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61. FilmCap

    12

    By Michelle Orange

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2008, Russian actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov's masterful, engrossing 12 is finally finding its way into theaters. A revamp...

62. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    Published: March 11, 2009

    BATS: Sunday Players: Each week Bay Area Theatresports players pit their improv work against all comers as the audience votes them off one by one until the winner stands alone...

63. Sucka Free City

    Willie's Birthday Plans

    By Benjamin Wachs and Will Harper

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Matier and Ross recently reported that former Mayor Willie Brown will celebrate his 75th birthday with a Paris blowout. How else will the city's bon vivant septuagenarian...

64. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: March 11, 2009

    The Money (Car) Pool Highway robbery: Nobody comes out ahead with casual carpooling ["All Tolled," Sucka Free City, 3/4]. It is toll and bus fare chiseling, pure and simple. It...

65. Reviewed

    Dan Auerbach

    Keep It Hid (Nonesuch)

    By Austin Powell

    Published: March 11, 2009

    The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach used to make annual pilgrimages to the Mississippi Delta, starting on Nashville's Music Row and detouring west through Memphis, if only to dig...

66. Reviewed

    ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

    The Century of Self (Richter Scale/Justice)

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: March 11, 2009

    The past couple of years have been pretty crappy for Austin noisemakers ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. The band lost its drummer, barely made it through a...

67. Reviewed

    Phosphorescent

    To Willie (Dead Oceans)

    By Brian J. Barr

    Published: March 11, 2009

    In 1975, Willie Nelson recorded a series of covers called To Lefty from Willie as a tribute to his musical hero, Lefty Frizzell. Despite Nelson's efforts, Frizzell remains one...

68. Hear This

    The (New) Low End Theory

    By John Graham

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Is treble an infectious disease? Lately so many bands have been splicing together high-pitched guitar screech with hipsters-on-helium falsetto vox that you'd think bass had...

69. Arthouse

    Arthouse movie listings for March 11-17, 2009

    Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Artists' Television Access. Under the Same Moon: Patricia Riggen's feature about border crossing. Thu., March 12, 7:30 p.m. $6. Journey from Darkness Into Light: A program of...

70. Hear This

    Primal Sloganeering

    By Phil Freeman

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Primal Scream founder Bobby Gillespie is a master of sloganeering — he's a much better interview subject than lyricist. Fortunately for him, in the hype-driven musical...

71. BeatBox

    12 Jockeys

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: March 11, 2009

    João Miguel and Luciano Oliveira were both born on July 12, 1980, so they named their DJ and production partnership the Twelves. The Rio-based duo is fond of remixing...

72. BeatBox

    Portable Monkey Dance

    By Ron Nachmann

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Now that the indie dance genre has transformed from trend to movement, outfits like the U.K.-based Simian Mobile Disco have broadened their followings across the hipster...