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21. Night&Day

    Paying the Billy

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Scotsman Billy Connolly is one of the most famous comedians in the English-speaking world — you know, Uncle Monty from A Series of Unfortunate Events. Disproving the...

22. Night&Day

    Bumps in the Night

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Residents of the Castro are probably familiar with the catchy slogans and harrowing graphics concomitant with the campaign against crystal meth use. Guerrilla Rep's new...

23. Night&Day

    Pull My (Trigger) Finger

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 2, 2008

    The election is coming fast: This month could be your last chance to see the delicate collage work of the next vice president of the United States before he takes office....

24. Books

    Borderlands Helps Make the Bay Area a Sci-Fi Bookstore Haven

    By Lisa Pickoff-White

    Published: April 2, 2008

    David Inman walks into the Other Change of Hobbit, a science-fiction bookstore in Berkeley, with only a vague idea of what he's looking for. "I think the cover was blue and it...

25. Matt Smith

    Nursing Home Lobbyist Quits After He Predicts SEIU Powerplay

    By Matt Smith

    Published: April 2, 2008

    On Wednesday, March 19, at 8:52 p.m., Scott Carlson, executive director of California Alliance to Advance Nursing Home Care, was apparently in an optimistic mood. Carlson is a...

26. Reviewed

    Moby

    Last Night (Mute)

    By Lily Moayeri

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Moby's latest release is a return to the dancefloor that birthed him. This is especially true of the tracks that smack of his early-'90s compositions — "Everyday It's...

27. Music

    How to Tell Your Hippies from Your Heshers from the Black Keys

    By Ezra Gale

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Those dang kids have mucked everything up. It used to be easy to separate the hippie bands from the hard rockers, the indie-alternative darlings from the classic dinosaurs, the...

28. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: April 2, 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....

29. Film

    Worth the Gamble

    Forget The Grand's poker face. It's the people who are cards.

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: April 2, 2008

    For pure cinema, nothing rivals a high-stakes, full-tilt poker game — unless it's somebody landing on Ventnor Avenue with two houses, or sending an opponent to the...

30. Stage

    'Tragedy' makes fun of news media's tragic lack of perspective

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: April 2, 2008

    You only have to look at news headlines to see that there are few words more abused in the English language than "tragedy." A cursory search on Google News last week revealed...

31. Sucka Free City

    S.F. Taxicab Commission Spends $100K to Keep Cabbie Away from Staff

    By John Geluardi

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Over the past 15 months, administrators for San Francisco's Taxicab Commission have made longtime cabbie Jacob Brettholz public enemy number one. He has had his cab permit...

32. Music

    The Grouch Personifies the Hip-Hop Hustle

    By Jesse Ducker

    Published: April 2, 2008

    There are no free rides for hip-hop heroes who achieve worldwide acclaim. The Grouch, founding member of the internationally known Living Legends crew, can attest that even...

33. Film

    Some Country for Old Men

    Seniors Scorsese and the Stones are together again.

    By Camille Dodero

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Mick Jagger's most essential physical feature, according to Martin Scorsese, is his bellystache. On the poster for Shine a Light, the big-shot director's Rolling Stones concert...

34. Bookcap

    Hamburger Eyes Photos Capture Nudists, Elvis Impersonators, and David Hasselhoff

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Powerhouse Books (Feb. 2008), $35 Ray Potes, one of the head honchos at the San Francisco–based photo mag Hamburger Eyes, thinks of his biannual black-and-white zines as...

35. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: April 2, 2008

    AIMCO Aims Low Divide and construct: As usual, the same old game is being played ["Building Racism" by Lauren Smiley, March 26]. Set the poor, disadvantaged, and darker races...

36. FilmCap

    Poisoned by Polonium

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Andrei Nekrasov's documentary indictment of the Putin regime is inelegantly structured, flops when it goes "gonzo," and gets uncomfortably indulgent, but it does have morbid...

37. Stagecap

    Coronado

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Dennis Lehane is the current go-to guy for gritty drama soaked in family tragedy. He wrote books that were adapted for the screen for Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone and Clint...

38. Sucka Free City

    SF's Most Maddening Final Four

    Published: April 2, 2008

    SF's Most Maddening Final Four The results are in: SF Weekly readers have cast their votes and narrowed the field in the contest to become San Francisco's Most Maddening...

39. Let's Get Killed

    Caught on KUSF: Wildildilfe's Helter-Skelter Mood Mash

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Call me old-fashioned, but one of my favorite ways of discovering music is still through the radio. It reminds me of being a kid, staying up late waiting for some catchy new...

40. Bookcap

    New McSweeney's Joke Book Not So Funny

    By Frances Reade

    Published: April 2, 2008

    By the editors of McSweeney's Vintage (April), $12.95 Our friends on Valencia Street deliver us an enthusiastically nerdy collection of literary humor, a work by and for...