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1. Feature

   The Rise and Fall of the Monster

   Gay porn star Michael Brandon goes from meth addict to antidrug poster boy and, tragically, back to meth addict.

   By Ashley Harrell

   Published: October 1, 2008

   When the careworn, emaciated man in the powder-blue long-sleeved button-down shirt drifted in through the courtroom doors, not many took note. For all anyone knew, he was just...

2. Music

   Hardly Strictly's outlaws hold a S.F. roundtable

   By Chris Ziegler

   Published: October 1, 2008

   Hardly Strictly Bluegrass wins a special spot in history for being the first festival to put Will Oldham and MC Hammer on the same bill. That's almost as good as Jimi Hendrix...

3. Eat

   La Terrasse is a bridge to France

   The unmatched view overshadows the food.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: October 1, 2008

   You can't find a sweeter setting in San Francisco than the one enjoyed by La Terrasse. Tucked away in a modest-looking tile-roofed building in the Presidio, the glassed-in...

4. Film

   Buy the book

   Two mediocre adaptations by two directors who really should have known better.

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: October 1, 2008

   There are copious ways to link How to Lose Friends & Alienate People and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Both are based on feather-light books that take a good hour to...

5. Night&Day

   New Navy

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: October 1, 2008

   Fleet Week: you love it or hate it. The Blue Angels' rip-roaring "sound of Freedom" divides San Franciscans like an extremely loud knife through butter. Did we mention that...

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   Blue San Francisco

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: October 1, 2008

   In his 1999 essay, "Blue Movie Notes: Ode to an Attic Cinema," film expert Jack Stevenson describes the emergence of amateur sex films in 1960s San Francisco. Theaters eager...

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   Go-go Baby

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: October 1, 2008

   Will someone crown the Devilettes a San Francisco institution already? Make the crown a stylish, one, though -- with horns. The revolving troupe of hot go-go dancers shakes the...

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   Protest Staple

   Published: October 1, 2008

   “Protest music” isn’t always a guy or gal with an acoustic guitar, singing pointedly topical songs. There’s a parallel tradition in America where gospel...

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   Nothing To See Here

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: October 1, 2008

   How quickly television has aged. Apparently today’s college students are so dissociated from sitcoms, so far removed from the 1990s, that Seinfeld is a foreign concept to...

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    Prop Yourself Up

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 1, 2008

    Fucking propositions. They always say one thing and mean another. Seems like they usually promise clean water and improved air quality when they mean tax breaks for polluters....

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    Art Infestation

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: October 1, 2008

    San Francisco Open Studios is a little like the greatest series of garage sales ever. How else could ordinary people muscle their way into the mysterious confines of an...

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    Outside the Fashion Bastion

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: October 1, 2008

    The term “fashionista” implies a kind of militant independence, but most people involved in the fashion industry instead famously and slavishly follow one...

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    Helmet Hellcats

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: October 1, 2008

    Before Extreme sports with a capital E, there was the extreme sport (little e) of roller derby, where ladies in roller skates bash, shove, elbow, block, and pile-up on top of...

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    Claw and Order

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: October 1, 2008

    At some point in the past few years, monsters evolved from being slimy nightmares in our closets to cuddly bedside companions. Sure, they still think they’re scary, with...

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    Blood Money

    By Michael Fox

    Published: October 1, 2008

    ’Tis the month of All Hallows Eve, when things go bump in the night. The chills and thrills started a bit early this year, or perhaps you’ve been avoiding the...

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    Umami Dearest

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: October 1, 2008

    The experts who brought us salty, sweet, sour, and bitter are still debating the definition of a fifth “basic taste:” umami. Is it savory? Hearty? How does it relate...

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    The Monk

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: October 1, 2008

    It's the season for gothic enjoyment, and No Nude Men Productions satisfies the dark itch with their performance of The Monk. In a story adapted by SF Weekly writer Nirmala...

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    Reality Bytes

    By Molly Rhodes

    Published: October 1, 2008

    You couldn’t swing a dead cat in this town without hitting a show touting itself as “multimedia.” But what makes the work of performer Sara Kraft so captivating...

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    Lit Up

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: October 1, 2008

    The Mission on a Saturday night, rife with the unexpected: Sidle your ass down an alley and you might find two stiltwalkers strumming banjos. The next doorway might hold salsa...

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    Our Archive

    By Andy Wright

    Published: October 1, 2008

    Those who set their clock radios every morning to awaken to the dulcet murmur of NPR know what it is to start out their Fridays verklempt. The sound of someone’s voice,...