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1. Feature

   Movie Marathon

   The S.F. International Film Fest starts this week and keeps going year-round.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: April 23, 2008

   There are probably as many ways of approaching the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival — which will unspool (as Variety would have it) from April 24 to May 8...

2. Reviewed

   Goldfrapp

   Seventh Tree (Mute)

   By Michael Alan Goldberg

   Published: April 23, 2008

   Eight years ago, English electronic act Goldfrapp (singer Alison Goldfrapp and composer Will Gregory) introduced themselves with Felt Mountain, a collection of moody, John...

3. Music

   Hot Chip’s lyric sheet reveals its cultural obsessions

   By Doug Wallen

   Published: April 23, 2008

   Hot Chip is a bunch of geeks. Over the course of three albums — 2004's Coming On Strong, 2006's The Warning, and the new Made in the Dark — the British five-piece...

4. Hear This

   Desire, Regret

   By Tony Ware

   Published: April 23, 2008

   Energy is constant, but not always instant. The same goes for the composure of singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek. The San Francisco musician has perfected the slow-release —...

5. Eat

   Two Blocks of Vietnam

   Prowling the jungle of the Tenderloin for hot, sour, salty, and sweet.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: April 23, 2008

   It's clear that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn left something out when he said that art and literature are the only spiritual ambassadors between countries. If you attend the Church of...

6. Film

   Baby Mama Needs a Diaper Change

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: April 23, 2008

   Could have sworn I've seen this episode of Baby Mama before — like, sometime in January 2007, when it was originally titled "The Baby Show" and aired on the other...

7. Night&Day

   I Want My Mommy

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: April 23, 2008

   Are we in the middle of a baby boom? Are we in the middle of a "gayby boom?" It seems like there are babies everywhere. Whatever the case, Judy Norsigian, Executive Director of...

8. Night&Day

   Song of Yourself

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: April 23, 2008

   Reading a poem at City Hall is usually the dominion of poet laureates and labor organizers from the 1930s. But the city has not given up on the common man's desire to recite...

9. Night&Day

   On Top

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: April 23, 2008

   A skinny Sasquatch with three eyes wears puffy high-tops and holds an owl. It's obvious that the Sasquatch's thick, wiry fur acts as protection from the bird's talons. No one...

10. Night&Day

    Here's to You, Mr. Robinson

    By Michael Fox

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Michael Robinson is a poet, a prankster, a moving target. Heralded as one of the rising stars of avant-garde cinema, Robinson is that rare artist whose sometimes pensive,...

11. Night&Day

    Way Up Thar

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: April 23, 2008

    In 2004, sibling filmmakers Jeremy and Randy Stulberg discovered a community of drug dealers, runaways, veterans, and self-proclaimed patriots living on an inhospitable patch...

12. Night&Day

    We're In a Mission From God

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 23, 2008

    The Mission District is better than any other neighborhood: It's sunnier, more stylish, and has more Latinos than practically anywhere else. Excellent! On top of that, the...

13. Night&Day

    Lying in the Scrap Heap, Staring at the Stars

    By Evan James

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Spring: Sex drives briefly rise from the grave, the sound of hysterical citizens on temporary leave from seasonal affective disorder fills the air, and youthful designers fuse...

14. Night&Day

    It's a Classy Affair

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 23, 2008

    S.F. is known for great restaurants and fine museums, and every so often the two get together to show you what life would be like if you were extraordinarily rich. This month's...

15. Night&Day

    Butoh Yes They Did

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Perhaps more than any other contemporary butoh artist, Shinichi Iova-Koga integrates the humor and horror of existence. Whether coyly romancing a giant bird or doing...

16. Night&Day

    Homegrown Tomatoes v. Injustice

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 23, 2008

    If you ride a bicycle, grow a garden, or enjoy your friends, you may already be an anarchist. D.I.Y. philosopher Chris Carlsson makes this point in a much more intelligent way...

17. Night&Day

    It's No Wonder

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 23, 2008

    OK, it's not fair and it's not feminist, but we're going to say it anyway: Lynda Carter, aka television's Wonder Woman, looks amazing for her age. We have no idea what that age...

18. Night&Day

    Look Back in Anger

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 23, 2008

    Hey, almost every single scruffy kid in the Mission: Want to know what life was like here in the '90s? Sure you do, seeing how back then you were probably smoking a cigarette...

19. Night&Day

    Long, Shiny, Moves People

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 23, 2008

    In the lobby of the Cadillac Hotel waits a beautifully restored grand piano, an 1884 Steinway. The Cadillac is a place for down-and-outers to find a home when they have none,...

20. Night&Day

    Giant Sandcastles

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: April 23, 2008

    If one takes a step back for perspective, Howe Gelb is something of a focal point for a great deal of post-1984 Southwestern alterna-rock history. Though born in Pennsylvania,...