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1. Feature

   Stiffed

   Amidst all the murders in San Francisco, some suspicious deaths are hidden in a secret burial ground of bureaucracy.

   By John Geluardi

   Published: September 10, 2008

   Sometime past midnight on Labor Day of last year, 22-year-old John "Daniel" Schirra was running nude along an Ingleside District street, yelling for help. He was in the grips...

2. Music

   Azeem: Cartoon networker

   By Jesse Ducker

   Published: September 10, 2008

   Azeem never wants to be considered a "local" MC. For one, the label is technically false: He comes to Oakland by way of New Jersey and Miami, and maintains strong ties to his...

3. Eat

   Hurry Up and Slow Down

   The decor and presentation try hard at Level III, but the timing is off.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: September 10, 2008

   Hotel restaurants used to be stodgy, predictable, and dull — not destinations, but places of last resort for travelers too tired to leave the hotel, or inoffensive...

4. Film

   Intolerable Cruelty

   Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery with Burn After Reading.

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: September 10, 2008

   Masters of the carefully crafted cheap shot, Joel and Ethan Coen have built a career on flippancy. Given their refusal to take anything seriously — least of all the...

5. Night&Day

   Pro-Earth, Anti-Earth Shoes

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: September 10, 2008

   For some of us, anything involving a size zero fashion model is an automatic no-no. We turn it off, click away, or cross the street. Continuing the theme, we don't like the...

6. Night&Day

   He Has Visions

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: September 10, 2008

   What happens to prodigies? Whether you find the phenomenon intriguing or tired, the extremely talented young always have a weird row to hoe. Yisrael K. Feldsott was the first...

7. Night&Day

   I Love Rock ’n’ Roll

   By Michael Fox

   Published: September 10, 2008

   Turned on (in more ways than one) by the brassy inspirations of Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith, and, yes, Joan Jett, thousands of girls picked up electric guitars in the 1970s and...

8. Night&Day

   Big Ones

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: September 10, 2008

   Comedian Chris Garcia shows his balls. Literally. In the "American Apparel" video clip online, Garcia and co-mocker Ali Wong appear wearing workout clothes, doing some moves,...

9. Night&Day

   Free Sex: Offer or Imperative?

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: September 10, 2008

   Full disclosure: Dan Strachota writes for this paper. He was once our beloved music editor. Also, we like him and attend the events he organizes and DJs for, like the...

10. Night&Day

    Chocoholic and Alcoholic

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: September 10, 2008

    The popularity of premium chocolate has skyrocketed in recent years, as has a vocabulary to describe it that rivals the wine lexicon. At “Chocolate Seizure,” local...

11. Night&Day

    The Other 9/11

    By Alejandro Perez

    Published: September 10, 2008

    Thirty-five years ago, a CIA-backed military junta led by General Augusto Pinochet violently overthrew Chilean president Salvador Allende's democratically elected socialist...

12. Night&Day

    O Hypodermic Light

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: September 10, 2008

    Less well known than some of the Beat poets, Philip Lamantia nevertheless embodied the spirit of his times so thoroughly that his life story now seems iconic. Born in San...

13. Night&Day

    Raised by Wolff

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: September 10, 2008

    The stories of Tobias Wolff are like a good YouTube short, offering snapshot scenarios that suggest worlds about the characters that inhabit them. We can be grateful that local...

14. Night&Day

    Griff On

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: September 10, 2008

    When you grow up as the son of a charismatic Democratic congressman who loudly championed the arts during the worst of the anti-NEA fights, cynical logic would have it that...

15. Night&Day

    4:20

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: September 10, 2008

    It's a safe bet that after its first run Pineapple Express, the cannabis-powered comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, will become an arthouse staple, programmed into...

16. Night&Day

    Come On Down!

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: September 10, 2008

    We're bigs fans of trivia nights at bars, and this is why: While trying to figure out what city the very last Pony Express ride ended in while sober is extraordinarily...

17. Night&Day

    Dragging It Out

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 10, 2008

    Filmmaker Tore Dahlin says he " ... wanted to make a movie as diverse as California." That's a damn tall order, but the result, Corky's Hot Ice, looks like it may actually have...

18. Night&Day

    Droll Chabrol

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: September 10, 2008

    Claude Chabrol, who should soon be shooting his 70th feature, is at once wildly prolific and utterly faithful—at least to the conventions of the commercial thriller....

19. Night&Day

    Don't You Do Like Your Big Sister Done

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 10, 2008

    We hear wedding bells! At the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence-run Wedding Bells Bingo, the usual monthly gay bingo madness is augmented with the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus,...

20. Art

    Mrs. Vera — the Cindy Sherman of Drag

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: September 10, 2008

    It turns out that the answer to the question we've all been asking — what would happen if the Cockettes and Cindy Sherman had a baby? — can be found right now in a...