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21. Music

    Devendra Banhart loves Karen Dalton -- Now You Can Too

    By Justin F. Farrar

    Published: November 21, 2007

    Since Karen Dalton's death in 1993, her fan base has grown faster than a Colorado mountain town. And folks can thank a retired builder from Indiana named Joe Loop for Cotton...

22. Bouncer

    Shipwrecked with San Francisco's Best Bartending Storyteller

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: November 21, 2007

    I've been thinking a lot about the Cosco Busan ship that hit the Bay Bridge, causing that terrible oil spill. I imagine a vessel the size of a city block moving soundlessly...

23. Film

    Condensation Nation

    Latest Stephen King adaptation is all fogged up

    By Chuck Wilson

    Published: November 21, 2007

    As one of what novelist Stephen King calls his Constant Readers, I was as jazzed as every other monster-lovin' geek when word came that filmmaker Frank Darabont was making a...

24. Stagecap

    Killing My Lobster: For the Very First Time

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: November 21, 2007

    I've got no shame in admitting I've always had big fat crushes on all the ladies of Killing My Lobster. They're hip, funny, and undeniably charismatic, which is all kinds of...

25. Reviewed

    White Magic

    Dark Stars (Drag City)

    By Ryan Foley

    Published: November 21, 2007

    White Magic's moniker — and the sometimes arcane sensibilities of its frontwoman, Mira Billotte — spurred tastemakers to use the words "spiritual" and "ethereal"...

26. Hear This

    What the Christ Was That? Skeleton Key Makes a Junk-Rock Racket

    By Tamara Palmer, Ernest Barteldes, Ryan Foley and Tony Ware

    Published: November 21, 2007

    Twenty-one years after his debut, Kenneth Edmonds looks youthful enough to still be called Babyface. Thankfully, his songs have matured quite a bit since the days of his...

27. Film

    With Relatives Like These ...

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: November 21, 2007

    There are comedies of discomfort, and then there's Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach's scalding follow-up to The Squid and the Whale. An immersion in sibling malice and...

28. Bookcap

    oPtion$: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs

    By Will Harper

    Published: November 21, 2007

    By Daniel Lyons (aka Fake Steve Jobs) Da Capo Press, $22.95 This book illustrates the danger in trying to transform something that works best as a bite-sized snack (a blog...

29. BeatBox

    Queens on Film: Booty Call Brings the Flashbulbs to the Castro

    By Evan James and Tamara Palmer

    Published: November 21, 2007

    In a world gone mad with undiscerning digital camera use, it's comforting to know that some drag queens still hold the art of portraiture to high standards. One gender...

30. Stagecap

    Rabbit Hole

    By Molly Rhodes

    Published: November 21, 2007

    Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's beautiful Pulitzer Prize-winning play gets a genuinely heartfelt and at times moving production from Studio 300 Theatre. The cast has an easy,...

31. Reps Etc.

    Repertory Film Listing

    Published: November 21, 2007

    Artists' Television Access. Midnight Cowboy: Whore! Magazine presents this 1969 film starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight as part of its Cinewhores series. Benefits St. James...

32. Game On

    Call of Duty 4 Kicks Ass Too Close To Home

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: November 21, 2007

    The unsettling tone is established early in Call of Duty 4, when the president of a Middle Eastern nation is publicly executed on the world stage, and you, the player,...

33. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    Published: November 21, 2007

    Camino Real. Tennessee Williams' 1953 stream-of-consciousness fantasia set in a timeless no man's land is difficult to stage. The largely plotless drama revolving around broken...

34. DVDish

    New DVDs -- Heart of Darkness, Nosferatu, Unrated Die Hard

    By Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper

    Published: November 21, 2007

    Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Paramount) At last available on DVD, Eleanor Coppola's 1991 documentary about her husband's tumultuous trek downriver remains,...

35. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    Published: November 21, 2007

    Angel-A (Sony) The Batman: The Complete Fourth Season (Warner Bros.) Bill Maher: The Decider (HBO) Broken (First Look) Chappelle's Show: The Series Collection...