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21. Night&Day

    Dale Blows Up

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Last April, a crazy 30-foot neon-yellow Dale Chihuly sculpture appeared in the de Young’s Pool of Enchantment, but it was not part of his show. It was part of his...

22. Night&Day

    A Fine Mess

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 11, 2008

    During shows like Evil Dead: Live!, the Primitive Screwheads theater troupe made a point of transferring as much blood as possible onto the audience, who were encouraged to...

23. Night&Day

    A Black Mark On Your Record

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Alan Black is the heart and soul of the Edinburgh Castle. If not for him, far fewer San Franciscans would have tempted the fate of their colons by ingesting haggis during an...

24. Night&Day

    Queer Movie Marathon

    By Michael Fox

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Michael Lumpkin sings with the swans. Today, tomorrow, and throughout the entire run of the 32nd annual San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. For when it ends on June...

25. Night&Day

    Did You See That?

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 11, 2008

    McSweeney’s quarterly DVD magazine Wholphin aspires toward wonder, specifically the wonder we feel upon learning that wholphins exist not only in our imaginations but also...

26. Night&Day

    God and Gays

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: June 11, 2008

    In The Busy World Is Hushed, playwright Keith Bunin examines the debate around homosexuality in the Episcopalian church, but he goes it one further: Instead of focusing on...

27. Night&Day

    Break/s It Down

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 11, 2008

    "I have literal speech and figurative movement," says Marc Bamuthi Joseph. He's talking about the pat-head-rub-tummy style of his critically acclaimed performances, in which he...

28. Night&Day

    Where the Wild Things Are

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 11, 2008

    In her exhibit "New American Fables," artist Amy Stein matches the juxtaposition of wild animals in suburban settings with a fairy-tale quality, in which both human and animal...

29. Night&Day

    Juicy and Delicious

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 11, 2008

    It's like if Busby Berkeley, Gregory Hines, and Merle Haggard collaborated on a performance project: The Barbary Coast Cloggers do kind of a Western hand-holding stompy-boy...

30. Night&Day

    In the Cold, Cold Ground

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 11, 2008

    "Global Honking Ground" is a slate of video, by Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, Benjamin Gerdes, Jennifer Hayashida, and Jesal Kapadia. Organized by the 16Beaver group from New...

31. Night&Day

    The Wrath of Khan

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: June 11, 2008

    You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance, and bloody vengeance? Mongol is a brawny old-school epic to make the...

32. Night&Day

    Something Bad Happened

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir, former Tubes guitarist Bill Spooner, Public Defender Jeff Adachi: A very broad coalition of local notables comes together for the...

33. Night&Day

    Tuya's Marriage

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Like The Story of the Weeping Camel and Mongolian Ping Pong, Tuya’s Marriage is partly an anthropological survey of Inner Mongolia’s grasslands, though Wang Quan An...

34. Art

    Beyond Pottery Barn

    Shows at Jack Fischer and Marx & Zavattero break the ceramics mold.

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Something is seriously wrong with ceramics. At least, the fine-arts world thinks so. Consistently dogged by the "better" galleries, the medium is stuck in perpetual stepchild...

35. Sucka Free City

    Pint-Sized Beers

    Our investigator finds them a swallow or two short.

    By Alastair Bland

    Published: June 11, 2008

    What's in a pint? To an Irishman, perhaps, a pint means 16 ounces of honest black beer. But to a barkeeper in San Francisco, a pint may be as little as a dozen sly ounces with...

36. Music

    Times New Viking continues Ohio's history of sonic unrest

    By Andrew Stout

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Call it cabin fever — or basement fatigue — but in the Midwest, musical eccentrics are prone to surliness. A recent example is Columbus band Times New Viking, which...

37. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: June 11, 2008

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Amisha Indian Cuisine: 1924 Irving (at 20th Ave.), 759-7007. Outer Sunset....

38. Film

    Life with Father

    A domineering dad and the son under his thumb in When Did You Last See Your Father?

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Nothing snaps a child's head around quite like a dying parent, especially when the parent is a cantankerous old sod like Arthur Morrison (Jim Broadbent), whose nominally adult...

39. Stage

    Tangy Chicken and Wilted Puns

    Teatro ZinZanni's Hail Caesar! is a slight improvement on the dinner theater theme.

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: June 11, 2008

    Dinner. Theater. Whisper those two words in the ear of any self-respecting theatergoer and you're likely to get a reaction reserved for straight-to-video movies. The stage...

40. Sucka Free City

    FlounderAde

    Vitamin drink works for losers.

    By Joe Eskenazi

    Published: June 11, 2008

    City dwellers may have noticed an eye-catching set of ads around town featuring a Godzilla-sized version of 49ers quarterback Alex Smith — his legs straddle the...