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1. Feature

   The Dark Prince

   He claimed to be Nepalese royalty, but police say Kaushal Niroula is a con man whose crew of gay grifters may have murdered a wealthy Palm Springs man.

   By Matt Smith

   Published: April 1, 2009

   Kaushal Niroula, 26, aka the Nepalese Prince, aka Prince Little Stuff, enters a Palm Springs courtroom and offers to shake the judge's hand. Short and neatly dressed, with...

2. Music

   Magic Concept Ride

   Vetiver hits folk gold on Tight Knit.

   By Justin F. Farrar

   Published: April 1, 2009

   The BBC documentary Hotel California: L.A. from the Byrds to the Eagles includes one particularly awesome (and really quite hilarious) scene with Graham Nash. He's looking back...

3. Eat

   By the See

   La Mar Cebicheria has a great room and view, but it's too loud and pricey.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: April 1, 2009

   When I first dined at La Mar Cebicheria for a festive lunch a few months ago, I came away with decidedly mixed impressions. The location is killer — an enormous white...

4. Film

   Fast & Furious should have gone straight to Xbox

   By Nicolas Rapold

   Published: April 1, 2009

   With the molded-rubber face of Telly Savalas, the basso profundo of Sylvester Stallone, and the name of an underdog gas alternative, Vin Diesel's already-dubious...

5. Night&Day

   Theater of War

   By James C. Taylor

   Published: April 1, 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...

6. Night&Day

   Macking

   Published: April 1, 2009

   After years of hand wringing and looking the other way, Federal officials have officially allowed Maverick’s surfers to use wave runners, those noisy, polluting watercraft...

7. Night&Day

   Thom Pain (based on nothing)

   By Nathaniel Eaton

   Published: April 1, 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,...

8. Night&Day

   Sin Nombre

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: April 1, 2009

   Before setting pen to paper, Sin Nombre writer-director Cary Joji Fukunaga purportedly rode the rails in the company of real illegal immigrants traveling from Mexico to the...

9. Art

   Magic Moments

   Three new art gallery shows dabble in abracadabra.

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: April 1, 2009

   In this beaten-down economy, small art gallery shows feel more vital. Maybe that's because small galleries can't afford the distance of irony — earnest and close-up is...

10. Sucka Free City

    A Horse's Gift

    City rules draw a fine line between manure and crap.

    By Alastair Bland

    Published: April 1, 2009

    The officers of San Francisco's mounted police detail promenade through Golden Gate Park every day in the stateliest style as they watch for drug activity and lawless...

11. Music

    CD ripping services put record collections in the 21st century

    By Jonah Flicker

    Published: April 1, 2009

    It seems the only numbers rising at independent record stores these days are in the amounts of CDs being sold back to retailers who deal in used merchandise. Buy counters...

12. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: April 1, 2009

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Cafe Altano: 621 Hayes (at Laguna), 252-1200. Hayes Valley. Mediterranean. Cafe...

13. Film

    The summer of our '80s youth in Adventureland

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: April 1, 2009

    Set a mere two decades ago, Greg Mottola's Adventureland seems as if it could be taking place on a distant planet, less for the leg warmers and knee socks clinging to lower...

14. Artcap

    Maria Forde, "Advice and Portraits"

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: April 1, 2009

    Maria Forde's touchingly awkward sketches of her friends, done in pencil and watercolor, people the walls at Needles & Pens. She began these portraits as a way to gather advice...

15. Sucka Free City

    Raw Footage

    A man who sought to capture and kill Bin Laden had his own film used against him. Is that fair use?

    By Ashley Harrell

    Published: April 1, 2009

    Remember Greg Shade? He sure wants you to, only not in the way he's depicted in American Hero, a short documentary that screened at last year's S.F. Independent Film Festival....

16. Music

    Lily Allen’s bad-sex revenge fantasies

    By Rob Harvilla

    Published: April 1, 2009

    I am concerned about the long-term sustainability of Lily Allen's obsession with writing songs about her unsatisfying sexual encounters. For her own sake, I hope this is not an...

17. Film

    The excruciating details of death by starvation in Steve McQueen's Hunger

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: April 1, 2009

    Established artists who've made midcareer leaps from gallery to movie house have not easily found their footing. Julian Schnabel's first feature was a flop; Robert Longo, David...

18. Artcap

    Dean Smith and Dean Byington

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: April 1, 2009

    If Dean Smith ever takes a break, or even breathes, it's hard to tell from his meticulous, obsessive, painstaking pattern art. Like a human spirograph, he maps out abstract...

19. Sucka Free City

    All Atwitterer

    What are Gavin Newsom's most popular tweets?

    By Benjamin Wachs

    Published: April 1, 2009

    Gavin Newsom now has more than 100,000 followers on Twitter. What are the most popular Newsom tweets? • Don't tell anyone: I'm running 4 governor!!! It'll b our...

20. FilmCap

    Alien Trespass mocks the '50s invasion flicks

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: April 1, 2009

    What's most admirable about onetime X-Files producer R.W. Goodwin's Alien Trespass, a simulacra of the '50s flying-saucer flick, is its bypassing of the wink-wink condescension...