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1. Feature

   Paper Chase

   The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

   By John Geluardi

   Published: December 19, 2007

   Most days the Contra Costa Times newsroom in Walnut Creek hums with activity. Deadline-driven reporters pore over documents, phone sources, and tap out stories. Editors monitor...

2. Music

   Greed catches up with the major labels

   By Chris Parker

   Published: December 19, 2007

   It's always darkest before the dawn. This could be said about the music industry, only the phrase is historically uttered by the guy who lives through the night, while at...

3. Reviewed

   Too $hort

   Get Off the Stage (Jive)

   By Eric K. Arnold

   Published: December 19, 2007

   Get Off the Stage marks Too $hort's seventeenth album — not counting compilations and reissues — but it's also the end of an era. It's his last for Jive, the label...

4. Hear This

   Mightier than the Sword: Black Cobra slays

   By Jonah Bayer, J. Pace, Frances Reade, Mark Keresman and Mike Rowell

   Published: December 19, 2007

   It's tough to think of an indie icon more accomplished than Stephen Malkmus. Although he's best known for being frontman of the infamous slacker-rock band Pavement...

5. BeatBox

   Def Mix dynamo Hector Romero brings down the house

   By Tamara Palmer

   Published: December 19, 2007

   Hector Romero is an integral part of New York's Def Mix dynasty. The powerful international house music brand was started by genre godfathers Frankie Knuckles and David...

6. Eat

   As the Romans Do

   A16's spinoff stays true to the spirit of Rome's cuisine

   By Robert Lauriston

   Published: December 19, 2007

   As the longtime cultural center of the Apennine Peninsula, Rome has incorporated ingredients and dishes from many other regions into its cuisine. Its pantry is fundamentally...

7. Film

   Moolah for Mullahs

   All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols' good-time Charlie

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: December 19, 2007

   Hell of a thing, getting Mike Nichols to adapt the yer-kiddin'-me story of Charlie Wilson, the congressman from Lufkin, Texas, who damned near single-handedly helped the...

8. Night&Day

   Very Cool

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: December 19, 2007

   Because he could, the artist Olafur Eliasson took a hydrogen-powered BMW race car, removed the shell, draped it with mesh and steel panels, dragged it into a giant freezer at...

9. Night&Day

   Free Your Family

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: December 19, 2007

   If you are not celebrating Christmas today, you could probably just have fun running down the middle of the street. The big problem with that is if you've got children on hand,...

10. Night&Day

    The Cult of Oz

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: December 19, 2007

    It's difficult to imagine The Wizard of Oz as a commercial flop. But when Victor Fleming's 1939 fantasy flick starring Judy Garland and a pair of sequinned red heels was first...

11. Night&Day

    Who Shot the Serif?

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: December 19, 2007

    Without the little hats and feet of a Times New Roman or a nice Bookman Old Style, the font Helvetica appears neutral, mutable, a seemingly bored lump of tofu that acts like it...

12. Night&Day

    Thank You For Being a Freak

    By Evan James

    Published: December 19, 2007

    As any homosexual with Lifetime and no life from 10 to 11 on an average weeknight knows, The Golden Girls possesses just the right blend of barbed wit, sex, bitchiness, and...

13. Night&Day

    Mensches On Parade

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: December 19, 2007

    Esther Paik Goodhart calls her mother "the Asian Tammy Faye Bakker." Scott Blakeman created "Stand Up for Peace: The Two Comedian Solution to Middle East Peace" with...

14. Night&Day

    Aah-OOO-Gah!

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: December 19, 2007

    There's something refreshingly indelicate about the new burlesque movement. Accordingly, the Hubba Hubba Revue Holiday Spectacular revels in nervy sex appeal while giving...

15. Night&Day

    Hear 'Em Make Some Noise

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: December 19, 2007

    With its calendar packed with rock, electronic, and hip-hop events, SOMA live venue Slim's may not be thought of as the most spiritual place in San Francisco for most of the...

16. Night&Day

    Hark!

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: December 19, 2007

    Remember how fun it was to sing carols, walking from house to house while tanked on cider and dizzy with the holiday lie known as Santa? Hold that thought. Now remember, years...

17. Night&Day

    Best Male Vocals

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: December 19, 2007

    As the most gay-friendly city in the country, San Francisco boasts nearly as many male choirs as leather bars. There's the ever-popular San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, of...

18. Night&Day

    Feliz Navidad

    By Alejandro Perez

    Published: December 19, 2007

    Maybe you grew up knowing all the words to "El Rey" and "Amorcito Corazón," and request "Sabor a Mi" at every wedding and quinceañera you attend. Perhaps you're...

19. Night&Day

    Let's Go to the Hip Hop

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: December 19, 2007

    Just before Oakland's beloved hip-hop duo Blackalicious sets off to tour Australia, members Chief Xcel and Gift of Gab host the Blackalicious Holiday Affair. Their invited...

20. Night&Day

    It Takes a Village Person

    By Michael Fox

    Published: December 19, 2007

    For more years than anybody wants to count, a chunk of the population has woken up on Christmas morning hoping to find Randy Jones under the tree, ready to be unwrapped. Jones'...