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21. Night&Day

    Wear Orange

    Published: March 5, 2008

    In conjunction with "The Prison Project," a yearlong series of events and programs exploring the California prison system, Intersection for the Arts gets artist and death row...

22. Night&Day

    Robert Rich & Paul Clipson

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Electro-ambient maestro, Robert Rich, improvises live soundtracks to 8mm film projections by Paul Clipson, SF filmmaker and projection artist. Known for his improvised live...

23. Night&Day

    Cumbia, My Lord, Cumbia

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Buenos Aires’ Zizek Urban Beats Club is a party that spotlights local musicians and DJs (and occasional out-of-town guests) who play a uniquely Argentinean strain of the...

24. Night&Day

    The Tom-Tom Club

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Stand-up comedy should be a standard part of your training to be an elected official, along with reading the Constitution, the words "separation of church and state," and the...

25. Night&Day

    You Kihl Me

    By Sam Prestianni

    Published: March 5, 2008

    If confidence and creativity are the cornerstones of sexy, then violinist/vocalist Carla Kihlstedt is the sexiest woman in the avant-garde. In any of her regular gigs -- with...

26. Night&Day

    Finding June

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Dusty, derelict Tucson in the 1930s doesn't exactly yield the same media appeal as one of those placid, unflappable suburbs that recurrently appears in news features about...

27. Night&Day

    Gravity's Rainbow

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 5, 2008

    The San Francisco Irish Film Festival has plenty of interesting screenings scheduled: San Francisco's favorite Irish superstar, Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, contributes a...

28. Night&Day

    "The Ask Dr. Hal Show"

    Published: March 5, 2008

    The gang is back: Chicken John, Pete Goldie, David Capurro, KrOB, and Dr. Hal come together to astound and amaze Monday nights, dispensing trivia and Fernet while accepting...

29. Night&Day

    A Turkey From Turkey

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 5, 2008

    It's not on the IMDb's "Bottom 100," like The Hottie and the Nottie, Baby Geniuses, and Who's Your Caddy. We're not sure if it's been featured at the Dark Room's "Bad Movie...

30. Stage

    Cutting Ball Makes a Beckett Play We Can Relate to--Too Bad

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Around the time of the centennial of Samuel Beckett's birth a couple of years ago, The Onion ran an article about the discovery of a lost play by the modernist writer....

31. Matt Smith

    Gonzalez/Nader Hysteria

    They're actually out to stop spoiler candidates.

    By Matt Smith

    Published: March 5, 2008

    In 1846, hard-drinking, red-eyed wildman Ezekiel "Stuttering Zeke" Merritt helped roust a few neighbors from their settlements in the upper Sacramento River Valley. They...

32. Reviewed

    Atlas Sound

    Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (Kranky)

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Before his powerhouse band Deerhunter went on hiatus last fall, Bradford Cox had already retreated into his bedroom to craft his solo debut as Atlas Sound. Even though he's...

33. Music

    Janet takes control: Ms. Nasty is back in PVC chic

    By Carol Cooper

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Sure, Madonna repeatedly toyed with BDSM in her videos, but she never publicly admitted to breast and genital piercings like Janet Jackson did. So, in case you weren't tipped...

34. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: March 5, 2008

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Bar888: 888 Howard (at Fifth St., in the Intercontinental Hotel), 616-6566. SOMA....

35. Film Feature

    Incredible Shrinking Women

    The mainstreaming of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: March 5, 2008

    For an obscure tale of a virginal London governess who discovers her true calling running interference for a giddy nightclub singer, the 1938 English novel Miss Pettigrew Lives...

36. Game On

    Thinning Crowds

    It's always dead at The Club.

    By Chris Ward

    Published: March 5, 2008

    To all the gun-toting video-game bad guys out there: Please stop standing next to exploding barrels. Seriously now. Of the hundreds of places you could squat and shoot, you and...

37. Reviewed

    New Thrill Parade

    Slumber in Colorland (Wonder Quest)

    By John Garmon

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Although local act New Thrill Parade enjoys flaunting the "goth" tag, its music hardly conjures visions of languid youths seducing one another over a Sisters of Mercy...

38. Music

    Round and Round: Boredoms perfect audience participation

    By Mike Rowell

    Published: March 5, 2008

    On the numerically auspicious date of July 7, 2007, what may have been history's most elaborate drum circle took place in a park at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. Organized...

39. FilmCap

    CJ7

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Something of a departure for Hong Kong's reigning master of special-effects slapstick Stephen Chow, CJ7 is a father-son fable transparently modeled on Steven Spielberg's ET....

40. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    By Molly Rhodes, Nathaniel Eaton and Chloe Veltman

    Published: March 5, 2008

    The Scene. Theresa Rebeck's 2006 drama bears many of the traditional hallmarks of a daytime soap. Set in various glamorous New York lofts, the play takes as its departure point...