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21. Encore

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    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    By Nathaniel Eaton, Chloe Veltman and Molly Rhodes

    Published: January 30, 2008

    reOrient. What makes Golden Thread's collection of five short plays about the Middle East better than your average festival aimed at a Large Theme or Important Cause is the...

22. Sucka Free City

    Ward Bushee to Bring More McNews to Chronicle

    By Benjamin Wachs

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Ward Bushee, the Chronicle's new editor-in-chief, put in 21 years as an editor at Gannett — the nation's largest, most profitable, suckiest newspaper chain. You may know...

23. Music

    Mercury Soul Merges Visual Art with Classical Music and Contemporary Electronica

    By Ezra Gale

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Forecasting the Doom of Classical Music is its own cottage industry, from cocktail party chatter lamenting the genre's graying audience to statistical evidence that younger...

24. Let's Get Killed

    Vallejo Rapper Soldier Hard Brings Home Iraq's Harsh Realities

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: January 30, 2008

    It's no secret that mainstream rap is unapologetically bravado-based: The big stars get their street cred, get their shawties, and get themselves a record deal. Vallejo rapper...

25. Film

    Meet the Spartans Lazy, Unfunny

    By Luke Y. Thompson

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Perhaps the most oft-quoted line from Zack Snyder's cinematic adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel 300 is "Tonight we dine in hell!" Chowing down on a box of...

26. DVDish

    Donkey Punch

    By Robert Wilonsky, Jordan Harper and Jim Ridley

    Published: January 30, 2008

    The King of Kong (New Line) Seth Gordon's best-of-2007 documentary, about the battle for Donkey Kong supremacy, remains a work-in-progress: Billy Mitchell, the longtime title...

27. Letters

    Proudly Wasting Bandwidth in SF Weekly Letters

    Published: January 30, 2008

    By the Bytes Peer-to-peer fear: Regarding David Downs' feature, "The Internet Jammer" [Jan. 23]: I think this bandwidth problem created by peer-to-peer file transfers is...

28. Film

    Appreciation: Heath Ledger's untimely death, and that milestone performance

    By Nathan Lee

    Published: January 30, 2008

    What I want to say about the death of Heath Ledger is ... nothing. No speculation on why he committed suicide, if he committed suicide. No comment on the chronology, the...

29. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Aqua Teen Hunger Force: 5 (Warner Bros.) Barn of the Naked Dead (Legend House) Bordertown (THINKFilm) Canvas (Universal) Chancer: Series 2 (Acorn Media) The Comebacks...

30. Film

    When Everything Changed

    Before AIDS had a name, and after, in The Witnesses

    By Nathan Lee

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Sex and chance brought them together, one furtive summer night, in the cruising grounds of a wooded Parisian park. Adrien (Michel Blanc), a doctor: bourgeois, middle-aged,...

31. Film

    Good Grief!

    A Marine mom dies in Iraq, but don't let
    Grace Is Gone get to you

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Eleven months after winning the screenplay and audience awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival, writer-director James C. Strouse's Grace Is Gone has received a musical...

32. Hear This

    Against Me!: Successors to Green Day's Mainstream Punk Reign

    By David MacFadden, Mark Keresman, Jonah Bayer and Jason Bugg

    Published: January 30, 2008

    When Autolux performed at last year's Noise Pop festival, the band was criticized for its stoic stage presence. But pandering to crowds with knock-knock jokes has never been...

33. BeatBox

    "Meat" Mixes Seared Flesh and an Industrialized Dancefloor

    By John Graham and Peter Madsen

    Published: January 30, 2008

    The bane of Bay Area vegans for nearly six years, monthly electro-industrial event Meat takes its name literally, barbecuing a Viking-sized appetite's worth of free hide on the...

34. Bouncer

    Taking Cues from Oprah: Making a Man List at the Beach Chalet

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Something caught my eye the other day while I was driving along the Great Highway. It was an old library-looking building with a restaurant on top, where rows of bluehairs were...

35. Reps Etc.

    Repertory Film Listing

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Compiled by Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser. To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. "Video Resistance: Works by Oliver Ressle":...