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1. Matt Smith

   The Vice Hotel

   One of the largest city-funded Care Not Cash hotels was allegedly run as a home for extortion, drug dealing, and other vices

   By Matt Smith

   Published: October 10, 2007

   The biceps of 53-year-old ex-boxing coach Emmett Marcel Oliver bulge to the size of cantaloupes as he demonstrates his punching technique against a locked fire escape door he...

2. Music

   Radiohead's In Rainbows Leads to Digital Pot of Gold

   By David Downs

   Published: October 10, 2007

   San Francisco producers, label heads, and distributors say the biggest music story of the year isn't taking place onstage at the Fillmore or in the racks at Amoeba Music this...

3. Reviewed

   Magik Markers

   BOSS (Ecstatic Peace!)

   By Justin F. Farrar

   Published: October 10, 2007

   On the surface, drawing comparisons between the Motor City Five and Magik Markers seems absurd: The former are proto-punk icons from the Vietnam era; the latter are modern...

4. Eat

   Chef Mark Sullivan Spruces Up Pacific Heights

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: October 10, 2007

   Sometimes the heavens align, the restaurant gods smile, and a new place seemingly emerges without any visible growing pains. Such a place is Spruce, although its immediate...

5. Film

   Kapur's Elizabeth -- the new Rocky Horror Picture Show

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: October 10, 2007

   "Will you leave your kingdom to a heretic?" That was the question posed to a dying Queen Mary in 1998's Elizabeth, director Shekhar Kapur's grim and dingy film now viewed in...

6. Night&Day

   Secrets and Satire

   By Evan James

   Published: October 10, 2007

   Two of the nation's favorite pastimes — listening to other people's secrets and ridiculing everything — find a temporary home tonight as Frank Warren and Harry Shearer give...

7. Night&Day

   Nothing Insignificant

   By Alejandro Perez

   Published: October 10, 2007

   In the summer of 2006, the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca erupted in violence as peaceful protesters — members of the teachers' union and their supporters — clashed with...

8. Night&Day

   Meeting And Exceeding Your Beer Needs

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: October 10, 2007

   Will there be lederhosen? Will there be grown men in knee socks playing tuba and/or accordion? Most importantly, have organizers laid in an ample supply of bratwurst? Check,...

9. Night&Day

   Death of the Macramé Owl

   By Evan James

   Published: October 10, 2007

   As Hayes Valley continues its centuries-long transformation from unpopulated pasture to sinister highway underpass to hotbed of precious confiseries, so the Capsule Design...

10. Night&Day

    Giraffes? Giraffes!

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 10, 2007

    The main similarity between Salvador Dalí's paintings The Burning Giraffe and The Invention of the Monsters seems to be centrally located bare boobs. Together, the canvases...

11. Night&Day

    When I'm 64

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Bay Area youth activists Adisa Banjoko and Leo "Blast" Libiran formed the Hip-Hop Chess Federation (HHCF) earlier this year, teaching kids life strategies by helping them...

12. Night&Day

    He's No Dummy

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Born Wesley Stace, John Wesley Harding took the name of Bob Dylan's eighth studio album when he began releasing a slew of records of his particular brand of folk-pop. The...

13. Night&Day

    Maybe Seeing Isn't Believing

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 10, 2007

    If you're lucky, you'll get age-related macular degeneration. You won't be able to see very much, or read, but you'll be that thing we all secretly want to be: old. And if...

14. Night&Day

    Stage Fright

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Early directors of the Théâtre du Grand Guignol might have understood the guilty pleasure of today's reality TV, but it is highly unlikely that Bunny Ranch escapades would have...

15. Night&Day

    TV On the Video

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Most every Saturday, Artists' Television Access screens experimental, handmade, low-budget film and video. Throughout the year, projectionist/curator/archivist Craig Baldwin...

16. Night&Day

    I Can't Feel My Face?

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Drug trip stories, like stories about car accidents or bad dates, make great icebreakers. Maybe that's why Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker's newest project, Good Times: Bad...

17. Night&Day

    Nollie Flip to Riches

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 10, 2007

    As a broke, washed-up professional athlete, sleeping on a friend's floor at age 27, Steve Rocco wasn't in any position to take over his sport's industry. But his sport happened...

18. Night&Day

    Well, Fuck Me

    By Michael Fox

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Remember those clinically boring films describing the human reproductive system that we were force-fed in school? The ones that were allegedly supposed to educate us, but were...

19. Night&Day

    The Indie Mould

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 10, 2007

    In 1979, Bob Mould, Grant Hart, and Greg Norton, whose lives intersected at a record store in Minneapolis, added umlauts to the name of a Swedish board game and started...

20. Night&Day

    Juana: Not Merry

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Opera-makers must be constantly on the hunt for really heavy drama. How about a 17th-century Mexican lesbian nun poet-philosopher persecuted by the Inquisition? Sor Juana Ines...