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21. Night&Day

    Out In Oakland

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 19, 2007

    "There's a lot of different ways that people do great hip hop," according to local b-boy Juba Kalamka, and he ought to know. As a longtime member of DeepDickollective, founder...

22. Night&Day

    Ride 'Em In

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 19, 2007

    This year's Bicycle Film Festival tours 16 cities across the globe, coming to skidding halt for four days in San Francisco. It manages such breadth by not focusing on any one...

23. Night&Day

    The Zero Effect

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: September 19, 2007

    Choreographer Keith Hennessy and his performance troupe, Circo Zero, are known for "intimate spectacular circus," a style that mixes a scintillating arte povera ("art of the...

24. Night&Day

    Keep Looking, Dude

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: September 19, 2007

    Whether they're looking for a set of lost car keys, Einstein's brain, or Elvis, human beings are rarely satisfied unless they're in pursuit of some desired goal. The search for...

25. Night&Day

    By The Bootstraps

    By John Garmon

    Published: September 19, 2007

    Since its inception in 2006, the Grass Roots Record Co. has taken considerable inspiration from other region-oriented record labels like Motown, Sun, and even Sub Pop. But as...

26. Night&Day

    The Question of Our Time

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 19, 2007

    When Green Day's Dookie dropped, it was like a bomb going off. Mainstream America, jostled from its suburban slumber, ran screaming into the streets … all the way to Tower...

27. Night&Day

    Don't Get In The Way

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: September 19, 2007

    Back in 1977, Allan B. Estes Jr. helped produce one of San Francisco's earliest examples of queer theater, The West Street Gang, staged at the Black and Blue, an iconic South...

28. Night&Day

    Old Story, New Art Form

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 19, 2007

    Using a form he calls a "secular oratorio," jazz musician Marcus Shelby wrote what we call a modern opera. Quilting together bebop, blues, gospel, and more, Harriet Tubman:...

29. Night&Day

    Quite Original

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 19, 2007

    Mutated birds, round spiky footed creatures, and snouted pig/deer hybrids dominate "The Origin of Species." Many of sculptor Misako Inaoka's beasts have motion-sensor...

30. Night&Day

    Sly Samara

    By John Garmon

    Published: September 19, 2007

    An accomplished violin player, guitarist, recording engineer, and vocalist, Samara Lubelski has proven to be one of the most unjustly unheralded musical contributors to the...

31. Night&Day

    It Could Shatter

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 19, 2007

    Oakland artist Sarah Hirneisen specializes in canopies gridded with glass envelopes. Often, her brittle cell-like packets are filled with dirt. She includes one such crazy...

32. Stage

    House of the Rising Gun

    The Rep's latest production of Shaw's antiwar classic reminds us that Berkeley isn't the radical place it used to be

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: September 19, 2007

    George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House is the most frequently staged drama in Berkeley Repertory Theatre's 40-year history. The play has been produced four times at the theater...

33. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    Published: September 19, 2007

    Beyond the Gates (Fox) Blade: House of Chthon (New Line) The Boss of It All (IFC) Boston Legal: Season Three (Fox) Brothers and Sisters: The Complete First Season (Buena...

34. DVDish

    Feeling Feverish?

    Published: September 19, 2007

    Saturday Night Fever: 30th Anniversary Special Collector’s Edition (Paramount) For all its camp-classic status as the ultimate disco-fever dream, John Badham’s movie truly is...

35. Sucka Free City

    Golden Gate for Sale

    The people overseeing the San Francisco landmark consider selling ad space on the bridge

    By Benjamin Wachs

    Published: September 19, 2007

    The Golden Gate Bridge: It's San Francisco's most famous icon. Next week the public agency that oversees the bridge may decide whether to allow corporate advertising at its...

36. Sidebar

    Safe Words

    Many practice bondage safely, but sometimes things go wrong.

    By Mary Spicuzza

    Published: September 19, 2007

    Bondage-related deaths may draw headlines, but they're extremely rare, according to those who practice it. "A lot of people in San Francisco tonight are going to be tied up,...

37. Music

    Punk Rock's Nine Lives

    The re-return of the Fab Mab

    By J. Poet

    Published: September 19, 2007

    On Friday, Sept. 7, the space at 443 Broadway, once known as the Fab Mab (Mabuhay Gardens), and more recently the Velvet Lounge, reopened its doors to live music as Club 443....

38. Reviewed

    Editors

    An End Has a Start (Epic)

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: September 19, 2007

    Surely, the pressing philosophical quandary of our time is whether it's OK for a modern rock singer to sound like Ian Curtis. Editors frontman Tom Smith performs his answer in...

39. Fresh Eats

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

    Published: September 19, 2007

    To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Bossa Nova: 139 Eighth St. (at Minna), 558-8004. SOMA. Brazilian. Breezy's: 409 Gough (between Hayes and Ivy), 552-3400. Hayes Valley....

40. Film

    Lifestyles of the Rich and Heinous

    The wealthy are just another savage tribe in Fierce People

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: September 19, 2007

    In one of those karmic quirks of the film-releasing calendar, actor-turned-director Griffin Dunne's Fierce People finally staggers into theaters (more than two years after its...