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41. Film

    Tokyo Sonata

    From crisis, hope.

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: March 25, 2009

    An afternoon breeze blows through an open doorway under the opening titles of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata, portending a coming storm and the more violent winds of change...

42. Encore

    Also Playing

    By Chris Jensen and Molly Rhodes

    Published: March 25, 2009

    The Model Apartment. Comedy may be tragedy plus time, but sometimes a tragedy is so immense that it can only devolve into savage farce. Donald Margulies' The Model Apartment,...

43. Sucka Free City

    It's the Law ... Sort Of

    Mayor, Supes won't follow law they approved. Ethics Commission won't enforce it.

    By Joe Eskenazi

    Published: March 25, 2009

    If few of the elected officials who signed a law into existence can be bothered to follow it, and the government commission charged with implementing that law opts not to...

44. Sucka Free City

    Brave New (Conflicted) World

    A veteran reporter turns to the world of public relations — and keeps reporting.

    By Peter Jamison

    Published: March 25, 2009

    As the edifice of daily print journalism collapses chunk by chunk, it's a fair bet that San Francisco will see a proliferation of upstart media outlets staffed by out-of-work...

45. FilmCap

    Ballerina

    By Michelle Orange

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Manuel Legris, a French dancer interviewed in Ballerina, Bertrand Norman's involving study of the Russian ballet, insists that a Russian ballerina is easy to spot in a crush of...

46. Stagecap

    Twilight Zone Live

    By Chris Jensen

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Twilight Zone Live, now in its sixth season at the Dark Room, isn't exactly a tribute to Rod Serling's landmark TV series from the '50s and '60s. It's more like an extended...

47. Sucka Free City

    Trainiquette

    A commuter's demands from Caltrain.

    By Gordon Young

    Published: March 25, 2009

    After a fare hike earlier this year, isn't it time we started asking Caltrain for a few perks in exchange for the privilege of commuting from San Francisco down the peninsula?...

48. Let's Get Killed

    Snapshots in time from the Nodzzz' phono album

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Nodzzz' excellent self-titled 2008 debut is on the turntable, and the tunes by this basement pop trio are impatient. They expire at a minute and change. Blink to their beat,...

49. Stagecap

    Thom Pain (based on nothing)

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: March 25, 2009

    This play, as its subtitle suggests, is a one-man Beckettlike riff about "nothing," written by the incomparable Will Eno. The script was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize,...

50. Arthouse

    Arthouse movie listings for March 25-31, 2009

    Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 25, 2009

    To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band: Fri., March 27, 8 p.m. $6. 992 Valencia (at 21st St.),...

51. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: March 25, 2009

    All the (Fo)rage Taking the piss out of Pong: For two weeks in a row now, SF Weekly has had fantastic cover stories; one on Yelp showing how elitist this city can be...

52. Reviewed

    Yeah Yeah Yeahs

    It's Blitz! (Interscope)

    By Steven Gdula

    Published: March 25, 2009

    The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs' CD shares its name with the legendary London nightclub that served as a way station between '70s punk and '80s synth-pop. Like the club, the record...

53. Reviewed

    Mumakil

    Behold the Failure (Relapse)

    By Phil Freeman

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Say the name Knut, and most folks will think of that polar bear cub from the Berlin Zoo. A select few, though, will recall an extremely underrated post-hardcore noise-metal...

54. Reviewed

    Aaron LaCrate and Debonair Samir

    B-More Club Crack (Koch)

    By Eric K. Arnold

    Published: March 25, 2009

    It's easy to say what Baltimore club music isn't: It isn't Miami bass, Bay Area hyphy, Chicago house, New York hip-hop, D.C. go-go, Atlanta crunk, or Detroit techno. Yet it...

55. Hear This

    Reopening the Wound

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Legendary Dadaist noise outfit Nurse with Wound started as a trio in 1978, and has had plenty of collaborators along the way, but ultimately the group revolves around the...

56. BeatBox

    Boogie Nights

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Classic disco, from the popular American variety to the more obscure Italian kind, still thrives in pockets of the San Francisco dance scene. However, there's often a divide...

57. BeatBox

    American Pied

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: March 25, 2009

    Detroit's Platinum Pied Pipers (Robert "Waajeed" O'Bryan and Darnell "Saadiq" Bolden) recently released Abundance, their hauntingly beautiful sophomore album. Where their 2005...

58. Bouncer

    Everybody poops at Lime

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: March 25, 2009

    They say that beauty is only skin deep, which is indeed true. Case in point: Joan Crawford, the original "hot mess." I find her a very sympathetic character, despite being an...