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61. Let's Get Killed

    Jamie Stewart's infinite sadness is exhausting

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: April 8, 2009

    Jamie Stewart is a morgue-serious songwriter. And yet it's impossible for me to take the Xiu Xiu frontman seriously. The ache in his indie rock takes introspective moping to...

62. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: April 8, 2009

    Thom Pain (based on nothing). This play, as its subtitle suggests, is a one-man Beckettlike riff about "nothing," written by the incomparable Will Eno. The script was a...

63. Sucka Free City

    S.F. supervisors' foie-gras-free menu

    By Benjamin Wachs

    Published: April 8, 2009

    San Francisco supervisors have approved Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi's proposal that the city "commend" restaurants that have taken foie gras off their menus. What other menu...

64. Hear This

    Mos Def gets jazzy at Yoshi's

    By David MacFadden-Elliott

    Published: April 8, 2009

    While waiting (and waiting) for Mos Def's upcoming album, The Ecstatic, to drop, take the opportunity to hear the rapper's jazzier side. His three-night, small-combo stint at...

65. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: April 8, 2009

    Fo-raging and Ranting Not so wild about it: Thank you for "Out of the Wild" [Peter Jamison, Feature, 3/18]. There are certainly restaurants that use wild ingredients; I have...

66. Hear This

    Making Wavves

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: April 8, 2009

    Whether you tag his music garage, punk, or plain old indie pop, Nathan Williams' one-man band, Wavves, has single-handedly made home recording cool again. On his Fat Possum...

67. Hear This

    Devendra Banhart's footloose folk

    By Nicholas Hall

    Published: April 8, 2009

    Devendra Banhart would much rather play the wandering mystic than the outlaw rock star. That wanderlust spurs him in constantly shifting directions, though the changes in...

68. Arthouse

    Arthouse movie listings for April 8-14, 2009

    Compiled By Hiya Swanhuyser and Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 8, 2009

    To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. OpenScreening: Film and video open mike. Thu., April 9, 7 p.m. $5. "Dances for Camera": Short...

69. BeatBox

    Crookers

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: April 8, 2009

    The Italian DJ duo Phra and Bot have been making serious waves with pop-infused, house-based remix work as Crookers. The pair recorded an EP for Diplo's Mad Decent label and...

70. BeatBox

    Richard Devine

    By John Graham

    Published: April 8, 2009

    Signal interruptions, distortion errors, glitches — these are all bad things, right? Not if you were to judge by the epileptic electronica of Richard Devine. A cybernetic...

71. Bouncer

    Creationism -- and beer -- at Kezar Pub

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: April 8, 2009

    Young Earth Creationism would be a funny little religious belief worthy only of a footnote discussion if it weren't for the fact that it appears to be gathering steam. The...