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21. Night&Day

    Cut Me Some Slack

    By Michael Fox

    Published: November 28, 2007

    If you missed it while you were out thrift-store shopping, the semi-esteemed New Oxford American Dictionary picked mumblecore as one of its runners-up for the 2007 Word of the...

22. Night&Day

    Sonic Outlaws

    By Michael Fox

    Published: November 28, 2007

    Unless you're a musician or a lawyer, the ongoing donnybrook between proponents of fair use and copyright infringement may not have you riveted. It's worth keeping an eye on,...

23. Night&Day

    More Personalities Mean More Tori to Love

    Published: November 28, 2007

    Tori Amos is now on tour supporting her best CD in years. On American Doll Posse, Amos assumes the roles of a quartet of disparate women: indignant politico photographer...

24. Stage

    The Crowd You're in With More Cliché Than Cathartic

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: November 28, 2007

    Every now and then, a play comes along that makes a mark on theater history, a play with a message so profound and impact so great that it alters the way we think about the...

25. Sucka Free City

    Reservation Scalpers

    TablePronto's service gets mixed reviews from restaurateurs

    By Brian Bernbaum

    Published: November 28, 2007

    The idea behind TablePronto.com is very simple: Say you have to bail on your reservation at One Market next Friday. Why let it go to waste when you can scalp it? Sellers set a...

26. Reviewed

    Iron and Wine

    The Shepherd's Dog (Sub Pop)

    By Jewly Hight

    Published: November 28, 2007

    It used to be that Iron and Wine (aka Sam Beam) relied mostly on negative space — that is, quietness or the absence of sound — to accentuate the simplicity of its...

27. Music

    Forget Amy Winehouse: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings Choose R&B Over Rehab

    By Jewly Hight

    Published: November 28, 2007

    Much has been made of British soul sensation Amy Winehouse employing Sharon Jones' soul-funk band, the Dap-Kings, to create the sound — and success — of her album...

28. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: November 28, 2007

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. 1300 on Fillmore: 1300 Fillmore (at Eddy), 771-7100, www.1300fillmore.com. Fillmore....

29. FilmCap

    Holly

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: November 28, 2007

    Shot concurrently with a "raising awareness" documentary on child prostitution in Southeast Asia (by the tellingly named Priority Films), Holly snatches images out of soiled...

30. Game On

    Plumb Tuckered Out?

    A breathtaking journey through space revives Super Mario.

    By Chris Ward

    Published: November 28, 2007

    There's no surer sign that a franchise is in trouble than when it blasts into outer space. So you were right to be nervous when Nintendo announced its plans to follow up the...

31. Sucka Free City

    Stunt Brides: SF Ad Exec Zach Slow’s $50K Online Marriage Contest

    By Lauren Smiley

    Published: November 28, 2007

    Last year, San Francisco advertising exec Zach Slow raised $10,000 on the Internet to take snarky British hip-hop artist Lady Sovereign on a dream date. A media blitz ensued,...

32. Reviewed

    Sebastian Bach

    Angel Down (MRV/EMI)

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: November 28, 2007

    Say what you will about his hair-metal pedigree. Talk dismissively about his being firmly ensconced in the reality TV wasteland (Supergroup, Celebrity Rap Superstar, I Married...

33. Music

    Mark Lanegan Adds Grit and Gravitas to Soulsavers

    By Dave Pehling

    Published: November 28, 2007

    When the noirish atmospheres and narcotic beats of downtempo electronica first surfaced in the early 1990s, a broad audience embraced the hazy hip-hop sounds made by the likes...

34. FilmCap

    Buddha's Lost Children

    By Gregg Rickman

    Published: November 28, 2007

    This excellent documentary, filmed in the wilds of northern Thailand, tells of an extraordinary Buddhist monk, charismatic tattooed ex-boxer Khru Bah, who rescues abandoned...

35. Encore

    Also Playing

    Theater & Opera

    Published: November 28, 2007

    Camino Real. Tennessee Williams' 1953 stream-of-consciousness fantasia set in a timeless no man's land is difficult to stage. The largely plotless drama revolving around broken...

36. Sucka Free City

    BALCO Breakup - Chron Reporter Jumps to ESPN, Sourcing Gets Awkward

    By Ron Russell

    Published: November 28, 2007

    Now that the Chronicle's celebrated BALCO investigative reporting team of Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada has split up, inquiring minds may be forgiven for wondering who...

37. Let's Get Killed

    Rademacher Alchemizes Arcade Fire and Modest Mouse for Pure Indie-Pop Gold

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: November 28, 2007

    "You can always tell if a band is good or not," my musician pal Sean says on a recent Wednesday night at the Knockout. "You look at the crowd's reaction. The proof is in the...

38. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    Published: November 28, 2007

    Bratz (Lionsgate) Drunken Angel: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) Elvis: Blue Suede Collection (Warner Bros.) ESPNU Honor Roll: The Best of College Football Vol. 3...

39. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: November 28, 2007

    Blood on the Dance Floor Clubbing Geluardi: I must write you to tell of my utter disgust with the article John Geluardi wrote about Derf Butler ["Clubbed," Feature, Nov. 7]....

40. DVDish

    Bender’s Big Score, Hot Rod, Waitress - New DVDs reviewed

    By Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper

    Published: November 28, 2007

    Hot Rod (Paramount) Andy Samberg, best known for stuffing his dick in a box on Saturday Night Live, is Rod Kimble, a wannabe stuntman with very little "man" in him. He lives...