eaton

Published: June 8, 2005

[PART 1, in which the word "naked" is used three times, as well as "whiskey" and "cannonballing."] Mike Garlington, up-and-coming art photographer, calls. His cell phone isn't working so well....

Matt Smith

Environmental Cycle

San Francisco is the world capital of the art of hypocritical, Earth-friendly rhetoric. Official support for bicycle commuters could lessen the cognitive dissonance.

By Matt Smith

Published: June 8, 2005

Last week, this city became awash in green as mayors from around the world prepared to burn acre-feet of jet fuel traveling here for the United Nations' World Environment Day. This was nothing...

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

There are ways to return the film festival to prominence that don't entail going to Hollywood

John Mecklin

Published: June 8, 2005

Getting Into Focus The firing of S.F. International Film Festival Executive Director Roxanne Messina-Captor, mere hours after the last Skyy Cosmo was drained at the closing-night party, was...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, June 8, 2005

Published: June 8, 2005

Toady Is as Toady Does Any time we can get the word "lickspittle" into the paper, we're happy: Bravo! Your article ["The Daily Lickspittle," Matt Smith, June 1] really hits the toad on the...

Music

Ground Beef

After nearly two decades of experiments, Meat Beat Manifesto pulls it all together with a cinematic live show

By Tamara Palmer

Published: June 8, 2005

MapQuest is garbage. I'm not even sure that this is the right road, and there's no visible house number, only a steep driveway in the spot where the number (and building) should be. Down the...

Music

The Icelander Cometh

For a few years, Emiliana Torrini wasn't sure she'd ever make music again. Then the phone started ringing.

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: June 8, 2005

Fisherman's Woman -- Iceland-born songstress Emiliana Torrini's second album -- begins on a positive enough note: "Home alone and happy/ Nothing brings me down," Torrini coos on the opening...

Reviewed

Danny Cohen

We're All Gunna Die

By Mike Rowell

Published: June 8, 2005

Tom Waits introduced Paradise, Calif.-based Danny Cohen to the Anti- label, and there's no denying the similarities between the two artists. But Cohen is no Waits wannabe; if anything, the veteran...

Reviewed

Gang Gang Dance

God's Money

By Justin F. Farrar

Published: June 8, 2005

Gang Gang Dance is from New York and utilizes female vocals, guitars, drums, bass, piano, synthesizers, percussion, and digital editing. The quartet's latest release, God's Money , consists of two...

Reviewed

Gorillaz

Demon Days

By Abigail Clouseau

Published: June 8, 2005

I'll admit I was stumped when I first saw the iPod commercial featuring "Feel Good Inc.," from Gorillaz's new Demon Days . That lazy Britpop vocal sounded so familiar atop the pretty acoustic...

Reviewed

Stephen Malkmus

Face the Truth

By Abigail Clouseau

Published: June 8, 2005

I don't know about you, but I got scared for a second when Stephen Malkmus released his second solo effort, Pig Lib . While that record had brief moments of whatever wizardry the former Pavement...

Bouncer

Bouncer

Bringing your dog to a bar can be fun, but you never know who's going to wander up in search of heavy petting

By Katy St. Clair

Published: June 8, 2005

I am not a flip-flopper. I tried to be a flip-flopper, and it hurt my feet. Flip-Flop People always look so happy and gay, thwack-thwack-thwacking down the street in their own li'l footwear...

Hear This

Hear This

Menomena exhibits its will-to-rock; the Doves fly back into town with their grandiose Britrock

By Justin F. Farrar, Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: June 8, 2005

Menomena 's debut disc, I Am the Fun Blame Monster , comes packaged with a 70-plus-page flip-book of the band members playing their instruments, except for one of the dudes; he's doing nothing...

BeatBox

BeatBox

Hip hop hoedown Scribble Jam bumps through town in search of MCs; ferocious rapper C-Rayz Walz supports his Year of the Beast

By Tamara Palmer

Published: June 8, 2005

Ten years old this year, the Ohio-based Scribble Jam is both a festival of all elements of hip hop (including the oft-overlooked graffiti and b-boy arts) and a battle to be the top Scribble Jam...

Eat

Class Act

Falling in love again with Rubicon, still at the top of its game after a decade

By Meredith Brody

Published: June 8, 2005

Some tastes are acquired, but sometimes we fall in love immediately. Such was the case for me with the writing of Geoff Dyer, the music of Elvis Costello, the plays and movies of David Mamet, the...

Social Grace

Talk Talk

Of cubicles, cell phones, and loudmouthed conversationalists

By Social Grace

Published: June 8, 2005

Dear Social Grace, I work in a cubicle atmosphere and am in the middle of two co-workers. They talk to each other without leaving their seats, and I'm disrupted by it. In addition, one of the...

Fresh Eats

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Published: June 8, 2005

Arc Café: 1890 Bryant (at Mariposa), 437-2233, www.arccafesf.com . Potrero Hill . Gourmet cafe food, coffees, beer, and wine. Asqew Grill: 3563 16th St. (at Market), 626-3040,...

Film

The Wiz

Miyazaki returns with a beautiful but confounding fairy tale

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: June 8, 2005

For all their exceptionality, there is also a numbing sameness to the movies of Hayao Miyazaki, the revered animator who has bewitched Japanese audiences since the late 1970s and bewildered...

Film

Problems at Home

Brad and Angelina are out to kill each other. You may want a piece of them, too.

By Bill Gallo

Published: June 8, 2005

The consequences of marital discord in Mr. & Mrs. Smith go way beyond sleeping on the couch or maintaining icy silence at the breakfast table. Thanks to a cartoonish premise by British...

Film

Dream Child

Robert Rodriguez and his kids conjure up a charming 3-D fantasy

By Luke Y. Thompson

Published: June 8, 2005

Robert Rodriguez just keeps cranking 'em out. This hasn't always been a good thing -- Spy Kids 2 and 3 felt rushed in a way that the first one didn't, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico looked...

Film

Quelle Horreur!

The scariest thing about High Tension is the awful dubbing

By Luke Y. Thompson

Published: June 8, 2005

About a year ago, buzz started building among horror fans about a French slasher movie titled Haute Tension , about two girls who go to a country house and get terrorized by a maniac in workman's...