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1. Feature

   No Justice

   Despite Obama's promises of change, corporate crooks are still going unpunished for their roles in the financial collapse.

   By James Lieber

   Published: October 28, 2009

   Where did our wealth go? How do we claw it back? And when are we going to punish the culprits? When Barack Obama donned the crusader's mantle during the 2008 presidential...

2. Music

   Rupa and the April Fishes’ global style mashes

   By Sam Prestianni

   Published: October 28, 2009

   Rupa Marya believes that the boundaries separating us from one another are largely driven by politics. As a professor of medicine at UCSF and a practicing physician at the...

3. Eat

   Muguboka offers homey Korean fare that goes beyond meat

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: October 28, 2009

   Most people, if they are at all familiar with Korean cooking, know two things: Meals are accompanied by an array of small dishes containing various pickled and fermented foods,...

4. Film

   The Yes Men Fix the World is a cheerful quest for social justice

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: October 28, 2009

   The antiglobalist performance guys who call themselves the Yes Men are masters of forging corporate rhetoric and media protocols. The most recent prank perpetrated by Andy...

5. Night&Day

   The Beaches of Agnes

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: October 28, 2009

   The great idiosyncratic original of the French nouvelle vague generation, Agnès Varda began her career as a photographer and, in her use of the medium, remains one at...

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   The Yes Men Fix the World

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: October 28, 2009

   The anti-globalist performance guys who call themselves the Yes Men are masters of forging corporate rhetoric and media protocols. Their forte is the phony website and the...

7. Night&Day

   Pig Hunt

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: October 28, 2009

   You wouldn’t think a movie about wild pig hunting would play well in the city, but we happen to be surrounded by hills filled with 200-pound, tusk-sporting boar....

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   The Room

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: October 28, 2009

   No way did Entertainment Weekly think its judgment on The Room -- “the Citizen Kane of bad movies -- would kick off the film’s press materials. But, there it is. And...

9. Night&Day

   Robert Crumb

   By Jonathan Kiefer

   Published: October 28, 2009

   The Book of Genesis illustrated by R. Crumb may sound like some oft-quoted zinger from a vintage Woody Allen movie, but it's a real book (Norton, $25), in which the creepy...

10. Night&Day

    S.F. Symphony: Día de los Muertos Family Concert

    Published: October 28, 2009

    Children will be more enchanted than spooked at this family concert of Mexican music, helmed by 29-year-old Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra. Highlights include Like Water...

11. Night&Day

    Bronson

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: October 28, 2009

    The inmate who renamed himself after a Hollywood action star has been incarcerated for all but a few months of the past 34 years—30 of them spent in solitary—having...

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    D Tour

    By Dan Strachota

    Published: October 28, 2009

    Back in 2006, Rogue Wave drummer Pat Spurgeon's kidney did what few bodily organs can do: It made national headlines. The East Bay–based musician was actually born with...

13. Night&Day

    Die Blechtrommel

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 28, 2009

    Translating books into other languages is chic, even when it has no right to be — Dan Brown's latest is set to be translated into more than 50 of them. Serious scholars,...

14. Night&Day

    Knives Out

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 28, 2009

    Last month, a hotshot New York chef said something about figs on a plate and San Francisco, and our local foodies shat themselves. It was awful. It was beautiful. It gave us...

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    X Marks the Spot

    By Hiya Swanhuser

    Published: October 28, 2009

    Someone, please make a movie based on Exene Cervenka’s life. The protagonist (played by whoever the next pre-diet Christina Ricci is) flees Florida, invents punk rock,...

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    Silent But Deadly

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 28, 2009

    Nara Denning’s “Neurotique” short-film compendium lives up to the dual promises of its title. At the series’ premiere screening and DVD release party, the...

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    An Evening-Length Extravagance

    By Evan James

    Published: October 28, 2009

    Next to living a life of luxury, there’s nothing quite like taking in a show that skewers and celebrates all the opulent superfluities that our world holds dear. Luxury...

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    That Is All

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 28, 2009

    If John Hodgman were an entry in one of his own Ben Franklinesque reference books, it might read like this: “An accumulation of Talents from space-time molded into one...

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    We Wish We Went to Prom with You

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 28, 2009

    Ballroom dancing is gay. California Dreaming Dance Sport Festival is here to make it even better, even gayer, as the biggest same-sex ballroom dancing competition in San...

20. Night&Day

    Mission Art Goes Uptown

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: October 28, 2009

    From the deconstructed superheroes of Aaron Noble to the politic salvos of Balmy Alley, the artistic legacy of the Mission District is rich enough to draw comparisons to both...