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Author: Eric Hand

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Garbage artists are anything but trashy

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| The Sanitary Fill Company’s dump stinks. The odor, like snuff or cocaine, jolts you awake with considerable vigor. The garbage may be decomposing but the smell, sweetly sour and insistent, is full of life.

Scottish bastards!!!

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| The Beta Band likes to undermine your expectations. Take, for example, its latest album: “Hot Shots II.” The experimental Scottish quartet wanted an album title that sounded suitably “American” and “bombastic.

A heady mix of movies, celebrities and lines

By Eric Hand and Alice Kim
INTERMISSION| Editor’s Note: Reviews by Eric Hand are signed E.H. and those by Alice Kim are signed A.K. Eric gets us started When you think of film festivals, you might think of Cannes or Sundance.

You can't pull the plug on Ozomatli

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| The folks at Tower Records are going to hate “Embrace the Chaos,” the new CD from Ozomatli. Not because the CD is bad. Hell no, this CD rocks.

‘Fanclub’ loses members

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| With their sixth album in a little over a decade, the members of Teenage Fanclub can rightfully call themselves veterans of the retro pop-rock scene.

Goldsworthy makes art from nature

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| Andy Goldsworthy, who, along with Richard Long, was one of the founding fathers of the British landscape art tradition, looks like he could use a shower.

Ridley and Jerry make art, money

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| Movie mogul Jerry Bruckheimer is the little devil hovering over director Ridley Scott’s shoulder, whispering of unlimited budgets and dumbed-down blockbuster bonanzas.

Coens deliver customary cool

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| The Coen brothers — Joel the director and Ethan the producer — alternate between quirky comedies (“Raising Arizona”, “The Big Lebowski”, “O Brother Where Art Thou”) and quirky neo-noirs (“Blood Simple”, “Miller’s Crossing”, “Fargo”).

Fleck makes love to his big banjo

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| If the world of musical instruments were divided into socio-economic groups, the banjo would occupy its lowest stratum: white trash.

106 years of comedy- but skip the first 40

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| Comedy of the theater has always been about wordplay. Film, by contrast, has comedic origins in the tradition of physical humor.

New Deal is good looking and sounding

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| There are two problems with live DJ dance music events. First, the notion of DJ music as live is itself somewhat of a contradiction.

The Circus has pitched its tent and is limbered up

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| The circus owes its name — and its aura of the profane — to the gladiatorial rings of ancient Rome, at a time when lions and tigers really did eat would-be animal trainers.

Durang’s ‘Betty’ brazenly castrates the taboo

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| Christopher Durang — Harvard-educated, Yale School of Drama graduate, co-chair of the Julliard playwrighting program — has credentials that suggest a refined sensibility and a highbrow approach to theater.

‘Floyd Collins’ spelunks his way to musical stardom

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| Mention the word “musical,” and most people will recoil in horror. However, the TheatreWorks production of “Floyd Collins,” showing at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts until May 6, is an unexpected and refreshing departure from the saccharine spectacles that tend to populate Broadway these days.

SF MOMA’s ‘010101’: Digital art for analog people

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| Most Net-savvy students have occasionally ventured beyond the institutionalized gloss of news and corporate Web sites, eventually arriving at an aesthetically pleasing site of some obscure Web designer or artist.

Wright’s Hanna House, in the middle of our street

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| Frank Lloyd Wright is one of America’s most well-known and venerated architects. Therefore, it might surprise some Stanford students to discover that one of his most celebrated houses — the Hanna House — is not only owned by Stanford but sits just a few short blocks away from the Mayfield Avenue cooperatives.

‘15 Minutes’ feels more like a painful 15 hours

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| By ERIC HAND CONTRIBUTING WRITER Andy Warhol’s dictum that everyone will have their “15 minutes of fame” is the ostensible motivation for director John Herzfield’s lurid critique of the American fascination with celebrity bloodlust and the media sensationalism that engenders it.

Film tells of Castro’s sexual and artistic castration of Cuba

By Eric Hand
INTERMISSION| “Before Night Falls,” directed by painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel (“Basquiat”), is an immersion in the sweat of Cuba during the mid 1960s — when the peaking sexual revolution coincided with Castro’s revolution.