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21. Night&Day

    Jerry’s Rig

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Jerry Stahl, a writer who got his start putting one-liners into ALF’s mouth, was saved by drugs in the best and perhaps only way they can save: by providing material. Two...

22. Night&Day

    Roaming Troubadours

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Men: Wouldn’t it be great to be a Jon Stewart lookalike who wrote best-selling novels and was also a famous musician? You’re thinking ha ha, very funny: Nobody is...

23. Night&Day

    Stalk Your Mystery Writer in 10 Shady Steps

    By Evan James

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Say the name “Dashiell Hammett,” and certain images rush into the mind’s eye: the hard-boiled eyebrows of a falcon-chasing detective, the hard jaw lines of...

24. Night&Day

    Hear Them Roar

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 25, 2009

    This is how we like our feminism: Thee Merry Widows is a five-lady psycho-horrorbilly band. Strength and self-determination are written all over The Devil's Outlaws, the...

25. Night&Day

    Bay Area 51

    By Tara Jepsen

    Published: March 25, 2009

    We feel comfortable saying we like art. Art is really, truly, very great. We also think athletics are a terrific way to "engage with" those of different mind — and, more...

26. Night&Day

    Tony! Tony! Tony!

    By Michael Fox

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Brilliant and uncompromising, violinist Tony Conrad cut a swath through the pop-rock ’60s with his loud, droning, “minimal” music. Applying his ideas about...

27. Night&Day

    Our Lady of the Kittens

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: March 25, 2009

    If San Francisco were a woman, she’d be Kitten on the Keys: a coquettish fag hag with twirling tassels, sweeping vistas, and a raunchy rapier wit borne upon tinkling...

28. Night&Day

    This Tornado Never Happened

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 25, 2009

    In art, sometimes concept trumps the finished product. Andy Warhol’s famed first film, Sleep, for example, shows the poet John Giorno sleeping for six hours, a great idea...

29. Night&Day

    The Cash Bar of Adulthood

    By Evan James

    Published: March 25, 2009

    For most of us, the Exploratorium conjures up memories of childhood field trips: being led in single-file lines, electrocuting pickles, and sticking our hands into bowls of...

30. Night&Day

    Honorific

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 25, 2009

    The centerpiece of Divafest's mostly women theater series is An Affair of Honor, a new play by Lee Kiszonas. It has a nice twisty plot in which the main character is a lady...

31. Night&Day

    Fabulous

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Covering themes like wealth, music, fame, fashion, and desire, the art in the group show “I Want You to Want Me” screams for attention. Kehinde Wiley has young...

32. Night&Day

    He Will Ring Your Bell

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 25, 2009

    We dubbed him Best Comedian of 2008, and while we're going to have to pry that crown out of his clenched fists, W. Kamau Bell is actually way more famous for something else....

33. Night&Day

    Driven to Abstraction

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Angeleno painter Miguel Osuna has obviously studied the work of Mark Rothko, the famous abstract artist. Looking at Osuna's own work, we're tempted to infer that he not only...

34. Night&Day

    Strike a Pose

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Eric Kipp may be brilliant. Without a doubt, the spirit of San Francisco pulses quickly in his veins, because he is the creator of Hiking Yoga. It's exactly what it sounds...

35. Night&Day

    Theater of War

    By James C. Taylor

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Meryl Streep is arguably America’s greatest living musical-theater actress. Anyone who saw the two-time Oscar winner shamelessly mug and prance through the mindless movie...

36. Night&Day

    It's Darkest Just Before the Curtain

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Michelangelo Antonioni's gift to the world: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, and Monica Vitti in bad moods. In a classic of epically Italian proportions, these thespian...

37. Stage

    Charlie Varon's visionary Rabbi Sam leaves audiences rapt

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Several years ago, through a strange sequence of events, Charlie Varon found himself delivering the Yom Kippur sermon at his synagogue in San Francisco. Though lacking any...

38. Matt Smith

    Transit Spotting

    A transportation activist points to inefficient and costly projects like the Central Subway.

    By Matt Smith

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Watching a presentation last week by John Funghi, general manager of the recently green-lighted $1.4 billion rail line known as the Central Subway, I realized how badly the San...

39. Music

    Beware of the real Will Oldham

    By Brian J. Barr

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Will Oldham masks his feelings with a thick beard, a devilish grin, and a stage persona known as Bonnie "Prince" Billy. The 38-year-old songwriter makes no apologies about the...

40. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: March 25, 2009

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Caffeinated Comics: 3188 Mission (at Valencia), 829-7530, www.caffcom.com. Mission....