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***MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15*** STRAY DOGS, Tsai Ming-Liang The Film Society of Lincoln Center In the newest film from Tsai Ming-liang, a single father (Tsai mainstay Lee Kang-sheng) makes his meager living holding up an advertising placard on a traffic...

MOVIEGOING, like roller-skating and rotary telephone use, is in decline. This is not to suggest that people don’t watch movies anymore. If anything, the ubiquity of screens today — on smartphones, on tablets, on laptops, to say nothing of cable television...

1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War. 1847 – The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness. 1849 – The Governor General of Canada...

Photo: Betty Chu Somewhere underneath this giant fluff of cuteness is a rabbit. Somewhere. Pictured above is Lilianna, an English Angora rabbit that belonged to Betty Chu of San Jose, California (previously on Neatorama). Chu, a retired Economics Professor...

WEDNESDAY 10 ROCK Bottom of the Hill: 1233 17th St., San Francisco, 621-4455. False Priest, Everyone Is Dirty, Merrimack, 9 p.m., $10. Cafe Du Nord: 2170 Market, San Francisco, 861-5016. Nightmare Air, Happy Hollows, The Broadheds, 9 p.m., $10-$1...