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41. Night&Day

    Mural Plural

    By Andy Wright

    Published: June 24, 2009

    The Mission District is known for its superior weather, a plethora of taquerias, and the proliferation of V-necked hipsters, for starters. It’s also rich with art and...

42. Night&Day

    Seeing Is Believing

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 24, 2009

    What is "visual poetry?" Couldn't that term describe painting, or photography, or dancing? The answer is yes, of course, but the performers and writers and other contributors...

43. Night&Day

    The Offspring

    By Melissa Anderson

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Jennifer Lynch has been tarred with the unfounded claim that her films get made only because of who her father is. David Lynch serves as executive producer of Surveillance,...

44. Night&Day

    Just Some Girl

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: June 24, 2009

    There’s not much to this thin, sun-drenched concoction about a straight-arrow Paris lawyer (Fabrice Luchini) who descends on the titular Côte d’Azur resort to...

45. Night&Day

    Put it in Park

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Sometimes it seems like we have it so good around here. Even our volunteer work is relatively glamorous -- no cleaning up the local toxic dump or working with corny religious...

46. Summer Guide

    Fun Times from Uncle Sugar

    Fifteen fabulous ways to stimulate the local economy.

    By Karen Macklin

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Are things looking bad inside the deep, empty recesses of your wallet? Well, lucky you: The IRS has your back. Under the federal stimulus plan, we'll all be getting a little...

47. Matt Smith

    Supervisors consider ballot measure to pull city ads from newspapers

    By Matt Smith

    Published: June 24, 2009

    If you attend any meetings at San Francisco's City Hall, you're likely to find shutterbug Luke Thomas snapping shots for his Web site, Fog City Journal. His 10,000 monthly...

48. Music

    Phoenix crafts the season’s perfect hits

    By Rob Harvilla

    Published: June 24, 2009

    As with the Pulitzer Prize, an esteemed and inviolable committee — a slightly larger one, in this case, as it comprises the entire American public — convenes...

49. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: June 24, 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. Aicha:...

50. Film

    Woody Allen on life, actors, younger women, and his 40th film

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: June 24, 2009

    The new Woody Allen film, Whatever Works — his 40th, for those keeping count — signals a return for the filmmaker in more ways than one. For starters, it is his...

51. Summer Guide

    Cheap Musical Thrills

    Give your ears — and your wallet— a summer treat.

    By Mike Rowell

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Summer offers no shortage of ways to drop mad cash on musical diversions, from multiday festivals to hoary reunion tours. Consider the Outside Lands Festival in Golden Gate...

52. Sucka Free City

    Officer concludes distinguished career while being investigated by the FBI

    By Ashley Harrell

    Published: June 24, 2009

    After more than 36 years of dedicated service to San Francisco, police officer Paul Makaveckas has retired, according to police spokeswoman Sergeant Lyn Tomioka. Although it is...

53. Music

    Our picks for Spectrum, the weekend’s big dance party

    By Ron Nachmann

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Those who are weary of multigenre, multistage music events like the two-day Spectrum Festival might roll their eyes at its crowded bill, which will take over all three rooms of...

54. Film

    My Sister's Keeper is honest about illness but false about everything else

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Eleven-year-old Anna Fitzgerald's parents didn't just plan for her — they customized her in utero, with the specific end of providing spare parts and infusions for her...

55. Sucka Free City

    Despite firefighters' scare tactics, city unlikely to burn to the ground because of proposed cuts

    By Chris Roberts

    Published: June 24, 2009

    It was more than a century ago, but the horrors of the 1906 earthquake and fire aren't buried very deep in our collective subconscious. But those in need of a reminder need...

56. Music

    Wilco loves you

    By Chris Gray

    Published: June 24, 2009

    For a band that's perpetually on the road, Wilco has always seemed very domesticated. Maybe it's the way founder Jeff Tweedy acts like a temperamental patriarch, alternately...

57. Summer Guide

    Beer Is Good Food

    Tour the city's breweries and brewpubs this summer.

    By Matthew Stafford

    Published: June 24, 2009

    The art of matching food to beer hasn't quite attained the snob appeal of pairing the perfect wine to that juicy slab of porterhouse, but we're getting there. Now that...

58. Summer Guide

    A literary road trip up the Mendonoma coast

    By Maya Kroth

    Published: June 24, 2009

    A half-century ago, beatniks and hippies fatigued by the heaviness of the San Francisco scene began a northward migration toward a quieter life amid the redwoods. Artists and...

59. Sucka Free City

    All hail the new police chief

    By Benjamin Wachs

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Mayor Gavin Newsom recently appointed George Gascón as San Francisco's new chief of police. What are the top criteria Newsom set out for the new chief? • A...

60. Stage

    Familiarity with Monty Python's movies doesn't breed fondness for Spamalot

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: June 24, 2009

    If you grew up in the U.K. in the 1980s as I did, you grew up immersed in the world of Monty Python. At the age of 11, my friends and I would spend entire weekends glued to the...