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Wikipedia Idiots: The Edit Wars of San Francisco

By Mary Spicuzza

Published: February 13, 2008

It can take just one sentence — if not one word — to start a war on Wikipedia. One recent war of words on the "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" — known as an "edit war" in...

Sucka Free City

Osama Hunter Greg Shade Captured on IndieFest Doc American Hero

By Ashley Harrell

Published: February 13, 2008

The New York Post called Greg Shade a "daring Yank." Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a longtime friend, told CBS that Shade was the "Wild Bill Hickok of the frontier." The Wall Street...

Matt Smith

New College Out of Money: Teachers Unpaid, Not Teaching

By Matt Smith

Published: February 13, 2008

Katie Paul, a tall, brown-haired psychology student, is driving south along the peninsula, watching her future recede in the rear-view mirror. "I wanted to go into a public agency and work with...

Sucka Free City

Reader Quiz: Which Willie Brown Quotes Are Stranger Than Fiction?

By Will Harper

Published: February 13, 2008

Former Assembly speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown just released his memoir, Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times . Try to guess which of the following excerpts are from the colorful...

Letters

Reader Says SF Weekly Serves Self, Homophobe's Agenda

Published: February 13, 2008

Shedding Light on White White's gray areas: John Geluardi's article on the relationship between Supervisor Harvey Milk and his assassin Dan White was very illuminating [" White in Milk, "...

Reviewed

Sia

Some People Have Real Problems (Monkey Puzzle Records)

By Jess Scott

Published: February 13, 2008

Sia, a contributing vocalist for British electronica artists like Jamiroquai and Zero 7, recently released her third studio effort, Some People Have Real Problems . True to the album title, this...

Music

American Music Club's San Francisco Fixation

By Mark Sanders

Published: February 13, 2008

It's a natural assumption: Mark Eitzel, frontman for perennial underdogs American Music Club, sings a lot about San Francisco. Therefore, he must love San Francisco. The dour, slow-churning...

Hear This

San Francisco's Impalers Pursue the Groovy Over the Gritty

By Doug Wallen, John Graham, Andy Tennille, Sam Prestianni

Published: February 13, 2008

Next month's Midnight Boom is the third album from London duo the Kills , whose seedy, deconstructive blues have a sensual cool most bands can only wish for. Built around handclaps and...

Reviewed

Dub Trio

Another Sound Is Dying(Ipecac)

By Dave Pehling

Published: February 13, 2008

If Dub Trio keeps putting out albums as bludgeoning as Another Sound Is Dying , the threesome may come under Better Business Bureau scrutiny for false advertising on the basis of its moniker....

Music

Baby Dee: A Little Buzz in a Big Bee Costume

By Frances Reade

Published: February 13, 2008

Let's start with Baby Dee's fun facts. She's a batty middle-aged lady from Cleveland who left a life as a avant-garde musician in New York for a career as a professional roofer, then went on to...

BeatBox

Italians Always Do It Better: Joakim and Glass Candy

By Vickie Chang, Tamara Palmer

Published: February 13, 2008

Born and raised in Chicago, Common is no stranger to critical acclaim, receiving rave reviews from the press since his 1992 debut, Can I Borrow a Dollar? One feud with Ice Cube, multiple...

Reviewed

Basia Bulat

Oh, My Darling (Rough Trade America)

By John Vettese

Published: February 13, 2008

Think of Basia Bulat as one woman's answer to Antony and the Johnsons. The honeyed melodies and romantic melancholia contrived by the Canadian songwriter echo New York's premier chamber crooner in...

Music

Eight Turntables, Four Mixers, Two Wax Wizards: The Hard Sell Tour

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: February 13, 2008

There are myriad perils in crafting a live performance using only vinyl 45s. At least according to a highly amusing "educational" film that plays at the outset of DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist's new...

Music

Remembering Miserable Major-Label Drones: Rock On

By Jonah Bayer

Published: February 13, 2008

Anyone who has worked in the music industry is probably aware of the massive difference between the people who release records and the consumers who buy them. However, no one has captured this...

Let's Get Killed

Twelve Ways the Hives Could've Made a Better Record for Interscope

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: February 13, 2008

"[Interscope Records head Jimmy] Iovine is asked about one of his big disappointments of recent years: the Hives. 'They just didn't come up with the songs,' he says bluntly of the last Hives...

Bouncer

All in the Family: Drinking After Hours at Laiola

By Katy St. Clair

Published: February 13, 2008

Sometimes I really miss working in a restaurant. People from all walks of life band together for a few hours and work really hard. Then the doors close and you all hang out at the bar and talk...

Eat

Inner Richmond's Troya Takes Turkish Up a Notch

By Robert Lauriston

Published: February 13, 2008

Turkish cuisine is one of the most sophisticated and diverse in the world. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire included Greece, the Balkans, Romania, Armenia, the bulk of the Middle East, and most of...

Eat

Monte Carlo Kicks It Creole in the Bayview

Our weekly pick from Thrillist.com

Courtesy Of Thrillist.com

Published: February 13, 2008

This article is brought to you by Thrillist.com , our homies. While Lou's Pier 47 can surely serve up a Hurricane faster than the Atlantic Ocean in August, Mardi Gras is a holiday best...

Fresh Eats

New Restaurants

Published: February 13, 2008

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats . Apollo: 1064 Divisadero (at Turk), Western Addition . Coffee, panini, and pastries. Blue...

Film

The Media Is a Mess Age in George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead

By Nathan Lee

Published: February 13, 2008

Fleet-footed corpses are, from a physiological point of view, complete bullshit. "If you run that fast, your ankles will snap off," says Jason Creed (Josh Close) to fellow film student Ridley...