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41. Night&Day

    A Strand in Time

    By Michael Fox

    Published: February 25, 2009

    We love the folks who run the perpetually challenged arthouse theaters, but the truly unsung heroes in the film scene are the small distributors working the fringes and niches...

42. Night&Day

    Danger Beauty Goo

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 25, 2009

    We have a mild obsession with the word "encaustic." It makes us think of chewed gum, toxic chemicals, and stinging snot. We have active imaginations. But so does Sono Osato,...

43. Night&Day

    The Outsider In Crowd

    By Tara Jepsen

    Published: February 25, 2009

    Whether via MTV's Cribs or that traveling exhibit of cadavers, we know your average human is interested in interiors, and how they fit with exteriors. The artist’s mind...

44. Night&Day

    M. Ward: Hold Time (Merge)

    Published: February 25, 2009

    It’s a tricky thing, dissecting M. Ward’s new album — it can’t possibly stack up against 2006’s Post-War, where every track felt like a classic. But...

45. Night&Day

    Your Kid Sister Phoebe

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: February 25, 2009

    Nine-year-old Phoebe Lichten (Elle Fanning) is every parent’s dream and nightmare -- a talented child for whom school presents few challenges, but also a troubled girl...

46. Night&Day

    So Right It's Wrongly Right

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 25, 2009

    From the "Is this what it's like to drop acid?" files: Photographer, or something, Elliot Anderson's "Equivalents." This artist is trying to mess with your brain, or else he...

47. Night&Day

    Mxt Msgs

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 25, 2009

    Our pick for best group show this month: Mitsy Ávila Ovalles, Jessica Trippe, Jin Chon, Chris Jehly, John Casey, and Empte Eyes at "Mixed Messages." We like the sound of...

48. Night&Day

    Loop the Loop

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 25, 2009

    Artists and scientists should be better friends. These natural enemies have so much to teach one another! Because when they do get together, stuff like this happens: Magnetic...

49. Stage

    Women on the Verge

    The healing power of theater, vibrators.

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: February 25, 2009

    The term "female hysteria" isn't fashionable these days. Bringing to mind unkempt women flailing about drenched on windswept moors or gibbering in attics dressed in mothballed...

50. Sucka Free City

    Gimme Shelter

    Musician once played for the homeless as charity. Now he is homeless.

    By Herman Wong

    Published: February 25, 2009

    In these bad times, even good Samaritans are just a step away from tripping into misfortune. Take the case of the piano player who suddenly appeared late last year to play a...

51. Music

    Our picks from Noise Pop’s local launch pad

    By Dan Strachota

    Published: February 25, 2009

    In times of great financial crisis, it's best to do like the Monty Python folks and "always look on the bright side of life." So, while it's true that some cool touring bands...

52. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: February 25, 2009

    Bruno's: 1375 Fillmore (at O'Farrell), 563-6300. Fillmore. Italian and pizza. The Creamery: 685 Fourth St. (at Townsend), 896-1445. SOMA. Coffee and pastries. Eden's Turkish...

53. Film

    Regular Fellas

    The Average Giuseppes of organized crime in Gomorrah.

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: February 25, 2009

    Martin Scorsese may be presenting Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah, but this corrosive, slapdash, grimly exciting exposé of organized crime in and around Naples comes on like...

54. Stagecap

    It Ain't Me

    By Chris Jensen

    Published: February 25, 2009

    "Why are things never the way you imagined them to be?" That's the big, fat, unanswerable question at the center of Claire Rice's smart new play, It Ain't Me, making its world...

55. Sucka Free City

    Art Vandals

    Mural gets a paint job after city crew issues warning about graffiti.

    By Matthew Hirsch

    Published: February 25, 2009

    Four months ago, a group of young graffiti artists approached a small Inner Sunset produce market and offered to paint a mural on the outer wall of the store, facing Irving...

56. Sucka Free City

    Best Bay to Breakers Behavior

    By Benjamin Wachs

    Published: February 25, 2009

    City officials are debating a new set of rules Bay to Breakers contestants must abide by. Here are a few ideas being contemplated: •Only pee on every other...

57. FilmCap

    Moscow, Belgium

    By Nicolas Rapold

    Published: February 25, 2009

    We're not talking Dardennes here, but fellow Belgian Christophe Van Rompaey gives this light May-to-December pair-up an agreeably mussed, pedestrian milieu. Rather than an...

58. Stagecap

    Waitin' 2 End Hell

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: February 25, 2009

    This play, written by Northern California native William A. Parker, is a direct response to Terry McMillan's popular book Waiting to Exhale. McMillan's book can loosely be...

59. Let's Get Killed

    Noise Pop fosters industry while playing it safe

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: February 25, 2009

    San Francisco's music scene carries with it a proud independent spirit. We run our bands, labels, and studios without much concern for mainstream acceptance. While this...

60. FilmCap

    Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes

    By Gregg Rickman

    Published: February 25, 2009

    It's a paradox that Garrison Keillor, the troubadour of a lost continent of jug bands, roots music, and small-town Americana, is the province of latte-loving public radio. But,...