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21. Night&Day

    Mission Craziness

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Carnaval isn't just an excuse for dancing in the streets and ogling Brazilian showgirls — there's also the food, the artwork, the rich tapestry of culture and history...

22. Night&Day

    Get Out on the PlayGround

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 21, 2008

    O Happy Dagger is maybe the best name for anything, ever: kitten, debut album, vacation home, whatever. It's a quotation from Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, even), and usually...

23. Night&Day

    Art Collab

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Depending on whom you ask, the Bay Area art world is either a major world center for creative innovation or a self-referential backwater prone to tunnel vision. If it’s...

24. Night&Day

    Fuck Club

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: May 21, 2008

    The outer reaches of porn are a little hard to fathom. Splosh films? Furry fetish? 2 Girls 1 Cup? (Wait — forget about 2 Girls 1 Cup.) Fortunately — or maybe not...

25. Night&Day

    Isadorables

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 21, 2008

    It's Isadora Duncan's birthday, so naturally, someone is throwing her a dance party: the Dionysian Festival. Very few dancers perform Duncan's own choreography, but Mary Sano...

26. Stage

    Finishing touches put on Duke Ellington's opera

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Every day, artists get bored, distracted, or die, leaving their work in a state of limbo. The world's desk drawers must sequester untold numbers of semideveloped plays, novels,...

27. Sucka Free City

    Bleacher Report and other sports blogs fight for respect - and access

    By Ashley Harrell

    Published: May 21, 2008

    On the sidelines of professional sports events around the nation, there's a less-discussed competition that can get more heated than the games themselves: the epic battle for...

28. Reviewed

    Foals

    Antidotes (Sub Pop)

    By Jonah Bayer

    Published: May 21, 2008

    The debut full-length from England's much-hyped rock import Foals is a kindred spirit to such innovative post-hardcore acts as Minus the Bear and Q and Not U. But Foals could...

29. Music

    Jamie Lidell sings from the heart, riffs on the absurd

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: May 21, 2008

    The blackest-singing white man since Rick Astley, Jamie Lidell is as delightfully inscrutable on his albums as he is charmingly unhinged in person. In between sips of a...

30. Hear This

    The smooth exoticism of Herb Alpert

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: May 21, 2008

    The face of a thousand used LPs, trumpeter Herb Alpert and the smooth exoticism of his Tijuana Brass ruled the '60s' tame underbelly, racking up eight Grammys and countless...

31. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: May 21, 2008

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Best-o-Burger: 493 Pine (at Belden), 986-3808, www.bestoburger.com. Financial District....

32. Film

    The Way You Make Me Feel

    Harmony Korine creates a Neverland for celeb impersonators in the singular and sincere Mister Lonely.

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: May 21, 2008

    A man in a Michael Jackson outfit — red shirt, black jeans, white face mask — rides hunched over the tiny frame of a clown bike. Jutting out to his side, attached...

33. Film Feature

    A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of unlikely returns, beginning with that of Polish...

34. Game On

    Steven Spielberg goes direct-to-video-game with Boom Blox for the Wii.

    By Chris Ward

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Steven Spielberg may rule Hollywood, but in the video-game biz — the more profitable of the two industries, becoming more so with each passing year — he's a...

35. Sucka Free City

    Postal employees not happy about working in the Tenderloin

    By Joe Eskenazi

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Life seems so much simpler when you only read press releases. Take the one issued last week by the United States Postal Service. The residents of the Tenderloin wanted their...

36. Reviewed

    The Roots

    Rising Down (Def Jam)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: May 21, 2008

    If the recent Smirnoff showcase in New York — at which Common, Q-Tip, and KRS-One disconcertingly sold their skills to the vodka company for some quick stacks — is...

37. Music

    Germany’s Cluster still makes heads spin three decades on

    By Andy Beta

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Very few bands can be considered the grandfathers of New Age, ambient techno, electro-pop, and underground noise. But Germany's Cluster, a duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and...

38. Hear This

    Sugar and Ice

    By Andy Beta

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Don't write off Portland duo Glass Candy as simply an Italo-disco throwback. Aside from a few tracks, most of that genre is total dreck (see Strut's excruciating forthcoming...

39. Film

    The Terrible Infant Speaks

    Harmony Korine talks about his new movie Mister Lonely and coming home.

    By Jim Ridley and Jack Silverman

    Published: May 21, 2008

    The snapshot, smudged with soot, shows a man with a puzzled expression propped up in a hospital bed. He is clearly a patient of some kind. The object cradled in his arms...

40. Film Feature

    Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: May 21, 2008

    CANNES, France—The competition for the Palme d'Or is ongoing as I write, but the story of the 61st Cannes Film Festival is Steven Soderbergh's two-part,...