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1. Feature

   Sex&Murder

   Joe Konopka was an anti-drug crusader. Terry Frazier was a bondage escort with a drug habit. Two months ago, their lives collided.

   By Mary Spicuzza

   Published: September 19, 2007

   It was a classic Joe Konopka moment. The anti-drug activist and his friend Freddy Batres were out patrolling the streets of Konopka's neighborhood one evening looking for "Fat...

2. Matt Smith

   Wal-Mart 'R' Us

   Does 'sustainability' mean meddling in workers' personal lives? San Francisco's Act Now Productions seems to think so.

   By Matt Smith

   Published: September 19, 2007

   Leftists passing by newsstands last week saw an image of their movement's former poster boy. On the cover of the current issue of Fast Company magazine, former Sierra Club boy...

3. Music

   Contents Under Pressure

   Bad Brains transcend a stormy history to Build a Nation

   By Dave Pehling

   Published: September 19, 2007

   From Arthur Lee to Daniel Johnston and Kurt Cobain, there's plenty of evidence that emotional instability and batshit craziness can contribute to innovative songwriting. Given...

4. Let's Get Killed

   Rich Unterberger brings rare rock flicks to the Haight

   By Jennifer Maerz

   Published: September 19, 2007

   On a foggy Wednesday night last month, 60 rock fans crowded onto folding chairs, plastic blocks, and floor mats in the basement of the itty bitty Park Branch Library in the...

5. Reviewed

   PJ Harvey

   White Chalk (Island)

   By Annie Zaleski

   Published: September 19, 2007

   Sometimes the simplest music is the most affecting. So it goes with PJ Harvey's new studio album, White Chalk, which often feels like a sequel to Björk's Vespertine....

6. Hear This

   LCD Soundsystem: the planet's party-starting pro

   By Jennifer Maerz, Hannah Levin and Geoff Cannon

   Published: September 19, 2007

   When LCD Soundsystem takes the stage, the group projects frenetic energy, using rock-band instrumentation to jolt crowds into pogo-jumps. That's no easy feat for what's...

7. BeatBox

   Motor and Guns 'n' Bombs: greasy hump-tech for your body-pumping pleasure

   By Tamara Palmer and John Graham

   Published: September 19, 2007

   Audiofly is a relatively new, transnational duo (U.K.'s Anthony Middleton and Italy's Luca Saporito) offering original singles and imaginative remixes for a host of chic record...

8. Bouncer

   Dragon Lounge

   By Katy St. Clair

   Published: September 19, 2007

   Some things seem purely male to me. Take, for example, setting off fireworks. I have zero interest in that activity and I don't understand people who hoard fireworks all year...

9. Eat

   One by Day, Another by Night

   Two meals yield different experiences at new downtown Venetian-style restaurant

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: September 19, 2007

   After a luxurious lunch al fresco at Ducca, and a pleasant if less relaxing dinner, I felt as though I'd been at two different restaurants — and liked them both. But I...

10. Film

    Snow Job

    Someone stop Amanda Bynes from updating another classic

    By Luke Y. Thompson

    Published: September 19, 2007

    Just a guess here, but the majority of Amanda Bynes fans probably didn't get most of the Shakespeare references in her As You Like It–inspired She's the Man, so, behold:...

11. Reps Etc.

    Repertory Film Listing

    Published: September 19, 2007

    Commentary by Gregg Rickman (greggr2006@yahoo.com). Times compiled from information available Tuesday; it's always advisable to call for confirmation. Price given is standard...

12. Night&Day

    Solid Gold

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 19, 2007

    The Heather Gold Show is a talk show, San Francisco-style. The chat-talented host sets the tone at affirming, curious, and honest; her guests follow suit and so do her...

13. Night&Day

    Look Through It

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 19, 2007

    From the "did he just?" comedy of Prince Gomolvilas to the sober professionalism of Emiko Omori's films, APAture 2007: A Window on the Art of Asian Pacific Americans casts a...

14. Night&Day

    One for the Team

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 19, 2007

    Fifty years ago this September, Viking published On the Road. Although Jack Kerouac had finished the book six years earlier as a work of fiction, millions associated Kerouac...

15. Night&Day

    Tip of the Iceberg

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 19, 2007

    In artist Ryan Scully's Water Rushing Through Forms, a soft, round, bulbous form floats in a turgid sea, a weighty lump that's set off by a small protuberance, seemingly...

16. Night&Day

    Fun with 'El Funi'

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: September 19, 2007

    Sultry-voiced cantadors, dancers with skirts that fan out like fire, and lots of staccato clapping are the stuff flamenco is made of. That, and underlying themes of love, wine,...

17. Night&Day

    Hank-ering

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 19, 2007

    A long time ago, in a Canada far, far away, a teenage Neko Case wrote a song called "Very Missionary." These days, Case is a great and relatively famous musician, but back...

18. Night&Day

    No Man's Land

    By Michael Fox

    Published: September 19, 2007

    The outspoken German director Helmut Käutner made his first movie in 1939, but he never toed the party line. As war raged and Germany roared, he made one film after another...

19. Night&Day

    Big Time

    By Michael Fox

    Published: September 19, 2007

    One evening last week, a woman on the street near Union Square had on a T-shirt that read "Size Matters." She and her companion were wearing shorts; perhaps they were tourists....

20. Night&Day

    Soiled

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 19, 2007

    The orchid has plenty to recommend it: Its name comes from the Greek word for "testicle." Vanilla, an orchid plant, is derived from the Latin word for "vagina." Orchids in...