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1. Feature

   Cesar Chavez Area Stabbings and Shootings Contribute to Failed Fanatics Sports Bar and Grill: The Derf Butler Story

   By John Geluardi

   Published: November 7, 2007

   Cesar Chavez Street dead-ends near San Francisco's eastern waterfront in a bleak industrial area of nondescript warehouses, workshops, and small office buildings. During the...

2. Reviewed

   Bettye LaVette

   The Scene of the Crime (Anti-)

   By Jewly Hight

   Published: November 7, 2007

   The follow-up to LaVette's potent 2005 LP I've Got My Own Hell to Raise stays true to its title, as The Scene of the Crime is the sound of a survivor's sure-footed stand. Here...

3. Music

   Swedish Indiepop Crooner Jens Lekman's World of Sound

   By Dan Strachota

   Published: November 7, 2007

   Remember how everyone went crazy in 2001 for that Avalanches record Since I Left You? Critics, listeners, and Madonna loved the lush strings, whimsical samples, and good-time...

4. Eat

   Bernal Heights' Tinderbox Inflames the Palate

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: November 7, 2007

   A tinderbox, the dictionary tells us, is a box for holding tinder (gee, thanks), but also "a person or thing that is highly excitable, explosive, inflammable." Tinderbox, a...

5. Film

   Dull Roar

   The odd upside of Robert Redford's terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: November 7, 2007

   Less a war drama than a set of dueling position papers, Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs may be the gabbiest movie ever made about American foreign policy — and it wasn't...

6. Night&Day

   Rainbow Font

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: November 7, 2007

   Synesthesia involves the blending of the senses, in which shapes have taste, sounds have form, and black letters appear in colors. The curiosity has caused quite a commotion...

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   Where's Dom?

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: November 7, 2007

   As you can see by its title, The $2,904 New York City to San Francisco Motorized Vehicular Tournament takes pains to not depict itself as a Cannonball Run–style road race in...

8. Night&Day

   In Vino Veritas

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: November 7, 2007

   Here's a mystery: How can a good restaurant offer a really luxurious wine tasting and dinner for a reasonable price? We don't have the answer, or we'd be running the...

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   Quiet! We’re On the Air

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: November 7, 2007

   A musician friend recently confessed his true dream: to be a foley artist on an old-fashioned live radio show. You know, with sheet metal to rattle for thunder, and shoes to...

10. Night&Day

    Get Out of the House Free Card

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: November 7, 2007

    What do snakes, gay history, and cartoons have in common? For a start, they're all things San Franciscans like to look at. For another, they're located within a few steps of...

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    On Your Mother's Grave

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: November 7, 2007

    In America, profanity is thought to comprise 13 percent of all adult conversation. Swearing is, in fact, so commonplace we take it for granted, quickly employing hackneyed...

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    Walk on By

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: November 7, 2007

    This weekend's Green Festival features the usual speaker lineup of book-toting big guns — Fritjof Capra, Deepak Chopra, Paul Hawken, Gary Zukav, yawn — but wait, who's this...

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    Naked Lunch

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Lydia Lunch's new book, Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary, concerns her travails through the no-rent city life of gloriously depraved late-'70s, early-'80s New York. It captures...

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    Put Up Ya Dukes

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Not a lot of people can take a punch and write about it. Usually, it's one or the other. This is probably why Dashiell Hammett's hardboiled style of the 1930s has held up so...

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    You Shall Be Moved

    By Alejandro Perez

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Mississippi, 1964: A lifetime ago and a world away, hundreds of Northern civil rights volunteers — mostly young, mostly white — joined with blacks living in the heart of the...

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    No Shame About Ray

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Years ago we remember seeing odd little books from the now-defunct High Risk imprint with titles like Dear Dead Person and The Roaches Have No King. What stuck with us was not...

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    Love, Italian Style

    By Michael Fox

    Published: November 7, 2007

    When Sophia Loren received a lifetime achievement award from the Rome Film Festival last month, it was the first career honor she'd ever received in her home country. It's...

18. Night&Day

    Checkin' It Twice

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: November 7, 2007

    The art of arranging written items one below the other is deceptively mundane. For some, it's easy and fun. For others, making a list, any list, creates an unfathomable maw...

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    Kartoon Korner

    By Michael Fox

    Published: November 7, 2007

    News flash: Bambi's mother did not, in fact, die a painful, horrible death. She was made out of paint and celluloid, not flesh and blood. That's right, kids: cels, not cells....

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    A Country Misled

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Lies can be disconcertingly easy to swallow, especially when they take the form of seemingly innocuous stories recited by kindly-looking men on our television screens....