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Night & Day
Happy 4705
By Clay McNear
Published: February 7, 2008
The Chinese culture is a lot older than ours, so they must know what they’re doing when they salute the beastly Rattus rattus during the Chinese New Year Cultural and...
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Night & Day
Finger-Pickin’ Good
Practice makes perfect for Aussie guitar master
By Jay Bennett
Published: February 7, 2008
More than a billion people watched world-class guitarist Tommy Emmanuel perform at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. One of the finest finger-picking...
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Night & Day
Let 'Em Eat Cupcake
By Steve Jansen
Published: February 7, 2008
The Phoenix Suns seem to roll over whenever they take on the cupcakes of the NBA. The Atlanta Hawks on the road. The Miami Heat at freaking home. Two losses in Minneapolis to...
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Night & Day
"Inside the Infamous Museum of Jurassic Technology"
By Clay McNear
Published: February 7, 2008
David Wilson's curmudgeonly showcase for the freakishly brilliant in Culver City, CA, is about as far as you can get get from, say, MoMA on this plane of existence. This is a...
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Fenske
Globe High School censors its student newspaper
By Sarah Fenske
Published: February 7, 2008
Every morning, students at Globe High School are forced to watch TV. Sounds weird, I know, but it's not unusual. An estimated 6 million kids — one-third of all American...
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Letters
Letters from the issue of Thursday, February 7, 2008
Published: February 7, 2008
ISRAEL'S STORY Cruel crackers: The Israel Correa story would be unbelievable if we didn't know Sheriff Joe Arpaio's biased tactics so well ("No Holds Barred," The Bird,...
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ˇAsk a Mexican!™
Pitch or catch? As in many cultures, Mexicans are guilty of a double standard when it comes to homosexuality
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: February 7, 2008
After working with Mexicans for years, I have noticed that Mexican men have a double standard when it comes to homosexuality. Why is it that the "giver" is not regarded as...
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Music
Mark Grey's cutting-edge classical work Enemy Slayer explores a Navajo creation story
By Steve Jansen
Published: February 7, 2008
When we think of a classical music composer, we picture a man in a tuxedo, sipping bubbly while writing conservative-sounding scores in his study — not a guy sleeping out...
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Club Candids
Somewhat social Super Bowl Sunday at Modified
By Lilia Menconi
Published: February 7, 2008
Some of the hottest parties hit this place during Super Bowl weekend, so by the time Sunday rolled around, we had a mean case of social anxiety disorder. We figured all the...
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Shrapnel
Musician Dan Zanes plans to create a "pro-immigration" CD
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: February 7, 2008
With his unique hairdo, colorful suits, and acoustic guitar, Dan Zanes' musicality and talent are always a pleasure to behold, regardless of your age. Though he has a more...
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Shrapnel
Memo to the presidential candidates: Funk legend George Clinton is the man you want in your corner
By Serene Dominic
Published: February 7, 2008
Scan the celebrity support of our presidential hopefuls, and it becomes glaringly obvious that none seems to be attracting the funk endorsement. Sure, John McCain has Sly...
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Locals Only
The Premiere
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: February 7, 2008
Last year, local hip-hop duo The Premiere self-released a phenomenal album, London Paris New York — an audio opus packed with instrumentation from garage-rock guitar...
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Live Wire
The Editors, Louis XIV, and Hot Hot Heat
By Joe Golfen
Published: February 7, 2008
Though they're still waiting to make a big splash in America, The Editors have been making waves in the U.K., earning them the headlining spot in this traveling circus of a...
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Live Wire
Wednesday 13
By Niki D'Andrea
Published: February 7, 2008
No tough goth punk worth his or her high-heeled steel-toed boots would let a broken collarbone get in the way of making great glam trash music. Not only did Wednesday 13,...
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Live Wire
The Matches
By Chris Parker
Published: February 7, 2008
While this Oakland quartet owes a substantial debt to Cali peers Green Day and blink-182, they've always demonstrated promiscuous tastes. Their second album, 2006's Decomposer,...
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Home Grown
Sonorous
The Lost Leaf Sessions
(self-released)By Serene Dominic
Published: February 7, 2008
With all the disparate influences Sonorous has in its lexis, the percentages of what you're going to get (and when) are always in flux, and this clashing of expectations...
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Needle Exchange
Platform Wednesdays
By Benjamin Leatherman
Published: February 7, 2008
To hell with Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, and the other aging Spice Girls and their so-called reunion. We've found a better outlet to get overloaded with girl power —...
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Listen Up
Shelby Lynne
Just A Little Lovin'
(Lost Highway)By Henry Cabot Beck
Published: February 7, 2008
British singer Dusty Springfield was the diva de tutti dive of the "Tough and Tender" genre, in the sense that no matter how sweet the pop confection, she was guarded in all...
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Listen Up
Tony Scherr
Twist in the Wind
(Smells Like Records)By Ernest Barteldes
Published: February 7, 2008
Though he might not be a household name, this Brooklyn-based musician's had a fruitful career as a sideman for jazz and pop artists (including Norah Jones) and as a songwriter....
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Listen Up
Cat Power
Jukebox
(Matador)By Doug Wallen
Published: February 7, 2008
The two-minute take on "New York, New York" that opens Cat Power's second album of covers is almost too easy. Iconic to a fault and not too engaging musically, it's mostly a...
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