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1. Feature

   My Body, My Self

   Food issues and a bad self-image led our columnist to undergo weight-loss surgery. She's still a mess, but a better-looking one.

   By Katy St. Clair

   Published: January 2, 2008

   The nurses are having a really hard time finding a vein into which to place the IV tubes I will need during and after my surgery for morbid obesity. I make my usual "This is...

2. Music

   The new Fox Theater, the arty Red Poppy, and the hustlin' Demolition Men

   The Bay is looking up in 2008

   By Jennifer Maerz, Eric K. Arnold, Ezra Gale, David Downs, J. Pace and John Graham

   Published: January 2, 2008

   After a month of looking backward, it's time we started moving forward. This week we offer a survey of organizations that will help inspire the local music landscape in 2008;...

3. Eat

   Unforgettable,That's What You Are

   The best dishes of 2007 — it was a very good year

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: January 2, 2008

   Here's a romp down memory lane. Or maybe we should call it forget-me-not lane, because as soon as I write about a splendid serving of food, I have to consciously stop obsessing...

4. Film

   Revenge of the Nerds

   Judd Apatow's pretty good year

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: January 2, 2008

   Absolutely, unequivocally, 2007 was The Year of the Apatow. Judd got Knocked Up to the tune of $150 million (at the box office alone); the super-okay Superbad, which he...

5. Night&Day

   Real Classy

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: January 2, 2008

   The term "homosexual agenda" is, in many cases, funny. It's mostly funny-peculiar, but in the face of a realistic conversation such as "Class and Power in Queer SF," it's also...

6. Night&Day

   Sunshine of Your Love

   By Michael Fox

   Published: January 2, 2008

   The astonishingly gutsy filmmaker Lee Chang-Dong doesn't set out to shock viewers. He's just unwilling to flinch from hard truths, be it the taboo love affair between an ex-con...

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   I Can See Clearly Now

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: January 2, 2008

   One of the great things about large-scale photography is that it's like the still version of IMAX, if you're actually standing in a gallery face to face with it. Everyday shit...

8. Night&Day

   Move 'Em Out

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: January 2, 2008

   Today, the Howard Street location of California Academy of Sciences closes. Soon after, it embarks on the forbidding activity of transporting a museum's worth of pythons,...

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   AVP Sneaks In

   By Luke Y. Thompson

   Published: January 2, 2008

   Hey, Fox marketing people? If you have a cinematic franchise that you wish to keep vibrant, calling the latest installment Requiem is a bad idea. As is stealing the ending from...

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    I Did Not Know That

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: January 2, 2008

    In The Big Lebowski, John Goodman's character, Walter, takes his gun to the bowling alley and points it at an opponent during a scoring disagreement. The victim, Smokey, is...

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    Pharaoh Speaks

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: January 2, 2008

    While being interviewed for the now-defunct Jazz & Pop magazine circa 1969, rock icon Eric Clapton was hailed as the "Pharaoh Sanders of the guitar" by his interviewer -- and...

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    Gentlemen's Night Out

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: January 2, 2008

    Artists Bob Dob, Nathan Ota, and Daniel Peacock are friends. They also share an interest in odd little characters drawn in a cartoony illustrative style that borrows something...

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    Three Kings Sing

    By Alejandro Perez

    Published: January 2, 2008

    Throughout Latin America, Spain, and the Bay Area, families celebrate El Día de los Reyes Magos, the Day of the Epiphany, with the sort of partying and revelry reserved...

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    Plowed Under

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: January 2, 2008

    David Mamet is extolled for his raffish work, which typically encompasses elaborate cons, beleaguered masculinity, and canny dissections of greed and corporate culture: His...

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    Apricot Jam Session

    By Michael Fox

    Published: January 2, 2008

    Who says rock stars don't have a sense of humor? The redoubtable Les Claypool deserves a tip of the stovepipe hat for setting himself up as a one-man piss-taker of pompous...

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    Deserving of Clapter

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: January 2, 2008

    My, isn't it a terrifical day? What’s that? You don't like the word terrifical? Suck it, because a new batch of words are coming down the pipe thanks to Imaginationally:...

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    Eating Right

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: January 2, 2008

    Many take pride in the fact that the Bay Area was one of the first regions to suddenly look at its dinner plate and say, "No more!" Now, knowing the growing coordinates of the...

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    The War Between the Guitars

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: January 2, 2008

    Remember when only 50-year-old gray-haired dudes played pedal steel guitar? Those days are over, friends. Youngsters around the country have applied themselves well, resulting...

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    Hey Now

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: January 2, 2008

    In late 2005, after Howard Stern went off the air and the city finally and collectively figured out who Sarah and No Name were, some of you were in mourning. You didn't know...

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    Revenge of the Alabaster Breast

    By Evan James

    Published: January 2, 2008

    The bosom of the art world heaves with passion tonight thanks to "Chiaroscuro," an exhibition guest curated by Danielle Steel. For those of us who know next to nothing about...