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21. Night&Day

    So Jockular

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 10, 2009

    The big problem with basketball is that it’s too hard. Practically impossible. Very dangerous. Maybe that’s why it’s so fun to watch? At the San Francisco Gay...

22. Night&Day

    Raise the Roof

    By Andy Wright

    Published: June 10, 2009

    In 1964, Zero Mostel opined from a Broadway stage that if he were a rich man, he'd fill his yard with "chicks and turkeys and geese and ducks for the town to see and hear."...

23. Night&Day

    From Sacto, Northern Cal

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Most writers hate their juvenilia: Adrian Tomine spends nearly the whole introduction of 32 Stories, a rerelease of his collected early work, slamming it. He uses the words...

24. Night&Day

    Old Is New Again

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 10, 2009

    In this country, when we want to impress someone with the passage of time, we say, "This thing is literally a hundred years old." This habit must be hilarious to the rest of...

25. Night&Day

    Drinking Gallo

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Step two in Francis Ford Coppola’s reinvention as a self-financed, off-Hollywood, personal filmmaker, Tetro -- a moody job shot in carefully-framed widescreen and...

26. Night&Day

    Total Downer

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 10, 2009

    The Soviet Union admitted that yes, it mass killed 15,000 Polish POWs and then blamed it on the Nazis. Unfortunately, the soldiers were offed in 1940, and the admission didn't...

27. Night&Day

    Go Ahead, Laugh

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Using the same concept, an amateur (that's you!) would probably wind up with a bunch of really stupid snapshots. But at "Kenneth Josephson," the artist takes excellent...

28. Stage

    In Krapp's Last Tape, an old writer listens to his younger self

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Alongside the deadly crime of uttering the word "Macbeth" within earshot of any actor, director, or stage manager involved in staging the legendarily cursed Scottish Play,...

29. Matt Smith

    Graft and Gaming

    City employees are bleeding the city to death. One way is legal and the other is not.

    By Matt Smith

    Published: June 10, 2009

    It would be hard to imagine a more pathetic hero than Alexander Deanda, who used to manage the water-meter repair shop for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. The...

30. Music

    The Jacka reprises hyphy with a gangsta twist

    By Eric K. Arnold

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Who needs a hyphy movement when you have the Jacka? The Pittsburg turf rapper is a one-man phenomenon. Though independent, he has as much street cred as any major-label rap...

31. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: June 10, 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...

32. Film

    John Travolta plays the ringleader in The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Want to know how a city works? Start by watching 1974's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a primer in which subway hijackers test how long it'll take a million bucks to pass...

33. Stagecap

    Man of La Mancha

    By Chris Jensen

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Theater in gorgeous outdoor settings can be somewhat critic-proof, especially when the show in question takes place at the top of Mount Tamalpais. If you're in the mood to pack...

34. Sucka Free City

    Amidst a budget crisis, the city is losing its shirt in the antiques business

    By Peter Jamison

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Last August, Amy Brown, director of San Francisco's real estate division, stood before a Board of Supervisors committee and made the kind of promise that gets elected...

35. News

    SF Weekly appeals the Bay Guardian's big payday to a higher court

    By Andy Van De Voorde

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Fifteen months after Bay Guardian publisher Bruce Brugmann received a staggering $16 million judgment in his predatory pricing lawsuit against SF Weekly and its parent company,...

36. Music

    Steve Albini is built for the long haul

    By Phil Freeman

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Renowned audio engineer Steve Albini has spent most of the last two decades running hundreds of recording sessions out of Chicago's Electrical Audio studios. Music geeks know...

37. Stagecap

    Katya: What Becomes a Legend Most?

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: June 10, 2009

    J. Conrad Frank avoids the pitfalls of many drag shows that rely too much on kitsch, shakily sung parody songs, and trashy banter. Frank's alter ego, the Russian countess Katya...

38. Sucka Free City

    Businesses feel trapped by costs of Union Square's Business Improvement District

    By Chris Roberts

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Ever wandered through Union Square and spotted some smartly dressed folks sporting matching red vests and hats? They are the Union Square Ambassadors. These knowledgeable...

39. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    By Nathaniel Eaton, Hiya Swanhuyser and Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Fukú Americanus. After finding great success bringing Dave Eggers' novel You Shall Know Our Velocity to the stage (Sacrament, 2004), the Mission's Campo Santo is...

40. Sucka Free City

    Crimes Craigslist could have been charged with

    By SF Weekly Staff

    Published: June 10, 2009

    The Attorney General of South Carolina recently threatened Craigslist management with criminal prosecution for prostitution ads on the site. (He later backed down.) What are...