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21. Night&Day

    “Not for Babies – They Can’t Read”

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: February 11, 2009

    Initially, we figured the comedy book The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life wouldn’t pass the laugh-out-loud test, because few books do, and this wasn’t by The...

22. Night&Day

    Genius Granted

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 11, 2009

    Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within is easy for Kim Addonizio to say. The local author, poet, editor, prizewinner, harmonica player, weight lifter, and hottie has...

23. Night&Day

    Look and See

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: February 11, 2009

    Filipino director Brillante Mendoza’s Serbis is entirely set in and around a candidate for the world’s tawdriest movie theater—a dingy hall of mirrors...

24. Night&Day

    Eleven Minutes

    By Aaron Hillis

    Published: February 11, 2009

    Two years after winning the first season of Project Runway, flamboyantly charismatic fashion designer Jay McCarroll still hadn’t launched his first clothing line, the...

25. Night&Day

    Tangeled up in Bleu

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 11, 2009

    The original Tingel Tangel Club was in Berlin in the 1920s and '30s; the Nazis did not like it. They probably wouldn't like this one, either: New York City promoter and bon...

26. Night&Day

    Can We All Just Be Grey?

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 11, 2009

    Adam Mansbach's novel Angry Black White Boy must have pissed off a lot of people at first. It features a protagonist who pretty much only hates other white people more than he...

27. Stage

    Breast cancer sucks, and so does Tough Titty

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: February 11, 2009

    What I am about to do may well banish me to hell: I am about to disparage an autobiographical play about terminal breast cancer, written by a playwright who recently died of...

28. Matt Smith

    S.F. park rangers want more power, guns

    By Matt Smith

    Published: February 11, 2009

    Marcus Santiago, a nine-year veteran of the San Francisco Park Rangers, a little-known corps tasked with guarding the property of the Department of Recreation and Parks, swings...

29. Music

    Get "Fat," build your empire: Michael Burkett's punk legacy

    By Jonah Bayer

    Published: February 11, 2009

    Despite going by the nickname Fat Mike for most of his adult life, Michael Burkett's most prominent trait isn't the fact that he's overweight. The bathroom scale is actually a...

30. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: February 11, 2009

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Candy Darling: 796 Sutter (at Jones), 346-1500. Tenderloin. Handmade candy and...

31. Film

    The International's assets are troubled indeed

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: February 11, 2009

    Tom Tykwer's The International is one of those movies in which shadowy men meet in parked cars, abandoned buildings, and inconspicuous public spaces (museum galleries are a...

32. Stagecap

    Are we human or are we dancer? Burn the Floor is both

    By Molly Rhodes

    Published: February 11, 2009

    It's been said that true moments of joy come mostly through two acts: sex and dancing. Burn the Floor combines both, as 16 hard-bodied, high-energy performers spin, thrust, and...

33. Feature

    Don't mix raw oysters and antacids!

    By Robb Walsh

    Published: February 11, 2009

    "It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their name to eat an oyster." — William Butler, 1599 In cooperation with the U.S. Food and Drug...

34. Music

    The Murder City Devils’ respite from resting in peace

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: February 11, 2009

    Fueled by primal, Dead Boys–style garage-punk fury and a whole lot of booze, Seattle sextet Murder City Devils began its rampage in the summer of 1996. Bespectacled...

35. FilmCap

    Owl and the Sparrow tracks a week in the separate lives of three young Vietnamese

    By Tim Grierson

    Published: February 11, 2009

    The humanistic ensemble drama has gotten such a bad name in recent years, thanks to ponderous high-profile entries like Crash and Babel, that a barebones plot description of...

36. Stagecap

    Tennessee in the Summer: Enough already with the tortured-artist melodramas

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: February 11, 2009

    What's intriguing about this play "suggested" by the life of Tennessee Williams is that the playwright is portrayed simultaneously by a man (Daniel Albright) and a woman (Alex...

37. Sucka Free City

    Dogs also losing their homes in foreclosure

    By Herman Wong

    Published: February 11, 2009

    Recession horror stories now have new victims: pets. Animal rescue organizations in the Bay Area say they have been getting more and more calls from people who say they can't...

38. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    Published: February 11, 2009

    7 Sins: James Judd's one-man comedy about his own life. Fridays, Saturdays. Continues through Feb. 21. Exit Theatre, 156 Eddy (at Taylor), 931-1094, www.sffringe.org. Angry...

39. Feature

    Five places to eat oysters in San Francisco

    By Robb Walsh

    Published: February 11, 2009

    Swan's Oyster Depot 1517 Polk (at California), 673-1101 Monday-Saturday 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Opened in 1912, Swan's is essentially a fish market with a long marble bar and 20...

40. Reviewed

    Morrissey

    Years of Refusal (Lost Highway/Attack)

    By Steven Gdula

    Published: February 11, 2009

    Morrissey's ninth solo album sounds right at home on his new label, Nashville's Lost Highway. The singer who once famously clutched Oscar Wilde to his chest might seem...