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Movies | Sep 02, 2010
Try all the Shakespeare offerings at the Pacific Film Archive over the next two months and then check your findings against whatever the younger you once scrawled in the margins of those now yellowing Signet Classics. By Jonathan Kiefer
The Writers' Block | Sep 01, 2010
Tinkers
Paul Harding reads a passage from Tinkers, this year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. By Paul Harding
Theater Review | Aug 31, 2010
Dreamgirls
Now it can be sung! Dreamgirls tells the story of the egos behind those afros (and beehives). By Erika Milvy
Gallery Crawl | Aug 30, 2010
The Hess Collection
In August 2010, Gallery Crawl took a road trip to Napa, California to view The Hess Collection located in a museum on the Hess Winery properties. The robust collection features emerging artists as well as a wide range of notables, including Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Anselm Kiefer, Andy Goldsworthy, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Francis Bacon.
Event | Aug 29, 2010
Preview of ODC's Theater
Get a sneak peak of ODC's new building before it opens on September 30, 2010. By Marie K Lee
Event | Aug 28, 2010
A Farewell to From Monument to Masses
From Monument to Masses play their final show tonight at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. By Ben Van Houten
NPR Film | Aug 27, 2010
Meet Mesrine: Half A Gangster Epic, Totally 'Killer'
John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd -- Hollywood has long had a love affair with real-life gangsters. Now, says critic Bob Mondello, France's Jacques Mesrine gives his better-known American rivals a run for their cinematic money. (Recommended)
NPR Film | Aug 27, 2010
A Sword-And-Sandals Yarn, Emphasis On The Former
Neil Marshall, director of horror movie The Descent, offers up a noisily bloody, new chase-sequence of a film set during the second-century conquest of Britain. Michael Fassbender and Dominic West star.
NPR Film | Aug 27, 2010
'Takers': They Shouldn't Make 'Em Like This Anymore
A crew of heist artists tries to do one last job -- with more money at stake than ever. The Wire's Idris Elba co-stars with Matt Dillon in an ensemble action flick that's slickly packaged but otherwise a by-the-numbers exercise.
Movies | Aug 26, 2010
Dark In August: Rare Vampire Films
The undead, by definition, are with us forever. Lucky for them, filmmakers never tire of making them feel welcome. By Michael Fox
The Writers' Block | Aug 25, 2010
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
David Mitchell reads a passage from The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet about an earnest young clerk whose life plans are shaken when he meets the daughter of a Samurai in 18th century Japan. By David Mitchell
Music Review | Aug 24, 2010
Grass Widow: Past Time
Recently signed to the same label as like-minded female punk-rock outfits Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney, SF natives Grass Widow have made an album their predecessors can be proud of. By Emmanuel Hapsis
Art Review | Aug 23, 2010
Pixar: 25 Years of Animation
Viewing this collection is like ripping away at the movie screen to find what's on the other side. Instead of a brick wall, we're led into a playground of whimsical sketches and colorful drawings... By Nikki DePaola
NPR Topics: Arts & Life
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Rapper T.I. And Wife Arrested On Drug Charges
The rapper and his wife, singer Tameka Cottle, were arrested in Los Angeles Wednesday night after police smelled what appeared to be marijuana coming from their car on Sunset Boulevard.
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'The American': An Abstract, Angst-Filled Art Thriller
Anton Corbijn's paranoid thriller stars George Clooney as an anonymous international assassin constantly on the run. Critic David Edelstein says the spare movie "cast a spell" over the audience -- as they entered the mind of a man with no past or future.
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Three Books For The Self-Help Skeptic
Plenty of folks are wary when it comes to self-help, but if you're not going to help yourself, then who will? Writer Lisa Unger says: Silence your inner snark and read these three books -- they will clear your mind and change your life.
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Learning Who You Are Through What You Eat
The long Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer for many in the U.S., but it's also a time when ethnic churches hold massive food festivals to celebrate their origins. For food writer Michele Kayal and her young daughter, Syrian festivals -- and the preparations for them -- are an enduring link to the past.
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- Thu, September 2, 2010 - Shanghai at the Asian Art Museum
- Thu, September 2, 2010 - Group Exhibition: Teen Age: You Just Don’t Understand
- Thu, September 2, 2010 - Speaking in Tongues: Screening and Discussion
- Thu, September 2, 2010 - Dan Hoyle's 'The Real Americans'
- Thu, September 2, 2010 - The Picture of Dorian Gray at Theatre Rhinoceros
- Thu, September 2, 2010 - Mumiy Troll at Bottom of the Hill
- Thu, September 2, 2010 - Binh Danh: Collecting Memories at Mills College Art Museum
- Thu, September 2, 2010 - As It Is Written: Project 304,805: The Torah Project
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