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1. Feature

   BitTorrent, Comcast, EFF Antipathetic To FCC Regulation of P2P Traffic

   By David Downs

   Published: January 23, 2008

   Peter Eckersley could try out for the Navy SEALs of computer geekdom. He's what you might call a white-hat hacker, or a good hacker. The computer science Ph.D. candidate at the...

2. Reviewed

   hey willpower

   P.D.A. (Tomlab)

   By Ryan Foley

   Published: January 23, 2008

   Scottish indie rock act Bis' overtures were expressed rather neatly in its 1997 single "Tell It to the Kids": "And now, coming through the airwaves into your home/Introducing...

3. Music

   Liars embrace their inner Beck

   By J. Pace

   Published: January 23, 2008

   If I told you a year ago Liars would make a song evoking comparisons to Beck, you'd have called me a liar. Or maybe a dick. "Houseclouds," the second track from Liars'...

4. BeatBox

   Gui Boratto warms techno's chilly demeanor

   By Tamara Palmer and Tim Pratt

   Published: January 23, 2008

   For the past three years, "Mighty Breaks" has been the epicenter of San Francisco's strong breakbeat scene, offering up DJs and performers that stretch the genre's definition....

5. Hear This

   The Teenagers: Scarlett Johansson songs make baby bands famous

   By Mike Rowell, John Graham, David MacFadden, Jonah Bayer and J. Pace

   Published: January 23, 2008

   If your idea of bliss is two hours of vintage German prog and psych — often referred to as Krautrock — head to the Knockout this week. Local video collective...

6. Eat

   The Marina's Spanish-inspired Laiola: Intriguing, Irresistible

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: January 23, 2008

   When I wrote about Bar Johnny and the tapas/small-plates trend toward the end of last year, I was tempted to mention in passing that my favorite small-plates place is Terzo,...

7. Film

   You Kill Me

   Following Untraceable's lame-brained argument, we're all to blame for this massively dumb movie

   By Nathan Lee

   Published: January 23, 2008

   Regarding the irrelevance of Untraceable: First of all, torture is so 2007, and just because this drab little thriller with a flashy love of pain imagines itself a "critique of...

8. Night&Day

   A Beauty Myth

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: January 23, 2008

   Research shows that internalized homophobia can be responsible for risky behaviors, like meth use, and consequently for rising numbers of HIV infections among gay men. Some...

9. Night&Day

   Darkness at Noon

   By Michael Fox

   Published: January 23, 2008

   This was a wild, wicked town once, with a worldwide reputation for vice, drink, and the pleasures of the flesh. But the Barbary Coast is long gone, the strip clubs on Broadway...

10. Night&Day

    Spare the Air Day

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: January 23, 2008

    After Jeremy McGrath and Ricky Carmichael retired last year, a young hotshot took over supercross: James Stewart. The 2007AMA Supercross Champion is 23 years old, African...

11. Night&Day

    We "Really" Love Them

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: January 23, 2008

    The "Amoeba Art Show #2" features a slew of artists who work at the big ol' record store. The shop's PR department seems to be in overdrive promoting the exhibit through the...

12. Night&Day

    G Whiz

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: January 23, 2008

    You may have seen Gannet Hosa-Betonte at art events around San Francisco. Gawky, laughing, with a cap of curly brown hair, he's prone to shouting, "Achoo!" in the midst of...

13. Night&Day

    Water Music

    By Sam Prestianni

    Published: January 23, 2008

    In jazz, even the most skilled composer-improvisers are often only as good as the company they keep. The give-and-take nature of the art form dictates such an equation. Since...

14. Night&Day

    Lif Off

    By Peter Madsen

    Published: January 23, 2008

    The Boston-based Perceptionists are one those peripheral side-project groups non-crazed Definitive Jux fans never get around to checking out. By accident we caught "Medical...

15. Night&Day

    Show-Offs

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: January 23, 2008

    There are few things left to say about dog shows that Best in Show didn't already cover, but here's one of them: fly ball. In the sport, which has been around since the '70s...

16. Night&Day

    Holed Up

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: January 23, 2008

    The same questions always come up at performance art events: Has it started? Are those fluids bodily? Is it insulting to clap? Who brought the antibacterial wipes? Fortunately,...

17. Night&Day

    Address to Edinburgh

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Annual tributes to Scottish poet Robert Burns take place everywhere there are Scots and their admirers. Burns Night often happens in august, wood-paneled halls full of leaded...

18. Night&Day

    Art Dump

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Although exhibits for Artists in Residence at the dump last only two days, the work has a habit of popping up long after. Andrew Junge's Styrofoam Hummer made tracks around the...

19. Night&Day

    Point, Shoot, and Trip

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: January 23, 2008

    No photographer can resist abandoned carnivals, with all their rusted clowns and broken-down midways, but Chris Raecker teases that same surreal, haunted vibe out of fully...

20. Night&Day

    Butoh Blood Transfusion

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Butoh is one of those art forms that, in a heroic attempt to remain open to possibility, refuses to define itself. As in all such forms, those lacking training have few...