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1. Feature

   Party Crashers 08

   Ralph Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are looking to make a difference in the upcoming presidential election. Early polling suggests they just might.

   By John Geluardi

   Published: April 30, 2008

   Independent vice-presidential candidate Matt Gonzalez sits attentively in the front row of UC Berkeley's Wheeler Auditorium, waiting for an introduction to 400 political...

2. Reviewed

   The Heavy

   Great Vengeance and Furious Fire (Counter)

   By Dave Pehling

   Published: April 30, 2008

   Throwback R&B acts on both sides of the Atlantic have struck gold by mining the classic sounds of James Brown, Motown, and Aretha Franklin, but few have touched on the...

3. Music

   Berlin techno producer Ellen Allien steers to innerspace

   By Tony Ware

   Published: April 30, 2008

   The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 abruptly offered sizable options for euphoric electronic music fans. Formerly grayed-out factories-turned-clubs played host to a flush of...

4. Hear This

   Colin Meloy’s heartfelt approach is Donovan-esque

   By Mark Keresman

   Published: April 30, 2008

   Live performance skills separate the truly talented from those just getting by in a studio or band context. Take Colin Meloy, frontman with the Decemberists, for example. His...

5. Eat

   Fish Story

   A room with an expensive view, and din with your dinner.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: April 30, 2008

   The importance of pleasing or dramatic views with your dinner is debatable. One school of thought is that all the attention should be put on the plate. But there's no denying...

6. Film

   Mamet's new film, Redbelt, showing at the SF International Film Fest

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: April 30, 2008

   David Mamet's Redbelt is a tricky bar brawl — call it Roundhouse of Games. The writer-director has scarcely abandoned his sense of the movies as an innately duplicitous...

7. Night&Day

   Talking Dance

   By Bonner Odell

   Published: April 30, 2008

   It's not just a rumor propagated by local dance devotees: The Bay Area really is home to the most happening dance community in the country outside of New York City. The scene...

8. Night&Day

   Paging Ed Wood

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: April 30, 2008

   The sci-fi epic Starslyderz spent four years in post-production, according to a Variety article. No, Michael Bay wasn't attached. But around 150 F/X people found on Craigslist...

9. Night&Day

   Buddha Behind Bars

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: April 30, 2008

   In 2002, the Vipassana Meditation Center of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, held a retreat in Alabama, consisting of an ancient, rigorous course of meditation that lasted 10...

10. Night&Day

    Last Chance for Fest of Firsts

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: April 30, 2008

    If you're still making mental notes to catch SF Ballet in its 75th Anniversary Season every time a Muni bus placard conveys those exultant leaping dancers past you at an...

11. Night&Day

    Make It Work

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 30, 2008

    So much of the weirdness at the ultimate DIY conflagration, The Maker Faire, has to be seen to be even remotely understood. Here's a short list of that weirdness: the...

12. Night&Day

    Market: Mark It

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 30, 2008

    You hear so much bad news most of the time, from the war to the fact that landlords are attempting to repeal rent control on June 3. Bleah. Ready for some good news? The...

13. Night&Day

    Linked Together

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Last year, artist Lacey Jane Roberts blocked Clarion Alley in the Mission with a chain-link, barbed-wire-topped fence, which was pink. It was pink because she covered every...

14. Night&Day

    Clouds In Fog

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Looming, delicate, billowed clouds howl through the work of Gale Antokal at her new exhibit, "No Vanishing Point." With these large-scale chalk pastels on paper, the artist...

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    Get Going

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Waiting for Godzilla is less absurdist angst than its Beckett namesake and more operatic B-movie fantasy. In fact, the piece, by famed composer and singer Randall Wong, is...

16. Night&Day

    Sex Health Food for Thought

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Given all the pro-abstinence propaganda that's been passing itself off as sex education for decades now, it seems like primitive cave paintings are capable of more insight...

17. Night&Day

    Stop Waiting for Lefty

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 30, 2008

    The literary who's-who at "Strike! Igniting the Fuse of Possibility," includes accomplished and lauded poets like Jack Hirschman, Diane di Prima, and Michael McClure, as well...

18. Night&Day

    You Should Explore Your Own

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Something in us rebels; we love to see mistreated people get up and tell power where to shove it. This is why we like to see Johnny Cash angry, this is the cause of our undying...

19. Night&Day

    Ramsey's Roots

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: April 30, 2008

    If it weren't for the Americana tag, North Carolina's Tyler Ramsey would be almost any record label's marketing nightmare. Heck, even the flexible, wide-ranging "Americana"...

20. Night&Day

    Extra Mayo

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Cinco de Mayo celebrates the Battle of Puebla, in which Mexican troops beat French troops in a most French-troop-humiliating way, back in 1862. We think the holiday could be...