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41. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    By Nathaniel Eaton, Chloe Veltman and Will Harper

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Coronado. Dennis Lehane is the current go-to guy for gritty drama soaked in family tragedy. He wrote books that were adapted for the screen for Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone and...

42. Sucka Free City

    DA takes the blame, but feds mismanaged the money

    By Benjamin Wachs

    Published: April 23, 2008

    The feds have been pointing a lot of fingers at San Francisco since an audit determined that the D.A.'s office accepted $5.4 million in U.S. Department of Justice funds that it...

43. Hear This

    John Reis Loses the Brutality

    By Hannah Levin

    Published: April 23, 2008

    John Reis has more than earned his lauded status among forward-thinking punks, via the benchmarks set by his early postpunk project Drive Like Jehu, the hard-rock swing that...

44. FilmCap

    The Life Before Her Eyes

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Riddled with high concept, this florid adaptation of Laura Kasischke's 2002 novel is a horror picture of sorts that plays off a Columbine-style high-school shooting from the...

45. Stagecap

    Monkey Room

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: April 23, 2008

    The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commissioned this play as part of an initiative to explore the worlds of science and technology through theater. The result feels a bit like a...

46. Feature

    Best of the Fest

    Our critics' recommendations from this year's films.

    By J. Hoberman, Frako Loden, Nathan Lee, Michael Fox, Ezra Gale, Ella Taylor, Gregg Rickman and Nick Pinkerton

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Alexandra (Alexander Sokurov, Russia) Spare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity, Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra is founded on contradiction. Musing on...

47. Let's Get Killed

    Luie Luie stands out as a genuine oddball in a world of faux freaks

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Today's home-baked weirdos are so commonplace it's harder to filter out the DIY savants than it is to find them. I'm regularly sent hand-painted CD booklets tied in twine, or...

48. BeatBox

    Berlin Beats

    By Tony Ware

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Certain members of the Berlin-based Get Physical label — i.e., DJ/production duo and label cofounders M.A.N.D.Y. — opt for a regimented physicality leading to...

49. Stagecap

    Thrill Me

    By Molly Rhodes

    Published: April 23, 2008

    In 1924, two bright and privileged young men, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, killed a boy because they believed they could get away with it. As Loeb, actor William Giammona...

50. Sucka Free City

    Print is dying, but Chron gets glossy new press

    By Brad Kava

    Published: April 23, 2008

    The San Francisco Chronicle has been bleeding money for so long at a rate of $1 million a week that some analysts speculated that the paper on the edge of Silicon Valley would...

51. BeatBox

    Cut Copy

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Australia's Cut Copy is an ecstatic burst of energy. That inertia propels a dreamily vibrant sound — chewy bass lines, teetering percussion, squeaky synths that gasp and...

52. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: April 23, 2008

    In Defense of Bernie Ward innocent until proven pervy: I read Brad Kava's interesting piece about KGO's open slot ["The Race to Replace Bernie Ward on KGO," Sucka Free City,...

53. Feature

    Q&A with Medicine for Melancholy Director Barry Jenkins

    Local film director gives this town a dose of its own Medicine.

    By Michael Fox

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Barry Jenkins' terrific debut feature, Medicine for Melancholy, is an intimate and sociologically astute study of a young African-American couple spending a day together...

54. Feature

    Glass, Jazz, and Black Francis

    Music takes the stage at the Film Fest.

    By Ezra Gale

    Published: April 23, 2008

    That was an unusual one, because we were really equals," composer Philip Glass says of his collaboration with director Godfrey Reggio on the landmark 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi....

55. Arthouse

    Arthouse

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Artists' Television Access. "Ghost in the Reel Change": Live music with vintage shorts and contemporary films by David Michalak. Sun., April 27, 8 p.m. $6. Butterfield 8:...

56. Bouncer

    Thou shalt not mutter to yourself at the Sea Star Club

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: April 23, 2008

    And the winner of the longest dive bar in San Francisco is ... the Sea Star on Third Street in Potrero Hill. From the outside, the place looks dinky, as if it were painted by...