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Artsy liberals deal with nuclear annihilation and their daughter
March 27, 2013There aren't enough accolades to describe Elle Fanning as Ginger in this lovely movie.
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SF Symphony strikers protest out-of-tune execs
March 22, 2013SAN FRANCISCO - Tired of prolonged stalling by management, over 100 musicians of the San Francisco Symphony - one of the country's top symphony orchestras - entered the second week of a strike with a March...
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Upper meets lower
March 19, 2013Which is actually stronger, a monopolistic-world-dominating corporation, young love, or gravity? The Hollywood answer is obvious, but this film isn't from California. It's French-Canadian.
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Apocalypse Five and Dime: stomping sound for workers’ cause
February 28, 2013Apocalypse Five and Dime combines vocals, percussion, a saxophone, and string and brass instruments to produce a sound that was once called: "twisted intense bluegrass/Balkan."
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Jon Fromer: A political life in song
February 21, 2013In 1965, Fromer marched from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. with civil rights marchers, kick-starting his life-long devotion to fighting for justice through song.
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