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HOROSCOPE for Tuesday, 03/09/2010

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ARIES (March 20-April 18): Respect seniority. You may do a better job, but a certain person has been there longer. You’ll come to expect the same kind of deference one day. TAURUS (April 19-May 19): You hoped a certain someone would get the hint, but that…

Theater review: A night under Sugar Witch curse

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RATING: (ALERT VIEWER)The Sugar Witch: Drama. By Nathan Sanders. Directed by Dennis Lickteig. With Kendra Owens, Michael Phillis, A.J. Davenport et al. Through April 11. New Conservatory Theatre Center, 25 Van Ness Ave., S.F. Two hours. $22-$40. (415) 861-…

"I think we should get a dog," said Tracy. I was stunned. I felt betrayed. Can…

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“I think we should get a dog,” said Tracy. I was stunned. I felt betrayed. Can I use the word “flabbergasted” in a family newspaper? That’s what I was. Poleaxed. Dumbstruck. Why should we want a dog? We’ve always had cats. Tracy had a cat when we met. When…

Postcards from the Bay Area edge

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- John Rosenzweig’s mom was visiting from Chicago, and one particularly chilly recent evening, he and his partner walked with her to a neighborhood restaurant. At 18th and Castro, they came upon two men wearing nothing but G-strings. A weensy bit…

New on DVD

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Feature: “Capitalism: A Love Story” (2009), “Old Dogs” (2009), “Paris” (2008), “Planet 51″ (2009), “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (2009), “The Stoning of Soraya M.” (2008), “Up in the Air” (2009), “The Wedding Song” (2008) Television: “The…

Architect pitches House Arc for disaster relief

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A Palo Alto architect wants to aid victims of natural disasters such as the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile – not by writing a check, but with modular cottages that can be assembled with ease. Dubbed House Arc, the sleek bean-shaped domicile is the…

Lunar New Year ushers in a singles mixer

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Online dating services may have taken the place of the singles bars of earlier eras, but photographer and philanthropist Leah Lau decided to re-create the experience for dozens of her single friends by throwing a Single Mingle Lunar New Year Menagerie dance…

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Music review: ‘Pandaemonium’ at Other Minds

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology,” Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote, “is indistinguishable from magic.” To which many observers might add, black magic. The mixture of excitement and dread that attends any huge technological shift lies at the heart of “…

Weaving ups, downs into award-winning poetry

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San Francisco poet D.A. Powell learned in early February that he had won a prestigious $100,000 prize for his most recent book of poems. Only days before, he had received a form rejection letter from the New Yorker for a poem he had submitted. “I kind of like…