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misc It's a Third Reich Blowout! What would one even do with such an item? Anyway, other Nazi forget-me-nots going up for sale include documents signed by the lunatic leader, and a box of cigars once owned by Hermann
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>My Fuhrer -- The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler</i> The premise of the movie is that a famous Jewish acting professor, Adolf Grunwald, sent to a concentration camp in World War II, is summoned by Joseph Goebbels to coach a depressed and
Arts & Entertainment Tanforan Internment Camp Ever since we found out that the Tanforan shopping center was built on the site of a World War II Japanese internment camp, we haven't been able to go there (even though that
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco World News - Tonight! In other local TV news items that have managed to make their way into our In Box, this Saturday, NBC 11 is airing a documentary called "Dreams to Dust: Americans Interned," which follows
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Cats Of Mirikitani</i> What started out as a project about the drawings of homeless SoHo street artist and cat-lover Jimmy Mirikitani turned into a quest to save a man from his present and from his past
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Three Chosen Almost at Random at Exit Theatre Quick! The SF Fringe ends this week, so here's your last chance join the stampede from venue to venue to see the good, the bad and the ugly. Exit Theatre
SF News Iwo Jima Photographer Dies Joe Rosenthal, the man who took the famous picture of the troops raising the flag at Iwo Jima died on Sunday at the age of 90. Rosenthal was born in DC, but moved
SF News All Together Now The case becomes even more intriguing because Walker, who as far as we can tell is not now nor has ever been a Texas Ranger, has already told the Feds that they can
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog Goes to Ashland on the Elizabethan Stage A sort of poor man's As You Like It, Two Gents covers the same terrain as many of the Bard's comedies. A couple of young men travel from Verona
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lou's Living Donut Museum Closing San Jose institution Lou's Living Donut Museum is closing at the end of this month, due to an illness in the family of the owners, the Chaviras. The eponymous Lou of the donut
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings: The Movie Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at -gmail - dot - com. Two men ask the waitress to split their check to two ATM cards. She returns a moment later with two receipts stapled
misc More Redevelopments In J-Town San Francisco Japantown's seen a lot in the last 100 years -- from the influx of Japanese-American immigrants after the 1906 earthquake and the development of an ethnic community, to its forced displacement
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Un-American Activities Fitting in with the internet theme of the proceedings, Lantos invoked Godwin's Law and compared the companies' compliance with the Chinese government with IBM's compliance with Nazi Germany in World War II. (Link
Arts & Entertainment Berlin and Beyond Film Festival - No Terri Nunn, But Still Good Tonight's opening features (watch out for Flash), a film about the German passive resistance movement during World War II. We hear it's pretty good, and the director, Marc Rothemund, is expected to attend
SF News R.I.P., Pat Morita Best known for his role as Mr. Miyagi in , Pat Morita passed away yesterday at his home in Las Vegas. A look at his bio, however, makes it clear that Morita was much
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Something for Everyone What do Holocaust dramas, hip hop and weddings have to do with each other? Nothing, but we've got all of them crammed into a mere weekend. and Brundibar at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Just
SF News Political Junkie: Anger Management Well, he wasn't wearing a t-shirt to promote his new rap album, but, like Ron Artest, Chris Daly ain't sorry. Well, that's not entirely fair. At yesterday's unprecedented censure motion hearings before the
SF News Conservative Pundit to Brave Berkeley One of Rush Limbaugh's pet pundits Michelle Malkin has been invited by California Patriots, the politically conservative campus group at Cal, to speak about her book In Defense of Internment: The Case for
Arts & Entertainment Photo-Friendly, Photo-Averse Thomas Hawk, local San Francisco photo/blogger, posted an interesting essay on his experiences taking pictures at different private cultural venues around town. SFist found the link on Boing Boing, which often covers
