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Slacker Guys and Striver Girls

When lazy men become projects for career women

By Mary Spicuzza

Published: November 14, 2007

The nightmare seemed so real that Amy began sobbing in her sleep. In it, she learned she was pregnant with her then-boyfriend's baby. Only there was no nine months of pregnancy, no long-drawn-out...

Sucka Free City

Burning Man Arsonist Paul Addis' Backstory -- Murder Threats, Arrests

By Joe Eskenazi

Published: November 14, 2007

With his jovial face smeared in red, black, and silver paint befitting a Power Ranger, Paul Addis posed for one of the all-time great mug shots. After he was charged with prematurely incinerating...

Letters

Letters to SFWeekly

Gangsta Rap Doesn't Kill People; Josh Wolf Is Just Like Jesus; Ethics Commission Is Unethical

Published: November 14, 2007

Fanatical Violence Don't believe the hype: I just finished reading John Geluardi's article on Fanatics [ "Clubbed," Nov. 7 ]. I do agree with a lot of what Geluardi wrote about the many...

Sucka Free City

Convicted Embezzler Linda Simwa Cons SF Symphony, UCSF

By Martin Kuz

Published: November 14, 2007

Nobody tells the whole truth on his or her résumé. Eager to land a new job, who among us hasn't omitted a firing here or a criminal conviction there? It's part of the grand charade...

Sucka Free City

Chicken John Contemplates Run for Supervisor

By John Geluardi

Published: November 14, 2007

Former mayoral candidate Chicken John Rinaldi has had time to reflect on his first failed political campaign (which means he's finally sobered up after his election night Losers' Ball at 12...

Music

Folk of the Apocalypse: Six Organs of Admittance

By Andy Beta

Published: November 14, 2007

Local songwriter Ben Chasny admits that he often creates from the headspace of "Everything is kinda fucked; let's write a song about it." Despite working on fingerpicked themes in the tradition...

Reviewed

The Mitch Marcus Quintet

The Special (JazzCubed)

By Ezra Gale

Published: November 14, 2007

You could tattoo the entire population of Black Rock City with the amount of ink that's been spilled bloviating on the Music Business 2.0: Internet decentralizes distribution, so major record...

Music

Jay-Z's New Title: Most Overrated Rapper Ever

By Ben Westhoff

Published: November 14, 2007

Rap's Grateful Dead? Hova? Young? The No. 1 MC of all time? None of the above. Jay-Z's most appropriate title is currently Most Overrated Rapper. Ever. American Gangster , his reactionary new...

Reviewed

The Warlocks

Heavy Deavy Skull Lover (Tee Pee Records)

By Tony Ware

Published: November 14, 2007

As astral planes go, that of the Warlocks takes after Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose : it's part visionary, but mostly indulgent. The Los Angeles band has been flying high on the opalescent...

Music

The Real Cult of California: Father Yod and the Source Family

By Mike Rowell

Published: November 14, 2007

In 1969, a man named Jim Baker opened a vegetarian restaurant, The Source, on Sunset Boulevard. It was hugely successful, with celebs like John Lennon and Frank Zappa dropping in to dine on...

Reviewed

The Intelligence

Deuteronomy (In the Red)

By Hannah Levin

Published: November 14, 2007

From the first 7-inch released in 2000 to this most recent effort, the Intelligence has essentially operated as a rotating door for freakishly talented musicians drawn to Lars Finberg's jagged...

Let's Get Killed

Oh Lord: Spiritualized's Severely Diminished Grandeur

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: November 14, 2007

Outside of Christian rock and country singers, few modern musicians have invoked Jesus' name as often as Jason Pierce. Although you'd never peg the Brit as a holy man, his songs with Spacemen 3...

Hear This

Ozzy Osbourne: Famous Batshit Dad/Rock Star Storms Oakland

By Mike Munz, Jennifer Maerz, Dave Pehling

Published: November 14, 2007

Hear This Columbus no-fi noise-rockers Psychedelic Horseshit stumble into town on the heels of their debut full-length, Magic Flowers Droned , out on experimental stalwart Siltbreeze. An...

BeatBox

Peanut Butter Wolf Animates Zombies on New Hip-Hop Soundtrack

By Tamara Palmer

Published: November 14, 2007

Bambu 's solo album I Scream Bars for the Children highlights the vapidity of mainstream hip-hop with its sheer intellect, eschewing bitches for a pointed discussion of international affairs....

Bouncer

The Orbit Room Just Needs a Bouncer's Love

By Katy St. Clair

Published: November 14, 2007

There's an old '90s pop psychology saying, probably from Women Who Love Too Much or, like, The Codependent Peter Pan Who Runs with the Wolves , or whatever. Anyway, it goes like this: Are you...

Eat

Puccini and Pinetti's Touristy Location Trumps Its Cuisine

By Meredith Brody

Published: November 14, 2007

Living in the Bay Area and dealing with daily life, you can forget sometimes that San Francisco is one of the top tourist destinations in the world. I'm still faintly surprised when I'm confronted...

Fresh Eats

New Restaurants

Published: November 14, 2007

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats . 1300 on Fillmore: 1300 Fillmore (at Eddy), 771-7100, www.1300fillmore.com . Fillmore....

Film

Eyes Wide Open

De Palma's Redacted never flinches from the casualties of war. Will you?

By Scott Foundas

Published: November 14, 2007

Brian De Palma is angry — angry about the war in Iraq, and about the fact that his Iraq movie, Redacted, has fallen victim to the very censorship it is, in part, a reaction to. When the...

Film

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium Not That Wonderful

By Ella Taylor

Published: November 14, 2007

Midway through the amiable children's movie Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium , there comes a speech that I'll wager writer-director Zach Helm had been saving for future use ever since he discovered...

Film

Richard Kelly Follows Donnie Darko with Terrorizing Southland Tales

By J. Hoberman

Published: November 14, 2007

A doom-ridden pulp cabalist with a dark sense of purpose as well as humor, Richard Kelly shoots the moon with Southland Tales , his rich, strange, and very funny sci-fi social satire. Kelly's...