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1. Feature

   Steroids Confidential

   Greg Anderson has given up his freedom rather than testify about Barry Bonds. But one man has learned the deepest secrets of the trainer behind baseball's new home run king.

   By Nic Foit and Ira Tes

   Published: September 26, 2007

   Prison changes a man. Makes him hard and cold, "like the frozen earth itself," as Hemingway once observed. Only returning to the outside has allowed Marlon Leftwich to thaw his...

2. Music

   LoveFest Promises 65,000 Ravers Listening to DJ Dan and Donald Glaude at City Hall

   By Tamara Palmer

   Published: September 26, 2007

   San Francisco LoveFest is our annual parade of DJ-laden floats bumping beats and attitude down Market Street, conga-lining their way to a giant tailgater at Civic Center Plaza....

3. Eat

   Pizza Smackdown

   SoCal chain goes head to head with hometown favorite

   By Robert Lauriston

   Published: September 26, 2007

   The history of few culinary trends can be recounted as precisely as that of California pizza. In 1980, Alice Waters, inspired by her travels in Italy and meals at Tommaso's,...

4. Film

   Wide Open Spaces

   Sean Penn delivers a soulful road movie and refuses to define his subject

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: September 26, 2007

   To some, the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, the 24-year-old Emory University graduate who starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness in the spring of 1992, will never...

5. Night&Day

   The Doc Is In

   By Michael Fox

   Published: September 26, 2007

   The embrace of documentaries by popular culture is one of the most welcome trends of the past 25 years, even if Michael Moore isn't the guy you would have picked to lead the...

6. Night&Day

   Friends, Not Food

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: September 26, 2007

   Hmm, wonder whether Morrissey has plans to visit the World Veg Festival Weekend? Is it mere coincidence that Mr. "Meat Is Murder" performs immediately prior to the huge...

7. Night&Day

   Black Night

   By Nirmala Nataraj

   Published: September 26, 2007

   It's not the warmest September on record, but who cares when you can cozy up to your honey and watch a movie outdoors? The San Francisco Film Society and the Presidio Trust...

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   Pages and Pages

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: September 26, 2007

   The Big Book Sale claims it's "the biggest book sale on the West Coast," and it's tempting to shout, "hyperbole!" But how many book sales provide shopping carts? And how many...

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   Browsing the Shelves, etc.

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: September 26, 2007

   One hears stories about literature graduate students and the library carrels they get keys to. Such desk-sized offices are private, and for people already turned on by books,...

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    A Heartbreaking Groove

    By Evan James

    Published: September 26, 2007

    If you think Dave Eggers is meta, hang onto your genre-blurring debut memoir and your well-intentioned volunteer position at 826 Valencia. Jonathan Plummer made headlines when...

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    Art Rolls By

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 26, 2007

    When gazing upon an automobile's smooth, unadulterated surface, some people are overwhelmed by the desire to glue shit to it. Eventually these people find themselves the proud...

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    Settling Scores

    By Michael Fox

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Over the course of a remarkable 54-year career that encompassed radio, television, and (most memorably) the movies, composer Jerry Goldsmith displayed an uncanny intuition....

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    Hucking Filarious

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Skewering hip hop videos isn't that hard. Many are so predictable they deflate in the presence of any humor at all. But comedy troupe Touchblue, made up of four fast-talking...

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    A Chorus of One

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Megan Hickey's voice reminds us of Sacramento's Caitlin Gutenberger, frontwoman of Two Sheds. It's a Cowboy Junkies meets Sinead O'Connor meets Edie Brickell kind of sound, as...

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    Is It Hot Out Here?

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Although the Comedy Day Web site never fails to worry us, with its animated clip art, banana-peel logo, and side-splitting tagline ("Comedy Day. Comedy Everyday....

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    And That's Big

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: September 26, 2007

    If born in another time not all that long ago, Dead Prez might have been Eldridge Cleaver's in-house band. Instead, the New York rap group preserves the Black Panther ethos...

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    The Spamburglar

    By John Garmon

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Though Neil Hamburger's reputation is built on the thousands of witty and thoughtful jokes he has penned, we can also thank him for providing the answers to many of life's...

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    Cut It Out

    By John Graham

    Published: September 26, 2007

    "Self-esteem through self-mutilation" — that's how comedian George Carlin recommends body modification to the kids. You could cut his sarcasm with a guillotine, of course,...

19. Night&Day

    A Queen For Every Season

    By Evan James

    Published: September 26, 2007

    Most of us are lucky to see five, maybe six drag queens perform in a single evening. Tonight that number practically doubles when AIDS Housing Alliance/SF presents the...

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    Shout at the Diabo

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 26, 2007

    We figured out long ago that country & western music is actually just hick goth. All that death and wandering alone in the dark night? Please. But the United States isn't alone...