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1. Letters

   SF Weekly Letters

   Published: June 10, 2009

   Workplace Dispute Shun-unemployment: No wonder we are behind in so many categories when it comes to competing on a global stage ["Funemployment," Peter Jamison, Feature, 6/3]....

2. Music

   The business of selling used MP3s

   By Eliot Van Buskirk

   Published: June 10, 2009

   Carting a crate of used CDs to your local record store so you can make rent is a rite of passage as ancient as it can be tearful. But what about those MP3s and iTunes songs...

3. Music

   A Beautiful Risk

   Tired of hiding the truth, she transitioned into a male sex worker. He’s been in a struggle with societal norms — and himself — ever since.

   By Ashley Harrell

   Published: June 10, 2009

   On a damp Wednesday evening, while chain-smoking on the patio at a Tenderloin gay dive bar, Stephen Gray decided he wanted to rehearse. His performance, which would be part of...

4. Eat

   Michael Mina's RN74 is a work in progress

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: June 10, 2009

   There may have been no more eagerly anticipated restaurant opening this year than that of RN74, familiarly known as "Michael Mina's new wine bar." Fans of his complicated and...

5. Film

   Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida make their film writing debut with Away We Go

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: June 10, 2009

   Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers' solipsistic, terminally-apologetic-for-being-solipsistic...

6. Night&Day

   The Warriors

   Published: June 10, 2009

   Did you know that the guy who directed The Warriors also directed 48 Hrs., Another 48 Hrs., Trespass (with Ices Cube and T), Crossroads (the Karate Kid!) and a zillon other...

7. Night&Day

   The Song of Sparrows

   By Nicolas Rapold

   Published: June 10, 2009

   The direct appeals of his melodramatic groundswells have long made Oscar-nominated Iranian director Majid Majidi a dismissed old-school counterpart to Abbas Kiarostami and...

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   Watchmen

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: June 10, 2009

   Filming the most ambitious superhero comic book ever written, director Zack Snyder has managed to address the cult while pandering to the masses. The master of the vid-game...

9. Night&Day

   Nightcrawlers at Rest

   By Evan James

   Published: June 10, 2009

   Queer nightlife in San Francisco renews itself constantly, forever drawing stunned and watchful admirers with its untamed aesthetic — by turns flashy, fly-by-night, and...

10. Night&Day

    Just Add Water

    By Tara Jepsen

    Published: June 10, 2009

    For some of us, spending a summer at dad’s meant a systematic and voracious consumption of Top Ramen. Cycling through the flavors Chicken, Beef, and Oriental (unbelievably...

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    Big in Japan

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 10, 2009

    You know how people say how sex is a celebration of life? The Air Sex Championships aren’t like that. The Air Sex Championships are pretty messed up. Director Kevin Smith...

12. Night&Day

    Sold Aziz

    By Tara Jepsen

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Is this country in a magical time for comedy, or are we just in a good mood? San Francisco has Ali Wong, Kamau Bell, Brent Weinbach, and Beth Lisick. The greater U.S. has Zach...

13. Night&Day

    Softly, Sweetly

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 10, 2009

    You can have "Killing Me Softly with His Song." Roberta Flack's most famous song is a grand treasure, a thing of beauty, and an artwork that makes us proud to be American. And...

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    A Shot of Bregovic

    By Dan Strachota

    Published: June 10, 2009

    It's an oversimplification to say that Balkans like to sing, dance, and drink. And yet, these are the activities most often found in the Balkan art that makes its way...

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    Fuck Vampires

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 10, 2009

    The zombie genre first tried to die in 1933, a year after Bela Lugosi’s White Zombie. It found out it couldn’t – it was undead. The zombie genre will never die,...

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    Your Cakehole

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Betty Crocker was a feminist and loved foreigners. That's our interpretation of available information about the television face of Betty Crocker from 1949 to 1964, Adelaide...

17. Night&Day

    Really, America? Really?

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 10, 2009

    We know of a high school history teacher who once left her lesson on the Trail of Tears to a substitute. Luckily, the sub was excellent and the class left shell-shocked,...

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    New Queer Anthems

    By Michael Fox

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Long described and too-often defined by the first three letters of the phrase “sexual orientation,” the LGBT community has grown up. Sure, the annual San Francisco...

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    On the Wall

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Daniel Rozin is a mirror artist. You haven’t heard of many mirror artists because they’re all down at the craft fair, gluing mosaics and listening to Steppenwolf....

20. Night&Day

    So You Think You Can Clog?

    By Evan James

    Published: June 10, 2009

    Every city gets the queer performance festival it deserves, and San Francisco is no exception. That is why there are highly skilled gay Appalachian clog dancers at the Fresh...