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21. Night&Day

    Let Them Eat Garlic Fries

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Tonight at the War Memorial Opera House, the lights will dim on those who have spent more than $275 to sit quietly in their best clothes for the last performance of Camille...

22. Night&Day

    Pure De-Light

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 26, 2007

    The exhibit "Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson" takes up the entire top floor of the SFMOMA, and the artist has paid particular attention to making a colorful first impression...

23. Night&Day

    Fair-y Butch

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 26, 2007

    "Last year, Folsom Street Events donated $301,512 to charities in need," according to the organization's Web site. This is not what we usually envision as the motivating force...

24. Stage

    Bill Pullman's Shuttle Columbia Play 'Expedition 6' Comes Apart on Blast-Off

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Early in the lengthy development process for Expedition 6, Bill Pullman's new theatrical docudrama based on events surrounding the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of February...

25. News

    Chinatown Power Players Behind Ed Jew Smokescreen, Source Says

    By Mary Spicuzza

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Rex Reginald is a very busy man. He's working to gather donations for K-9 Armor, a program that would outfit San Francisco's police dogs with bulletproof vests. On the...

26. Music

    Beirut’s Zach Condon Brasses Up the Herbst Theatre

    The Flying Club Cup forsakes Eastern European baroque for a more nuanced, French-influenced sound.

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Zach Condon's commitment to his anachronistic, European-influenced music is apparent upon entering his new Brooklyn apartment. He has turned the big room into a studio, and he...

27. Fresh Eats

    A Weekly Listing of new Restaurants Around Town

    Published: September 26, 2007

    To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Avedano's Holly Park Market: 235 Cortland (at Bonview), 285-MEAT, www.avedanos.com. Bernal Heights. Deli, organic meats. Bossa Nova:...

28. Film

    'The Kingdom' Posits CSI: Riyadh with a Jamie Foxx Twist

    Peter Berg sends Foxx to fight the enemy over there

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: September 26, 2007

    The Kingdom is the first film from Peter Berg since the actor-turned-director's Friday Night Lights, which spawned an acclaimed, if struggling, franchise for NBC. There will be...

29. Books

    Starbucks Saves Life of Michael Gates Gill, Tom Hanks To Play the Barista

    By Evan James

    Published: September 26, 2007

    In How Starbucks Saved My Life, Michael Gates Gill, son of New Yorker writer Brendan Gill, takes a long fall from grace into a green apron. Already in his 60s, Gill is...

30. Sucka Free City

    Lexington Club Violence Stories Show Anti-Hipster Bias

    By Ephraim the Track Bike

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Hi! Like a middle-aged faux-British pop star trying to claw her way out of irrelevance by collecting African orphans, I, Ephraim the Track Bike, once a popular advice columnist...

31. Music

    Charlie Musselwhite Spent the Summer of Love with the Blues

    The Harmonica Honcho

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: September 26, 2007

    When the Bay Area's Summer of Love is discussed, the chat chiefly regards the music, politics, and drugs that shaped a generation — but that discussion is nearly always...

32. FilmCap

    Ira and Abby

    By Julia Wallace

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Directed by Robert Cary, this is writer-producer Jennifer Westfeldt's follow-up to her surprise hit Kissing Jessica Stein. It centers on Ira (Chris Messina), a neurotic New...

33. Stagecap

    The Chinese Angle Dresses Sharp, Yet Plays Dull

    By Molly Rhodes

    Published: September 26, 2007

    This homage to everything noir is all about dames in broad-shouldered suits and cinched-waist dresses who strut and preen around the small stage looking for trouble. These...

34. Let's Get Killed

    San Francisco Symphony’s Opening Gala Gives an Indie Critic the Night Off

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Most music snobs try really hard to convince themselves they're not music snobs. Or at least I do. I never wanted to be that killjoy who grunts in disgust when someone...

35. Reps Etc.

    Repertory Film Listing

    Published: September 26, 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...

36. Bookcap

    SF-Based Novel 'Bearing the Body' Probes Sexual and Emotional Hang-Ups of Middle-Aged Men

    By Christopher Jensen

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Bearing the Body Nathan Mirsky is in for some bad news: His brother Daniel — once the family's favorite son, now a total burnout — has died under mysterious...

37. Sucka Free City

    Frankovich: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Disables Wheelchair Access Attorney

    By Ron Russell

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Tom Frankovich, the flamboyant San Francisco disabilities lawyer whose clients are known for filing serial lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act, has suffered a...

38. Reviewed

    Imperial Teen

    The Hair, the TV, the Baby &the Band (Merge)

    By Dan Strachota

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Musically, Imperial Teen's fourth full-length CD, The Hair, the TV, the Baby & the Band, doesn't sound that much different from its first, Seasick, released way back in...

39. Stagecap

    Dance Theater Jail piece '51802' Makes Audience Its Bitch

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: September 26, 2007

    In her 2005 dance theater piece, One Window, creator/choreographer Erika Chong Shuch explored the positive side of confinement — how limitations can often be empowering,...

40. Letters

    Week of September 26-October 2, 2007

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Bad Brains and Bad Vibes Oi!: Fuck the Bad Brains! Their homophobic acts of violence and vandalism against the late, much-beloved Randy "Biscuit" Turner and the Big Boys will...