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1. Feature

   Going for Gold

   Academy of Art’s new sports program is about spirit, marketing — and the chance to break even more rules.

   By Joe Eskenazi

   Published: August 27, 2008

   A quick glance through a propped-open door at Kezar Pavilion reveals a dozen or so women of Amazonian proportions outfitted in snazzy black uniforms anticipating a serve. The...

2. Music

   Tussle offers up the cream of the beat

   By Ron Nachmann

   Published: August 27, 2008

   Tussle's willingness to break rules isn't the only thing that makes it a bona fide San Francisco band. Although their music could be lumped into the post-techno category, the...

3. Eat

   North African Modern

   The music and spices remain the same, but the dishes are up-to-date.

   By Matthew Stafford

   Published: August 27, 2008

   Sometime between the Summer of Love and Mabuhay Gardens' punkadelic heyday, four Moroccan restaurants of varying quality but almost identical cuisine and ambience opened and...

4. Film

   Spy vs. Why

   Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor.

   By Chuck Wilson

   Published: August 27, 2008

   Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures — a Hollywood intellectual — new evidence suggests that Steve Martin reads ... prepare yourself ... thrillers and...

5. Night&Day

   King Me

   By Aaron Hillis

   Published: August 27, 2008

   Septuagenarian Czech filmmaker Jirí Menzel's latest boasts the same darkly sarcastic and lyrically absurdist trademarks that fellow Czech New Wavers Milos Forman and...

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   Round and Round

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: August 27, 2008

   If you're smart, you can station yourself at Green and Battery streets to see the Giro di San Francisco riders take their first corner. Unlike the Tour of California, though,...

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   Auto Immune

   By Nirmala Nataraj

   Published: August 27, 2008

   We city folks like to think we’re fitter than our dilatory suburban counterparts, but we rarely get the chance to take a bit of cardio without having to wait for a traffic...

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   Stand and Deliver

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: August 27, 2008

   When the ancient Polynesians invented surfing, they often used a paddle to help them navigate. Fast-forward a few millennia, and Stand-Up Paddleboarding, or SUP, finds itself...

9. Night&Day

   Because You Can’t Wear a Painting

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: August 27, 2008

   Last year, artist Takashi Murakami erected a Louis Vuitton shop in the middle of Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art. It caused something of an uproar. Art critic Lee...

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    Checking Out Books

    By Alejandro Perez

    Published: August 27, 2008

    There are eight million stories in the naked city, as the saying goes, but only 765,000 people live in Fog City. Still, folks here more than make up for the difference with our...

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    A Black and White World

    By Michael Fox

    Published: August 27, 2008

    Raise a tall glass as another bombastic Hollywood summer comes to an end, not with a bang but with a bomb: After four months of crassness and carnage, the movie listings at...

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    Slow Ride

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: August 27, 2008

    We all know about fast food, but what about its opposite? Slow Food began where so many delicious things do: Italy. The movement got its start in the 1980s, when Carlo Petrini...

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    The Spirit Catches You

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: August 27, 2008

    Phantasms of all persuasions drift into the artwork of Christine Shields. The San Francisco painter is a collector of lonely ghosts: witchy little girls, glowing fire...

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    Phoebe The Smart Kid Sister

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: August 27, 2008

    Some people look at old photographs and they just see corn. Bow ties, earnest facial expressions, cat-eye glasses: You know, corn. Corny corn. But painter Phoebe Seligman isn't...

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    Everything But Thine …

    By Andy Wright

    Published: August 27, 2008

    Pericles is not one of the oft-produced plays in the Shakespeare canon. It has a dingy reputation compared to some of his other works, and scholars argue that parts of it...

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    Berthe Mother

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: August 27, 2008

    When we were 19, we wanted to be Berthe Morisot. After having accepted that we had little (although not no) talent for visual art, we learned that Morisot was a very famous and...

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    Thank You Very Much, Mister Lobato

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: August 27, 2008

    "My newest paintings are heavily influenced by early Hispano and Native American textiles. I have spent much time thinking about the work of my two great-grandfathers who were...

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    Artsy Crafty

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: August 27, 2008

    Patrica Stroud has been a Bay Area artist since the 1970s, and values natural forms in her abstract sculptures. Her use of natural materials like wax and sand, on top of all...

19. Books

    I, Me, Media

    A new Harper's compilation makes the case for first-person journalism.

    By Jonathan Kiefer

    Published: August 27, 2008

    I am here to tell you how to write for Harper's Magazine. Not having done it myself should not be a problem. Any self-respecting and/or self-deluding long-form journalist at...

20. Matt Smith

    Gavin Newson's New Age adviser gives voters some advice

    By Matt Smith

    Published: August 27, 2008

    To relieve anxiety from the too-close-to-call 2008 presidential campaign, look to another election whose conclusion is all but foregone. Events leading up to the 2010...