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Twentyfourth Street was barren. Two 25-foot photographs pasted on the side of the New Parkway Theater in Oakland were torn asunder. Their faces incomplete, half-formed, had been disfigured by the rain, the tattered remnants swung idly to and fro, like paper pendulums signaling the apocalyptic end of an uproarious revolutionary
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The theme for this year’s ASUC Perspectives Showcase was “the people in the headphones,” that is, it was a spotlight on the apathetic Cal student — the one who turns a blind eye to her peers, to Occupy, to the “krumping boy at the BART station,”— in her own little
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Film The week of March 5 offers a surfeit of great repertory picks for San Francisco cinephiles. On March 7, The Castro Theatre screens Woody Allen’s hilarious and nostalgic “Manhattan” in its proper 35mm format. On March 9, The Castro screens two ’90s gems, “Reality Bites” and “My Own Private
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There’s something about California that makes people go a little nuts — in a good way. When 19th-century colonists first faced the all-consuming blanket of the Pacific Ocean, customs and ideologies got thrown out the window. Fast forward to the 1970s, when the Golden State served as a haven for
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It’s hard to believe that just 20 years ago, Noise Pop was a small concert consisting of five bands playing in one venue. Unlike other festivals, like Outside Lands, that started out in the concert big leagues, Noise Pop has steadily grown from an unknown show to a city-spanning behemoth
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Shit is probably a word thrown around often when discussing the work of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. Reactions such as “This is a load of shit!” or “Who put this shit on screen?” would not be uncommon coming from your average audience. And they would be factually correct. Tim
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You’ve heard it all before. Gangsta, old-school, new-school, indie, alternative and even ambient forms of hip-hop have all passed through your ears at some point in time or another. Well, how about future-space rap? This is exactly the genre under which Chiddy Bang classify their debut studio album Breakfast. After
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Melissa Hillman likes to wear many hats: artistic director of Impact Theatre, teacher with a dramatic arts PhD from Cal and self-proclaimed nerd. Above all, Hillman is also a mother. Not that her responsibility to her sons overrides everything, but she approaches all roles with the maternal instinct to help
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Ah, the ladies. I know a thing or two about them. Mainly because I am one of them. I think. I did find a hair growing on my chin that may be the first indication of a beard. But, nevertheless, I’m fairly certain I retain all the requisite parts: fallopian
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With hip-hop’s ever-changing spectrum of styles, you may be hard-pressed to find a rapper from back in the day that can still sound fresh. Ambient production is growing, as is the trend of incorporating genres from the complete opposite side of the soundscape. To have been around for 15 years
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