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New targets are a sign of hope
- Bill Maher is delighted to be able to change the subject. Although the comedian has built much of his work in the last eight years around the errors and terrors of George W. Bush, “An Evening with Bill Maher” — coming to San Francisco on Friday — is all new, and decidedly not a live performance of “The Decider,” his recent Emmy-nominated comedy special on HBO.
Good things come in short packages
- Even in the film-mad Bay Area, the San Francisco Shorts Festival is unique. “We’re the anti-niche festival,” says festival co-founder Mike Coyne. “We don’t have an agenda or a theme. We pick films from all levels and all genres if they surprise us in a meaningful way.”
‘Last Rites’ a labor of love
- To honor New College — a San Francisco school that recently folded after 35 years of innovation in education — faculty and alumni have banded together to present “Last Rites for the Lost Republic: New College 1973-2008.”
- To honor New College — a San Francisco school that recently folded after 35 years of innovation in education — faculty and alumni have banded together to present “Last Rites for the Lost Republic: New College 1973-2008.”
Martial arts and dance meld into one
- Lines Ballet director Alonzo King explains how his troupe came to collaborate with the Shaolin monks on “Long River High,” a production that returns for a second year beginning Wednesday.
- Lines Ballet director Alonzo King explains how his troupe came to collaborate with the Shaolin monks on “Long River High,” a production that returns for a second year beginning Wednesday.
Review: McCarthy’s welcome ‘Visitor’
- Indie director Tom McCarthy thinks he got the better part of the deal when the State Department invited him to take “The Station Agent,” his much-honored first film, to the Middle East as part of an outreach program.
- Indie director Tom McCarthy thinks he got the better part of the deal when the State Department invited him to take “The Station Agent,” his much-honored first film, to the Middle East as part of an outreach program.
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Book review: 'Terror in the Mind of God' by Mark Juergensmeyer
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Book review: 'Terror in the Mind of God' by Mark Juergensmeyer
