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Stimulating Debate

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Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

Last month, Mayor Gavin Newsom, still fresh off his abandoned governor campaign, held a press conference at the upscale hot-dog restaurant Show Dogs, packed it with press and midlevel bureaucrats, showed up late, and then led an endless platitude-fest about his plans to promote jobs in San Franci ...

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Masterminds 2010

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Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

Unless you work for Goldman Sachs, times are tough now. They're especially hard on many Bay Area artists, who, let's face it, aren't rolling in cash even when the economy is good. That's why we love it when our annual Masterminds contest comes around: We get to hand out $2,500 grants to local art ...

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Hello mother, goodbye father: Oedipus el Rey doesn't work as a tragedy

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

Luis Alfaro isn't the first playwright to apply an ancient Greek template to a modern American story. Nor will he be the last to end up with an uneven play on his hands as a result. In Oedipus el Rey , now making its world premiere at the Magic Theatre, Alfaro takes the raw materials of Sop ...

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Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wight 1970

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

This latest from the cottage industry of Cohen-in-concert memorabilia ( I'm Your Man , Under Review , Live in London ) offers the best vintage available. Director Murray Lerner, whose latter-days career consists largely of revisiting footage from the Isle of Wight concerts, presents ...

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2010 Academy Award Nominated Shorts

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

Because they're crafted outside the Hollywood system, you might assume that this year's Oscar-nominated live-action and animated shorts stand in sharp defiance to conventional mainstream cinema. But the best of these 10 entries are, in some ways, the most familiar, their most radical element being t ...

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2010 Academy Award Nominated Shorts: Animated

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

The animated films fall into two subsections: the shorter, cuter entries and the longer, more ambitious nominees ... Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty is a one-joke bit about a cranky grandmother, while The Lady and the Reaper recounts a cheeky battle between Death and a doctor over the li ...

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Arthouse movie listings for February 17-23, 2010

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com ... Castro Theatre ... The Meaning of Life and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen : Terry Gilliam double feature. Wed., Feb. 17, 2:25, 4:30 & 7 p.m. $7.50-$10 ... My Son, My ...

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Scorsese's head-trip Shutter Island is the good kind of insane

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island , a florid art shocker Paramount welcomed into the world with the strained enthusiasm of a mutant baby's parents, begins with U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) seasick, head in the toilet. The film is his prolonged purging, with Daniels coughing ...

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Commis sets the price and standard for harmonious flavors

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

Musicians know that a note is not just a note. The fundamental note they play is bolstered by dozens of other tones that thrum above and below it — octaves, fourths, major thirds — in realms we can't quite consciously detect. Just listen to the ringing chords of a piano with the susta ...

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Five unique Noise Pop experiences not to miss

Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

1. "The Art of Noise" exhibition at Project One, Feb. 19-28 ... This multifaceted exhibition features a grab bag of creative types musing on music and art's influence on each other. Along with Lionel Deluy's video art and Russell Young's silkscreened musician mugshots, the exhibit will e ...

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