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41. Eat

    New hotel brasserie Midi offers updated versions of French classics

    By Meredith Brody

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Now, more than ever, when we go to a high-end restaurant we want a peak experience. And now, more than ever, if you're going to open a new high-end restaurant, you ought to...

42. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: May 20, 2009

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. 5A5: 244 Jackson (at Front), 989-2539, www.5a5stk.com. Embarcadero. Steak lounge. Bar...

43. Film

    Summer of Salvation

    The film snob's guide to the best cinema the season has to offer.

    By Chuck Wilson

    Published: May 20, 2009

    "The cinema is not a slice of life but a piece of cake," Alfred Hitchcock once said, and if that's true — and who are we to dispute the Master? — then summertime is...

44. Film

    S.F. writers Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida give birth to a beautiful screenplay

    By Jonathan Kiefer

    Published: May 20, 2009

    In the new romantic road-movie dramedy Away We Go, SNL alum Maya Rudolph and The Office’s John Krasinski play an unexpectedly expectant couple roaming North America...

45. Film

    Save yourself from McG's Terminator

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade's model of killing machine: the classic V8 1984...

46. Film

    Despite its stylish trappings, The Brothers Bloom is no joke

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Writer-director Rian Johnson fashions a universe in which time is a fluid thing — where everything takes place in a familiar today and an otherworldly yesterday, where...

47. Film

    Old money meets a new world in Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Throughout his career, festival favorite Olivier Assayas has alternated between meta-pop, sometimes lurid, neo–New Wave genre flicks and their antithesis — genteel,...

48. Film

    Sasha Grey plays a part of herself in The Girlfriend Experience

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Steven Soderbergh has no particular stylistic signature and one of the most uneven oeuvres imaginable. But he does have interests. The essence of cine Soderbergh is the...

49. Arthouse

    Arthouse movie listings for May 20-26, 2009

    Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 20, 2009

    To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. 111 Minna Gallery. "We Resist!": Art, politics, and a screening of The True Cost of Chevron. Thu., May 21, 9 p.m. $15. 111 Minna...

50. Books

    Short-story master Catherine Brady doesn't need to write no stinkin' novel

    By Jonathan Kiefer

    Published: May 20, 2009

    What a cruel, capricious world. While our short-attention-span culture feasts on a junk-food reading diet of info snacks, it also wants writers of fiction to feel incomplete...

51. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    By Chris Jensen, Nathaniel Eaton, Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Candide, or Optimism. Combining an 18th-century French satire with a traditional Japanese theatrical form may seem like a gimmick just waiting to fail. But in Theatre of...