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21. Night&Day

    Fresh Lyme

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: April 15, 2009

    There’s nothing new under the suburban sun (save for infectious ticks) in Derick Martini’s Lymelife, whose weighty allegorical title and fastidious 1970s...

22. Night&Day

    Lucky Numbers

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Stephen Vincent is tired tonight. He's made a serious piece of art every day for the past 99 days; today, he makes an additional 26. Numbers are important to Vincent in this...

23. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: April 15, 2009

    It's Harder to See a Camouflaged Elephant PE the best you can PE: The big elephant in the room is that JROTC can't get PE credit unless its instructors are certified by the...

24. Michael Lacey

    Bay Guardian's latest brain vomit — and our response

    By Michael Lacey

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Editor's note: From the moment SF Weekly published its first issue as a New Times publication in 1995, Bruce Brugmann, Tim Redmond, and their employees at the Bay Guardian made...

25. Eat

    Feds take the fun out of fungi hunting at Lands End

    By Alastair Bland

    Published: April 15, 2009

    For decades, members of the Mycological Society of San Francisco have scoured Lands End each rainy season for edibles and collectibles. But in July, the Golden Gate National...

26. Sucka Free City

    Paris Hilton Syndrome hits S.F. Animal Control

    By Joe Eskenazi

    Published: April 15, 2009

    If ever you needed another reason to despise Paris Hilton — utter vapidity, being famous despite having no discernible talent, overuse of the teeth in her sole legitimate...

27. Sucka Free City

    The S.F. Botanical Garden's wish list

    By Benjamin Wachs

    Published: April 15, 2009

    The Recreation and Parks Department has unveiled a plan to charge for admittance to the San Francisco Botanical Garden in order to raise money to turn the facility into a...

28. Music

    Adam Theis' symphony of jazz, funk, and hip-hop

    By Ezra Gale

    Published: April 15, 2009

    If Adam Theis were erased from San Francisco (à la James Stewart's George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life), the city would become radically more desolate. Sure, tourists...

29. Music

    Mexican Institute of Sound: the best of Latintronica

    By Shawn Reynaldo

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Camilo Lara is a product of his environment. The Mexican DJ and producer (who also happens to hold down a day job as the president of EMI Mexico) didn't grow up with dreams of...

30. Music

    Mastodon exposes its inner prog

    By Phil Freeman

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Despite the trend in consumer downloads, singles are for dilettantes. Full albums are still where a band's real art lies. That's a point many musicians are out to prove,...

31. Let's Get Killed

    Anvil: Heavy metal's obscure teddy bears

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: April 15, 2009

    An old-school metal band's dramatic epic is about to hit movie theaters. This is a group that started in the early '80s and influenced rock legends like Slash, Lemmy from...

32. Hear This

    Heartless Bastards

    By Andy Tennille

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Just over a year ago, Heartless Bastards frontchick Erica Wennerstrom packed her bags for Austin, leaving her hometown of Cincinnati behind after the dissolution of her 10-year...

33. Hear This

    Glass Candy

    By Shawn Reynaldo

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Disco has crept back onto San Francisco's fashionable dancefloors, making bands like Glass Candy veritable heroes in the process. Once a noisy outfit owing a heavy debt to No...

34. Hear This

    Cypress Hill

    By Shawn Reynaldo

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Insane in the Brain" may be more than 15 years old, but blunted L.A. hip-hop quartet Cypress Hill hasn't lost its green thumb, so to speak. While these Latino rap veterans...

35. BeatBox

    Sébastien Tellier

    By Tony Ware

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Parisian producer Sébastien Tellier claims his 2008 album, Sexuality, was informed by "the abuse of sustained arpeggiator by extralarge tablecloths." That's crazy in any...

36. BeatBox

    Max Tundra and Junior Boys

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Englishman Ben Jacobs (aka Max Tundra) and Canadian duo Junior Boys are the perfect tourmates. Both acts record for Domino, prefer esoteric album titles, and find fresh ways to...

37. Bouncer

    Chances Are? Questioning coincidence at Edinburgh Castle

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: April 15, 2009

    There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe in coincidence, and those who don't. I'm not sure which category I fall into yet. The folks who don't believe in...

38. Eat

    Pork Belly and Cocktails

    At Heaven's Dog, mixing contemporary Chinese and fancy drinks in a modern setting does not a great restaurant make.

    By Meredith Brody

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Heaven's Dog, the latest offering from iconic San Francisco restaurateur Charlie Phan (The Slanted Door, Out the Door), is housed in a chic, cleanly designed modern space on...

39. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: April 15, 2009

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. 15 Romolo: 15 Romolo (at Broadway), 398-1359. North Beach. Cocktails and bar...

40. Film

    Political thriller State of Play is adrenaline for a dying industry: ours.

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: April 15, 2009

    Kevin Macdonald's Washington thriller is a bellows designed to puff up the most beaten-down reporter's chest. Compressed from the highly regarded BBC miniseries first telecast...