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21. Night&Day

    Art Operations

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: July 1, 2009

    During the 2003 gubernatorial contest, out-of-state media turned Nao Bustamante — sister of Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante — into a derisive footnote. Taken out...

22. Night&Day

    Be His Valentine

    Published: July 1, 2009

    J. Valentine is the closest San Francisco comes to a homegrown R&B superstar. The singer and songwriter has penned material for Tyrese, *NSYNC, and Mario, and appeared on two...

23. Night&Day

    Coming Out in the Country

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Bohdan Slama's Czech-language feature is a beautiful, meditative look at the hicks in the sticks. Sort of. The Country Teacher hinges on the ignorance of a small town -- a new...

24. Night&Day

    How Much Does It Cost?

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Tatia Rosenthal’s stop-motion animation $9.99 adds a measure of stolid creepiness to co-writer Etgar Keret’s brand of dark whimsy. Like Jellyfish -- the live-action...

25. Night&Day

    Going Up

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: July 1, 2009

    As William, a taciturn senior who seems to be planning for his final days, veteran character actor and former Elvis Presley bodyguard Red West takes center stage in Goodbye...

26. Night&Day

    Gabriel; Not the Angel

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 1, 2009

    We love grandmas. Also, we think Bob Barker jokes are the shiznit. So when Dan Gabriel tells the story of taking his 91-year-old grandma ("little, Filipino, beautiful") to a...

27. Books

    Two new books explore wine bootlegging during Prohibition

    By Jonathan Kiefer

    Published: July 1, 2009

    While waiting for Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's bill to legalize pot to actually become meaningful to you, why not undertake a comprehensive, compelling survey of 14 turbulent...

28. News

    Ripped, literally: as in the muscles of some new recruits to the fad of fitness bootcamps

    By Anna McCarthy

    Published: July 1, 2009

    An earlier verson of this story incorrectly identified CrosSFit of San Francisco in a number of instances when it should have named CrossFit, Inc. Also, the story implied that...

29. Music

    Which Duranie are you — 25 years later

    By Andrew Stout

    Published: July 1, 2009

    It's 1984, and your female teenage fantasy life is dominated by England's puffy-shirted synth gods, Duran Duran. Countless slumber parties revolve around quizzes in BOP and...

30. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Aicha: 1303 Polk (at Pine), 345-9947, www.aichasf.com. Nob Hill/Tenderloin. Moroccan. Escape from New York Pizza: 3242 22nd St. (at Bartlett), www.escapefromnewyorkpizza.com....

31. Film

    The life and crimes of John Dillinger in the fast and furious Public Enemies

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: July 1, 2009

    "They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So says the Depression-era bankrobber-cum-folk-hero John Dillinger upon surveying the...

32. Bookcap

    July Book Events: Kevin Starr, Paul Krassner, Jaimal Yogis, and Alan Drew

    By Jonathan Kiefer

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Tuesday, July 7 Kevin Starr, historian, USC prof, and state librarian emeritus, is responsible for an indispensable series of books known collectively as Americans and the...

33. Sucka Free City

    SOMA residents peeved about Stanlee Gatti's noisy Sunday night bash

    By Ashley Harrell

    Published: July 1, 2009

    As the party planner for San Francisco's upper crust, Stanlee Gatti has become quite famous himself. He served as best man at Mayor Gavin Newsom's first wedding. And in 2007, a...

34. Music

    The Strange Boys hit the low-budget high-water mark

    By John O'Neill

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Of the myriad genre "revivals" over the past 30 or so years, far more effort has been spent in the garage-rock world trying to re-create the now sound of yesteryear than in...

35. Sucka Free City

    Willie Brown tries to force city to restore lucrative contract with engineering firm

    By Joe Eskenazi

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Even though he isn't in office anymore, it looks like Willie Brown is still making surprises for the Board of Supervisors. Da Former Mayor is sponsoring a bill in the state...

36. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    By Molly Rhodes, Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo. It seems silly to judge an entire play based on one face slap. But when Ann (René Augesen) strikes her insensitive husband, Peter...

37. Sucka Free City

    Some topics we'd like to see on Billy and Peter Getty's blog

    By Staff, SF Weekly

    Published: July 1, 2009

    A couple of weeks ago, rich kids Billy and Peter Getty launched a blog about what it's like to be insanely wealthy, "What the Butler Didn't See," on the Chronicle's Web site....

38. Let's Get Killed

    DJ Beto digs past Latin insects for the real funk

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: July 1, 2009

    It's not exactly the same thing, being a crate-digger in this country as it is being one in Latin America. Here, record collectors fear the early birds at estate sales. In...

39. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Serving Servicemembers Vet trades dog tags for dog: I have a psychiatric service dog ["Service with a Snarl," Joe Eskenazi, Feature, 6/17]. As someone with mild agoraphobia,...

40. Hear This

    Pentagram

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Pentagram was arguably the lone American contemporary of Black Sabbath during the early 1970s that dealt in the same sludgy riffs and monolithic menace. Built around the dark...