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41. Sucka Free City

    Supervisor Aaron Peskin threatened with yet another recall campaign

    By Lauren Smiley

    Published: December 12, 2007

    The Committee to Recall Aaron Peskin failed to live up to its name earlier this year when the effort fizzled with a lack of signatures and organization. Now Peskin haters...

42. Film

    Intelligent Design

    PYT seduces her literary hero in the astute Starting Out in the Evening

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: December 12, 2007

    In Starting Out in the Evening, a new film by Andrew Wagner, a pneumatic graduate student spreads honey over the face of the elderly New York novelist she's trying to seduce....

43. Stagecap

    Sorry, we can't get all crazy for Jump! Theatre's 4.48 Psychosis

    By Molly Rhodes

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Pity playwright Sarah Kane. Not because she committed suicide, nor because she did so shortly after writing 4.48 Psychosis, a play about mental illness and suicide. Pity Kane...

44. Bouncer

    Bad kissers and Palm Pilot porn: another night out at Elbo Room

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Do you believe in fate? Or is fate something we ascribe after a significant event happens to us? One month ago my friend walked into a bookstore to sell some books and met the...

45. Film

    Mr. Schrader Goes to Washington

    A gay escort finds himself at the center of a classic D.C. scandal in The Walker

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Paul Schrader's cinema is largely defined by the pathology of his male protagonists, and with The Walker, he's added a striking new character to his gallery of loners. Carter...

46. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Beverly Hills 90210: The Third Season (Paramount) Big Love: The Complete Second Season (HBO) Born Killers (Lionsgate) The Boston Red Sox 2007 World Series Collector's...

47. Hear This

    Four-time Grammy nominee Mike Stern brings jazz guitar greatness to Yoshi's

    By J. Niimi, David MacFadden-Elliott, Tamara Palmer, Ernest Barteldes and Michael D. Ayers

    Published: December 12, 2007

    While most attention to '90s Britpoppers Pulp focuses on lead singer Jarvis Cocker, member Richard Hawley deserves adoration as well. Pulp's guitarist for the band's later...

48. Film

    Those Were the Days

    Coppola romanticizes his source material in the not entirely terrible Youth Without Youth

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Youth Without Youth, Francis Ford Coppola's self-financed return to the fray, is a curious project — well-crafted, personal, and movie-movie old-fashioned even in its...

49. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Argonautika. The emasculation of heroes and the lambasting of misplaced heroics are at the heart of writer and director Mary Zimmerman's thought-provoking though ultimately...

50. BeatBox

    Tiefschwarz: German brothers bring down the (electro) house

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Brothers Ali and Basti Schwarz record together as Tiefschwarz. The DJs, who were raised in the German city of Stuttgart, now live in Berlin, where their singles and remixes for...

51. Reps Etc.

    Repertory Film Listing

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Artists' Television Access. "CCSF Directing Class": Join the CCSF Department of Cinema's Motion Picture Directing class for a screening of its 2007 final film projects. The...