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1. Feature

   Gay and Transgender Divas Battle for Stardom in Bay Area's Ballroom Scene

   By Lauren Smiley

   Published: February 6, 2008

   Starr shifted her weight as she stood on a mostly deserted Broadway in downtown Oakland, looking up at the second-floor windows of Historic Sweet's Ballroom. The pounding house...

2. Reviewed

   Cheb i Sabbah

   Devotion (Six Degrees)

   By Toph One

   Published: February 6, 2008

   While Algeria-born, San Francisco–based DJ and producer Cheb i Sabbah is known far and wide for his ecstatic "1002 Nights" events featuring live musicians, vocalists, and...

3. Music

   Jill Scott's Sexual Healing

   By David MacFadden-Elliott

   Published: February 6, 2008

   Soulful singer Jill Scott flew onto the scene as a protégée of Philly hip-hop icons DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Roots. She penned the hook for the Roots' Grammy-winning...

4. Hear This

   Mexican six-string superheroes Rodrigo y Gabriela

   By Sam Prestianni, John Graham, Dave Pehling, Ezra Gale and Mark Keresman

   Published: February 6, 2008

   Berkeley resident Sean Smith and the U.K.'s James Blackshaw are part of the underground acoustic guitar network, descending stylistically from American iconoclast John Fahey....

5. Eat

   Looking for a Good Melt, SF Weekly Bumps Into Fondue Fred

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: February 6, 2008

   When I read "Swiss Bliss," Jeffrey Steingarten's exhaustive piece on fondue in the February issue of Vogue, I figured it was just the famously oppositional epicure getting...

6. Film

   More Adventures in Gangsterland

   In Bruges, Martin McDonagh's sightseeing hit-men flick, isn't much of a trip

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: February 6, 2008

   No celebrity hairdresser should ever be allowed near Colin Farrell's eyebrows with a tweezer. His black, fluffy, glorious unibrow still isn't the prettiest thing about In...

7. Night&Day

   The One Less Car Game

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: February 6, 2008

   The Dating Game was cool and all, but the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition's version, Love on Wheels, is so much better. For one thing, it's live. For another, audiences can...

8. Night&Day

   Soothing Screenings

   By Gregg Rickman

   Published: February 6, 2008

   There's no false piety in "Projecting Buddha," a film series celebrating Buddhist cinema — and not a lot of dry piety, either. One highlight is a 2000 episode of the...

9. Night&Day

   Draw It Out

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: February 6, 2008

   Are you so bad at art that you have trouble drawing a bath? The Cartoon Art Museum is ready to assist with the workshop "I can’t draw!" Cartoon Basics for Grown-Ups, also...

10. Night&Day

    The Mouth on This Woman

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 6, 2008

    "How would you describe the kind of comedy you do? Because there's a little bit of cynicism, a little bit of pessimism in there, but I think that makes it great comedy, as...

11. Night&Day

    Haggard Far from Tired

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 6, 2008

    As international music icons go, Merle Haggard is kind of a weird one. He's an ex-con who writes immortal pop poetry ("Tonight the bottle let me down/And let your memory come...

12. Night&Day

    UCB vs. ODC

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 6, 2008

    It's like a sinister cover-up. No one seems to want to talk about it. But the truth will out: Last year at "Toe to Toe," the dancers beat the athletes, badly, embarrassingly,...

13. Night&Day

    Be My Baby

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 6, 2008

    At Babes & Babies, fashionistas Appel and Frank display 50 designers of clothes and other stuff for moms and kids, including a no-water, no-rinse cleaner called Momspit. Tee...

14. Night&Day

    You Bright, Risen Angels

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Tonight, the art in the exhibit "Blackout" will be doing double duty: first, it will illuminate your thinking, inspire your senses, all that bullshit. Second, it will...

15. Night&Day

    On the Lamm

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: February 6, 2008

    You ever feel like you should shut up? Maybe you feel like someone — your dad, probably — thinks you should shut up, because you're too (fill in the blank). Most...

16. Night&Day

    On Your Night Stand

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Erotic art is one of those vague umbrella terms that encompasses everything from classic Greek busts of the well-endowed god Priapus to those goofy flavored finger-paint sets...

17. Night&Day

    The Balls on This Guy

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Some of you miss the days when William T. Vollmann was simply the poet of the misplaced and misdirected in our little back alley, before he conquered the world and came back...

18. Night&Day

    Taxi Driver

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Staying on the current-events beat after his 2005 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, filmmaker Alex Gibney aims to make ripped-from-the-headlines j'accusations that are also...

19. Night&Day

    Indie Kid Turns 10

    By Gregg Rickman

    Published: February 6, 2008

    The tenth annual San Francisco Independent Film Festival, aka IndieFest, offers a plethora of non-Hollywood features, documentaries, and shorts for two weeks. The Feb. 7...

20. Night&Day

    We Can Kick the Pope Around Next Year, Maybe

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: February 6, 2008

    We squeaked through another year. Somehow we managed not to contract drug-resistant TB, die from overhydration trying to "Hold Your Wee for a Wii," or succumb to lead poisoning...