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1. Feature

   Service with a Snarl

   In San Francisco, lizards, rodents, and vicious Chihuahuas have all been declared service animals.

   By Joe Eskenazi

   Published: June 17, 2009

   Not long ago, Charles Esler's Chihuahua, Tita, chased a woman clear across Dolores Park. The dog "just gets fixated," he says nonchalantly. "It's only with females that she'll...

2. Music

   PJ Harvey and the Banshees

   By Sam Prestianni

   Published: June 17, 2009

   PJ Harvey is the woman of our nightmares. She's a commanding shape-shifter, shadow, and siren. Wailing to the black-and-blue heavens above, she opens herself up to the...

3. Eat

   Shanghai comes to Chinatown via Bund

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: June 17, 2009

   By now, almost everybody in San Francisco who loves Chinese food has experienced xiao long bao (soup dumplings), a famous Shanghainese delicacy of steamed dumplings that...

4. Film

   Francis Ford Coppola talks film, critics, and marriage

   By Aaron Hillis

   Published: June 17, 2009

   Out from under the $25 million debt incurred from self-financing Apocalypse Now and One from the Heart, and so no longer seduced by Hollywood moolah, 70-year-old wine mogul...

5. Night&Day

   Sleep Dealer

   By Aaron Hillis

   Published: June 17, 2009

   Science fiction easily lends itself to allegory, but while the dystopian near-future of co-writer/director Alex Rivera’s feature debut focuses, admirably, on how...

6. Night&Day

   Herb & Dorothy

   By Aaron Hillis

   Published: June 17, 2009

   Chuck Close calls them the mascots of the art world. Christo and Jeanne-Claude once offered them a drawing in exchange for taking care of their cat, Gladys, for a summer. The...

7. Night&Day

   The End of the Line

   By Aaron Hillis

   Published: June 17, 2009

   We’re overwhelmed by crises these days (financial, terrorist, climate, mid-life), and, as if we needed to be depressed any further, each seems to leave a four-alarm doc in...

8. Art

   For its 35th anniversary, Camerawork goes postal

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: June 17, 2009

   It's not often that a gallery show inspires you to think about how the art got there, in a practical sense. But when it comes to the genre of mail art, almost 200 pieces of...

9. Matt Smith

   SFPD's shadow disciplinary system wastes taxpayer money

   By Matt Smith

   Published: June 17, 2009

   Behind a vast, thick glass window flanked by locked doors, a dozen vacant-faced figures mill around so slowly that it seems as if the stolid boredom of life in this room has...

10. Music

    Yoshi’s steps up its game with free-jazz fest

    By Dave Pehling

    Published: June 17, 2009

    Yoshi's has faced a bedeviling challenge since opening a second location in the Fillmore District in 2007. How can the venue maintain its reputation as a pioneering jazz club...

11. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: June 17, 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...

12. Film

    Papa Coppola returns, successfully, to the clan in Tetro

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: June 17, 2009

    As Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola's baroque genealogical melodrama, reaches its appropriately hysterical denouement, Vincent Gallo fixes his pale gaze on young co-star Alden...

13. Artcap

    "Susan O'Malley: You Are Exactly Where You Need to Be"

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: June 17, 2009

    Susan O'Malley is upbeat. The artist and curator has an ongoing project, "The Pep Talk Squad," in which she and collaborator Christina Amini "give pep talks when we can,...

14. Sucka Free City

    Report says peak oil could cause food shortages in S.F.

    By Alastair Bland

    Published: June 17, 2009

    In May, an obscure city advisory group released the results of a 15-month study of San Francisco's vulnerabilities to peak oil, a scenario that assumes the global supply of oil...

15. Music

    King Sunny Adé's legnthy reign

    By Ross Simonini

    Published: June 17, 2009

    King Sunny Adé is the world's first Afro-rock star and the father of what your local record store calls "world music." With such a long history — he has clocked 40...

16. Film

    Bowie's kid makes his own space oddity in Moon

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: June 17, 2009

    Moon, directed by British advert tyro Duncan Jones, is a modest science fiction film with major aspirations. Jones' debut is pleased to engage genre behemoths — 2001,...

17. Artcap

    "Claire Fontaine: The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers"

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: June 17, 2009

    The French art collective Claire Fontaine refers to itself in the singular, as a "readymade artist" who "uses her freshness and youth to make herself a whatever-singularity and...

18. Sucka Free City

    Craigslist executive accuses newspapers of hurting his site's bottom line

    By Anna McCarthy

    Published: June 17, 2009

    Newspapers have spent the past decade whining over Craigslist pulling the classifieds rug out from under their industry's once-Prada–clad feet. But after law enforcement...

19. Let's Get Killed

    Toshio Hirano, the Tokyo yodeler

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: June 17, 2009

    There are two types of trouble country singers tend to get into in song: either they lose their heart, or they lose their job. That's how 58-year-old Japanese singer and...

20. Film

    One more down the aisle with The Proposal

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: June 17, 2009

    Fifteen minutes after seeing The Proposal, I'd forgotten I'd seen The Proposal. Well, that isn't entirely true: By then, it had simply merged in my memory with a thousand other...