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21. Night&Day

    Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: June 25, 2008

    A tightly wound bundle of everything and its opposite—an anti-authoritarian who ran for sheriff of Aspen, a peace-loving gun nut, an iconoclast who relished winners as...

22. Night&Day

    A Colorful Character

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 25, 2008

    Willy Heeks is an old Rhode Island surfer dude. He's also a great painter who says his abstracts are sometimes inspired by the Atlantic Ocean's (meager) curls. Strangely, his...

23. Night&Day

    Wait — Science Can Be Humane?

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 25, 2008

    At this month's Ask a Scientist, it's Ancient Mayans vs. White Coats, as two scientists talk Native American science. One, Rose von Thater-Braan, is founding director of the...

24. Night&Day

    Laugh with Sal

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 25, 2008

    Gone are the days when the superrich could cement in a prime piece of S.F. coastline, drop a roof over it, and sell swimming tickets — but luckily for us, that day did...

25. Night&Day

    Tube Time

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: June 25, 2008

    The Cardboard Tube Fighting League now has chapters in Seattle, San Francisco, and Sydney; given that founder Robert Easley, is from Santa Cruz, it seems that official...

26. Night&Day

    Bigger, Stronger, Faster

    By Michelle Orange

    Published: June 25, 2008

    My first boyfriend was a juicer. Steroids were the drug of choice at my high school, having washed into the Canadian suburbs in the early ’90s on the same raft as...

27. Summer Guide

    Let the Games Beijing

    Spend a day of Olympic proportions beyond the Dragon's Gate.

    By Karen Macklin

    Published: June 25, 2008

    It's 2008, and it's summer. That means one thing: Olympics in Beijing! Yes, despite some setbacks for host country China, such as multiple protests against human-rights...

28. Sucka Free City

    Gay Weddings We’d Really Like to See

    SF Weekly Staff

    Published: June 25, 2008

    Gavin Newsom and Dan Noyes How long together: One four-year term Their love story: Most viewed ABC7 TV reporter Mr. Noyes' hostile questioning of the mayor as evidence of a...

29. Music

    Fleet Foxes: the new buzz on Seattle's softer side

    By Michael D. Ayers

    Published: June 25, 2008

    It's been nearly 20 years since the Northwest first affected pop culture in a profound way with the explosion of grunge. While the DIY-punk spirit of the early '90s still rages...

30. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: June 25, 2008

    Amisha Indian Cuisine: 1924 Irving (at 20th Ave.), 759-7007. Outer Sunset. Indian. Boccalone: Ferry Building Marketplace (at Embarcadero), www.boccalone.com. Embarcadero....

31. Film

    Deep Freeze

    Gleaning lessons from the darkness, Herzog treks to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World.

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: June 25, 2008

    Some say the world will end in fire, some — like Werner Herzog — say ice. Flying in the face of global warming, this profoundly idiosyncratic filmmaker leads an...

32. Summer Guide

    Park It for the Summer

    A survival guide for outdoor musical events in the city.

    By Mike Rowell

    Published: June 25, 2008

    Attending open-air summer music events has universal hazards, from scorching sun and drunken lunkheads to the abject horror of overflowing Porta Pottis. San Francisco also...

33. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: June 25, 2008

    A Time to Critique Rolled-up newspaper for Geluardi: Many current SF/SPCA staff spent hours in forthright conversation with your reporter John Geluardi about changes at the...

34. Music

    A brief history of vocal fakery from Zapp to "Lollipop"

    By Tony Ware

    Published: June 25, 2008

    When the vocoder was first invented in the 1930s, it was intended as a telecommunications encoder for speech encryption and transmission. Okay, so the history is dry, but the...

35. Film

    Robots in Love

    WALL-E blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie's gone before. And that's a good thing.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: June 25, 2008

    Many will attempt to describe WALL-E with a one-liner. It's R2-D2 in love. 2001: A Space Odyssey starring the Little Tramp. An Inconvenient Truth meets Idiocracy on its way to...

36. Sucka Free City

    Things in S.F. Turning America Gay

    Was it Gavin? Sourdough bread? We round up the suspects.

    By SF Weekly Staff

    Published: June 25, 2008

    (On a scale of one to ten) Gavin Newsom Rating: 8 Sourdough bread Rating: 10 Hyphy Rating: 3 Gold's Gym Rating: 9 Mojitos Rating: 9 Same-sex marriage Rating: 8 Gay Pride...

37. Music

    Grandmaster Flash spins his story in new autobiography

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: June 25, 2008

    New York DJ Grandmaster Flash is credited as one of the godfathers of hip-hop music and culture. In his new autobiography, The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My...

38. Let's Get Killed

    Camper Van Beethoven at 25: from warm beer to funny ideas

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: June 25, 2008

    A lot has changed since Camper Van Beethoven first launched in Santa Cruz during the fall of 1983. Selling homemade EPs on the road barely pays for a tank of gas in a tour van....

39. FilmCap

    Brick Lane

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: June 25, 2008

    Bracket the fact that it's an adaptation of Monica Ali's great big treat of a 2003 novel about displacement and feminine emancipation, and British director Sarah Gavron's tale...

40. Summer Guide

    Taking a Shot for the Team!

    A drinking game to get you through the Giants' dismal season.

    By Maya Kroth

    Published: June 25, 2008

    Let's face it: Watching this season's Giants is a painful experience for all involved, especially now that the team owns the third-worst record in the National League. To take...