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1. Feature

   The Outsider

   George Gascon is S.F.'s first police chief in 30 years who wasn't homegrown — and he's promising big changes. Criminals and lazy cops, you have been warned.

   By Matt Smith

   Published: July 22, 2009

   During the past seven years, incoming San Francisco police chief George Gascon has, in some respects, operated as an up-to-date version of the kind and composed, wise and wily...

2. Music

   Jarvis Cocker, Britpop’s thinking pervert

   By Ryan Foley

   Published: July 22, 2009

   Ex-Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker recently allowed scientists to measure the physical effects playing music has on his body. He performed with onetime bandmate Richard Hawley for...

3. Eat

   Seasonal ingredients and skillful handling make Flour + Water a Mission hit

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: July 22, 2009

   Naming an Italian restaurant Flour + Water is a bit of a dare, as if to say, "Look what we can do with the humblest and simplest of ingredients." Owners David White, a veteran...

4. Film

   Spoofing the run-up to war, In the Loop is political satire done right

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: July 22, 2009

   In the Loop doesn't necessarily mean you're in the know. In Armando Iannucci's movie, a satire of the run-up to war with a Middle Eastern country, it means that all the poor...

5. Night&Day

   Burma VJ

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: July 22, 2009

   How we view the relationship between traditional and new media should forever be changed by Danish filmmaker Anders Ostergaard's terrific documentary about a loosely organized...

6. Night&Day

   Captain Abu Raed

   By F.X. Feeney

   Published: July 22, 2009

   Abu Raed (Nadim Sawalha) is an elderly widower who works as a janitor at the international airport in Amman, Jordan. He’s well-read, philosophical and given to moments of...

7. Night&Day

   Jerichow

   By Melissa Anderson

   Published: July 22, 2009

   Retooled noir with less pulp than its original source, Christian Petzold’s Jerichow wryly riffs on The Postman Always Rings Twice for late-capitalist Deutschland. Mostly...

8. Night&Day

   In the Loop

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: July 22, 2009

   This deliriously foul-mouthed political satire is set sometime between 2002 and the day after tomorrow; hard to say, given that the country with which U.S. and U.K. pols want...

9. Stage

   S.F. Playhouse's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest crams too many actors onto a small stage

   By Chloe Veltman

   Published: July 22, 2009

   One of the most powerful aspects of live theater is its ability to make us sit through abnormal human behavior. When the recipe is right, the discomfort we feel while...

10. Sucka Free City

    No boners allowed at this year's Up Your Alley fetish fair

    By Chris Roberts

    Published: July 22, 2009

    Even among San Francisco fetish fetes, the Up Your Alley street fair stands alone. The raunchier and more gay-centric cousin of the Folsom Street Fair is a huge event on the...

11. Music

    Bobby Ray’s alter egos duke it out

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: July 22, 2009

    Bobby Ray Simmons' recent mixtape B.o.B. vs. Bobby Ray pits his thugged-out, gritty persona, B.o.B., against his introspective, more tuneful one, Bobby Ray. Alternating singing...

12. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: July 22, 2009

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Bistro 24: 4123 24th St. (at Castro), 285-2400, www.bistrosf.com. Noe Valley. New...

13. Film

    Up close and personal with Humpday star Joshua Leonard

    By Joe Donnelly

    Published: July 22, 2009

    Joshua Leonard came undone at Cannes. It wasn't just that Humpday, the film in which he stars, had made it into the festival's prestigious Directors' Fortnight — unlikely...

14. Stagecap

    A View from the Bridge

    By Chris Jensen

    Published: July 22, 2009

    A View from the Bridge is the most Greek of Arthur Miller's tragedies, featuring an intractable hero (Richard Harder) whose hubris lies in the delusion that his house is his...

15. Sucka Free City

    Bohemian Club to pay injured member more than $1 million after accident

    By Lauren Smiley

    Published: July 22, 2009

    Last week, the rich and powerful members of San Francisco's fabled Bohemian Club flocked to the woods above the Russian River to act like frat boys for a couple of weeks....

16. Music

    Tiny Vipers' uneasy listening

    By Brian J. Barr

    Published: July 22, 2009

    Jesy Fortino is a shy musician. She prefers to sit quietly in a corner rather than take command of a room. This quickly became an issue in her early live performances, when...

17. Film

    The real Ugly Truth? Katherine Heigl needs a new role

    By Chuck Wilson

    Published: July 22, 2009

    In the lushly produced but dispiriting new comedy The Ugly Truth, Katherine Heigl stars as Abby Richter, a successful but hopelessly uptight TV producer who is also perpetually...

18. Stagecap

    The Unexpected Man

    By Jonathan Kiefer

    Published: July 22, 2009

    "Bitter" may be the first word spoken in Yasmina Reza's ruefully comic strangers-on-a-train duet, but the lasting aura is of disarming geniality. Reza's text, as translated...

19. Sucka Free City

    Possible promises Gavin Newsom made to keep Levi's in S.F.

    By Benjamin Wachs

    Published: July 22, 2009

    Last week, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced that the corporate headquarters of Levi Strauss & Co. will remain in San Francisco at least through 2021. What promises did the...

20. Let's Get Killed

    The Father, the Son, and the Holy Sax

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: July 22, 2009

    Last week was a holy one in segments of the music community, a time to celebrate the passing of a giant to whom followers have pledged loyalty for decades. It was a moment for...