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21. Night&Day

    Sweet 16th

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Is it the Critical Mass of poetry? Short answer: No. But the 16th & Mission reading series is, like the illegal bike ride, a beautiful, anarchic, streetside takeover of public...

22. Night&Day

    Doctor Parker

    By Sam Prestianni

    Published: May 14, 2008

    New York bassist William Parker believes in music as a healing force, a vehicle for ecstatic transformation, similar to the meditative chants of Buddhist monks and the mystical...

23. Night&Day

    The Importance of Bee-ing Earnest

    By Evan James

    Published: May 14, 2008

    At some point during the last half century, writers, editors, and publishers turned their backs on the time-honored pastime of self-absorbed problem drinking. In its absence,...

24. Night&Day

    The Ice Caps Are Melting

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Famed artist William T. Wiley has transformed an old pinball machine into high art, doing something we're stunned hasn't been done before. And thanks to the efforts of Jim...

25. Night&Day

    For A Lost Cause

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 14, 2008

    We, the people, are going to lose this one. If the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association managed to keep Proposition 98 a secret from Bay Area progressives until about a month...

26. Night&Day

    Long Live the Wrestle

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Mike Edison's new book I Have Fun Everywhere I Go is kind of a relic: They don't make guys like this anymore. The tone of the book is high-spirited sleaze, overeducated...

27. Stage

    Shakespeare Comedy Gets Ethnic

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Have you ever had the feeling that you're Han Solo walking into the Mos Eisley Cantina on Tatooine? I think about a third of the audience at the Curran Theatre, myself...

28. Matt Smith

    For Whom the Bridge Tolls

    Politicians want pork to pay for Golden Gate increases, but the money should be paid by drivers instead.

    By Matt Smith

    Published: May 14, 2008

    When financial executives have to pay an extra dollar for crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, terrorists win. At least, that's one moral to be gleaned from an absurdist...

29. Reviewed

    Clinic

    Do It! (Domino)

    By Dominic Umile

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Clinic's path back to form after a half-hearted detour with Winchester Cathedral finds the Liverpool art rockers leaning constructively toward late-'60s alchemy even more than...

30. Music

    Rapper Dizzee Rascal Hopes Third Time Is the American Charm

    By Jesse Ducker

    Published: May 14, 2008

    As huge as hip-hop has gotten in the U.S., mainstream America has yet to really embrace artists from overseas. Case in point: Dizzee Rascal, a savage MC from East London who is...

31. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: May 14, 2008

    330 Ritch: 330 Ritch (at Brannan), 541-9574, www.330ritch.com. SOMA. Bar snacks and tapas. Anchor and Hope: 83 Minna (at Second St.), 501-9000, www.anchorandhopesf.com. SOMA....

32. FilmCap

    Before the Rains

    By Julia Wallace

    Published: May 14, 2008

    British plantation owner and colonialist extraordinaire Henry Moores (Linus Roache) fancies himself the cowboy of Kerala, cavorting around the jungle with his Indian mistress,...

33. Art

    Novices School the Art Pros in Amateurs Show

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: May 14, 2008

    In the early 1990s the art world, mired in recession and hung over from '80s excess, became infatuated with outsider art. The term covers work made by amateur artists sidelined...

34. Sucka Free City

    SF Military Vets Go to War With Each Other

    By John Geluardi

    Published: May 14, 2008

    The San Francisco Veterans Affairs Commission has declared war, but the field of battle is not on foreign shores. Rather, the commission is engaged in full-scale combat with...

35. Reviewed

    Destroyer

    Trouble in Dreams(Merge)

    Published: May 14, 2008

    "Arch," "grandiose," and "affected" are terms used by some music critics to condemn rock records, but Dan Bejar embraces these descriptors as positive attributes. As Destroyer,...

36. Music

    On His New Record, Ne-Yo Saves Some R&B Hits for Himself

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: May 14, 2008

    You don't often find integrity in the music biz. So when R&B singer and songwriter Ne-Yo tells us it just wouldn't be right to hold onto a song he's promised to another artist,...

37. Film

    Hearts and Minds

    Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.

    By Anthony Kaufman

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Nick Broomfield, known for his unseemly documentary portraits of Aileen Wuornos, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love, brings a surprising dose of compassion to his third dramatic...

38. Stagecap

    Camellias a Farce Only Theater Snobs Could Love

    By Christopher Jensen

    Published: May 14, 2008

    The name of Sarah Bernhardt might not mean much to most theatergoers — at least, not beyond a vague awareness that she was once considered the world's greatest actress....

39. News

    SuperHustle

    Jobs with smaller shuttle van companies may be flying out of the airport.

    By John Geluardi

    Published: May 14, 2008

    San Francisco politicians harp on about the need to stop big business from spoiling the city's character, and they have enacted some of the toughest restrictions on chain...

40. Let's Get Killed

    The Dirtbombs Surround Us with Sirens

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: May 14, 2008

    The end is nigh. With the war in Iraq, the tanking of the housing market, and R. Kelly's child-pornography case finally coming to trial, shit is fucked up. On the positive...