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21. Night&Day

    Shelter

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Shelter bides its time with innocuous snapshots of local SoCal color—crashing waves, crystal blue skies, natives who pronounce the “r” in Louvre—before...

22. Night&Day

    More Than a Pretty Face

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Jeff Garlin is the big fellow on Curb Your Enthusiasm. As Larry David's manager he fits neatly into the background, content in his role as one of the star's orbiting planets,...

23. Night&Day

    Jesus Built His Hotrod

    By John Graham

    Published: March 26, 2008

    In the past 25 years, Al Jourgensen has been many men, including a foppish New Wave fancyboy, a twitchy fuzz-disco pioneer, a shit-kickin' cowboy punk, an industrial-metal...

24. Night&Day

    Beefalo Gals

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 26, 2008

    The women of Marabelle Phoenix are pretty and young — they don't look mean or dangerous at all. (Although frontwoman Donnelle looks kind of like she could take you if she...

25. Night&Day

    Double Your Pleasure

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Twins are fun and sinister. At the African-American Shakespeare Company's production of The Comedy of Errors, director Raelle Myrick-Hodge takes the old story for all the...

26. Game On

    Online Turnoff

    Who said first-person games need a second person?

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Developers seem to believe that their first-person games are required to include online modes. Blame it on the few narrow-minded gamers (and critics) who constantly hammer away...

27. Matt Smith

    Let the Sun Shine, You Hypocrites

    Journalism is under attack from lefties who promote public access to information.

    By Matt Smith

    Published: March 26, 2008

    During the summer of 1999, trucks containing almost 15,000 tons of contaminated dirt made their way from the Altamont Landfill near Livermore to a faraway facility reinforced...

28. Reviewed

    Del tha Funkee Homosapien

    Eleventh Hour (Def Jux)

    By Jonah Flicker

    Published: March 26, 2008

    "Never rearrange my stuff to sell units/Do it, then you can't come back again." So claims the Funkee Homosapien on "Raw Sewage," the first track on his battle-rap-laden Def Jux...

29. Music

    GZA: Going Back in Wu-Tang Time

    By Jesse Ducker

    Published: March 26, 2008

    A little over a decade ago, the Wu-Tang Clan seemed unstoppable. The nine-member crew took hip-hop by storm, creating a dirty Staten Island sound that captivated millions of...

30. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: March 26, 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....

31. Film

    Counting Sheep

    21 doesn't hit the jackpot. It doesn't even come close.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Ben Mezrich's 2002 best-seller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions was a smart narrative about ... well, you did see...

32. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    By Chloe Veltman, Nathaniel Eaton and Molly Rhodes

    Published: March 26, 2008

    June in a Box. Playwright Octavio Solis and composer Beth Custer's latest theatrical collaboration retells the story of one of the strangest and most brutal kidnappings of the...

33. Sucka Free City

    We tell What Not to Wear locals who need wardrobe overhauls

    By Joe Eskenazi and Will Harper

    Published: March 26, 2008

    In the next few weeks, you may receive a telephone call from someone making two claims: 1. He or she is a television producer; and 2. You look like shit. Well, don't be...

34. Reviewed

    Jim White

    Transnormal Skiperoo (Luaka Bop)

    By Dave Pehling

    Published: March 26, 2008

    For more than a decade, songwriter Jim White has pushed the boundaries of alt-country music with his leftfield lyricism and penchant for spacey, downtempo beats; call it gothic...

35. Music

    Texas Rap Legend Bun B Keeps It Trill

    By Eric K. Arnold

    Published: March 26, 2008

    The joys of Bun B go much deeper than those of your typical Southern trap rapper. Ever since 1993, when Bun and Pimp C dropped "Pocket Full of Stones," listening to their...

36. Film

    Apolitical Theater

    Iraq War movie Stop-Loss does its best not to mention the war.

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Considering that the war in Iraq has proven to be Washington's shot-by-shot remake of Vietnam, it's only natural that Hollywood has followed suit, giving us a series of...

37. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Veep-y or Creepy? Point: The Gonzalez run proves that there is another generation of progressives ready to lead us away from the backbiting self-hatred and rationalizations of...

38. Let's Get Killed

    Outside Lands Festival Adds Marquee Names to Its Lineup: Wilco, Manu Chao, and Beck, and many more

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: March 26, 2008

    When the Treasure Island Music Festival was announced last summer, it felt as though San Francisco proper had a destination music event for the indie set. But this year,...

39. FilmCap

    Blindsight

    By Julia Wallace

    Published: March 26, 2008

    It's difficult to find anything bad to say about a movie featuring six adorable blind Tibetan children who are determined to climb a 23,000-foot peak just north of Mount...

40. Arthouse

    Art House

    Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Compiled by Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser. To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. Revival House Queer Cinema: New series of...