No, your honor

09.26.06 - 4:40 pm | G.W. Schulz |

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If you haven't caught up with the New York Times in a while, don't miss the intense three-part, investigative series the paper launched on Monday. Links for all three stories are now up on their site.

The series is about the completely out-of-control rural magistrates that populate New York State. Read more »

The man behind America's Biggest Dick

09.26.06 - 3:58 pm | Johnny Ray Huston |

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Dick Fucking Cheney is uncensored and exceptionally ornery in Bryan Boyce's short video America's Biggest Dick, which someone other than Boyce posted to YouTube, where it's gotten 18,000 views and counting. The popularity of the clip isn't surprising -- it's fucking great. In putting together this week's cover story about TV tweak tactics, I recently spoke with Boyce -- who will be showing new work at Other Cinema soon -- about many of his videos. Read more »

This charming Animal Charmer

09.26.06 - 2:42 pm | Johnny Ray Huston |

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No I'm not taking about the late Crocodile Hunter, I'm talking about Jim Fetterley of the duo Animal Charm. Along with Rich Bott (and occasionally some other friends), Fetterley has been making confounding, perplexing, vexing, hexing, and comically scathing short videos for almost a decade. Read more »

Angelides says bring our troops home

09.26.06 - 1:56 pm | sfbg |

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By Jonathan Beckhardt
Trailing by as much as 20 points in his race for governor, Democrat Phil Angelides has turned to the Iraq War -- the issue supposed to galvanize the nation's left -- and made it a state issue by today vowing to "do everything in [his] power" to bring home the approximately 800 California guard troops deployed in Iraq.
"A Governor's first responsibility is to ensure the safety of the people of California," Angelides said at a rally at San Francisco State University devoted to the issue. Read more »

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: