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41. Sucka Free City

    Hospital's Hindsight: 20/20

    Hospital removes man's cancerous prostate. Two months later, doctors say he didn't have cancer after all

    By John Geluardi

    Published: September 12, 2007

    In March, Touradj Ebrahimi underwent a biopsy of his prostate at San Francisco General Hospital. Some time after the procedure, his physician, Dr. Maurice Garcia, called...

42. Music

    Animal Collective's Panoramic Kingdom

    A casting call of the wild

    By Tony Ware

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Sir David Attenborough, the British naturalist celebrated for his BBC Life series, has captured many compelling images of existence. Giant starfish, for example, vacuum up...

43. Reviewed

    Kanye West

    Graduation (Island Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Kanye is the most exciting man in rap music because he puts out quality, popular albums. Forget the artless 50 Cent, and forget Akon — Kanye tries much, much harder....

44. Film

    The Thrill of 'The Hunting Party'

    Two hardened journalists and a newbie go after a war criminal in this dark and dirty winner

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Until 2005, Richard Shepard's was a lamentable direct-to-prop-plane filmography populated with such forgettable titles as Cool Blue, Oxygen, Mexico City, and The Linguini...

45. Stagecap

    Fringe Fest: Tesla's White Pigeon, Part One: Static

    By Molly Rhodes

    Published: September 12, 2007

    The always-inventive local performance group mugwumpin riffs on the many discoveries and ideas of scientific genius Nikola Tesla. The show explores science's ability to expand...

46. Sucka Free City

    USS Iowa, Any Takers?

    Will $250,000 hole in the water stay afloat or be scrapped for target practice?

    By Ron Russell

    Published: September 12, 2007

    The competition to land the USS Iowa — the World War II battleship that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors famously rejected as a tourist attraction in 2005 —...

47. Music

    The New Pornographers' Feel Good Rush

    Pleasure-centered pop singles

    By Jonah Flicker

    Published: September 12, 2007

    A.C. Newman, the New Pornographers' driving force and principal songwriter, has a bone to pick with music critics who lump the band into the "power-pop" genre. "I'm not really...

48. Reviewed

    No Age

    Weirdo Rippers (Fat Cat)

    By Andy Beta

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Somewhere on No Age's "Loosen This Job," in the thatch of Randy Randall's guitar noise and the spiny drum clicks of Dean Spunt, one can just make out Randall's yelp of "Why are...

49. Stagecap

    Fringe Fest: Adventures of a Substitute Teacher

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: September 12, 2007

    In an attempt to change careers, and not necessarily change lives, Steve Karwoski naïvely left his job waiting tables to become a substitute teacher in the L.A. Unified...

50. Hear This

    The Bravery Far from Bold

    By John Vettese, Tony Ware, Mike Rowell, Eric Davidson and Sam Mickens

    Published: September 12, 2007

    With FutureSex/LoveSounds, Justin Timberlake gained an unlikely spot as the present king of R&B, a position that he seems likely to hold for some time. The former Mickey...

51. Reviewed

    Various Artists

    Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 (Rhino)

    By Frances Reade

    Published: September 12, 2007

    The iconically maudlin tune "Get Together" provides both the title of this comp and its bookending tracks. The first instance of the song is Dino Valenti's sweetly naive 1963...

52. Film

    'Across the Universe': Help!

    Run for your life if you can, little girl: Julie Taymor's '60s-set musical is a bust

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: September 12, 2007

    After Hair, Hairspray, and the mass marketing of tie-dye, can the '60s be shrunk to fit any further? Yes, indeed, here comes Julie Taymor to run the revolutions of sex, class,...

53. Stagecap

    Fringe Fest: & Billions More

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: September 12, 2007

    A black hole is going to suck up planet Earth. The entire population is going to die. These are humanity's last precious moments. Ripe Theater Company has a fine idea for the...

54. Reviewed

    Kinski

    Down Below It's Chaos (Sub Pop)

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Kinski is a wet dream for space-rock and psych-garage aficionados. When it comes to its namesake, the primarily instrumental Seattle quartet is about 75 percent Klaus and 25...

55. Film

    Walk Through the Valley

    Don't let Paul Haggis' heavy hand stop you from seeing his latest

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Even the most adamantly antiwar movies about American soldiers returning from Vietnam—Hal Ashby's Coming Home (1978) and Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July...

56. BeatBox

    MC Lyte brings the club bangers

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Brooklyn's MC Lyte (Lana Moorer) is probably the only major female rap star to never be embroiled in a scandal. Even without the scuffles, though, she's better known as a...

57. Letters

    Kudos on the Newsom Comic

    Letters for Week of September 12-18, 2007

    Published: September 12, 2007

    Progressively Worse Cancel the Daly Show?: With a friend like Chris Daly, progressives certainly do not need enemies ["The Daly Show," Aug. 29]. He has done more damage to the...