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21. Night&Day

    Encounters at the End of the World

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Werner Herzog has made a career documenting extreme landscapes and courting danger. Encounters at the End of the World chronicles his trip to Antarctica, and, perhaps because...

22. Night&Day

    Savage Grace

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Designed more for train-wreck gawkery than psychological illumination, Tom Kalin’s garish melodrama applies icehouse style to hothouse material: the 1972 murder of...

23. Night&Day

    You're in It

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 18, 2008

    House is the thing to take your boyfriend to, even if he hates dance performance. He’s certain to say afterward, "It was actually really cool." And you'll think, "No shit,...

24. Night&Day

    Gil Still Gets It

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Forty years after his appearance on the collaborative album Tropicália, Gilberto Gil is still able to bring together traditions old and new in his music. Like the idea...

25. Stage

    Fundamentally Flawed

    Pigeonholing Muslims doesn't help the cause or the play.

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: June 18, 2008

    In the mid-1990s, Egyptian-American actor-comedian Ahmed Ahmed got his first big break when he was offered a part in the Hollywood movie Executive Decision. He was excited...

26. Sucka Free City

    Who You Gonna Call?

    Gavin hopes it's 311.

    By John Geluardi

    Published: June 18, 2008

    As the city looks down the barrel of a $338 million budget deficit that will cost hundreds of city jobs and make bone-deep cuts to city services, Mayor Gavin Newsom has...

27. Music

    After years of drone and addiction, Earth hears the light

    By Andy Beta

    Published: June 18, 2008

    The general public made Dylan Carlson's acquaintance via his appearance in Nick Bloomfield's 1998 muckraking Kurt Cobain documentary, Kurt & Courtney. Then in the throes of...

28. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: June 18, 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....

29. Film

    Empire Strikes Back

    Mongol paints a historically hazy but kickass picture of everyone's fave emperor, Genghis Khan.

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: June 18, 2008

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

30. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

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

    Published: June 18, 2008

    7 Sins. Halfway through James Judd's entertaining 75-minute solo show, it dawns on you: Who the hell is this guy and why am I laughing so hard? While autobiographical...

31. Sucka Free City

    Not Present

    Former truants relapse, stay away from attendance awards in droves.

    By Ashley Harrell

    Published: June 18, 2008

    On Wednesday, June 4, an American flag billowed in the wind outside the Fort Mason Conference Center, where the San Francisco Unified School District held an award ceremony for...

32. Music

    Seun Kuti contends with complicated family ties

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: June 18, 2008

    When a son enters the family business, there's sometimes a built-in price tag. While some folks are proud of the kid for maintaining a fine institution, others will accuse him...

33. Film

    Warrior King

    Mongol director Sergei Bodrov on retracing the footsteps of Genghis Khan and navigating the even more perilous Hollywood battlefield.

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Just over a decade ago, Russian director Sergei Bodrov made his mark on the West with his Academy Award–nominated movie, Prisoner of the Mountains, which transplanted a...

34. Stagecap

    Heist a Crow

    By Christopher Jensen

    Published: June 18, 2008

    If the title causes you to tilt your head quizzically, just wait until you see the show. Sean Kelly's Heist a Crow is a self-consciously odd little number about a recently dead...

35. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Excellent Article or Litterbox Liner? Purrrr: We probably would have had to get rid of our cat Charlie if it hadn't been for the excellent advice we repeatedly received from...

36. Let's Get Killed

    Liz Phair returns from Guyville exile

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Of all the blasts from the past currently touring, I'm most excited about Liz Phair's single-album shows. The one-time San Franciscan and longtime Chicagoan will be at the...

37. Game On

    Ninja Gaiden II for Xbox goes heavy on the gore and glitches

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: June 18, 2008

    It's probably a good thing Game On wasn't around to review Ninja Gaiden when it hit Xbox in 2004 — we probably would've written "an awesome, brutal, majestic action...

38. Sucka Free City

    Frankovich Invades North Beach

    But State Bar may stop attorney using, and possibly abusing, the ADA.

    By Ron Russell

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Facing possible suspension from the California State Bar, attorney Tom Frankovich — notorious for his serial lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act on behalf...

39. Reviewed

    N.E.R.D.

    Seeing Sounds (Star Trak/Interscope)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: June 18, 2008

    Seeing Sounds is the third album from N.E.R.D., the "artist" project from Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of production team the Neptunes and their buddy Shay Haley. It's the...

40. Film

    One Bad Mother

    Dario Argento caps off his horror trilogy with horrific parody.

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: June 18, 2008

    A topsy-turvy Escherland exists where Dario Argento's The Mother of Tears is considered a twisted classic, and it is a magical place. Up is down, sour is sweet, sewer rat...