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41. BeatBox

    Beat Box

    By Tamara Palmer and Evan James

    Published: December 5, 2007

    It's a long way from Oakland to Bosnia, but the core duo of Official Tourist — Jeremiah Nadya and Jasko Begovic — has bridged the physical distance of their origins...

42. Bouncer

    Butter

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: December 5, 2007

    Greetings, cultural elite, limousine liberals, bleeding hearts, environmental wackos, Defeatocrats, surrender monkeys, and those who chose the gay lifestyle. I come to you from...

43. Eat

    Loca-voracious

    If you want your food to be raised within a hundred miles, get down to the farm

    By Meredith Brody

    Published: December 5, 2007

    Ever contrary to certain kinds of politically correct food trendiness, I've already declared my somewhat cranky response to those who want to restrict their diet to foodstuffs...

44. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: December 5, 2007

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. 1300 on Fillmore: 1300 Fillmore (at Eddy), 771-7100, www.1300fillmore.com. Fillmore....

45. Film

    Lost Cause

    Avoiding its anti-dogma roots, Golden Compass veers off-course

    By Michelle Orange

    Published: December 5, 2007

    Casting Nicole Kidman as the glacial, intractably smooth megalomaniac Mrs. Coulter in The Golden Compass is no less inspired for being obvious. Indeed, she was the first and...

46. FilmCap

    Man in the Chair

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: December 5, 2007

    Finally, stripling movie nerds get their own art-house Karate Kid! A student filmmaking contest pits troubled, working-class teen Cameron Kincaid (Michael Angarano) against...

47. Film

    Sorry State of Affairs

    Ian McEwan's Atonement, now as a bodice-ripper

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: December 5, 2007

    Rereading Ian McEwan's Atonement last weekend, my first thought was: I hope to God that Joe Wright — whose broadly grinning Pride and Prejudice made a mess of Jane Austen...

48. Art

    Street Smart

    Bye-bye hippies, hello Factory model. The Haight is becoming a center for over-the-counter street art.

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: December 5, 2007

    Haight and Ashbury has been a commercial real-estate bugbear for the past couple of decades. Any business that opened at the historic intersection was offering itself up for...

49. Stage

    The Other Shoe

    Even a genius like Mary Zimmerman can't figure out how to completely neuter a macho ancient Greek tale

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: December 5, 2007

    Most people think of the story of Jason and the Argonauts as the first word in masculine heroics. Originally set down in writing in the 3rd century B.C. by the Greek poet...

50. Artcap

    Obsessive Consumption: Kate Bingaman-Burt

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: December 5, 2007

    This is famously the season when we buy things nobody really needs. But exhaustive spending isn't limited to the holidays. Artist Kate Bingaman-Burt attempts to measure...

51. Stagecap

    The Necessity of Hank

    By Molly Rhodes

    Published: December 5, 2007

    If you have yet to experience RIPE Theatre, you are missing one of the most theatrically adventurous companies in the area. The substance of this particular play, about the...

52. Artcap

    I Do Adore: Women Photographers

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: December 5, 2007

    Google "female energy," and you'll find a predictable mishmash of New Age lunar philosophy and a strange reference to the architecture of the Sydney Opera House. Clearly, the...

53. Stagecap

    Based on a Totally True Story

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: December 5, 2007

    Halfway through New Conservatory Theatre's production about a young writer trying to navigate the temptation and disappointment of Hollywood, the protagonist exclaims, "I...

54. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    Published: December 5, 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...

55. Game On

    Future Shock

    Mass Effect is riveting — and a bit aggravating too.

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: December 5, 2007

    For a game that's considered Microsoft's premier 360 title this holiday season, it's amazing how sloppy Mass Effect is. Graphical glitches distract from otherwise fascinating...

56. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    Published: December 5, 2007

    Battlestar Galactica: Razor (Universal) The Best of Crank Yankers (Paramount) Bob Hope: MGM Movie Legends Collection (MGM) Erik the Viking: The Director's Cut (MGM) Exiled...

57. DVDish

    Cellar Beware

    By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky

    Published: December 5, 2007

    The Girl Next Door (Anchor Bay) If the horror of Saw was a poblano pepper, this here is the habañero. Derived from Jack Ketchum's infamous novel, sometimes...