Act naturally

09.26.06 - 1:39 pm | Cheryl Eddy |

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I interviewed writer-director-editor-supporting actor Andrew Bujalski last year, prior to Funny Ha Ha’s August 2005 opening at the Red Vic. He’d actually completed his debut film in 2002; during its meandering journey into theaters (with stops at over ten fests, including the San Francisco Independent Film Festival), he was able to shoot his follow-up, Mutual Appreciation. Read more »

Talking with Girl Talk

09.26.06 - 11:05 am | Johnny Ray Huston |

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Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, is coming to SF in November. In conjunction with this week's cover stories on audiovisual hijacking, I recently had a phone conversation with him that included a mention of CeCe Peniston. Read more »

NOISE: Oh boy, Junior Boys

09.25.06 - 2:13 pm | Music Blogger |

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Bay Guardian contributor Chris Sabbath recently talked to Junior Boys in anticipation of their Sept. 26 show at Bottom of the Hill.

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So This Is Goodbye (Domino), the new album from Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus of the Junior Boys, finds the duo getting their signature blend of seductive pop and bubbling electronica that started on 2004’s Last Exit (Domino) down to a science. Read more »

True religion genes

09.25.06 - 10:32 am | Cheryl Eddy |

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Tory in Jesus Camp. Copyright Magnolia Pictures.

Fascinated disgust and aghast amusement are two feelings I don't experience often enough. Jesus Camp elicits both in spades. Read more »

New voice in town

09.25.06 - 9:36 am | Steven T. Jones |

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By Steven T. Jones
Ace photographer and all around good guy Luke Thomas -- who had a nasty falling out with his business partner at the San Francisco Sentinel, Pat Murphy (I'll have more details on that for y'all very soon) -- today debuted his new website, Fog City Journal, which has the look and feel of the old site, but with a bit more journalistic integrity. Read more »

Word up

09.24.06 - 1:56 pm | Cheryl Eddy |

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Casual readers of this blog might deduce that all I ever do is watch movies. Well, that's mostly true. But I do a few other things on occasion. Like, listen to music. And inevitably, read two or more books at a time. Here's what-all's dividing my literary attentions four ways at the moment:

The bogus terror plot

09.23.06 - 6:07 pm | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

leave it to Wonkette to demonstrate why the terrorists who were going to blow up a plane with carry-on liquids were pretty bogus threats. At least one expert points out that it's almost impossible to mix a bomb out of ordinary materials in an aircraft loo.

Maybe Pelosi is the real devil

09.22.06 - 2:48 pm | Steven T. Jones |

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By Steven T. Jones
Like many Americans concerned about this country's imperial ways, I was thrilled to hear Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounce U.S. President George Bush during a speech to the United Nations General Assembly. It was biting, funny, insightful, and right on target. Read more »

Josh's going-back-to-jail party at Crash

09.22.06 - 2:12 pm | Bruce Brugmann |

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On the eve of Josh Wolf going to jail, and on the eve of Chronicle reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada facing yet another federal decision moving them ever closer to jail, I was honored to be the lead speaker at the fundraiser and going-back-to-jail party for Josh last night at Crash, a club on Mason Street in San Francisco.

I made two major points: first, that this was the only city in the country to my knowledge that had three reporters who were in jail or heading to jail, on orders from Washington, for failing to produce sources and material in federal cases. Read more »

City attorney and the cops

09.21.06 - 6:03 pm | Tim Redmond |

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By Tim Redmond

City Attorney Dennis Herrera released his official opinion on how the Police Commisison has to respond the the utterly horrible California Supreme Court decision on secrecy in police discipline cases. I'm not happy.

I realize that the Supreme Court has spoken on this, and that the city attorney of San Francisco can't just openly defy the Supremes. Read more »