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1. Feature

   Homeless SF State students struggle to stay in school and stay loaded

   By Trey Bundy

   Published: September 17, 2008

   Rex reaches over a chain-link fence and sticks a gyro sandwich, a two-liter bottle of Coke, and his skateboard between the branches of a tree. After a quick glance over each...

2. Music

   TV on the Radio bring new levity to Treasure Island

   By Andy Beta

   Published: September 17, 2008

   TV on the Radio guitarist Kyp Malone is trying to explain the ins and outs of negotiating success as he walks down the street in his South Williamsburg neighborhood. "It's what...

3. Eat

   A Pair to Bet On

   A terrific lunch leads to an even better dinner.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: September 17, 2008

   A wonderful lunch at a new neighborhood restaurant in Oakland later led us across the bay to an even more wonderful dinner at a restaurant that has been feeding its...

4. Film Feature

   Biblical Proportions

   The best four-plus hours, plus Jesus, round out this year's Toronto film fest.

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: September 17, 2008

   The most vital movie I ended up seeing at this year's Toronto International Film Festival didn't have its first screening until the festival's final day and is, in the words of...

5. Film

   Your Friends and Neighbors

   Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace.

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: September 17, 2008

   Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned out to be a blond, blue-eyed...

6. Night&Day

   Obama’s Poster Boy

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: September 17, 2008

   Graphic artist and illustrator Shepard Fairey, whose street adaptations of propaganda have been “manufacturing quality dissent since 1989,” has found a non-ironic...

7. Night&Day

   Shine a Little Light

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: September 17, 2008

   We're squeamish. We can hardly believe people even get Brazilian bikini waxes, let alone give them for a living. It seems so invasive; isn't that hair there for a reason? Yet...

8. Night&Day

   Dog Is My Co-Pilot

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: September 17, 2008

   In the early 1990s, it looked like indie bookstores were on the way out. Amazon.com dominated, and big-box stores were booming. Between then and now, the American Booksellers...

9. Night&Day

   Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?

   By Andy Wright

   Published: September 17, 2008

   If you've ever wanted to watch some people throw a bunch of art in the middle of the street and run that shit over with a steamroller, "Roadworks" is for you. At the annual...

10. Night&Day

    Your Vision Getting Blurr-y

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 17, 2008

    Let's hear it for weird old art guys! Specifically, let us now praise Buz Blurr, who spells his name buZ blurr and is famous among hobos for his fabulous cryptic train...

11. Night&Day

    Daughters of Ida Lupino

    By Michael Fox

    Published: September 17, 2008

    According to the venerable distributor Women Make Movies, just six percent of the 250 top-grossing films last year were directed by women. That isn’t an indicator of...

12. Night&Day

    Coin-Operated Relaxation

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: September 17, 2008

    Perhaps no space in the city is more hotly contested than the parking space. So when the creative folks at design collective Rebar went looking for alternative uses for these...

13. Night&Day

    Warhol Superstar

    By Michael Fox

    Published: September 17, 2008

    In the sprawling scrapbook of Warhol divas, the legends Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Candy Darling, and Holly Woodlawn still hold sway over lesser mortals. But to the cognoscenti, any...

14. Night&Day

    Crouching Stereotype, Hidden Forerunner

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 17, 2008

    When we heard that a local theater would be screening a silent kung fu movie with live accompaniment, we were excited. It somehow didn't occur to us that a lot of movies from...

15. Night&Day

    And the Band Played On

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: September 17, 2008

    Such is the state of anti-touchy-feelyness nowadays that it’s worth noting when The New York Times calls something “triumphantly sentimental.” Especially when...

16. Night&Day

    Barry Good

    By Andy Wright

    Published: September 17, 2008

    The girls who populate cartoonist Lynda Barry’s work are scrubby, scraggly-haired, befreckled, and awkward. Barry's most famous creation, Marlys, has a curt line of a...

17. Night&Day

    Why Him?

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: September 17, 2008

    People who read the recent New Yorker profile of Alec Baldwin, which essentially outlined the actor's persecution complex, seemed to have one of two reactions. Some dismissed...

18. Night&Day

    Wheel People

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: September 17, 2008

    The Greasy Hearts Cycle Club is fixated on one thing: fun on wheels. The group describes itself as "your friendly neighborhood bicycle-loving queers," and it gathers each...

19. Night&Day

    Squeeze Play

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: September 17, 2008

    Ann Randolph performed with the Groundlings, the Los Angeles comedy troupe that has spawned Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, and Cheri Oteri, among others. Instead of going to...

20. Night&Day

    Giant Party!

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 17, 2008

    A pre-game party in Lot D (we're dreaming it includes sago't gulaman, but we can't make promises), Filipino music and dancing, a Giants Filipino Heritage Night II hat, and a...