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21. Night&Day

    My Father, My Lord

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: July 2, 2008

    Like Amos Gitai’s 1999 Kadosh, Israeli writer-director David Volach’s first feature has scores to settle with Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, especially as dominated by...

22. Night&Day

    Tell No One

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: July 2, 2008

    François Cluzet, who looks like Daniel Auteuil and runs like Dustin Hoffman, simmers beautifully as a Paris pediatrician who, eight years after the brutal murder of his...

23. Night&Day

    Water Lilies

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: July 2, 2008

    The camaraderie of the undesired: Invisible to everyone else, pinched, late-blooming Marie (Pauline Acquart) pairs with Anne (Louise Blachère), a heavy girl with a pasty...

24. Night&Day

    The Wackness

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: July 2, 2008

    The Wackness is a mix tape of clichés, with writer-director Jonathan Levine taking cuts from a dozen or more “life-affirming” coming-of-age melodramas and...

25. Night&Day

    Even Better Than the Movie

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 2, 2008

    She was punk before punk, feminist before the Third Wave, and a proud mestiza before the word Chicana had even been invented. She is genderfluid, Christlike, and forever...

26. Night&Day

    The Pursuit of Happiness

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 2, 2008

    Writer, director, and lead actor Mimmo Calopresti auteurs the hell out of contemporary Italian cinema in Happiness Costs Nothing (La felicità non costa niente), which...

27. Stage

    Lucia and the She-Bitch have a lot in common

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: July 2, 2008

    When used in the same sentence, the words "sublime" and "ridiculous" usually imply a one-way journey from a feeling of ecstatic uplift to one of depraved farce. Only very...

28. Matt Smith

    Stealth Bloggers

    Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

    By Matt Smith

    Published: July 2, 2008

    What with viral videos such as will.i.am's "Yes We Can" spot on Barack Obama and online jabberwocky about a supposed salt-of-the-earth-intelligentsia called Netroots, Internet...

29. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: July 2, 2008

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Amber Indian: 25 Yerba Buena (at Mission), 777-0500,...

30. Film

    Beyond Gonzo

    Call hell-raiser Hunter S. Thompson's style what you will — a new doc succeeds when saluting his substance.

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: July 2, 2008

    "In a nation of frightened dullards, there is always a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome." So wrote Hunter S. Thompson of the Hells...

31. Sucka Free City

    Arbitron brings its Portable People Meters to Bay Area

    By Brad Kava

    Published: July 2, 2008

    Pretty soon you may be hearing a lot more rock music on the radio, less hip-hop, and fewer plugs for the station you're listening to. Those are some of the theories thrown out...

32. Music

    Tilly and the Wall tap into a new beat

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: July 2, 2008

    One Wednesday night last March, the basement of the First Unitarian Church — Philadelphia's decidedly no-frills "venue" — was packed to the hilt with a couple...

33. Let's Get Killed

    Soundwave's AudioBus series offers road trips with local composers

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: July 2, 2008

    When you live in a city as populous as San Francisco, obnoxious white noise is a given. The 5 a.m. recycling crew talking trash at top volume, the midday taxi horn blare, the...

34. Film

    As American as Overpriced Dolls

    In Kit Kittredge, all it takes to cure the Depression is a little Miss Sunshine.

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: July 2, 2008

    To my 10-year-old daughter, the term "American Girl" means "that store my meanie of a mom — unlike all the other, higher-quality moms — won't let me go near." While...

35. Stagecap

    The gay take on Cinderella

    By Molly Rhodes

    Published: July 2, 2008

    This is a fun-loving and high-spirited take on the well-worn Cinderella story. There are still the fairy godmother and the evil stepmother and stepsisters, and a prince, who's...

36. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: July 2, 2008

    Carter Chimes in On Indie Fest Unrest The best things in life are free: SF Weekly ran a story about last year's Bay Area Indie Music Festival in Martinez ["Indebted to the...

37. FilmCap

    Constantine's Sword

    By Gregg Rickman

    Published: July 2, 2008

    Oren Jacoby's documentary is three movies in one, at least two of which would benefit from more development than is possible in a 96-minute feature. Film A, the most...

38. Stagecap

    Work Eats Home shorts set in the office

    By Christopher Jensen

    Published: July 2, 2008

    Watching a series of one-act plays about life in corporate America might seem like a crappy way to wind down after a long week in, well, corporate America. But the folks at...

39. Sucka Free City

    Caltrain allows drinks - see seat stains for proof

    By Gordon Young and Will Harper

    Published: July 2, 2008

    Over the past couple of months, BART bureaucrats and board members have debated whether to relax the ban on drinking on trains by allowing commuters to use spill-proof coffee...

40. Reviewed

    Totimoshi

    Milagrosa (Volcom Entertainment)

    By Dave Pehling

    Published: July 2, 2008

    With more than a decade of bashing out sludgy, Melvins-inspired heaviness, Oakland power trio Totimoshi takes a step into new territory with a considerably more dynamic sound...