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21. Night&Day

    Old-World Voices

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: April 23, 2008

    At a Kitka show, you must completely dispense with the desire for bells and whistles -- they're not necessary. The women's ensemble renders gorgeous glissando harmonies based...

22. Night&Day

    Art on the Page

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Some of you may have gazed up at the facade above 826 Valencia and thought, "Huh, what I would give for a few hours with a scaffolding." The mural gracing the "Chippendale"...

23. Night&Day

    Body of War

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Co-directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue—yes, that Phil Donahue—Body of War is neither the most cinematic nor the most elegantly crafted of recent Iraq War...

24. Night&Day

    You Pinhole

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 23, 2008

    People who use pinhole cameras often seem cooler than other people, and they are. To make one, pretty much all you need to do is finish your box of oatmeal. Instead of a glass...

25. Night&Day

    Spring Dance

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: April 23, 2008

    May Day: CounterPULSE's 3rd Anniversary Show is the perfect time to be reminded of all the good stuff the cutting-edge arts space with a distinctly DIY streak has produced....

26. Night&Day

    Love It or Leave It

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 23, 2008

    "Seems like half the kids in this town are so called 'artists.'" Thus sneereth a troll named "gfox" in the comment section of an SFGate story about a twenty-year-old woman --...

27. Night&Day

    Calling All Gold-Plated Bitches

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 23, 2008

    We have been to Her Royal Majesty Marie, Queen of Romania's house. Have you? What's that? You don't know who HRM Marie, Queen of Romania is? She was only the Paris Hilton of...

28. Stage

    Thrillpeddlers show that the Grand Guignol can still disturb

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: April 23, 2008

    There are certain things a theatergoer can pretty much depend upon when visiting the Hypnodrome, the home of Thrillpeddlers — one of the few companies in the world (if...

29. Matt Smith

    Fall Into the Cash

    Let's hope the Fishers use it to clean up the messes they've created.

    By Matt Smith

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Don Fisher, the iconic founder of the Gap stores, is known for the messes he and his sons step into. A few years ago, he invited a boycott of his company by bringing his sons...

30. Reviewed

    Fuck Buttons

    Street Horrrsing (ATP Recordings)

    By Ryan Foley

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Technology is slowly conquering the human race. The march toward the inevitable, Skynet-level annihilation includes the subjugation of our art. Example A: Street Horrrsing, 50...

31. Music

    The Breeders synthesizes the Deal sisters' symbiotic relationship

    By Rob Trucks

    Published: April 23, 2008

    The Breeders release albums so infrequently (this month's Mountain Battles is just the fourth in 18 years), guitarist Kelley Deal may be better known for playing caretaker to...

32. Hear This

    Death Cab for Cojones

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: April 23, 2008

    I Will Possess Your Heart," the lead single from Death Cab for Cutie's carefully guarded forthcoming album, Narrow Stairs, offers many of the Seattle quartet's usual hallmarks....

33. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: April 23, 2008

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. 330 Ritch: 330 Ritch (at Brannan), 541-9574, www.330ritch.com. SOMA. Bar snacks and...

34. Film

    Let's Go to Prison

    Harold and Kumar get shipped to Gitmo in this forced act two.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg wrote Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle with the novel idea: What if you made a John Hughes movie, but instead of writing garishly...

35. Game On

    Baroquen Spirit

    Atlus' Baroque imagines eternal life in gaming limbo. It isn't pretty.

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: April 23, 2008

    First of all: God bless Atlus. As a publisher devoted to bringing obscure Japanese gaming gems to the West — basically, the much-needed heir apparent of Working Designs...

36. Feature

    Asia Rising

    No flesh in the pan, Argento plays prominently in two featured movies at the Film Fest this year.

    By Nathan Lee

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Audiences at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival might have been less surprised by a glimpse of Asia Argento's anus — the sole body part she has yet to bare onscreen —...

37. Reviewed

    Excepter

    Debt Dept. (Paw Tracks)

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Not exactly a noise band, Excepter makes records out of prolonged death rattles. Debt Dept., its first album for Paw Tracks, finds the band intuitively fucking around over...

38. Music

    Shelby Lynne digs into Dusty Springfield’s archives

    By Jewly Hight

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Shelby Lynne has strong opinions when it comes to new technology, although many of her arguments boil down to her belief that turntables are vastly superior to iPods. Her...

39. Hear This

    Kimya Dawson

    By Maya Kroth

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Barbara Walters admittedly doesn't "get" Kimya Dawson, which is quite possibly the best reason to pay 20 bones to see a songwriter who just a few years ago was commanding a...

40. Film

    Absurdistan

    The next wave of post-9/11 political films trades sobriety for satire.

    By Anthony Kaufman

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Earnest, sad, and righteous, they are not. More inspired by M*A*S*H or Dr. Strangelove than The Deer Hunter or Coming Home, a new pack of political films that defy the...