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Craig Clevenger | Craig Clevenger

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Apr.30.2008
I suppose it should be ex noctum or noctis. Maybe atrum. I don't know.   So anyway, in the midst of a schedule packed tighter than a hash smuggler's colon, I stole an evening of brief leisure time the other night. A couple of friends and I drove to the rendezvous point for the secret premier of the...
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Apr.28.2008
Around 1986, I interned at the L.A. Weekly. This was pre-... well, pretty much pre-everything. Wednesday was layout day; the entire production crew was quarantined for the duration. Some of them were locked in a separate room of typesetting machines (you read that correctly) transcribing articles...
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Apr.03.2008
 The above McCarthy quote has nothing to do with anything, other than that I'm stumped for a title for this quick update. From the Short Notice Files: Any San Francisco locals curious about Vincent Louis Carrella's Serpent Box, you're in luck. He's reading tonight at the Booksmith on Haight St....
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Mar.27.2008
My friend and I sling drinks in a post-1906 quake building, an historic ex-brewery within a Bermuda Triangle of upscale nightclubs. Places with no signs and big doormen manning the velvet ropes stretched out into panhandler territory. We're on the no-man's edge between San Francisco's Silicon Gulch...