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1. Matt Smith

   Mayor Newsom Announces "Audaciousness" Program

   By Matt Smith

   Published: October 31, 2007

   This week's Matt Smith is a comic. Click here to view.

2. Feature

   Sean Penn Leads Matt Gonzalez Into the Wild

   By David Downs and Will Harper

   Published: October 31, 2007

   This week's Feature is a comic. Click here to view.

3. Reviewed

   Neil Young, Chrome Dreams II

   By Brian J. Barr

   Published: October 31, 2007

   The real Chrome Dreams is a legend in Neil Young mythology. He'd intended it as an album of original works, but scrapped the project in the late '70s, choosing instead to...

4. Music

   Is Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah as Dumb as He Sometimes Acts?

   By Ben Westhoff

   Published: October 31, 2007

   Ghostface Killah is a brilliant storyteller and lyricist, and is the only Wu-Tang Clan member still making relevant solo albums. He's a prolific and increasingly media-savvy...

5. Eat

   Avenue G's San Francisco Cuisine Needs a Road Map

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: October 31, 2007

   Even while fighting a driving rain with an inadequate cheap umbrella, walking up from the Financial District into the heart of North Beach is pretty damn delightful. Along the...

6. Film

   American Gangster Treats '70s Smack Game Like It's NASDAQ

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: October 31, 2007

   American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal as its title, Ridley Scott's would-be epic...

7. Night&Day

   Bookish Behavior

   By Hiya Swanhuyer

   Published: October 31, 2007

   Pulitzer Prize–winning author Michael Chabon is the keynote speaker at the S.F. Jewish BookFest. The author, who won the big one for The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, plans...

8. Night&Day

   Air Dance

   By Nirmala Nataraj

   Published: October 31, 2007

   Most dancers glide, but others fly. At least that's how it is with the sky-borne performers who comprise SkyDancers: Women Who Fly Through the Air, a festival of aerial dance...

9. Night&Day

   Swapaholics

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: October 31, 2007

   After prompting people to rid themselves of their old clothes, SwapSF turned its gaze on something else cluttering our lives: old books. Hence, the SwapSF Book Swap, which...

10. Night&Day

    Sex for Everybody

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 31, 2007

    There's a moment in the 2002 film Adaptation during which someone asks why one of the characters doesn't get his missing front teeth replaced. "It strikes me as almost...

11. Night&Day

    Good Times on a Sliding Scale

    By Evan James

    Published: October 31, 2007

    As we learned from a certain episode of Maude, nobody comes to a fundraising party for a black militant if you inform them beforehand of your intention to shake them down for...

12. Night&Day

    Blood Feast

    By Michael Fox

    Published: October 31, 2007

    When we last saw Herschell Gordon Lewis, he was fielding questions and accepting kudos after a typically irreverent presentation at the Direct Marketing Association's annual...

13. Night&Day

    Interrupting Their Rest

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 31, 2007

    The veil between the living and the dead grows thinner at the beginning of November, according to ancient Mexican tradition and the ancient traditions of about ten other major...

14. Night&Day

    Oh, and Read the Book!

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 31, 2007

    Each fall, everybody in San Francisco gets together to read the same book, much in the way that everybody in France eats baguettes and everybody in Rio wears a thong. Meaning:...

15. Night&Day

    Man with a Movie Camera

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 31, 2007

    In the first five minutes of his movie Four Sheets to the Wind, director Sterlin Harjo finds an image David Lynch wishes he'd made: A man puts his dead father in a lake, stands...

16. Night&Day

    Stop Complaining and K’vetsh

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 31, 2007

    If you're normal, you sit around wondering where all the cool people are tonight. Where are the creative, confident, bizarre people who very likely might be famous someday?...

17. Night&Day

    Cinema Caliente

    By Michael Fox

    Published: October 31, 2007

    When the Oscar nominations were announced last January, the trend-obsessed American press heralded directors Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), Alejandro González Iñárritu...

18. Night&Day

    Art in the Park

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 31, 2007

    One year ago, the Park Life Store opened its doors with excellent patron-bait: an art show by Andrew Schoultz, featuring his snorting warhorses and bird storms, and containers...

19. Night&Day

    Slip of the Tunng

    By Dan Strachota

    Published: October 31, 2007

    You know that theme music for Grey's Anatomy, that twinky-winky electronic pop with the coy girl vocals? Well, imagine a bunch of Brits off in a forest trying to re-create that...

20. Night&Day

    Comrades, Come Rally

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 31, 2007

    Trained as a socialist realist painter during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (that's Mao Tse-tung's epic freakout in the 1960s, for those of us born in the U.S. of...