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Gus Van Sant's Beautiful Losersnew
Soliloquizing the life of a skateboarder in Paranoid Park.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
03-12-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park
Giving the U.S. the 'Funny Games' it Deservesnew
It's worth noting that perhaps Haneke's most ingenious (and frequently overlooked) gambit is that there is almost no onscreen violence. As much as Funny Games feels like particularly merciless, graphic torture porn, the actual moments of assault are almost always cut away from or just out of frame.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
03-12-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Funny Games, Michael Haneke
The Uncaged Reflections of Black Swansnew
The band isn't the spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down; it's the medicine itself, a soulful salve pursuing internal aberrations because there's something redemptive in their delivery, something undeniably good for you.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Nathan Baker |
03-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Black Swans
Chemicals and Quarantines in San Francisconew
City officials resist plans to use aerial spraying against a potentially damaging moth.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan |
03-05-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
New Soup for You!new
Like all repertoires, the soup repertoire is in need of constant tending.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
03-05-2008 |
Food+Drink
Your Computer is Doomednew
In the future, your infamy will not be remembered. Is that comforting?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
03-05-2008 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Yousef Al-Mohaimeed's Storytelling Transcends Bansnew
Wolves of the Crescent Moon was banned in Saudi Arabia by theocratic thought-cops for casting too many spotlights on societal problems that the authorities insist don't exist. Upon being labeled dangerous and sinful, the book gained a large audience throughout the Arabic-speaking world, and has since been translated into French and English.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Todd Lavoie |
03-05-2008 |
Fiction
Bradford Cox Takes a Solo Flight as Atlas Soundnew
The erstwhile Deerhunter vocalist is one of the few shoegaze suitors who seems clued in to the searing -- and often distressing -- tensions that distinguish My Bloody Valentine from followers like Slowdive and Ride.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
03-05-2008 |
Reviews
Questioning Ralph Nader's Veep Choicenew
What impact will the Nader-Gonzalez ticket have?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones and Tim Redmond |
03-05-2008 |
Politics
Bay Area Newspapers Are About to Take Another Big Hitnew
MediaNews has offered buyouts to about 1,100 employees at newspapers across the Bay Area. If a "significant" number of people don't accept them, the company will resort to layoffs.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
G.W. Schulz |
02-28-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Cryptacize Dials Up Cosmic Sing-alongsnew
As with Chris Cohen's earlier band Deerhoof, Cryptacize strives for the development of a private musical language rather than the typical filtering of influences.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
02-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cryptacize, Dig that Treasure
Eddi Projex Emerges as a Force with 'Now or Never'new
What makes Projex's positive songs so powerful is his undeniable street cred.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Garrett Caples |
02-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Eddi Projex, Now or Never
Roberto Bolano Travels from the Grave to the Futurenew
Nazi Literature presents brief bios and bibliographies for 30 imaginary right-wing writers from North and South America.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Stephen Beachy |
02-28-2008 |
Fiction
The War on Sciencenew
Science is crucial to the management of the nation, and without it we're no better than a medieval kingdom.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
02-28-2008 |
Commentary
'Girls Rock!' is Everything 'American Idol' Ain'tnew
Shane King and Arne Johnson totally know what you're about to ask them, because it's the question everyone springs right off the bat: What are a couple of dudes doing behind the camera of a film about an all-girls rock 'n' roll camp?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
02-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
