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21. Night&Day

    Full Grown Men

    By Ed Gonzalez

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Essentially Judd Apatow’s Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Full Grown Men tells of a Comic-Book Guy’s Odyssean journey through a Crayola-colored indie Ameriland. Thrown...

22. Night&Day

    Oh, Canada

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Guy Maddin’s frozen reverie on Canada’s “Gateway to the West” is barely defrosted by the warmth of the projector bulb. My Winnipeg opens with a bit of...

23. Night&Day

    Draw, Baby, Draw!

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 16, 2008

    You know Sirron Norris. He's one of those prolific Mission District muralizers, whose doobie-smoking teddy bears sport high-top sneaks and look out at the world through sad,...

24. Night&Day

    Some on the Floor, Some on the Walls

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 16, 2008

    It helps to be an art nerd at "Summer '08, New Work: Photography and Sculpture." If you're an art nerd, you see the continuum of Misako Inaoka and Kathryn Spence's small...

25. Stage

    Oscar Wilde's view of women in politics not ideal

    By Chloe Veltman

    Published: July 16, 2008

    It's an election year, in case you hadn't noticed. From Josh Kornbluth's Citizen Josh to Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, Bay Area theater artists are tripping over...

26. Matt Smith

    Public Power Grab

    Why some "progressives" are putting energy into a bad idea.

    By Matt Smith

    Published: July 16, 2008

    After a decade of trying, San Francisco is still a long way from stopping the diesel smoke that spews over the city's eastern neighborhoods from a power plant west of Potrero...

27. Music

    Singing bulls and Day-Glo tapestry: The spectacle of Caroliner Rainbow

    By Ross Simonini

    Published: July 16, 2008

    The supposedly true story goes like this: In the late 19th century, on a Wisconsin ranch, there existed a singing bull named Caroliner. Like a "parrot of jungle origin," it...

28. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: July 16, 2008

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Amber India: 25 Yerba Buena (at Mission), 777-0500,...

29. Film

    Opposites Attract

    Portrait of the artist as a young man (and his lover as an old one) in Chris & Don.

    By Ernest Hardy

    Published: July 16, 2008

    A glint in his eye and a grin on his lips, artist Don Bachardy looks into the camera and explains the dynamic of his three-decade relationship with the late literary icon...

30. Stagecap

    Killing My Lobster new show doesn't kill

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: July 16, 2008

    San Francisco's flagship comedy troupe is back with a new show, new actors, and a different performance space. This edition's theme is "time," and the sketches bounce boldly...

31. Feature

    Map to the Carts

    By Meredith Brody

    Published: July 16, 2008

    1. Ferry Building Farmers' Market Saturdays, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Embarcadero and Market Downtown Bakery & Creamery Noe Valley Bakery Frog Hollow Farm Primavera Cap'n Mike's...

32. Film

    Thank You for the Music

    But your movie's kinda drab. Mamma Mia! drains the fun out of ABBA.

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: July 16, 2008

    I've always enjoyed ABBA — not in that posthoc, so-bad-it's-good hip way, but innocently, the way I like Phil Spector. To this day, howling along in my car to that...

33. Stagecap

    American Joe pits liberal sister against army brother

    By Will Harper

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Despite being given life by the same DNA donors and being raised in the same household, siblings often grow into people who bear little resemblance to each other. Liza Raynal...

34. Sucka Free City

    Latest plastic surgery trend among Asian-American women

    By Lauren Smiley

    Published: July 16, 2008

    As plastic surgery becomes something of a national pastime, Asian-Americans are proportionally represented among the ranks willing to plop down cash for a nip or tuck. Last...

35. Let's Get Killed

    Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival shrinks but may still deliver

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: July 16, 2008

    The arena-sized festival isn't the only music event feeling a crunch in these difficult economic times. San Francisco's Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival, the 12-year-old...

36. Film

    Costume Ball

    Provocateurs Catherine Breillat and Asia Argento put their stamp (or tattoo) on 19th-century France.

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Catherine Breillat hitches her wagon to the hottest of European stars, Asia Argento, in a highly entertaining adaptation of French dandy Jules-Amédée Barbey...

37. Feature

    San Francisco Street Food Top Ten

    By Meredith Brody

    Published: July 16, 2008

    El Huarache Loco Alemany Farmers' Market, 100 Alemany (at Tompkins), Saturdays 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Alemany Antiques and Collectibles Market, 100 Alemany (at Tompkins), Sundays 8...

38. Reviewed

    Wolf Parade

    At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Wolf Parade's debut, Apologies to the Queen Mary, received great reviews upon release, but it now seems unduly influenced by its producer, Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock....

39. ¡Ask A Mexican!

    Fresh from the Border

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: July 16, 2008

    As an Asian person, would I be considered a gabacho? Or do I fall into the yellow bucket labeled chinito, even though I'm not Chinese? OC Asian Dear Chino: Like Americans...

40. Sucka Free City

    StubHub says it didn't mean to sell tickets to cancelled Amy Winehouse show

    By Brad Kava

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Stop! If you're about to buy Amy Winehouse tickets on StubHub, step away from your keyboard now. Winehouse, England's 24-year-old not-self-proclaimed queen of rehab who is fast...