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1. Feature

   The Chief Is In (for Now)

   With homicide cases going unsolved and morale in the police department sinking, Heather Fong's days as chief may be numbered.

   By Ron Russell

   Published: August 6, 2008

   About three dozen people are gathered at the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center for a meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission, and the questions they're hurling at...

2. Music

   Poetic emcee Ise Lyfe coulda been a gangsta

   By Eric K. Arnold

   Published: August 6, 2008

   If you crossed the social awareness of '70s jazzy wordsmith Gil Scott-Heron with the slick-tongued slang of Too $hort, you might end up with someone like Ise Lyfe. Unabashedly...

3. Eat

   Palace of Fine Price

   In this city, 12 bucks for a steak dinner seems too good to be true. It isn't.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: August 6, 2008

   I can't count how many times I've driven by the corner of Mission and Cesar Chavez and noted the restaurant on the northeast corner whose big sign with bold blocky black...

4. Film

   About a Boy

   What happens when a child murderer grows up?

   By Ernest Hardy

   Published: August 6, 2008

   "So fuckin' delicate, people ... they die so easily," says a supporting character to the titular Boy A, whose barely audible two-word reply — "She didn't" —...

5. Night&Day

   The Franz

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: August 6, 2008

   Love him, hate him, Oprah outcast Jonathan Franzen has a place on bookshelves across the country. His 2001 novel The Corrections provided fodder for cocktail gossip while...

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   Kvetches and Sketches

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: August 6, 2008

   Oy vey, what would your mother say? If your moms is Jewish, she'll probably find a lot to laugh about at Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad, actually. This sassy, sexy revue sets the...

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   Go Grove

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: August 6, 2008

   It ain't over 'till the -- well, that's just insulting. Let's just say the SF Opera closes out Stern Grove's summer season with their usual impeccable line-up. Headliner Sylvia...

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   Grizzly Demise

   By Andy Wright

   Published: August 6, 2008

   The grizzly bear has scored its fair share of movie roles. It’s the beleaguered cub of Jean-Jacques Annaud’s ode to nature, The Bear, the object of ill-fated Timothy...

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   Howling at the Rune

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: August 6, 2008

   Late at night, we’ve all been there: You’re serving up sushi on the waxed chest of a young hottie when three wolves suddenly decide to style your hair. Fortunately, a...

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    Getting the J.O'B Done

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: August 6, 2008

    Maybe you're not a fan of war. Maybe military history seems like a weird thing to celebrate. Even so, trust us here: Liberty Ship the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien is major brain candy...

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    Bringing Femme Fatale Back

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: August 6, 2008

    Snarky as we are, it's hard for us to write the words "hip" or "sexy" without those scare quotes around them. But it's even harder to think up any other words to describe the...

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    Ear Ear

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: August 6, 2008

    We keep our eyes open as we walk around the city, but we tend to keep our ears closed, avoiding the whoosh of the bus and the conversations of passersby -- or plugging...

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    It’s Raining Amens

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: August 6, 2008

    As all good fetishists know, God and the erotic are two great tastes that taste great together. There’s an especially sweet place in heaven, however, for those who grow up...

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    Music from Big Pink

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: August 6, 2008

    You can choose to see the wine industry as a soulless, disease-inducing, water-table–decimating scourge, or you can look on the bright side, and agree that it also brings...

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    B.A.R.E. Your Butt

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: August 6, 2008

    Tap dance is about fifty times harder than it looks, since the audience can't see or hear the many tiny movements of ankle tendon and leg muscle it takes to make that flap-step...

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    Who’s Your Mimi?

    By Will Harper

    Published: August 6, 2008

    Here’s something we bet ya didn’t know about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: She loves chocolate. She just can’t get enough of the sweet stuff. That’s just one...

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    Philip Glass' Progeny

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: August 6, 2008

    Grumps of the "classical music is dying" variety should be heartened by the existence of Nico Muhly. The fresh-faced 27-year-old Juilliard graduate creates music that combines...

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    How Not to Lie

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: August 6, 2008

    In the face of deeply bizarre behavior among high-profile authors and members of the publishing industry, it seems safe to imagine that a writing class won't hurt you. Local...

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    Doo Ron Ron

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: August 6, 2008

    He's sort of the Ambrose Bierce of surf photographers: At "The Ron Stoner Show," the star surf photographer of the 1960s California scene is on display at his artistic acme....

20. Night&Day

    Robots and Social Systems

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: August 6, 2008

    Professor Ken Goldberg, of UC Berkeley, plays games with robots. Like his namesake, Rube Goldberg, he's interested in complex connections that lead to a simple outcome. At this...