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21. Night&Day

    Bang One Out

    By Sam Prestianni

    Published: February 6, 2008

    To kick off its "What's the Big Idea Day" open house, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts couldn't have enlisted a better combo of adventurous musicians than the Bang on a Can...

22. Night&Day

    There Already Is Blood

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: February 6, 2008

    The visceral impact of Jordan Eagles' work at "New Blood Paintings" is immediate and unshakeable. Not, as some critics have suggested, because the source of Eagles' chosen...

23. Night&Day

    Not So Black and White

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: February 6, 2008

    What exactly qualifies a dancemaker to take part in the Black Choreographers Festival? Chops aside, does "black" mean African-American? Dark-skinned? Of African descent?...

24. Night&Day

    Hurry Up and Wait

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: February 6, 2008

    The discovery of new surf spots, especially big-wave spots, has become a cottage industry in the past 15 years. After Maverick's blew up, so did places like Cortez Bank, 100...

25. Stage

    San Francisco Ballet's Filling Station Pumped with Acting

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Everyone knows that the members of San Francisco Ballet can dance. Now celebrating its 75th anniversary, America's oldest ballet company has earned itself an international...

26. Matt Smith

    West Coast Dockworkers Dispute Could Paralyze U.S. Economy

    By Matt Smith

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Imploding U.S. mortgage markets leave behind trillions of dollars in economic damage. The dollar's slide against the euro and the yuan raises fears of a currency collapse....

27. Reviewed

    Blood on the Wall

    Liferz (The Social Registry)

    By Eric Davidson

    Published: February 6, 2008

    From the seething yet soulful din of this Big Apple bent-blues band's third record, it sounds like its members have spent the past three years on tour arguing over highway...

28. Music

    The Drive-By Truckers Develop Country-Rock on the Road

    By Hannah Levin

    Published: February 6, 2008

    The Drive-By Truckers have entered 2008 at the top of their creative game — but it wasn't an easy journey. The band lost the galvanizing force of co-songwriter Jason...

29. BeatBox

    Bringing beats from the Middle East: The Israelity Tour

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Belly-dance fusion mashes up the traditional form of movement with other midriff- and booty-shaking disciplines both formal (Polynesian) and informal (hip-hop). Sacramento...

30. Eat

    Waterbar Wets Whistle of Thrillist

    Published: February 6, 2008

    This article is brought to you by Thrillist.com, our homies. As good as the California Academy of Sciences is at exposing you to the wondrous complexity of undersea life, it...

31. Film

    Kate Hudson's 'Fool's Gold' Totally Worthless

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: February 6, 2008

    When a friend recently told me that she'd been confused by the poster for the Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson fortune-hunting romp Fool's Gold adorning her local multiplex...

32. Game On

    Burnout Paradise Rekindles Auto Erotica on PS3, XBOX 360

    By Chris Ward

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Long have we waited to be taken down to the Paradise City, where the girls are green and the grass is pretty, or whatever. Now, thanks to Burnout Paradise, we know what all the...

33. Sucka Free City

    Numerologist Skot Jonz Picks the Next President

    By Joe Eskenazi

    Published: February 6, 2008

    On Tuesday, Feb. 5, millions of Californians strode to the polls, casting their votes for the candidate whose message and platform encapsulated their own vision of a better...

34. Reviewed

    Instruments of Science and Technology

    Music from the Films of R/Swift (Secretly Canadian)

    By Jonah Flicker

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Richard Swift is something of a Cole Porter–Paul McCartney hybrid, constructing pop tunes built upon a solid base of Americana and Tin...

35. Music

    Goth-Punk Icon Siouxsie Sioux Maintains Her Provocative Edge

    By John Graham

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Siouxsie Sioux has just returned from vacation — from Sri Lanka, to be exact. It's an odd place to imagine the famously pale punk poetess and avatar of all things gothic....

36. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: February 6, 2008

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Apollo: 1064 Divisadero (at Turk), Western Addition. Coffee, panini, and...

37. Film

    Patterns of Abuse

    A methodical look at how and why we torture in Taxi to the Dark Side

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: February 6, 2008

    At the crosswalk the other day, I noticed something peeking out from the usual pasting of flyers on the light pole in front of me. It looked like an address label. In a...

38. Encore

    Also Playing

    By Chloe Veltman, Molly Rhodes and Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Dead Mother, or Shirley Not All in Vain. Like the ghost of an unpopular relative returning for a visit years after its demise, David Greenspan's surreal play is enjoying a...

39. Letters

    Harvey Milk Killing Story Draws Fact-Checkers, Old Campaigners

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Does a Civic Body Good Milk money: I read with interest your story featuring Ray Sloan's recollection and reconstruction of the events surrounding Dan White's campaign and his...

40. Let's Get Killed

    Weimar New York Variety Show Encompasses Drag Queens, Divas, and Artistic Derelicts

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: February 6, 2008

    New York theater producer Earl Dax is what you might call emotional. Almost anything can set him off on a crying jag, whether it's talking about his recent split with his...