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1. Feature

   SF Supervisor Aaron Peskin's Message to Newsom: Quit Attacking Me!

   By John Geluardi

   Published: March 5, 2008

   Aaron Peskin walks into North Beach's legendary Caffe Trieste, wearing a natty olive suit and acting like he owns the place. Seven years after the neighborhood preservationist...

2. Reviewed

   Why?

   Alopecia (Anticon)

   By Ben Westhoff

   Published: March 5, 2008

   The press release for Alopecia claims that Why? ringleader Yoni Wolf was inspired "as much by MF Doom and Lil' Wayne as J. Newsom and Big Dylan." I don't hear any of that,...

3. Music

   Bing Ji Ling: from ice cream funk to tasty soul

   By Ezra Gale

   Published: March 5, 2008

   The band onstage on this wet February night sticks out from the parade of earnest singer-songwriters who normally grace Rockwood Music Hall on New York's Lower East Side. The...

4. Music

   Bay Area Picks for SXSW

   Edited By Jennifer Maerz

   Published: March 5, 2008

   South by Southwest is again upon us, which means the Bay Area's musicians, rappers, DJs, and experimentalists are filling up their gas tanks and heading south. Our loss is...

5. Eat

   Chinese Import

   The best (and cheapest) Shanghai-style food

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: March 5, 2008

   San Francisco has a deserved reputation for excellent Asian restaurants, but a void was felt when the Shanghai-style restaurant Fountain Court on Clement closed, famed for its...

6. Film

   Finally, a Jason Statham Movie Not Headed Straight to DVD

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: March 5, 2008

   "Based on a true story," The Bank Job brags before diving into the clear blue water of the Caribbean, where, in 1970, a topless woman frolics with two swimming mates —...

7. Night&Day

   You Can't Prove That By Me

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: March 5, 2008

   At "Take A Walk In Her Shoes: International Women's Day Celebration 2008," plenty of womanly fun is on the schedule, including dance, music, theater, and visual art. The...

8. Night&Day

   Can You See It?

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: March 5, 2008

   We've heard it said that the same five insults are hurled at all recent immigrants to the U.S., regardless of the year or where the travelers came from. The accusations are...

9. Night&Day

   WHIZ! BANG!

   By Silke Tudor

   Published: March 5, 2008

   Frustrated by the institutionalization of the avant-garde, the founders of POW! Mini Performance Art Festival have taken matters into their own hands: For three nights, an...

10. Night&Day

    Holy Christi

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 5, 2008

    In 1998, Terrence McNally's play about the life of Jesus, Corpus Christi, opened in New York to protests, bomb threats, and general right-wing horror-show outrage, then went on...

11. Night&Day

    Miles Ahead

    By Michael Fox

    Published: March 5, 2008

    The Biblical proverb that a prophet is without honor in his own home goes a ways toward explaining why the young saxophonist Albert Ayler split for Sweden in the early 1960s....

12. Night&Day

    Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 5, 2008

    The San Francisco Ghost Society has something that your average geek with an EMF reader doesn't: evidence. It's true! The site has YouTube videos popping with local activity,...

13. Night&Day

    Everybody Knows

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Although Saturday's Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival at the Palace of Fine Arts is sure to be, uh, slamming, one local act is not on the lineup: The Conspiracy of...

14. Night&Day

    Mapping Dance

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Aspiring artists out there trying their damndest to master just one art form may find it daunting to learn that Shen Wei Dance Arts director Shen Wei creates nearly every...

15. Night&Day

    Butch Is As Butch Does

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 5, 2008

    "Licking pussy is chivalry without pants." Discuss in small groups and be prepared to report back to the class on this issue. The quotation is from author, "gender-jammer," and...

16. Night&Day

    Look, Up in the Sky

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 5, 2008

    When artist David Tomb traveled to Mexico to look at birds, what he saw so excited him, he came home and splashed his canvases with the creatures, resulting in his first...

17. Night&Day

    Afro-Cuban-American

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: March 5, 2008

    The latest album from Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Avatar, is like some of the most outstanding albums in Blue Note’s illustrious catalogue. Not “sounds...

18. Night&Day

    "Pick Your Poison: Medicine and Madness"

    Published: March 5, 2008

    A bizarre program of medical, psychoactive, and mental hygiene films, including Le Monde Du Schizophrene (The World of the Schizophrenic), Pain and Its Alleviation, Ulcer at...

19. Night&Day

    Such a Good Boy

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 5, 2008

    When you discover Jay Howell went to art school for only six months, you might think, that long? If there's anything that an art education is guaranteed to crush, it's a young...

20. Night&Day

    Sizzle

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Tonight, Femina Potens' literary series Sizzle features Lorelei Lee (writer, undergraduate student, and porn performer) along with Raina Bird and a slideshow with the ladies of...