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21. Night&Day

    Still Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha Hot

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 30, 2008

    As American songwriting teams go, Ashford & Simpson are classics, giants, heroes. Whether or not you can name the myriad hits produced, recorded, and written by this...

22. Night&Day

    How Weird Is Howard?

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 30, 2008

    The How Weird Street Faire gets a little less weird this year as it's being yanked, as if from a tug, ten blocks to a location smack in the shadows of law firms, nestled...

23. Night&Day

    The Rose of Planet B612

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: April 30, 2008

    From Aesop's Fables to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland to the Dr. Seuss classic, Oh, The Places You'll Go! plenty of kids' books are packed with important life lessons for...

24. Night&Day

    Roman Holiday

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 30, 2008

    A few years ago the city went into paralytic shock over Matthew Barney at the SFMOMA. We don't expect the same for Eve Sussman, but her work fits squarely in the genre of...

25. Stage

    Greek tragedy set in San Francisco! Who knew?

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: April 30, 2008

    I would never have guessed that Aurora Theatre's production of The Trojan Women takes place in San Francisco's Ferry Plaza if I hadn't come across an article in one of the...

26. Matt Smith

    Union, Heal Thyself

    Will a lobbyist for a local healthcare union extend a bill proven bad for patients' health?

    Published: April 30, 2008

    In February, Sal Rosselli, leader of the Service Employees International Union's local healthcare affiliate, roiled the U.S. labor movement by going public with his misgivings...

27. Reviewed

    Peter Morén

    The Last Tycoon(Wichita/Quarterstick)

    By Jonah Flicker

    Published: April 30, 2008

    It's hard to keep a frontman happy. Today's lead singers often harbor dreams of going it alone once they gain success with their bands, from Steve Perry to Gwen Stefani to Thom...

28. Music

    The Morning Benders: love gone wrong in three minutes or less

    By Evan James

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Popular music often succeeds to the extent that it seduces listeners into tapping their toes to a three-minute story about a universal human experience. In the case of an...

29. Hear This

    David Karsten Daniels Strikes Gold

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: April 30, 2008

    When a singer-songwriter gets signed to England's adventurous Fat Cat label, you can bet that artist means business. So it was that Seattle's charismatic David Karsten Daniels...

30. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: April 30, 2008

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. 330 Ritch: 330 Ritch (at Brannan), 541-9574, www.330ritch.com. SOMA. Bar snacks and...

31. Film

    Here Comes the Bride. Yawn.

    McDreamy tries to win over his engaged gal pal in My Best Friend's Made of Honor Wedding.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: April 30, 2008

    In Made of Honor, Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial "fornicator" slowly but surely domesticated by his unspoken love for longtime BFF Hannah...

32. Game On

    When Less Is Less

    Prologue is a tantalizing — and overpriced — glimpse at the next Gran Turismo.

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: April 30, 2008

    When the trailer for Star Wars: Episode I first hit theaters, some fans bought tickets for the movie it was presented with, watched the trailer, and then walked out —...

33. Sucka Free City

    Bob Weir's cutoffs not going to Grateful Dead archive

    By Andy Tennille

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Backstage passes, concert posters, old stage props, and fan mail were all the buzz at a press conference last week at the Fillmore Auditorium. San Francisco psychedelic rock...

34. Sucka Free City

    Most Maddening

    Who's more annoying: Danielle Steel or Muni? Vote now.

    Published: April 30, 2008

    There was a big upset in the Final Four in the contest to be named San Francisco's Most Maddening person or entity: For some reason, our online readers hate Danielle Steel a...

35. Reviewed

    Devon Williams

    Carefree (Ba Da Bing)

    By John Garmon

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Devon Williams' debut album, Carefree, evokes '60s girl groups like the Shirelles and the Ronettes and songwriting teams like Goffin/-King and Barry/Greenwich. You know, the...

36. Music

    Cruising the bargain bins with Vetiver’s Andy Cabic

    By Andy Tennille

    Published: April 30, 2008

    "I'm in here pretty often, as you might guess," says Andy Cabic, leaning back against a stack of reggae albums at Amoeba Music and laughing like a man who has spent a little...

37. BeatBox

    Diamond Dave

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Dave Nada is the inventive DJ, remixer, and masher-upper behind the provocatively named T&A Records. He possesses a flair for blending rock anthems with the relentlessly...

38. Film

    Mighty Avenger

    Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is a thing to marvel.

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Chalk it up to personal preference, but I've always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather than happenstance. I mean the ones, like Batman's Bruce...

39. Encore

    Also Playing

    By Molly Rhodes, Will Harper, Nathaniel Eaton and Chloe Veltman

    Published: April 30, 2008

    FLAMING SIN: London's Grand Guignol. The most enticing aspect of Thrillpeddlers' latest Grand Guignol theater spectacle is the way it messes with our emotions. The first of the...

40. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: April 30, 2008

    All About Bernie Missing Ward: I miss Bernie Ward ["The Race to Replace Bernie Ward on KGO," Sucka Free City, 4/16], who has been a great presence on KGO and done more for the...