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1. Night&Day

   Up

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: May 27, 2009

   First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout, finds his inner child during a series of magical adventures experienced...

2. Night&Day

   Easy Virtue

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: May 27, 2009

   Quick! Noël Coward—sage or supercilious bitch? No matter where you stand, Stephan Elliott’s deliciously cheeky screen adaptation of one of the satirist’s...

3. Night&Day

   A Wink and a Smile

   By Michelle Orange

   Published: May 27, 2009

   A Wink and a Smile combines a survey of the underground burlesque resurgence, where the traditional striptease style is often subverted to ironic effect, with a look at the...

4. Night&Day

   Flipping Out

   By Silke Tudor

   Published: May 27, 2009

   Tim Barsky’s Kamikaze Heart is the story of a boy with a cumbersome mechanical heart who falls in love with a beautiful grantwriter, whose magical pen has earned enough...

5. Feature

   Trial by Fire

   A jury considers whether a store clerk in the Bayview acted in cold blood or in self-defense when he shot a woman he accused of shoplifting.

   By Lauren Smiley

   Published: May 27, 2009

   Like so many stories in the Bayview that end badly, Haggag Mohsin's started with a gun. Yet the 9mm semiautomatic pistol with the loaded magazine kept behind the counter of his...

6. Sucka Free City

   Late Chron scribe Herb Caen still writing up in heaven

   By Staff, SF Weekly

   Published: May 27, 2009

   Did you miss me? The Sackamenna kid certainly hasn't forgotten about you, though the view has changed. Yes, you can now call it the celestial three-dot lounge. The fingers have...

7. Sucka Free City

   Creators of Emily the Strange assert their character's lack of originality in court

   By Lauren Smiley

   Published: May 27, 2009

   We all remember the moment in high school when we realized the goth kids at the next lunch table — in trying to prove they were oh-so-different by outfitting themselves...

8. Matt Smith

   Ironically, bike hater Rob Anderson advances cause of cycling in S.F.

   By Matt Smith

   Published: May 27, 2009

   A staffer thrusts open the glass doors of the San Francisco Public Library's Mission Bay branch, rushes toward the bike racks, and pleads with a commuter who works in a nearby...

9. Letters

   SF Weekly Letters

   Published: May 27, 2009

   Best Of Readers' Comments Roundup In last week's Best of San Francisco 2009, SF Weekly picked what we think are some of the best things about our fair city. Readers made their...

10. Music

    Sila & the Afrofunk Experience celebrates Obama

    By Sam Prestianni

    Published: May 27, 2009

    While Sila and the Afrofunk Experience were recording their second album, Black President, in the Bay Area, tribal warfare was threatening the safety of band leader Victor...

11. Music

    The Roots discuss hip-hop’s second jazz age

    By Eric K. Arnold

    Published: May 27, 2009

    Hey, Bay Area: Don't tell anyone, but Questlove thinks you're special. According to the Roots' drummer, our music scene is unique in fostering acts that cross genres the way...

12. Music

    Yoshi Wada’s heav(enl)y drones

    By Andy Beta

    Published: May 27, 2009

    In the late '90s, indie-rock composer and writer Alan Licht wrote an influential list of his favorite minimalist music, recontextualizing the genre's small, repetitive gestures...

13. Let's Get Killed

    Outdated rules threaten the life of local all-ages clubs

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: May 27, 2009

    The livelihood of San Franciso's best-known all-ages venues is under siege based on issues that have nothing to do with public safety, but rather on archaic views of how a...

14. Hear This

    St. Vincent

    By Andrew Stout

    Published: May 27, 2009

    Angelic or devilish: Will the real Annie Clark step forward? In the studio as St. Vincent, the Dallas-raised former Polyphonic Spree member is the proggy-sweet siren of...

15. Hear This

    Roy Hargrove and James Carter

    By Phil Freeman

    Published: May 27, 2009

    Born within months of each other, trumpeter Roy Hargrove and saxophonist James Carter are Universal Jazz labelmates, but musically they're miles apart. Hargrove's thoughtful...

16. BeatBox

    Mala

    Published: May 27, 2009

    After a three-month hiatus, avant-bass promoters Surya Dub return for a one-off event featuring DJ and producer Mala of the vaunted South London dubstep crew Digital Mystikz....

17. BeatBox

    Tiga

    By Tony Ware

    Published: May 27, 2009

    By the time Canadian DJ and producer Tiga broke globally in 2001 (with a bedroom-produced cover of Corey Hart's "Sunglasses at Night"), he'd spent the past decade launching...

18. Bouncer

    Bouncer’s Highly Accurate Bar Quiz

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: May 27, 2009

    Your days of wandering the streets in search of your perfect watering hole are over! Just take this handy quiz and find which bar best suits you by answering these 10...

19. Eat

    Virginity Lost at Gary Danko

    By Meredith Brody

    Published: May 27, 2009

    The restaurant Gary Danko opened in 1999, and in 2000 the James Beard Foundation named it America's best new restaurant. It's always on the short list of the best places to eat...

20. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: May 27, 2009

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. 54 Mint: 16 Mint Plaza (at Jessie), 543-5100, www.54mint.com. SOMA. Italian. 5A5: 244...