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21. Music

    The Raconteurs transcend the members' other bands

    By Austin Powell

    Published: April 16, 2008

    "The one thing I hate is being labeled a side project," Jack White complained to the Austin Chronicle in August 2006, mere hours before the Raconteurs served as the house band...

22. Film

    American Pie

    Wong Kar-Wai's first English-language foray is a minor confection.

    By Michelle Orange

    Published: April 16, 2008

    Watching Marilyn Monroe in Cinemascope, a critic once wrote, is "like being smothered in baked Alaska." Reading that as a teenager raised some thrilling questions: Is that good...

23. Stagecap

    A.C.T. comedy directed by Carey Perloff a big stinker

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: April 16, 2008

    Hailed as Russia's most beloved comedy and newly translated by "Britain's greatest living satirist" Alistair Beaton, the American Conservatory Theater has loaded the cast of...

24. Sucka Free City

    The race to replace Bernie Ward on KGO

    By Brad Kava

    Published: April 16, 2008

    The battle to take over disgraced liberal-radio talker Bernie Ward's weeknight slot at KGO-AM, the Bay Area's most popular radio station, still has no clear front-runner after...

25. Reviewed

    These New Puritans

    Beat Pyramid (Domino)

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: April 16, 2008

    Like old-school cult punks the Fall, the four 19-year-old Brits who make up These New Puritans find plenty of room to move within their repetition. Beat Pyramid, their debut...

26. Film

    Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

    Leaving no gimmick unturned, that Super Size Me guy goes searching for Public Enemy No. 1.

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: April 16, 2008

    Morgan Spurlock, the daredevil documentarian who lived on Big Macs for a month and turned this exercise in "body art" into the 2004 hit Super Size Me, returns — this time...

27. FilmCap

    Zombie Strippers

    By Luke Y. Thompson

    Published: April 16, 2008

    During George W. Bush's fourth term as president, the administration's desire for crises and predisposition toward fuck-ups leads to the creation of a zombie virus that the...

28. Stagecap

    7 Sins

    By Will Harper

    Published: April 16, 2008

    Halfway through James Judd's entertaining 75-minute solo show at Theatre Rhinoceros' studio, it dawns on you: Who the hell is this guy and why am I laughing so hard? While...

29. Arthouse

    Art House

    Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 16, 2008

    Compiled by Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser. To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Castro Theatre. The United Artists 90th Anniversary Film Festival: A 33-title...

30. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    By Nathaniel Eaton, Molly Rhodes and Chloe Veltman

    Published: April 16, 2008

    Coronado. Dennis Lehane is the current go-to guy for gritty drama soaked in family tragedy. He wrote books that were adapted for the screen for Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone and...

31. Hear This

    Hillstomp defines the down ‘n’ dirty gutbucket blues

    By Sam Prestianni, John Graham, Dave Pehling and Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: April 16, 2008

    Born in the gutters of Portland, Oregon, Hillstomp defines the down 'n' dirty gutbucket blues. Guitarist Henry Christian and percussionist John Johnson stir up a racket with...

32. Game On

    Undead on Arrival

    House of the Dead returns for the Wii, stiff as ever.

    By Chris Ward

    Published: April 16, 2008

    If you don't remember a game called The Typing of the Dead, you're not alone. Released on the failed Sega Dreamcast system, this gory, hilariously titled arcade-style shooter...

33. Sucka Free City

    SF's Most Maddening Final Four

    Published: April 16, 2008

    The results are in: SF Weekly readers have cast their votes and narrowed the field in the contest to become San Francisco's Most Maddening person or entity. There were four...

34. Bouncer

    Renaissance men at the Nag's Head

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: April 16, 2008

    My father is what you would call a Renaissance man. He is a physicist who specializes in quarks, which are parts of atoms. The more you try to pull the quarks apart, the harder...

35. BeatBox

    Manic Mondays: a club for the '80s and the gays who love them

    By David MacFadden, Tamara Palmer and Evan James

    Published: April 16, 2008

    Montreal's DJ A-Trak headlines Fool's Gold vs. Dim Mak: Screaming Bloody Murder tour, leading a crew that swaggers between electro-driven hip-hop and club music (echoes of big...

36. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: April 16, 2008

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. 330 Ritch: 330 Ritch (at Brannan), 541-9574, www.330ritch.com. SOMA. Bar snacks and...