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Throughout this study, we have identified the Kizilbash as Turkoman and Kurdish tribes who held extreme Shiite beliefs and became adherents of the Safawi Sufi Order of Persia. They share common religious beliefs and practices with the Bektashis. In many...

Visual Arts The well-attended recent Seattle Art Fair provided a numbered of opportunities to get a glance at work and artists we don’t often see in this region. Bay Area artists such as Ruth Asawa and Hung Liu had a number of works on view. Asawa,...

Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Dennis Harvey, Lynn Rapoport, and Sara Maria Vizcarrondo. For rep house showtimes, see Rep Clock. SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL The 33rd San Francisco Jewish Film Festival runs...

Heavily armed SWAT teams are increasingly used for such small tasks as raiding poker games and trying to stop underage drinking. How did we get here?   Excerpted from "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces...

So you’ve just graduated from high school, and the last thing you want to do is crack open a book about college. Hell knows that’s all you’ll do once you get there. But if you don’t have a summer job or you’re stuck at home all alone, college advice...