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Bones of Discontent - Andrew Galvan carves a unique, controversial role in relocating Native American skeletons

By Ron Russell

Published: November 21, 2007

In the shadow of San Francisco's oldest building, surrounded by 200-year-old tombstones on the grounds of Mission Dolores, where he is the curator, Andrew Galvan elicits rapt attention from the...

Sucka Free City

Oil Spill Alert -- Bay Ships Getting Bigger, Ports To Get Busier

By John Geluardi

Published: November 21, 2007

As the U.S. Coast Guard desperately tries to spin away its responsibility in a shipping accident that dumped 58,000 gallons of oil into the bay and could cost taxpayers more than $200 million to...

Sucka Free City

Ticketmaster Chases Roboscalpers to SF

By David Downs

Published: November 21, 2007

For years, Ticketmaster has known about a new breed of online ticket scalpers armed with automated ticket-buying programs. These programs let one person — or, as techies call them, "bots"...

Letters

SF Weekly Letters

Life Imitates Apatow; Moped Bitches Lash Out

Published: November 21, 2007

Life Imitates Apatow Faux-slackers have all the fun: I find your article [ "Slacker Guys and Striver Girls," Nov. 14] very difficult to believe. I feel you definitely have things a...

Reviewed

Alicia Keys

As I Am (J Records)

By Rossiter Drake

Published: November 21, 2007

Alicia Keys can be forgiven if she is no longer content to serve as leader of the neo-soul pack. Not that she's abandoned the plaintive songs of star-crossed romance and the slow-burning,...

Music

Einstürzende Neubauten: The Industrial Revolution Has New S.F. Headquarters

By Mike Rowell

Published: November 21, 2007

On a darkened soundstage South of Market, Einstürzende Neubauten lead singer Blixa Bargeld is ready for his close-up. Well, almost. First, the lighting crew needs to get the pink tint out of...

Reviewed

Jose Gonzalez

In Our Nature (Mute/Imperial Recordings)

By Jonah Flicker

Published: November 21, 2007

It was only a matter of time before a Jose Gonzalez song appeared during the sappy monologue that closes every episode of Scrubs . His sensitive acoustic songcraft, built around contemplative...

Reviewed

The Devil Makes Three

The Devil Makes Three (Milan)

By J. Poet

Published: November 21, 2007

The Devil Makes Three doesn't have a drummer, but the band doesn't need one. Cooper McBean's percussive banjo accents and Lucia Turino's forceful slaps on her bass supply more than enough rhythm....

Music

Band of Horses Fend Off a Critical Backlash

By Ben Westhoff

Published: November 21, 2007

Few bands received more attention at this October's CMJ than Band of Horses. The increasingly-hippie-sounding indie band from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, by way of Seattle was featured in...

Reviewed

The Shotgun Wedding Quintet

The Shotgun Wedding Quintet (Jazz Mafia)

By Toph One

Published: November 21, 2007

The Shotgun Wedding Quintet is an engaging jazz and hip-hop group in the same Bay Area tradition that birthed the likes of Alphabet Soup and the Broun Fellinis. On the band's debut disc, MC Dublin...

Let's Get Killed

The Fears of a Clown: MC Frontalot Gets Trapped in Unfunny Nerdspeak

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: November 21, 2007

With regular old bad songwriting, at least there's the occasional hooky melody or propulsive beat listeners can grab on to. With bad comedy bands, the demands are much higher. It's all about the...

Music

Devendra Banhart loves Karen Dalton -- Now You Can Too

By Justin F. Farrar

Published: November 21, 2007

Since Karen Dalton's death in 1993, her fan base has grown faster than a Colorado mountain town. And folks can thank a retired builder from Indiana named Joe Loop for Cotton Eyed Joe , a batch of...

Bouncer

Shipwrecked with San Francisco's Best Bartending Storyteller

By Katy St. Clair

Published: November 21, 2007

I've been thinking a lot about the Cosco Busan ship that hit the Bay Bridge, causing that terrible oil spill. I imagine a vessel the size of a city block moving soundlessly through the fog and...

Reviewed

White Magic

Dark Stars (Drag City)

By Ryan Foley

Published: November 21, 2007

White Magic's moniker — and the sometimes arcane sensibilities of its frontwoman, Mira Billotte — spurred tastemakers to use the words "spiritual" and "ethereal" when describing the...

Hear This

What the Christ Was That? Skeleton Key Makes a Junk-Rock Racket

By Tamara Palmer, Ernest Barteldes, Ryan Foley, Tony Ware

Published: November 21, 2007

Twenty-one years after his debut, Kenneth Edmonds looks youthful enough to still be called Babyface . Thankfully, his songs have matured quite a bit since the days of his revealing slow jams like...

BeatBox

Queens on Film: Booty Call Brings the Flashbulbs to the Castro

By Evan James, Tamara Palmer

Published: November 21, 2007

In a world gone mad with undiscerning digital camera use, it's comforting to know that some drag queens still hold the art of portraiture to high standards. One gender illusionist in particular...

Eat

Robert Lauriston Gets Yunnan Chinese Fix at Z & Y Garden

By Robert Lauriston

Published: November 21, 2007

Z & Y Garden bills itself as the only restaurant in the Bay Area serving the cuisine of Yunnan, an inland Chinese province that borders Laos, Myanmar, Tibet, and Vietnam. Well, that's great...

Fresh Eats

New Restaurants

Published: November 21, 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. Contemporary...

Film

Like a Complete Unknown

By J. Hoberman

Published: November 21, 2007

I'm Not There and the changing face of Bob Dylan on film. I'm Not There is the movie of the year — but to whom does Todd Haynes's Bob Dylan biopic actually belong, and when was it...

Film

One of Us Must Know

The elusive Bob Dylan, masterfully considered, in I'm Not There

By Scott Foundas

Published: November 21, 2007

"Something about that movie, though, well I just can't get it out of my head/But I can't remember why I was in it or what part I was supposed to play" — Bob Dylan, "Brownsville Girl."...