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1. Feature

   Faux-star reviews!

   A negative review on Yelp is bad for business. That's why some merchants feel they must keep Yelpers happy at any cost.

   By Lauren Smiley

   Published: March 11, 2009

   Jason Braatz has been in the city's floral business for six years — enough time to know that it pays to keep Yelpers happy. And Panthea J. is not happy. "Sadly, it was...

2. Music

   The Lady GaGa backlash begins here

   By Andrew Stout

   Published: March 11, 2009

   For seven weeks last summer, Lady GaGa was just what pop aficionados needed. Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" had inexplicably topped the Billboard Hot 100. Each week that passed...

3. Eat

   You've Aged Well

   The Tadich Grill serves San Francisco fare, done in a timeless style.

   By Matthew Stafford

   Published: March 11, 2009

   "I have seen purer liquors, better seegars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier cortezans, here in San Francisco than in any...

4. Film

   Last House on the Left: That's So Craven

   Rape revenge. Yawn.

   By Nick Pinkerton

   Published: March 11, 2009

   That was the most offensive display of sexualized violence I have ever seen," one wilting fellow in need of a camphor hankie was overheard saying in the elevator. Such...

5. Night&Day

   O'wow

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: March 11, 2009

   Eddie Izzard, if he ever sees this movie, will attain nirvana, disappearing completely, like the flame of a candle that has been blown out. By putting a Scottish actor into...

6. Night&Day

   Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: March 11, 2009

   Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 marks a particular 40th anniversary—not Richard Nixon’s election, but the scarcely less astonishing event that occurred a few weeks later in...

7. Night&Day

   Instead of Your Usual Torment

   By Tamara Palmer

   Published: March 11, 2009

   DJ /rupture (Jace Clayton) is a turntable master and producer who wears many funky hats. He hosts the weekly radio program Mudd Up! on New York’s WFMU, maintains a blog of...

8. Night&Day

   And I Feel Fine

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: March 11, 2009

   Alex Lukas’ idea of the end of the world, or the heavily built up part of it, doesn’t look all that bad. True, his cities are underwater, with high tides pooling...

9. Night&Day

   Patrick, Yeeeahh, Wooo!

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: March 11, 2009

   Behind the scenes with Saint Patrick: Real name: Maewyn Succat. Backstory: Was forced into slavery by Irish raiders (dude was British!). He later returned to Ireland as a...

10. Night&Day

    Charm School

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Female persons of all ages: Let's go to the After-School Program Showcase put on by the Bay Area Girls Rock Camp. Every single one of us could stand to see four bands made up...

11. Night&Day

    Sky’s the Limit

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Did you know that when the Golden Gate Bridge gets hot, it sits low in the saddle? Course you didn’t: You don’t have a Bridge Thermometer, which looks like one of...

12. Night&Day

    Handmade Cinema

    By Tara Jepsen

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Nestled in San Francisco with a closet full of orthochromatic film harvested from the garbage of a dental office, Kerry Laitala resembles a mad scientist filmmaker. She...

13. Night&Day

    Tipple Time for Twinkletoes

    By Evan James

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Light in the loafers or bonkers for Balanchine, friends of Dorothy or freaks for Diaghilev: High art queens of any stripe need look no further than their own San Francisco...

14. Night&Day

    Theater of the Horrific

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 11, 2009

    By now you should know all about grand guignol, thanks to the efforts of the Thrillpeddlers theater troupe (if not, think shock theater directed by Quentin Tarantino and a...

15. Night&Day

    Get Higher, Baby

    By Tara Jepsen

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Maybe being a marijuana comedian (example: Rob Cantrell) is like being a prop comedian. Granted, your prop isn’t visible onstage, unless you count the thumb and forefinger...

16. Night&Day

    Cathode Love

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 11, 2009

    “Television, the drug of the nation/Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.” If you can name the first band to do that song, you ought to buy yourself a new Wii....

17. Night&Day

    East of Eden

    By Michael Fox

    Published: March 11, 2009

    In one key category — revelations per minute — the S.F. International Asian American Film Festival has the edge over Frameline and the S.F. International Film...

18. Night&Day

    It's Not the Size of the Boat

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Daniel Grandbois is bringin' flash fiction back. No, not "slash fiction," you dirty bird. Flash, or sudden fiction, is a sort-of genre defined by its word count: few. It's the...

19. Night&Day

    Watching the Clouds

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 11, 2009

    "A Field Guide to the Atmosphere" appears to be inspired by a book. Photographer and videomaker Lindsey White likes books; one of her previous pieces is a chair, in front of a...

20. Night&Day

    Frameline at The Center: Free Film Screenings for the Community

    Published: March 11, 2009

    Short films made by youth and elders from the local LGBT community, including & All That Jazz, Changeling, Imaging Your [Right], and more. Co-presented by the LGBT Community...