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21. Feature

    Appealing to a Higher Authority

    We respond to the latest ruling in the Guardian's lawsuit against us.

    By Michael Lacey

    Published: July 23, 2008

    On Friday, July 18, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Marla Miller, as expected, rejected arguments to overturn or modify the jury's verdict in the predatory pricing lawsuit...

22. Sucka Free City

    Subway Daze

    BART fears city subway project poses danger to busy downtown S.F. station.

    By John Geluardi

    Published: July 23, 2008

    There's more trouble on the tracks for the city's proposed $1.3 billion Central Subway project. BART officials are hopping mad because San Francisco Municipal Transportation...

23. Sucka Free City

    Chiu on This

    Troublemaker H. Brown makes trouble in District 3 supes race.

    By Benjamin Wachs

    Published: July 23, 2008

    After failing to convince San Francisco media that District 3 supervisorial candidate David Chiu is a Republican agent who helped elect George Bush, perennial...

24. Matt Smith

    The Pork Park

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is quietly trying to keep the Presidio on the public teat. That's a good thing.

    By Matt Smith

    Published: July 23, 2008

    When a public official employs treachery, pork-barrel politics, and doublespeak in the name of good policy, what is a priggish columnist to do? In the case of Nancy...

25. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: July 23, 2008

    Class War Less Soviet, more Swedish: I want to commend Ashley Harrell on her article on principal Gil Cho ["The Principal Matter," July 9]. Her research painted a picture of a...

26. Clickable Clit

    Web Extra: The Clickable Clit - A Cybersex Column

    “I’m getting spanked in Second Life, but I’d rather be sleeping.”

    By Bonnie Ruberg

    Published: July 23, 2008

    The Clickable Clit continues this week with more online adventures from an SF-based cybersex expert… Monday, July 14, 2:21 a.m. I think I’m selling myself for...

27. Music

    The Hold Steady navigates punks aging awkwardly

    By Melissa Maerz

    Published: July 23, 2008

    At hardcore shows, there are two kinds of T-shirts: one that says "Straightedge Till Death," and one that says "Straightedge Till Prom." At least that's what Hold Steady...

28. Music

    Abe Vigoda and No Age: weird guitar warriors

    By J. Pace

    Published: July 23, 2008

    Listen to Juan Velazquez and Michael Vidal's chiming guitars on Abe Vigoda's new full-length, Skeleton, and you'll feel it: Guitar still rules. Almost three decades after Sonic...

29. Let's Get Killed

    Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Rhetoric

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: July 23, 2008

    Bob Dylan's "John Brown" is one of the most moving antiwar songs recorded. The track avoids sloganeering, resonating an anti–Vietnam War sentiment with a straightforward,...

30. Reviewed

    Nas

    Untitled (The Jones Experience/Def Jam/Columbia)

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: July 23, 2008

    Since his classic debut, Illmatic, Nas has been mostly coasting on his charm, his gift for public relations, and his skills as an MC. But on Untitled he's clearly hoping that...

31. Reviewed

    Cheap Time

    Cheap Time (In The Red Records)

    By Jess Scott

    Published: July 23, 2008

    Nashville punks Cheap Time put the timeless formula of matching loud hooks with lightning-speed rhythms to the test on their self-titled debut. The band spits out 14 tracks of...

32. Reviewed

    The War on Drugs

    Wagonwheel Blues (Secretly Canadian)

    By Jonah Flicker

    Published: July 23, 2008

    We're only halfway through 2008, but Philadelphia's The War on Drugs claims one of this year's most exciting debuts. On Wagonwheel Blues, songwriter Adam Granduciel precisely...

33. Hear This

    Hercules and Hipster-Disco

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: July 23, 2008

    Hercules & Love Affair is the sleek retro-futuristic vehicle for New York DJ Andrew Butler's supremely animated dance-pop. On the project's self-titled, DFA-assisted debut,...

34. Hear This

    Sister Act

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: July 23, 2008

    Anyone who only knows the Watson Twins from Jenny Lewis' Rabbit Fur Coat is seriously missing out. The sisters' debut, Fire Songs, is a breathy journey through genres. In the...

35. BeatBox

    The'80s, Remixed

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: July 23, 2008

    The tongue-in-cheek funksters Chromeo recently released Fancy Footwork: Deluxe Edition, a repackaged and remixed version of last summer's much-buzzed album from the...

36. BeatBox

    Casiotone for the Painfully Invisible

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: July 23, 2008

    If the Casiotone-and-guitar-laden dance pop on the Black Ghosts' debut doesn't sound like the work of newcomers, it's because members Theo Keating and Simon Lord hail from...

37. BeatBox

    Eat to the Beat at Pan Ambient Brunch

    By Tony Ware

    Published: July 23, 2008

    Ambient is the softcore wing of electronic dance culture. It offers slow-building titillation, concerned not so much with climaxing as with getting revelers flushed from the...

38. Bouncer

    The Prowler, the Skinhead, and the Holy Ghost

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: July 23, 2008

    I got someone sent to prison this week. When all was said and done, I felt really sad about it. That night I cried for the young man, who looked like he could be 15 (he was...

39. Eat

    Orson Not Well

    Ambitious, edgy California cuisine flirts with the future in uneven fashion.

    By Meredith Brody

    Published: July 23, 2008

    San Francisco hasn't seen a lot of the cutting-edge style of cooking called molecular gastronomy. It features deconstructed dishes (often with poetic or jokey names),...

40. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: July 23, 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, www.amber-india.com/sanfrancisco....