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21. Music

    The New Tweedy Bros! craft one of rock’s most collectible LPs

    By Andrew Lau

    Published: August 20, 2008

    Collecting records is more than a simple hobby. The Internet has changed the game dramatically: While it's much easier to find that once-elusive LP, you now have more...

22. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: August 20, 2008

    Aroma Tea: 1806 Polk (at Jackson), www.aromateashop.com. Russian Hill. Tea bar. Baked: 415 18th St. (at Missouri), 826-9455. Potrero Hill. Coffee and pastries. Basil Canteen:...

23. Film

    Schoolhouse Rock

    Rainn Wilson comedy is more childish pop than hardcore funny.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: August 20, 2008

    The Rocker bears the decidedly unmistakable odor of something made in 1983 and left on the shelf ever since. Which isn't to suggest that it's fetid product in need of tossing...

24. Stagecap

    Bad Habits

    Square Mama revives dead comedy. Bad idea.

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: August 20, 2008

    This is the inaugural production of new Bay Area-based theater company Square Mama. Its mission is to revive plays that, for one reason or another, closed on Broadway or never...

25. Let's Get Killed

    Catch a ride on the ridiculous: Yacht Rock hits S.F.

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: August 20, 2008

    I can't scientifically prove it, but I swear the reason I hear so much Hall & Oates in neighborhood bars these days is Yacht Rock. The now cult-classic Web video series...

26. Encore

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

    By Molly Rhodes, Chloe Veltman and Christopher Jensen

    Published: August 20, 2008

    A Bowl of Rose Leaves. Imaginative Productions makes great use of its Studio 300 Theatre home, creating a interesting world where painter Alex must contend with the annoyances...

27. Sucka Free City

    Sex columnist Violet Blue tries to restrain online foes

    By Will Harper

    Published: August 20, 2008

    SFGate's sex columnist Violet Blue is no stranger to controversy. There was, for instance, her recent public feud with the rulers of Boing Boing, who pulled down her postings...

28. Reviewed

    Stereolab

    Chemical Chords (4AD)

    By Andrew Stout

    Published: August 20, 2008

    In the '90s, Stereolab albums were charming junkshops selling rock history's neglected treasures, mainly '60s French pop and '70s Krautrock. This decade, on one chirpy release...

29. FilmCap

    Hats Off

    By Vadim Rizov

    Published: August 20, 2008

    You may not know Mimi Weddell's name, but you probably know her face: As Jyll Johnstone's documentary shows, the pool of agile 93-year-old women adept at playing aristocratic...

30. Stagecap

    Emo the Musical

    Finally, mopey hipsters have their own musical

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: August 20, 2008

    This play is kind of like The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for goths. Oh, wait a second. Don't call them goths — call them emo kids, as in "emotional." They do...

31. Sucka Free City

    Plastic bags still in SF stores despite ban

    By Alastair Bland

    Published: August 20, 2008

    The victorious hoopla that followed the passage of a 2007 ordinance designed to reduce plastic bag litter in San Francisco may have been a bit premature. A year and a half...

32. Reviewed

    Amy Ray

    Didn't It Feel Kinder (Daemon Records)

    By Annika Dukes

    Published: August 20, 2008

    There's a well-known saying among diehard fans of dyke-folk duo the Indigo Girls: "Everyone wants to marry Emily; everyone wants to sleep with Amy." With a new solo album on...

33. Arthouse

    Art House

    Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: August 20, 2008

    Artists' Television Access. Bijou and Bayside: Wakefield Poole's hardcore male erotic classics from the 1970s. Wed., Aug. 20, 8 p.m. Shutdown: Fri., Aug. 22, 8 p.m. $6. 992...

34. Reviewed

    Sleepy Sun

    Embrace (Sol Diamond)

    By John O'Neill

    Published: August 20, 2008

    Music is so damn finite, and it's all been done before, and there's nothing left to say anyhow, and everybody knows it. But then something like Spacemen 3, or the Jesus and...

35. Clickable Clit

    Keeping track of your offline sex life online

    "Then the site asks for your partners’ birthdays. Um, aren’t you happy I know their full names?"

    By Bonnie Ruberg

    Published: August 20, 2008

    The Clickable Clit continues this week with more online adventures from the personal diary of an SF-based cybersex expert… Monday, August 18th I signed up for...

36. Hear This

    Beachwood Boys

    By Ryan Foley

    Published: August 20, 2008

    For all the ringing Rickenbackers, peaked-cap style points (think Donovan), and general '60s approximating, Beachwood Sparks' most eternal number is a reworking of 2000's "By...

37. Hear This

    !!!: Dance-Punk With a Point

    By Nicholas Hall

    Published: August 20, 2008

    Ordinarily considered the sole property of bombastically emotive teenage girls, the exclamation point has reestablished its street cred with the band !!! For these dance-punk...

38. Hear This

    Cube with Attitude

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: August 20, 2008

    When someone comes up with a "classic rap" radio format — and it'll surely happen one of these years — you can bet Ice Cube will be in heavy rotation, alongside...

39. Letters

    SF Weekly Letters

    Published: August 20, 2008

    Hubbard Hubbub Scien-follow-gists: I Thank you for the recent article regarding Scientology ["Scientology's Antagonists," Lauren Smiley, Feature, 8/13]. Not only have you...

40. BeatBox

    The Senator Has the Floor at Black Gold

    By John Graham

    Published: August 20, 2008

    You may want your retro-soul weekend parties to be packed, sweaty blasts full of vintage grinders. But on Monday nights, the smooth, sugar-melting tones of '60s soul music work...