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21. Night&Day

    Seasoned Cat

    By John Garmon

    Published: September 12, 2007

    When Cat Power, aka Chan Marshall, appeared at the 2006 Coachella festival, she treated the crowd to a run through of her current album, The Greatest, backed by a huge ensemble...

22. Night&Day

    "Elusive Subjects"

    Published: September 12, 2007

    "Elusive Subjects" Sept. 6-29, 2007

23. Night&Day

    Erotic Reading Circle

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Come join readers and share your erotic writing! Bring something to read or just be part of the appreciative circle of listeners. This is a great place to try out new work (ask...

24. Night&Day

    A Stand Up Guy

    By Mike Rowell

    Published: September 12, 2007

    When he puts his comic hat on, Bucky Sinister is one funny guy. But he’s not just a comedian -- he’s also a published author, a talented poet, and someone with a fascinating...

25. Night&Day

    Maybe This Time You’ll Learn

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 12, 2007

    The underground answer to society bashes such as the Black and White Ball is the massive Expo for the Artist and Musician, which is bigger than ever this year. Of course,...

26. Night&Day

    Women Call the Shots

    By Michael Fox

    Published: September 12, 2007

    What, exactly, is a "chick flick?" To critics and studio execs, it's a movie that appeals to women, with the separate but equal assumption that it's completely without interest...

27. Night&Day

    Take Your Fash Off

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 12, 2007

    It's fun to mock the names of college courses. More sarcasm has been directed towards Underwater Basketweaving than any other, probably, but we assure you that Intro to the...

28. Night&Day

    Map Quest

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Artists plus maps equal good ideas. We've seen meticulously cut out and wadded up roadways, reconfigured cities, fantasy grids, and more. At "Hidden Histories: Divulging...

29. Night&Day

    A Hot PB&J

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Swedish pop group Peter Bjorn & John is "hot right now," as they say. The trio's single "Young Folks" blew up worldwide recently, and a new CD, Writer's Block, has sent...

30. Night&Day

    Give Me Your Number

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Erika Shuch is a choreographer as comfortable with metaphors as she is with everyday life. The poetics of the extraordinary and the familiar often exist side by side in Shuch's...

31. Night&Day

    The Sounds of Sweden

    Published: September 12, 2007

    When talking indie band popularity these days, the old yardsticks get rubbery. Your lil' bloggin' sis is already tired of I'm From Barcelona, and that act probably sold 713...

32. Night&Day

    War is Hell

    By Michael Fox

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Carnage season is in full swing in the film world, with Death Sentence, Exiled, 3:10 to Yuma, Shoot 'Em Up, The Brave One and In the Valley of Elah oozing blood from seemingly...

33. Night&Day

    Pants On Fire

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Lies have many permutations: little white ones you tell your loved ones to avoid hurting feelings, more dicey lies with which you delude yourself and others, and big whoppers...

34. Night&Day

    Skin-Flick Head Trip

    By Evan James

    Published: September 12, 2007

    No San Francisco summer can draw to a proper close without a celebration of experimental art about sexuality. Enter the DVD release of Other Cinema's Xperimental Eros, a film...

35. Stage

    Lunatic Fringe

    Our theater critic sees seven shows in 10 hours at the Fringe Festival and lives to tell about it

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: September 12, 2007

    I frequently boast about my theatrical stamina. As a critic at Scotland's massive Edinburgh Fringe Festival over several summers, I often reviewed five or six shows within a...

36. Stagecap

    Fringe Fest: Party of One

    By Molly Rhodes

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Most people run and hide when they make complete asses of themselves — like, say, in an ugly "incident" where you may have loved someone just a little too much. But...

37. Encore

    Encore

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Emma. On the surface, composer/lyricist Paul Gordon's vivacious new musical adaptation of Jane Austen's 1816 novel about a spoiled heiress' comically disastrous attempts to...

38. Game On

    Bioshock to the Xbox

    A crumbling utopia sets the stage for the world's most fascinating shooter

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: September 12, 2007

    First-person shooters are rarely more than virtual shooting galleries. Great fun, yes, but not exactly thought-provoking. That's why it's nice when an FPS comes along that's...

39. DVDish

    The Graduate: Legs to Spare

    By Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper

    Published: September 12, 2007

    The Graduate: 40th Anniversary Edition (MGM) Fifteen years after its last home-video commemorative edition (extras from which appear here), The Graduate once more gets the...

40. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Andre Rieu: Live in New York (Denon) Away From Her (Lionsgate) Bones: Season Two (Fox) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (HBO) Casper Meets Wendy: Family Fun Edition...