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21. Night&Day

    The Struggle to Survive

    By Sam Sweet

    Published: May 28, 2008

    At age 31, Ben Byer, an aspiring actor and playwright from Chicago, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the fatal neurodegenerative disorder also known as Lou...

22. Night&Day

    High School Grotesque

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: May 28, 2008

    In 2005, artist Mike Kelley -- the guy behind the stuffed animals on Sonic Youth's Dirty -- made the New York art world tremble with his groundbreaking exhibit "Day Is Done."...

23. Night&Day

    Dirty Country

    Published: May 28, 2008

    The pair behind the Found Footage Festival, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, direct a film about Larry Pierce, the raunchiest country music singer in America. Pickett and Prueher...

24. Night&Day

    All Together Now

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: May 28, 2008

    Imagine going to a play and finding yourself wearing headphones, sitting in a "power circle" of 15-20 people, and readying yourself for a "soul journey." Sounds a wee creepy,...

25. Night&Day

    Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: May 28, 2008

    In its three short years of existence, the Stars and Garters Theatre Company has woven a love spell around this city. Its first offering, The Curse of the Goddamned Ship, a...

26. Night&Day

    The Stupids Dance

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 28, 2008

    If you've ever wished for a long-lost tribe, a sort of nebulous cultural group to take you in no questions asked, welcome to Brass Menazeri. Your new fictional Eastern...

27. Night&Day

    Annette Would Not Approve

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 28, 2008

    Although the band's name comes from the Annette Funicello song of the same name, Pineapple Princess is far from wholesome, "square," or conservative, all defining qualities of...

28. Stage

    SF Playhouse's Bug gets under your skin

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: May 28, 2008

    At the top of the second half of Tracy Letts' 1996 play, Bug, Peter, a troubled young man who claims to have escaped from an Army hospital, squats over a microscope,...

29. News

    Pay to Sway

    Developers are funding junkets, buying equipment, and throwing parties for city planning staff. It doesn't smell right.

    By Joe Eskenazi

    Published: May 28, 2008

    Stop us if you've heard this one: A developer and a city planner walk into a bar ... Actually, it's not so much a bar but a "gala." And all the drinks are free — paid for...

30. Reviewed

    Scarlett Johansson

    Anywhere I Lay My Head (Atco)

    By Noah W. Bailey

    Published: May 28, 2008

    Doing justice to an artist with the gravitas of Tom Waits is a challenge for any singer, much less a 23-year-old actress making her musical debut. But that's exactly what...

31. Music

    Swervedriver returns from shoegazer history

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: May 28, 2008

    Over the phone from London, Swervedriver frontman Adam Franklin listens as I remind him of the last time I interviewed him. It was toward the end of 1998 — the band was...

32. Hear This

    Celestial Septet

    By J. Niimi

    Published: May 28, 2008

    Los Angeles–based electric guitarist (for Wilco and the Nels Cline Singers) and experimental composer Nels Cline has been called a "guitar god" by Rolling Stone and "the...

33. BeatBox

    Chillout Folk

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: May 28, 2008

    It's been three years since U.K. artist Kieran Hebden released a full-length album as Four Tet, but he's recently remixed friend Thom Yorke of Radiohead and released his own...

34. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: May 28, 2008

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Best-o-Burger: 493 Pine (at Belden), 986-3808, www.bestoburger.com. Financial District....

35. Film

    Epic Bore

    The Children of Huang Shi is just another sweeping, extraordinary journey to redemption.

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: May 28, 2008

    Reluctant though I am to carp about any director who has devoted chunks of his career to bringing the nonwhite world's suffering to Western attention, Roger Spottiswoode's The...

36. Sucka Free City

    VideoGate cop injured on duty at his desk job

    By Lauren Smiley

    Published: May 28, 2008

    In a report released earlier this month, a police consulting firm suggested San Francisco's finest should slash the number of precinct stations in half to streamline...

37. Reviewed

    No Age

    Nouns (Sub Pop)

    By Randall Roberts

    Published: May 28, 2008

    Nouns, the new record by L.A. band No Age, is the best punk album of the 21st century. The duo's first real full-length release (following last year's singles collection,...

38. Music

    New disc and tour celebrate Miles Davis’ Indian influence

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: May 28, 2008

    Miles Davis remains one of the planet's most influential musicians and bandleaders. From the 1940s until his death in 1991, the trumpeter consistently reflected, catalyzed, and...

39. Hear This

    Boys don't cry, except when it's with the Cure

    By Ezra Gale

    Published: May 28, 2008

    When the Cure canceled last year's entire North American tour at the last minute, the news was enough to make longtime fans smear their lipstick and wear their best mopey...

40. Film

    Army of One

    A Russian grandmother visits the troops, and brings light to their misguided mission in Chechnya.

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: May 28, 2008

    Spare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity, Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra is founded on contradiction. Musing on war in general and the Russian occupation...