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21. Night&Day

    Sticking it to the Man

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Hitoshi Matsumoto, one-half a legendary Japanese comic duo, debuts as big-screen director/star with this goof on the rubber monster movie line, especial debt owed to Ultraman....

22. Night&Day

    Moving the Dead

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Trailing mostly justified ill will for having trounced the critical favorite, Waltz With Bashir, for Best Foreign Film at last year’s Oscars, Yojirô Takita’s...

23. Night&Day

    Glass Candy

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 20, 2009

    All too often, art made of glass is also made of cheese. Corny paperweight-inspired New Agey "sculpture" is common, we'll probably never know why. (Maybe because glass is about...

24. Sucka Free City

    Goof-up allows misuse of S.F. Library's premium online resources

    By Matthew Hirsch

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Want to learn to speak Spanish? Or Korean? For $259, you could order the Rosetta Stone computer software online and start building a basic vocabulary without changing out of...

25. Sucka Free City

    Trauma storyline predictions

    By Benjamin Wachs

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Last week NBC announced it is picking up Trauma, a medical drama set in San Francisco. What storylines and plot twists can we expect? • The Trauma team sees the error of...

26. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Not the Bell of the Ball Not killing GIs: Wow, unbelievable. A cover-length article about a so-called "comedian" without a single example of what W. Kamau Bell says or thinks...

27. Feature

    Web Extra — Bonus Best Of

    Published: May 20, 2009

    People and Places Best Caltrain Voice Sergio Cruz Sergio Cruz knows what early morning Caltrain commuters heading from S.F. to their jobs on the Peninsula and the South Bay...

28. Matt Smith

    S.F.'s tasty tap water about to get a little murkier

    By Matt Smith

    Published: May 20, 2009

    We San Franciscans like to fancy ourselves unique, but most such claims don't hold water. We had 1960s counterculture movements, yes, but the thick of that action was at...

29. Music

    Prolific psych pop from the Fresh & Onlys

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: May 20, 2009

    If all goes as planned, by early next year the Fresh & Onlys will have released music on eight different labels. That's a startling feat for a band that formed a year ago, but...

30. Music

    Sir Richard Bishop captures the Middle East via Oakland

    By Brian J. Barr

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Since 2004, Sir Richard Bishop has treated his albums like international buffet tables of sound, piling a little bit of everything on his platters. His solo work (2004's...

31. Let's Get Killed

    Thee Oh Sees: A little Help goes a long way

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: May 20, 2009

    When historians look back at the last 10 years of San Francisco underground music, they'll likely note John Dwyer's sizeable impact on the Bay Area. More than most modern punk...

32. Reviewed

    Lady Sovereign

    Jigsaw (Midget/ EMI)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: May 20, 2009

    White grime rapper Lady Sovereign was the British Asher Roth of 2006, the subject of a tremendous marketing blitz preceding the U.S. release of her debut, Public Warning. As...

33. Reviewed

    Black Moth Super Rainbow

    Eating Us (Graveface Records)

    By Dave Pehling

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Ramshackle electro-psych collective Black Moth Super Rainbow first came to wider recognition with 2007's Dandelion Gum. Having dosed that record with some of the most...

34. Reviewed

    Chain and the Gang

    Down with Liberty ... Up with Chains (K)

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: May 20, 2009

    After famously marketing socialist punk in Nation of Ulysses and MC5-damaged gospel in the Make-Up, the perpetually cool Ian Svenonius has another winning concept on his hands...

35. Hear This

    Amanda Blank

    By Dan Strachota

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Over the last few years, Philly MC Amanda Blank scored props by playing and collaborating with locals Spank Rock, Diplo, Aaron LaCrate, and Plastic Little. Her debut album, I...

36. Hear This

    Fischerspooner

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: May 20, 2009

    In hindsight, the idea that people once considered Fischerspooner an electroclash act is laughable. The NYC duo of Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner has always been a synth-pop...

37. Hear This

    Animal Collective

    By Nicholas Hall

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Animal Collective makes sound behave in a multiplicity of ways, simultaneously. The band doesn't write "songs" as much as it crafts ecstatic moods and colorful musical...

38. Hear This

    NIN/Jane's Addiction

    By Sam Prestianni

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction enjoyed their heydays nearly 20 years back with debuts that blazed new paths in pop music that still resonate. NIN married the machine...

39. BeatBox

    Danny Tenaglia

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: May 20, 2009

    New Yorker Danny Tenaglia is one of the most popular touring house DJs in the world. He has the power to break records across regional borders, playing the clubbing hotspots of...

40. Bouncer

    3300 ways to make friends

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: May 20, 2009

    It's hard to tell whether bars foster phony relationships. When you feel a certain fealty to your fellow man sitting next to you, is that genuine bonhomie, or just the booze...