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1. Feature

   Guantánamo's Last Days

   America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and more jihad looms.

   By Tim Elfrink and Jesse Hyde

   Published: February 25, 2009

   The soldiers move through the wheat field, scanning the windswept plain for signs of trouble. There are six of them, dressed in fatigues and body armor, wearing the sunglasses...

2. Music

   Sleepy Sun rises in the local psych scene

   By Dave Pehling

   Published: February 25, 2009

   As much as talent, drive, and determination factor into a band's chances for wide recognition, there's no discounting the power of fate. An alignment of forces has lifted psych...

3. Eat

   Got the Baby Blues

   Good 'cue and fixings are worth waiting for.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: February 25, 2009

   Barbecue, BBQ, barbeque. I love some good 'cue, however you spell it. And it doesn't matter whether it's Texas-, North Carolina–, or Memphis-style, sauced with vinegar or...

4. Film

   Shiksa vs. Jew

   But nobody wins in James Gray's ridiculous Two Lovers.

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: February 25, 2009

   If Joaquin Phoenix, who plays a lovelorn bachelor in James Gray's Two Lovers, were 12 years old, the movie might make a touching, if not noticeably fresh, romantic drama for...

5. Night&Day

   AA Meetings

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: February 25, 2009

   Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is one of the best dance companies this country has ever produced. Does that sound like an exaggeration, a typical thing you read in calendar...

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   Young Federico

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: February 25, 2009

   It's a great mystery of the world: Who removed Federico Fellini's shame? Who implied to him that it would be OK to make movies featuring butt after fetishized, wiggling...

7. Night&Day

   Beat the Crabs!

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: February 25, 2009

   The San Francisco 49ers crack heads. What about crabs? They’ll bust ’em up, what the hell, as part of the Celebrity Crab Festival, under the watchful eye of expert...

8. Night&Day

   Evolution of a Native Species

   By Bonner Odell

   Published: February 25, 2009

   San Francisco is home to a dance scene steeped in contact improvisation, a phenomenon born of the 1960s counterculture. Part social movement and part art form, CI uses...

9. Night&Day

   Everyday Art

   By Silke Tudor

   Published: February 25, 2009

   Philadelphia’s Artclash Collective began modestly enough: A group of friends decided to motivate one another with a flurry of creative busy-ness. Two decided to write a...

10. Night&Day

    Submit to the Soul Tub!

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 25, 2009

    The California Honeydrops have a bunch of secret weapons. The New Orleans–driven hot blues group has the trumpet of Lech Wierzynski, for one: It’s fast, and mean, and...

11. Night&Day

    Rock and Historical Roles

    By Andy Wright

    Published: February 25, 2009

    Just as it lurks in the bay, often behind a wall of fog, Alcatraz lurks in most Bay Area residents’ minds as a legend relegated to memory. Its story has been retold so...

12. Night&Day

    Art and Tacos

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: February 25, 2009

    The Monster Drawing Rally has something new this year: an El Tonayense taco truck, parked out front, dispensing protein. Otherwise, the fund-raiser follows its usual harried...

13. Night&Day

    Order Up

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 25, 2009

    Remember when you saw your first one? With her gold beehive, blue eyeshadow, and razor-wire wit? Women who waitress long-term in this country are special, and for many, they...

14. Night&Day

    The British Are Coming!

    By Michael Fox

    Published: February 25, 2009

    High-toned accents prevailed yet again at the Oscars, as Brits Danny Boyle and Kate Winslet and Aussie Heath Ledger stole the spotlight. (So says our crystal ball; we went to...

15. Night&Day

    The WonderCon Catwalk

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: February 25, 2009

    Irony has no place in a comics convention. A man dressing up as Buzz Lightyear should come with his game face on, his specifications perfect, his lingo down, his history...

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    Fame, Fortune, and Premature Antifascism

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 25, 2009

    Local author Stephen Elliott, organizer of the Progressive Reading Series, used to say he could never find any right-wing authors to perform at the series, because there aren't...

17. Night&Day

    The Great Dictator Overthrowers

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 25, 2009

    Obviously, the Indie Press of the Month party has something to do with Charlie Chaplin this time around; it's City Lights publishers feted by Modern Times Bookstore. So what...

18. Night&Day

    Absurdistan

    By Tim Grierson

    Published: February 25, 2009

    A droll comic fable about a water shortage, a battle of the sexes and the teenage lovers caught in the middle, Absurdistan doesn’t have a ton of high-voltage laughs, but...

19. Night&Day

    Serbis

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: February 25, 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...

20. Night&Day

    Pull My Lobster

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 25, 2009

    Pure Shock Value is the latest stage production from sketch comedy troupe Killing My Lobster, and it concerns the adventures of a group of low-budget filmmakers. Those...