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1. Feature

   Predators are free to move about the cabin

   The girl flew as an unaccompanied minor, and she's still experiencing turbulence.

   By Ashley Harrell

   Published: July 15, 2009

   The mother had been waiting at the Oakland airport for a very long time, and was beginning to worry. The flight had landed nearly an hour ago. She scanned the faces of the...

2. Music

   Juan Son makes quirky Mexican pop

   By Maya Kroth

   Published: July 15, 2009

   Mexican pop star Juan Son has a vision for his new music video, but the fish markets in Guadalajara aren't cooperating. "We're trying to find lobsters that are alive, but...

3. Eat

   Fancy beef at extravagant prices at 5A5 Steak Lounge

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: July 15, 2009

   San Francisco is not a great steakhouse town. It has neither the legendary steakhouses of New York (Keen's, Sparks, Old Homestead, Peter Luger) nor the sexy new steakhouses of...

4. Film

   (500) Days of Summer: a love story in a blender

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: July 15, 2009

   On the surface, (500) Days of Summer really is no different than, oh, let's say, The Proposal, in which Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock spun box-office gold from romantic...

5. Night&Day

   Humpday

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: July 15, 2009

   Humpday opens with a pair of breeders in bed. A youngish married couple, Ben (mumblecordeon Mark Duplass) and Anna (Alycia Delmore), confess that they’re too tired to...

6. Night&Day

   Tear It Up, Tear It Down

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: July 15, 2009

   Andy Vogt is obsessed with lath. People without this obsession may not know of the grand tension, the sense of the very Earth turning on its axis in space indicated by the...

7. Night&Day

   Eating Unnaturally, Naturally

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: July 15, 2009

   Some people think the future of agriculture is in the marriage of organic farming and genetically engineered food. Two of those people are Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer,...

8. Night&Day

   Very Post-Punk

   By John O'Neill

   Published: July 15, 2009

   Thirty years have elapsed since the Mekons fired their first missive, “Never Been in a Riot,” across the bow of the music industry. That single, a plucky, jagged...

9. Night&Day

   Cheap Queens Behaving Badly

   By Evan James

   Published: July 15, 2009

   A wise, ancient Roman shut-in once said: “Beauty is skin deep, but a cheap tranny is forever.” Benjamin Franklin said: “Cheap trannies and folly are old...

10. Night&Day

    Something Like a Phenomenon

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 15, 2009

    Hope you've been practicing — The New York Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off is the chance you've been waiting for your entire young life. A dance competition needs...

11. Night&Day

    A Squishable Feast

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: July 15, 2009

    Taxonomy is a bitch: Turns out a tomato isn't even a fruit. It’s a berry, a true berry, unlike a strawberry, which isn’t a berry at all but a compound fruit. Why?...

12. Night&Day

    Rock the Shul

    By Michael Fox

    Published: July 15, 2009

    Contrary to the narrow Biblical definition embraced by Israel’s Orthodox rabbinate — or the ethnocentrism of assimilated Americans descended from the Ashkenazi Jews...

13. Night&Day

    Dames on the TL

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: July 15, 2009

    Urban developers can dress her up and change her name, but the Tenderloin’s preferred eau de parfum will always be fortified wine and a quick buck — history and...

14. Night&Day

    The Thespian Shat

    By Michael Fox

    Published: July 15, 2009

    William Shatner has bravely gone where no man (except George Hamilton) has gone before — beyond parody, beyond self-parody, into the farthest realm of self-defined cool....

15. Night&Day

    Fair Use

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: July 15, 2009

    From a legal perspective, Girl Talk is remarkable — he isn't in jail. To us, it means copyright laws will never be the same, that they have in fact already changed and are...

16. Night&Day

    How Green Was My Thespian Wormhole

    By Evan James

    Published: July 15, 2009

    We all know the type: unshaven, shifty-eyed, lovable scoundrels, sitting on park benches and babbling to themselves, saying things like “I’m gonna stomp your...

17. Night&Day

    Iran So Far Away

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 15, 2009

    What’s going on over there? We’ve seen so many Iranians, angrily marching in the streets, getting pelted and baton-whipped and killed and arrested — yet they...

18. Night&Day

    We Got the Beats

    By Andy Wright

    Published: July 15, 2009

    In these cash-poor times, “staycations” are all the rage, and the San Francisco Public Library is no stranger to the phenomenon. Your bank balance may be meager, but...

19. Night&Day

    Bowling with Walter

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: July 15, 2009

    Some films, like Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, hit cult status by the time the first scene trips over itself and tumbles to a close. Others, like The Big Lebowski, take a while...

20. Night&Day

    Do Not Eat This

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 15, 2009

    Sonya Philip's "Monster Series" of felt creatures is a set of handmade, um, items (they bring to mind tiny stuffed animals, but they're not stuffed) with solemn-looking teeth,...