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1. Feature

   Oxbow's Eugene Robinson chokes rowdy concertgoers

   So, how will he behave on his new book tour?

   By Mary Spicuzza

   Published: January 9, 2008

   A large man nicknamed Big Chris approached the stage where Eugene S. Robinson and the rest of his band, Oxbow, were performing. Robinson had just had a bottle launched at his...

2. Music

   Lupe Fiasco hints at music retirement

   By Ben Westhoff

   Published: January 9, 2008

   "I just don't think I have that much to say," Lupe Fiasco says over the phone, explaining why he plans to quit recording music soon. "A lot of the stuff that I want to say...

3. Eat

   South Food & Wine Bar's Australian Food Overthought, Overwrought

   Mixed messages from the first outpost of contemporary Aussie cooking in S.F.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: January 9, 2008

   Working on my piece on the best dishes of 2007 made me pleased (remembering just how much excellent food I consumed over the course of 12 months), chastened (remembering just...

4. Film

   Church Boys

   Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan get religion in First Sunday

   By Nick Pinkerton

   Published: January 9, 2008

   Since promising Armageddon in the leadoff bars of Straight Outta Compton, star-producer Ice Cube has been one canny career man. In recent years he's pulled up stakes in the...

5. Night&Day

   Paul's Boutique Industry

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: January 9, 2008

   By now we've grown accustomed to famed author Paul Auster hassling the film industry for jobs. In 1995, he teamed up with Wayne Wang to co-direct Auster's screenplay for Smoke,...

6. Night&Day

   New Clowns in Town

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: January 9, 2008

   Movin' Madness is a fun-for-the-whole-family play about moving to a new place and making it your home. Think about it: Boxes, packing material, and the hammer-nail continuum...

7. Night&Day

   You Win!

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: January 9, 2008

   The National Book Critics Circle consists of nearly 800 book reviewers who present awards each year to the best books in five categories. Nearly 100 members hail from the Bay...

8. Night&Day

   Celluloid Postcards

   By Michael Fox

   Published: January 9, 2008

   The number of foreign films on offer in U.S. theaters declines every year, even in the hotspots of Manhattan and San Francisco. Thank Jah for the long-armed reach of the...

9. Night&Day

   White Hot

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: January 9, 2008

   While probing the mysteries of the Comcast channel lineup last year, we discovered the Whitest Kids U' Know, a young sketch comedy troupe that reminded us that televised sketch...

10. Night&Day

    One of the Guise

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: January 9, 2008

    From the intelligently creepy side of the gallery comes "Guise." Deborah Oropallo's freakish visual melding of 17th- and 18th-century men with 21st-century women reminds us of...

11. Night&Day

    Solo Exposures

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Walls and doorways serve as literal and metaphorical canvases at Southern Exposure's first exhibition of 2008 -- a fitting tribute to the gallery's new space. "Four Solo...

12. Night&Day

    Revealing History

    By Michelle Orange

    Published: January 9, 2008

    In The Rape of Nanking, journalist Iris Chang chronicled the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking and the atrocities that followed (200,000 murders and more than 20,000 rapes...

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    Strung Out

    By Michael Fox

    Published: January 9, 2008

    The Violin is that rare work of political art that doesn't skimp on the art. Shot in timeless black-and-white, Francisco Vargas's debut burnishes its neorealist setting with...

14. Night&Day

    Culture Crash

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Children, listen up: First, steer clear of the ads in the back of this paper. Second, go over to the couch, wake up your parents or your court-appointed guardians, and tell...

15. Night&Day

    Multiple Personalities

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Danny Hoch looks like your average white guy in a track suit. But inside those pedestrian racing stripes is something Berkeley Rep director Tony Taccone calls "his agile voice,...

16. Night&Day

    Before the Bomb

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Iris Bahr's career to date has been about as varied as the many characters she embodies in her latest show. The thirty-something American-Israeli performer, writer, and...

17. Night&Day

    Cross-Pollinated Opera

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Westerners are familiar with the pageantry, melodrama, and glass-shattering sopranos that mark the magnum opuses of Verdi or Puccini. Yet the pantomime, combat acrobatics, and...

18. Night&Day

    Oh, Rickie, You're So Fine

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Part of the genius of Rickie Lee Jones is erratic behavior. Not boring, drug-related, custody-battle erratic behavior, either. Instead, the singer and songwriter goes through...

19. Stage

    Election, Stage Left

    Political theater may preach to the converted, but it can still teach us something about the world

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Theater is a difficult business to be in at the best of times, but it's even more challenging in an election year. With the mass, commercialized media of television, the...

20. Matt Smith

    Attention SF Giants, DiFi - Matt Smith's New Year's Resolutions Others Ought to Follow

    DiFi's husband and the Giants' owner should resolve to do better in the coming year

    By Matt Smith

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Now that I've completed the heavy lifting of my own New Year's resolutions, I'm moving on to lighter fare: drafting 2008 self-improvement pledges for other people. In my first...