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1. Feature

   Progressive Justice

   Fed up with losing influence, two Supervisors use bullets instead of ballots.

   By Matt Smith

   Published: June 25, 2008

   This week's Feature is a Matt Smith comic! Click here to flip through the panels or download the pages below: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5

2. Music

   Charo says "Cuchi Cuchi" to flamenco

   By Kurt B. Reighley

   Published: June 25, 2008

   How far would you go to achieve your dreams? Would you marry a man old enough to be your grandfather? Could you smile brightly as Johnny Carson lampooned your lack of fluency...

3. Eat

   Change Is Good

   The menu is different every day — really! — at this spot in Hayes Valley.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: June 25, 2008

   Market-driven, fresh, and local. We've all read or heard those words so often in regards to San Francisco restaurants that your eyes may roll back in your head when you come...

4. Film

   Violence Is Golden

   With its secret boys club and bloody good fun, Wanted has all of the fight with none of the guilt.

   By Jim Ridley

   Published: June 25, 2008

   Of the summer's many revenge-of-the-nerd fulfillment fantasies — from The Incredible Hulk all the way down the megaplex food chain to The Foot Fist Way — Wanted...

5. Night&Day

   Finding Amanda

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: June 25, 2008

   Drop a gambler into Las Vegas and of course he’ll lose his shirt, but the how and why of it remain under-explored even after—dare I say because of?—Leaving Las...

6. Night&Day

   Surfwise

   Published: June 25, 2008

   For its first half, Doug Pray’s mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer health nuts operates in breezy colorful-geezer mode:...

7. Night&Day

   Spit or Swallow

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: June 25, 2008

   Wine snobs are different than you and me -- they have more money. At Pinot Days Grand Festival, $65 allows you to pick the brains of the industries biggest players and get...

8. Night&Day

   The Grindermen

   By Silke Tudor

   Published: June 25, 2008

   To the devoted skateboarder, the sound of trucks grinding is already music to the ears. Canadian sound sculptors Christian Nicolay and Sam McKinlay wish to prove it to the rest...

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   Tiny Monsters

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: June 25, 2008

   As the art duo Hella More Funner, Adam Gray and Sam Fuchs make abstract pieces that reveal themselves at a distance, but it’s impossible not to get your nose right up in...

10. Night&Day

    Not Trippy

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: June 25, 2008

    Jumping rope is great cardio, but the art of Double Dutch brings twice the workout with far more space for individual creative expression. Or so it would seem, because the city...

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    Spaced Out

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 25, 2008

    The latest incarnation of Michelle Blade's art (she dips her brush into different styles, refreshingly) has a washy grandeur, a touch of innocent West Coast mysticism that...

12. Night&Day

    Joe Hill Don't Live Here Anymore

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 25, 2008

    The working class? What's that? At this point, the working class lives elsewhere, we're pretty sure. It can't afford to live in San Francisco, and according to the master plan...

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    Not a Hard Cel

    By Michael Fox

    Published: June 25, 2008

    There’s a lot more to Mike Judge than the mind numbing, rude-boy antics of Beavis and Butt-Head led us to believe. The guy has brains, talent, and — hold on to your...

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    Fire, Water, Firewater

    By David McClymonds

    Published: June 25, 2008

    Fireworks may have originally been used to scare away evil spirits in China, but today Americans often see the pretty explosions in the sky as an excuse to get drunk and...

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    Thrust in God and Peaches Christ

    By Andy Wright

    Published: June 25, 2008

    On the Internet Movie Database, the plot keywords for Showgirls are “lesbianism," “naive young woman," “box office flop,” and “french fries.”...

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    Their Money Where Your Pride Is

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 25, 2008

    Over a hundred booths decorate the undoubtedly rainbow-colored conference rooms of the Pride Business Expo. Each one begs the question: Can capitalism contribute to social...

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    A Glassy Look

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 25, 2008

    Art glass is hot, but not in any trendy metaphorical sense. Molten glass temperatures are measured in degrees Kelvin, the same scale scientists use to measure the heat of the...

18. Night&Day

    Politics in the Park

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: June 25, 2008

    For decades, the San Francisco Mime Troupe has been offering brainy commentary on the state of the nation, sans the snark that often passes itself off as political theater. And...

19. Night&Day

    Katie Hafner

    Published: June 25, 2008

    Naturally an obsessive, quirky genius like Glenn Gould has enough ideas about what he likes in a piano to fill a book. And that book is A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's...

20. Night&Day

    Quid Pro Quo

    By Jean Oppenheimer

    Published: June 25, 2008

    For its first half-hour, Quid Pro Quo flirts with the kind of sexual perversity that fueled Crash, David Cronenberg’s lurid 1996 film about a subculture of auto-erotics....