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1. Music

   Rodrigo y Gabriela pay tribute to a history of axe-slingers

   By Sam Prestianni

   Published: September 23, 2009

   While the phenomenal popularity of Guitar Hero suggests the public adores six-string shredders, there are sadly few Jimi Hendrixes among the current crop of real-life rock...

2. Feature

   Just Tweet It

   Wallpaper.’s Eric Frederic is an unstoppable viral music producer. But can the incessant songwriting, video blogging, and booty tweeting make him a star?

   By Jennifer Maerz

   Published: September 23, 2009

   Under the parking lot misters at the Greens Hotel in Sacramento, models with stilettos longer than their shorts are practicing their swagger across the stage. It's a sweltering...

3. Eat

   Coda gives us all that jazz, and food too

   By Matthew Stafford

   Published: September 23, 2009

   The local jazz scene hasn't really thrived since the days when the Fillmore played host to Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and John Coltrane, while Miles Davis held court at...

4. Film

   Masterful documentary Crude details the toxic battle between big oil and natives in Ecuador

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: September 23, 2009

   Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Why? Because it's thick with sludge. Moving briskly through a stranger-than-fiction, serpentine narrative that is still...

5. Night&Day

   Humpday

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: September 23, 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

   California Academy of Sciences Turns One

   Published: September 23, 2009

   The new California Academy of Sciences opened its doors one year ago this weekend, and one thing has been missing: the big cats. This weekend, we get the big cats....

7. Night&Day

   You, the Living

   By Nick Pinkerton

   Published: September 23, 2009

   You, the Living flips through 50-some single-panel vignettes, many very funny, arranged by Roy Andersson, a Swedish director best known for his commercial work and 2000’s...

8. Night&Day

   Crude

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: September 23, 2009

   Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Why? Because it’s thick with sludge. Moving briskly through a stranger-than-fiction, serpentine narrative that is still...

9. Night&Day

   Russian Ink

   By Evan James

   Published: September 23, 2009

   Brooklyn-based author Alix Lambert’s book The Silencing investigates six murdered Russian journalists, juxtaposing photos of the murder sites with interviews with people...

10. Night&Day

    Bleed Out

    By Michael Fox

    Published: September 23, 2009

    In much the same way that countryman Sergio Leone reinvigorated the all-American genre of the Western, Italian director Dario Argento infused “B” horror films with...

11. Night&Day

    OG Bridezilla

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 23, 2009

    The Foul Play theater company performs in black and white. The current production’s source material is in black and white, after all. Staging a series of film adaptations...

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    2/3 It, 1/3 Us

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 23, 2009

    Three photographers make the old new, the destructive creative, and the bad good at "Lightning, Lava, and Bombs." Ben Nixon, Hendrik Paul, and Susan Seubert use ye olde...

13. Night&Day

    New York State of Mind

    By Michael Fox

    Published: September 23, 2009

    “Despair is collaboration with the enemy,” says Ken Jacobs, who’s been serving up vibrant films and acerbic quotes since the mid-1950s. His Brooklyn-bred...

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    Taking the Starch Out

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 23, 2009

    Music collective Classical Revolution is a response to the stuffiness in the world of classical music, hence the name. Its members tend to be young, just out of conservatories,...

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    The Return of Swamp Thing

    By Evan James

    Published: September 23, 2009

    The last year has been a big one for wizened, shit-talking comic legend and plastic surgery art installation Joan Rivers. She starred on The Celebrity Apprentice with her...

16. Night&Day

    Veg Ou

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: September 23, 2009

    In 2008, expectations of bland food at the World Veg Festival shattered amid creative combinations and vibrant flavors that danced off the plates. This year, the San Francisco...

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    Mistakes Were Made

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 23, 2009

    Since 2004, the Found Footage Festival has presented an odd assemblage of clips -- weird training videos, bizarre commercials, lamentable home movies, and the like -- to...

18. Night&Day

    Pretty City

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 23, 2009

    Known as “America's most beautiful run,” the Bridge to Bridge 12K and 7K Run/Walk is proud of its location, sure. But maybe the people who call it that are referring...

19. Night&Day

    Memory in Motion

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: September 23, 2009

    “Shared Legacies” reunites mentor Sara Shelton Mann and past protégés, including dance/music duo La Alternativa (formerly MOTIONLAB). La Alternativa...

20. Night&Day

    Fuck Man

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 23, 2009

    Among wordsmiths, Jesse Sheidlower is not only famous — he’s the editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary — but also infamous — he’s the editor...