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1. Feature

   SF's Most Maddening

   Published: March 12, 2008

   Attention, readers: Help us choose the city’s most annoying person or institution. Cast your vote here! Within the next week, March Madness office pools will be...

2. Listen Up

   Talk of the Tastemakers

   Local aficionados help San Francisco navigate a brave new music world.

   By Jennifer Maerz

   Published: March 12, 2008

   We're living in an era of New Music Overload, thanks to the ubiquity of fresh tracks on blogs, turntables, and indie radio stations. How do you cut a path through the thicket?...

3. Eat

   Specialist Referrals

   Everybody orders the same particular thing at these Korean finds — for a reason.

   By Robert Lauriston

   Published: March 12, 2008

   Lots of cultures have a tradition of restaurants that specialize in one particular dish. American pizzerias, for example: While they often have full menus including pastas and...

4. Film

   Director Michael Haneke Makes Us Feel Guilty For Watching Funny Games

   By Jim Ridley

   Published: March 12, 2008

   For the crime of obliterating high culture, for the crime of getting off on vicarious degradation — and, above all, for the crime of sitting through any movie that...

5. Night&Day

   You'll Have the Hangover of the Irish

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: March 12, 2008

   Ha, ha, we're just kidding with the cynical headline: The St. Patrick's Day Parade is as much family fun this year as it is every year. It's huge! Irish dance schools, bagpipe...

6. Night&Day

   Garden Party

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: March 12, 2008

   In creating "Moth & Moon," local experimental filmmaker Paul Clipson turned his camera on the symphony of life played out by the small, sometimes off-putting residents of...

7. Night&Day

   Giving You Some Lip

   By Silke Tudor

   Published: March 12, 2008

   The yoni is sacred in Hindu mythology. In Sanskrit, the word may refer to a vagina, a temple, a divine passage, or the seat of all creation. In India, offerings are left before...

8. Night&Day

   Seasoned Hope

   By Bonner Odell

   Published: March 12, 2008

   In the Bay Area dance world, choreographers commonly spring to life fully realized, like Athena from the head of Zeus. This may well be attributed to our democratic insistence...

9. Night&Day

   The Bohemian Club

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: March 12, 2008

   Everyone should go to the opera from time to time. We recommend dressing in strange vintage gear when you go, to give your evening sort of a "Natural Born Killers meets Edward...

10. Night&Day

    Breathe Deep the Gathering Gloom

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 12, 2008

    When an art show about air quality invites a research scientist from Intel, expect more than watercolors -- especially if he's the guy behind the notorious I-Bomb, a mobile...

11. Night&Day

    So Def

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 12, 2008

    Renaissance man Radio Active is a beatboxer for Michael Franti and Spearhead, but don't think you know all about him just because of that. He's also a painter, and his...

12. Night&Day

    Boy or Girl? Maybe Not.

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 12, 2008

    Apparently, not everyone is respectful of transgendered people. Can you believe it? Jerks. But they're out there, and they can make things – simple things, like using a...

13. Night&Day

    Nuns Without Rulers

    By Michael Fox

    Published: March 12, 2008

    Even before China's ruthless smackdown of demonstrators last week, good news out of Tibet has long been hard to come by. Well, here's a ray of sunshine: On a remote,...

14. Night&Day

    Paranoid Park

    Published: March 12, 2008

    Expert chronicler of alienated youth, Gus Van Sant returns with a tale of an alienated youth -- a Portland skateboarder no less! -- who is somehow involved with the killing of...

15. Night&Day

    Laugh It Out

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 12, 2008

    Do you find that trivia nights suck the life out of you by exposing, incrementally, one question at a time, that you have the memory of a bucket? Fortunately, What's Your...

16. Night&Day

    The Lost Art of Lampoonery

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: March 12, 2008

    If you ask us, healthful satire is a waning art in modern day America. Blame the smiting gods of political correctness or the lack of critical thinking fostered in today’s...

17. Night&Day

    A World of Pure Imagination

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 12, 2008

    We can recall, years ago, being grouped around the TV at some mind-altering hour and obsessively replaying Gene Wilder emerging from the Wonka castle as a hobbled old man. He...

18. Night&Day

    Tap Out

    By Sam Mickens

    Published: March 12, 2008

    Jazz and tap dancing have had a long history of cross-pollination and creative symbiosis, from vaudeville all the way up to the avant-garde dueling of guitarist Derek Bailey...

19. Night&Day

    My Sister! My Mother! My Sister!

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 12, 2008

    Honestly, most of the pickers in the Stairwell Sisters are somebody's mommy, but the band still has some genuinely twisted danger in its backwoods bluegrass. They're probably...

20. Night&Day

    Cho Girl

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: March 12, 2008

    Only a city like ours could have spawned as big and vibrant a personality as Margaret Cho. The outspoken comedian, queer activist, and now political blogger (for CNN and the...