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41. Stagecap

    PianoFight's skits in ShortLived better than SNL

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: May 21, 2008

    PianoFight productions encourages audience members to brown-bag their own booze; the crew even throws a couple of Budweisers and miniature whiskey bottles into the crowd right...

42. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Vetting Geluardi  SFAVC members miss meetings, point: I am writing in reference to the piece written by John Geluardi ["The Vet Offensive," Sucka Free City, 5/14] about...

43. Let's Get Killed

    ‘The Worst Music Ever’ pulls Smash Mouth from the crapper

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: May 21, 2008

    If you ever want to hear really terrible music, just go to a wedding. No matter how good your friends' tastes in life partners may be, their taste in wedding DJs is usually...

44. Film

    Going to Pieces

    Fugitive sucks the poetry and the life out of the Holocaust survival tale on which it is based.

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Canadian poet Anne Michaels' beautiful 1996 novel, Fugitive Pieces — about a Jewish writer immobilized by the memory of his Polish family's murder at the hands of the...

45. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Figaro. People are so seduced by Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro that they tend to overlook the opera's anarchic roots. Historians today widely consider the 18th-century French...

46. Sucka Free City

    Bar Association gives its qualified support for judge

    By Matthew Hirsch

    Published: May 21, 2008

    If ABC News were covering local elections, George Stephanopoulos might have already called the San Francisco judicial race for the incumbent, Superior Court Judge Thomas Mellon...

47. BeatBox

    Choirgirl-cum-club diva DJ Colette headlines the 11th Annual Etd. Pop

    By Tamara Palmer and J. Niimi

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Chicago DJ and producer Felix Da Housecat (aka Felix Stallings) has been a fixture on the international dance scene since the early '90s, when he first came to prominence with...

48. Stagecap

    This Whore is good filthy fun

    By Christopher Jensen

    Published: May 21, 2008

    John Ford's 17th-century tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore takes an exuberant interest in taboo and revenge. It isn't a prim play. The plot concerns a coquettish maiden who gets...

49. Film

    A Four-Letter Word

    By Ed Gonzalez

    Published: May 21, 2008

    In praise of Larry Kramer's Faggots, specifically its forked satire, author Reynolds Price wrote: "It offers us oddly entertaining, generally exaggerated copies of foolish or...

50. Arthouse

    Art House

    Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Compiled by Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser. To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. Sebastiane: Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress' 1976...

51. Bouncer

    Drinking in pint-sized secrets at Nap’s

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: May 21, 2008

    Cabs are a crapshoot in San Francisco. It always burns my chuff, whatever that is, when I call to reserve one. First of all, the fact that I have to phone for one is lame. Any...