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21. Music

    Kate Nash's straight-talking Brit-pop evokes Lily Allen

    By John Vettese

    Published: January 9, 2008

    It's almost too easy to give Kate Nash flak for her foul mouth. After all, her trash-talking comes just a few songs into her debut, Made of Bricks, on a number titled...

22. Film

    This Girl's Life

    The Islamic revolution, and puberty, through the 2D eyes of Marjane Satrapi

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Persepolis is a small landmark in feature animation. Not because of technical innovation — though it moves fluidly enough, and its drawings have a handcrafted charm...

23. Game On

    Shift Happens

    Indy Legends brings Brickyard history to life

    By Chris Ward

    Published: January 9, 2008

    When I was 12, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway totally screwed me over. After visiting the famed Brickyard and eagerly paying 10 bucks to take "a lap around the track," I was...

24. Sucka Free City

    "Vicious" six-pound dog scares the shit out of mailman in the Sunset

    By Alastair Bland

    Published: January 9, 2008

    When a Pomeranian decides to go for the throat, well, the little dog usually has to settle for the ankle. But when that ankle belongs to the mailman, trouble ensues. For Inner...

25. Music

    Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister tills rock's roots in the Head Cat

    By Hannah Levin

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Unlike his overexposed, reality-TV-damaged contemporary Ozzy Osbourne, Motörhead leader Lemmy Kilmister is riding into the twilight of his career with his old-school honor...

26. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: January 9, 2008

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Beach Street Grill: 380 Beach (at Taylor), 867-1711. Fisherman's Wharf. American...

27. Film

    California Burning

    An epic gusher, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood strikes oil, and then some

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: January 9, 2008

    A great brooding thundercloud of a movie, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood arrives as if from nowhere on a gust of critical acclaim, lowering over a landscape of...

28. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    Published: January 9, 2008

    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...

29. Letters

    Readers Respond to Article on SF's New Seismic Standards, or Lack Thereof

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Zoning Out Don't pick on the little guys: Joe Eskenazi's investigative piece, "Developments in Shaky Town" [News, Dec. 26], on big-moneyed downtown condo developers' ability...

30. Music

    Elusive folkie Jandek surfaces for a rare live show

    By J. Niimi

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Since 1978, someone known as Jandek has been quietly releasing records on a shadowy label out of Houston called Corwood Industries. The LPs, usually in plain white sleeves with...

31. FilmCap

    Running with Arnold

    By Chuck Wilson

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is either a shining testament to the American Dream, or a prime example of how big-money success corrupts the soul. History, perhaps, will regard...

32. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

    Published: January 9, 2008

    The All New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume One (Turner) American Carny: True Tales From the Circus Sideshow (Koch Vision) Cary Grant: 4-Disc Collector's Set...

33. Sucka Free City

    Termed-out Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval running for judge?

    By Will Harper

    Published: January 9, 2008

    During the holiday season, it didn't go unnoticed that termed-out District 11 Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval was making the rounds at parties all over town. To paraphrase one City...

34. Let's Get Killed

    Tormenta Tropical and Bersa Discos bring Buenos Aires cumbia to the clubs

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: January 9, 2008

    It's a Saturday night in early January and the promoters of Tormenta Tropical have prepped the Rickshaw Stop for a big Latin-America-meets-North-America fiesta. DJ Oro11 (aka...

35. Reps Etc.

    Repertory Film Listing

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Artists' Television Access. The Big Sellout: Part of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition film series. Thu., Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m. $6. 992 Valencia (at 21st St.), 824-3890,...

36. DVDish

    Boy Trouble

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Joshua (Fox) George Ratliff's movie, a sort of satirical take on Rosemary's Baby, came and went upon its release; seems no one got the joke about how parents (Sam Rockwell and...

37. Sucka Free City

    SF artist Barry McGee's work stolen again

    By Benjamin Wachs

    Published: January 9, 2008

    If anyone sees a bunch of large ceramic panels representing the spirit of the Outer Sunset, please notify Muni spokesman Alan Siegel. He'd really like them back. The panels,...

38. Hear This

    Get your gloom on with the Black Heart Procession

    By John Graham, Jennifer Maerz, Dave Pehling and Ernest Barteldes

    Published: January 9, 2008

    Just because it's a brand-new year doesn't mean you have to suddenly act all optimistic and shit — at least not with The Black Heart Procession coming to town. These...

39. BeatBox

    Easy Bay's inventive hip-hop heads Zion I and Trackademicks

    By Tamara Palmer and Evan James

    Published: January 9, 2008

    If you think San Francisco's gay club scene is populated exclusively by fabulous gangs of slender men in tank tops, you've overlooked important niche parties like Planet Big,...

40. Bouncer

    Bouncer gets caught by the cops

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: January 9, 2008

    What's your New Year's resolution? Lose some weight? Quit smoking? Stop reading crappy, self-centered columns written in the first person? (D'oh! You already blew it,...