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41. Night&Day

    Lin + da = Linda = Pretty

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 3, 2009

    The name of Monika Lin's ethereal new set of paintings is "Small Offerings," but the title is missing something. Exactly what is hard to explain: Cogitate on the difference...

42. Night&Day

    Peapodcast

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 3, 2009

    Deborah Pardes runs a loose ship. At her Get Smart live podcast recordings, the talk-show style is the exact opposite of uptight, instead leaning towards informed, curious,...

43. Night&Day

    The Velvet Aboveground

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 3, 2009

    Of the more obsessed-about rock bands, the Velvet Underground is probably in the top five. Mostly, it's Lou Reed people can't stop talking about, but according to Allmusic.com...

44. Matt Smith

    Marriage equality can be achieved by separating church and state

    By Matt Smith

    Published: June 3, 2009

    During the period last year when same-sex couples could get married in California, the Reverend D. Mark Wilson married a lesbian couple from San Diego. All seemed fine until...

45. Sucka Free City

    Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi gets the boot for parking in his own spot at City Hall

    By Joe Eskenazi

    Published: June 3, 2009

    The truly insidious Us Weekly has a nifty little photo feature titled "Just like us!" featuring famous people caught in the act of jogging, ordering at Del Taco, buying...

46. Arthouse

    Arthouse movie listings for June 3-9, 2009

    Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 3, 2009

    To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. "Sex Work, Trafficking, and Labor Migration": Documentary. Fri., June 5, 7 p.m. $6-$20....

47. Sucka Free City

    For contract talks, BART and its unions take the information superhighway

    By Chris Roberts

    Published: June 3, 2009

    While its riders may feel at times stuck in a time warp — with tinny voices straight out of Tron announcing train arrivals and a transit network left largely untouched...

48. Sucka Free City

    How to Sell Marriage Equality

    By Benjamin Wachs

    Published: June 3, 2009

    Last week, the gay-marriage movement in San Francisco sent volunteers to Fresno to start canvassing for the support of voters in more conservative parts of California. Here are...

49. Music

    Neko Case, fan-eater

    By Rob Harvilla

    Published: June 3, 2009

    I would bet the Vermont farm she now apparently owns that no one in the past decade has put up with more dunderheaded audience hoots of horndog devotion than Neko Case. Soaking...

50. Music

    The Juan Maclean adds a Human touch

    By Tony Ware

    Published: June 3, 2009

    John MacLean identifies with androids. Discussing the 1982 cult film Blade Runner, he admits that its artfully overcast tone has influenced the work of his group, the Juan...

51. Let's Get Killed

    Animal Collective: live from Big Sur

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: June 3, 2009

    There wasn't a couple getting hitched, but Animal Collective's show in Big Sur last week felt more like a hippie wedding than a concert. There was just something celebratory,...

52. Reviewed

    Peaches

    I Feel Cream (XL/Beggars)

    By David Hansen

    Published: June 3, 2009

    Peaches' 2000 debut, Teaches of Peaches, was undoubtedly a high point of its genre. There was something uniting and motivating to be found in Merrill Nisker's skeletal...

53. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: June 3, 2009

    Gearing Up for Debate Different spokes for different folks: Matt Smith writes ["Gear Shift," Column, 5/27], "While bicyclists themselves have failed to suppress this unhelpful...

54. Reviewed

    Eminem

    Relapse (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: June 3, 2009

    Having fought a prescription pill addiction and mourned his murdered friend Proof, Eminem has chosen to use his new album as his therapy. Whereas he played his last work,...

55. Reviewed

    Jason Lytle

    Yours Truly, the Commuter (ANTI-)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: June 3, 2009

    It may be a relief to Grandaddy fans that former frontman Jason Lytle's solo debut sounds exactly like the erstwhile Modesto group's output. But that shouldn't come as a...

56. Hear This

    Bob Harp

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: June 3, 2009

    On his upcoming release Collecting Dust, Bob Harp's gently earnest delivery brings him in line with the 1972 continuum of singer-songwriters like James Taylor and Gordon...

57. Hear This

    Handsome Furs

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: June 3, 2009

    Handsome Furs' Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry aren't the only married couple to embrace synths and an '80s sound lately — Grand Duchy sees the Pixies' Frank Black doing...

58. BeatBox

    Lee Coombs

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: June 3, 2009

    A stalwart of the British music scene with a staggering 20 years of experience under his belt, DJ, producer, and remixer Lee Coombs is such a fan of San Francisco's club...

59. Bouncer

    Jay Bennett breaks a heart

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: June 3, 2009

    Cormac McCarthy once said that all writers worth their salt should write about death. If literature doesn't take on that great mystery, then it just ain't literature in his...

60. Eat

    Bar cuisine at the Broken Record

    By Matthew Stafford

    Published: June 3, 2009

    If you live out in the Excelsior District, you probably already know about the Broken Record. Located four blocks east of the Mission/Geneva crossroad along a broad swatch of...