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21. Sucka Free City

    Gus Fallay Beats Bribery Rap, Wants Old Job Back at SF Department of Building Inspection

    By Will Harper

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Back in August 2005, FBI agents and district attorney's investigators swarmed the city's Department of Building Inspection during business hours and arrested midlevel manager...

22. Matt Smith

    Newsom-Linked Non-Profit SF Connect Twice As Inefficient As National Average

    Sixty-two percent of budget spent on overhead in 2006

    By Matt Smith

    Published: January 16, 2008

    San Francisco spends a small nation's budget on and around the problem of homelessness. Numerous programs sprawl over multiple bureaucracies, each with differing missions, and...

23. Sucka Free City

    Department of Building Inspection Mutinies, Warns Mayor of Building Code Violations

    Staffers' Letter Anonymously Asks Mayor For Investigation

    By Joe Eskenazi

    Published: January 16, 2008

    It's not every day that members of a city department send a letter to the mayor stating, in essence, "Investigate us. Audit us. We're doing a horrible job!" And yet, last...

24. Letters

    Fighting Oxbow Singer Gets Props; Fat! So? Author Says Bouncer a 'Weight Bigot' in SF Weekly Letters

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Mr. Feinstein Goes to China Spinning Blum's blunders: Regarding Matt Smith's column requesting a New Year's resolution he wanted from Dick Blum ["Atoning in 2008," Jan. 9]:...

25. BeatBox

    Plaid's body-moving, soul-stirring beats

    By Tony Ware, Tamara Palmer and Evan James

    Published: January 16, 2008

    New Jersey's Harry "Choo Choo" Romero has a locomotive moniker, but the house DJ and producer isn't known for trainwrecking records. Instead, he's managed to remain relevant in...

26. Reviewed

    Magnetic Fields

    Distortion (Nonesuch)

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: January 16, 2008

    The earliest albums released by the Magnetic Fields (particularly 1995's Get Lost) featured burbling synth-pop in the vein of OMD and Soft Cell, long before such new-wave...

27. Music

    Hip-hop with a Golden Era glow: The Cool Kids

    By Dan Leroy

    Published: January 16, 2008

    If you want a primer on the power of Golden Age hip-hop, Chicago's Cool Kids are the current exhibit A. The signifiers are everywhere you listen. There's the Detroit Pistons'...

28. Hear This

    The Turks embrace Amphetamine Reptile's abrasive edge

    By Dave Pehling, Hannah Levin, Jewly Hight and Jess Scott

    Published: January 16, 2008

    One of the most eclectic guitarists to emerge in the last three decades, Bill Frisell has traversed a vast terrain of music during his remarkable career. From his early days as...

29. Reviewed

    Cat Power

    Jukebox (Matador)

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: January 16, 2008

    The two-minute take on "New York, New York" that opens Cat Power's second covers album is almost too easy. Iconic to a fault and not too engaging musically, it's mostly a...

30. Music

    Major-Label Misfit: Mistah F.A.B.

    By Eric K. Arnold

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Oakland rapper Mistah F.A.B. would be the first to admit there's a problem when it comes to rap music: If you're identified with the streets, you're not supposed to be lyrical;...

31. Reviewed

    Various

    Well Deep: 10 Years of Big Dada (Big Dada)

    By Tony Ware

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Longevity in hip-hop is increasingly rare, so milestones should be memorialized. Enter Well Deep, two CDs (31 tracks total) marking the first decade of U.K.–based indie...

32. Music

    CREEM of the crop: Rock mag maintains hip status in new book

    By Ryan Foley

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Rock photographer Robert Matheu once wrote that a prepubescent diet of Hot Rod and MAD magazines prepared him for a teenager's obsession with CREEM. Brimming with the same...

33. Music

    Technicolor Schwarzenegger: Dan Deacon's new eyeball-scrambling DVD

    By Tony Ware

    Published: January 16, 2008

    On Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche's new Ultimate Reality DVD, a montage of tie-dye electro-coustic compositions and vintage Arnold Schwarzenegger film footage runs through a...

34. Let's Get Killed

    Sketchfest stokes the musician-comedian love affair

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Let's face it: There are far too few laughs to be had at rock shows these days. The last musical performer who had me doubled over was David Lee Roth (mostly in spite of...

35. Bouncer

    Book nerds unite at the Marina's Horseshoe Tavern

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Peter Ustinov looks nothing like Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's Belgian sleuth. Yet he portrayed him a few times on film, despite being too fat, too fair of complexion, and...

36. Eat

    Shanghai Dilly

    Generic decor masks fantastic food at this unconventional place

    By Robert Lauriston

    Published: January 16, 2008

    If there were a contest to find San Francisco's most eccentric restaurant, Jai Yun would be a strong finalist. This eight-year-old Shanghai-style place, recently relocated from...

37. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: January 16, 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...

38. Film

    Chick Flick, Two Ways

    In Keaton vs. Heigl, girl power (Mad Money) trumps bridesmaid fashion (27 Dresses)

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: January 16, 2008

    If Diane Keaton were an up-and-comer in 2008, she'd likely be stuck in romantic comedies cooked up in movie studio test kitchens. No Godfather for her. No Annie Hall, no Shoot...

39. Film

    Life Stinks, Blah, Blah, Blah

    It's more of the same in Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: January 16, 2008

    "I do think the writing is pessimistic — all that stuff about life being a tragic experience," says Angela Stark (played by newcomer Hayley Atwell) early in Woody Allen's...

40. FilmCap

    The Business of Being Born

    By Julia Wallace

    Published: January 16, 2008

    Most of the advance buzz about The Business of Being Born has centered on an image of its producer, Ricki Lake. Naked. Giving birth. In a bathtub. If you couldn't handle the...