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Lines of Longitude

LINES Ballet makes cross-cultural strides for its 25th–anniversary season

By Bonner Odell

Published: September 5, 2007

Among the highlights of LINES' Long River High Sky , a 2006 work featuring the renowned San Francisco dance company and a group of Shaolin monks from China, was a section in which a master monk...

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Big BART Brother

The transit system's bosses know when you're sleeping, know if you're awake ... or singing Christmas carols

By Joe Eskenazi

Published: September 5, 2007

Every breath you take, every move you make, every bond you break, every step you take, he'll be watching you — provided you write about it on a blog. And mention BART. The "he" in this...

Matt Smith

Meet the Candidate

By Matt Smith

Published: September 5, 2007

This week, Matt Smith did a comic called "Meet the Candidate" instead of a column and our web templates can't handle it. Ha! Click here to view "Meet the Candidate" in a strip form on SF...

Feature

From Spaceballs to Expedition 6

Bill Pullman's new docudrama mixes astronauts' psychological profiles with trapeze artistry

By Chloe Veltman

Published: September 5, 2007

Today, Mel Brooks probably wouldn't recognize the young actor he cast as the rugged hero Lone Starr in his 1987 Star Wars spoof Spaceballs . With the exception of Independence Day , Bill...

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The Butler Did It

Woman sues the city for false arrest after getting busted for allegedly throwing hot coffee on a butler for the Gettys

By Joe Eskenazi

Published: September 5, 2007

It all started with a steaming cupful of coffee poured on a man's crotch. And then it got ugly. You might remember the curious 2005 incident in which a woman dumped a cup of joe onto the groin...

Feature

Seats for a Song

Enjoy the best of Bay Area culture without breaking the bank

By Lauren Gard

Published: September 5, 2007

We know you crave culture the way sugar addicts crave Pixy Sticks. But if you can barely afford rent — or you're just cheap — try these tricks to save bucks: Bookmark Funcheap (...

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Court Coverage

Despite recently eliminating one-quarter of the newsroom, the Chron still has the money to send sportswriters to the U.S. Open

By Martin Kuz

Published: September 5, 2007

The Chronicle has dispatched sports columnist Bruce Jenkins to New York this week to cover the U.S. Open. That gives the newspaper a presence at the final Grand Slam tennis event of the year,...

Feature

Adams vs. Glass

Two contemporary music giants descend upon the Bay

By Jeff Dunn

Published: September 5, 2007

Many people would rather watch the world's most famous crocodile wrestler than hear its most famous composer. But given that a stingray killed croc-hunter Steve Irwin last year, it might be time...

Feature

Soup to Nuts

A new photography exhibition at MOAD peeks into grocery bags from around the world

By Traci Vogel

Published: September 5, 2007

Here in the Bay Area, food isn't just grub — it's grist for activism, at every level. Globally, we mull over "food security," the buzzword for a population's access to sufficient nutrition....

Feature

SoMach Going On

High rents and noise complaints pushed SoMa arts organizations out during the dot-com boom. Now they're back.

By Molly Rhodes

Published: September 5, 2007

Nick Olivero of Boxcar Theatre wasn't even looking for a permanent home when the artistic director of the two-and-a-half-year-old company saw the space on Natoma Street. But he instantly knew it...

Feature

The Lowdown

Stuck for ideas? These events should keep you busy till Christmas.

By Graham, John

Published: September 5, 2007

Though historically a time for pensiveness, this year's busy fall schedule offers little time for rest or reflection. The San Francisco Opera drives the point home by starting its season with...

Feature

Where It's At

Arts organizations and venues from the tiny to the titanic

Published: September 5, 2007

American Conservatory Theater: 415 Geary St., 749-2ACT, www.act-sfbay.org . American Indian Film Festival: 554-0525, www.aifisf.com . Arab Film Festival: 564-1100, www.aff.org ....

Letters

Week of September 5-11, 2007

Published: September 5, 2007

Daly Dose Everybody hates Chris: I think Chris Daly sets a new standard for hypocrisy ["The Daly Show," Aug. 29]. He began his activism in San Francisco railing against gentrification in...

BeatBox

Reggae, raw funk, and Afro-Latin grooves are "Hella Tight"

By Tony Ware, Tamara Palmer, Dave Pehling

Published: September 5, 2007

Underworld 's last effort, the 2002 album A Hundred Days Off , showed the group sounding disjointed as it pinged aimlessly between minimal techno and ramping Moroder-isms. But with the duo's...

Hear This

Six-string giant Buddy Guy delivers sublime blues

Hannah Levin, Dave Pehling

Published: September 5, 2007

Though confined to a chair when performing onstage, guitar legend B.B. King manages to deliver stinging solos filled with his trademark vibrato that sound as vital today as when he first tracked...

Music

Drastic Elastic

Devendra Banhart's latest bends and stretches, but doesn't break his spell

By Jewly Hight

Published: September 5, 2007

The best descriptors for Devendra Banhart's latest album, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon , come in pairs; one at a time doesn't do justice to its heady tensions or its creator's labyrinthine...

Reviewed

Rilo Kiley

Under the Backlight (Warner Bros.)

By Jonah Bayer

Published: September 5, 2007

It's safe to say that Rilo Kiley's Under the Blacklight is one of the most confusing major-label debuts in recent memory. No, we're not just talking about how creepy it is for the cute redhead...

Music

Noise Nerds Unite

Qui arms David Yow with new weapons of crowd confrontation

By Jeremy Martin

Published: September 5, 2007

David Yow, former frontman for the ever-influential, post-hardcore noise acts Scratch Acid and Jesus Lizard (predecessors to bands like Nirvana, Liars, and Lightning Bolt), has lived some amazing...

Reviewed

Megadeth

United Abominations (Roadrunner)

By Adam Bregman

Published: September 5, 2007

While not as pissed at the world as punks, metalheads invariably despise Christianity, oppose censorship, and are often not keen on George Bush. The genre has its obsessions with war and death,...

Music

From Oakland Blues to Big Singles

Keyshia Cole could shine in the spotlight this fall

By Tamara Palmer

Published: September 5, 2007

Keyshia Cole's brand of R&B isn't the manufactured, saccharine pap that's choking the marketplace. The Oakland-born singer (who currently resides in Atlanta) takes things back to the meaning...