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1. Music

   Santero summons orishas to the club scene

   By Eric K. Arnold

   Published: June 24, 2009

   The burgeoning Urban Latino genre has come of age with the arrival of reggaetón-heavy Spanish-language radio stations, Urban Latino magazine, and even a Rough Guide...

2. Music

   Pay for Play

   Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese (Devo, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) sells himself, his famous friends, and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler to promote his new album.

   By Vickie Chang

   Published: June 24, 2009

   As the sun sets over the parking lot of the Long Beach Courthouse, one of the best and busiest session drummers in the industry is standing motionless, a pair of shearing...

3. Eat

   Noodle Theory fuses Asian noodles with quality ingredients and zesty spicing

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: June 24, 2009

   After a couple of years operating his cozy upscale noodle shop, Noodle Theory, in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland, chef-owner Louis Kao has crossed the bridge and opened...

4. Film

   Not even the great Larry David can salvage Woody Allen's shtick in Whatever Works

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: June 24, 2009

   Character is destiny — at least for Woody Allen's Whatever Works. Allen's exercise in Woody Allen nostalgia opens with a snatch of Groucho Marx singing his trademark...

5. Night&Day

   S-Rod

   By Dan Strachota

   Published: June 24, 2009

   Back in the early 1970s, a Mexican-American singer-songwriter named Sixto Rodriguez recorded two fascinating psych-folk discs chronicling the underbelly of urban America. Not...

6. Night&Day

   Objects of Affection

   By Aaron Hillis

   Published: June 24, 2009

   Whether you’ve pulled this week’s paper out of a kiosk or you’re reading this online in your (hopefully) ergonomic computer chair, chances are that you take the...

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   Art Imitates Naptime

   By Evan James

   Published: June 24, 2009

   The word “hypnagogia” refers to the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep, and may be familiar to some readers of scientific or witchy sleep literature...

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   Everybody Gets a Sign!

   By Silke Tudor

   Published: June 24, 2009

   Frank Chu holds the Guinness world record for the longest successive protest, according to Frank Chu, and he has logged more miles than the March of Dimes. These factoids might...

9. Night&Day

   Happy as a …

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: June 24, 2009

   People don't seem to like writing about Shannon and the Clams: Sometimes it's better, much better, to just stick something in your ear. So we apologize: You're gonna have to...

10. Night&Day

    Woody Allen's Got Nothing on This Bunch

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Loren Kraut is unwell. She has obsessive-compulsive disorder, poor thing. Also, her name is a racial slur, but let's not go into that. Let's focus on the fact that she's a...

11. Night&Day

    But “Frisco” Tattoos Are Fine

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Visitors should understand that civic disdain for the epithet “Frisco” stretches back as far as 1872, when Joshua Abraham Norton, self-proclaimed Emperor of the...

12. Night&Day

    Drawing on Life

    By Tara Jepsen

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Absurdity and insight are at the heart of Joey Alison Sayers’ work, which includes comic strips, paintings, and T-shirt design. It’s angry giggling, or a giggling...

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    Unmistaken Child

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Israeli documentarian Nati Baratz’s Unmistaken Child is a drama of faith, about a Tibetan monk’s search for the reincarnation of his beloved master Lama Konchog. This...

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    Whatever Works

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Whatever Works is Woody Allen’s first New York movie after five years abroad. It’s his first in even longer to center on the Woody Allen character—an urban...

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    Summer in the Cité

    By Michael Fox

    Published: June 24, 2009

    A vacation in Paris requires means and opportunity, and both are in short supply at this point in the recession and the summer. What to do? You could get all melancholy with a...

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    Johnny Comes Marching

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 24, 2009

    We predict the good people at the Trans March (June 26 rally starts 3 p.m., march starts 7 p.m. at Dolores Park, www.transmarch.org) will win the queer popularity contest this...

17. Night&Day

    Still Fit to Print?

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: June 24, 2009

    With the App Store, Steve Jobs gave the newspaper industry an innovative way to distribute and charge for their content, similar to what he did for the record industry. The...

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    Window, Window, on the Street

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: June 24, 2009

    Shop windows are always art galleries, in a way: We want to look into them, even with the knowledge that they exist only to manipulate. At the massive recent biennial...

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

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: June 24, 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,...

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    Duplicity

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: June 24, 2009

    It’s little surprise that, for his second film as director, Michael Clayton director Tony Gilroy leans heavily on his favored tropes of international espionage and...