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1. Feature

   Bougie Nights

   Gangstas. Thugs. Knuckleheads. Baki Lepolo's bouncers have handled them all. But can they handle the VIP crowd?

   By Lauren Smiley

   Published: September 24, 2008

   At the previously troubled corner of 11th and Folsom streets on a recent Sunday night, Baki Lepolo, patriarch of San Francisco nightclub security, marvels at the difference a...

2. Music

   Kim Gordon continues a New York tradition

   By Andrew Stout

   Published: September 24, 2008

   Kim Gordon personifies New York cool so completely that fans often forget she is a Los Angeles transplant. But in 1979, when the future Sonic Youth co-founder was frequenting...

3. Eat

   Victuals Tour

   Come along as we walk (and eat) our way through the Ferry Building.

   By Matthew Stafford

   Published: September 24, 2008

   When out-of-towners ask me where they should visit when they come to San Francisco, my initial response is always the Ferry Building. North Beach and Muir Woods I get around to...

4. Film

   Royally Screwed

   Lady Georgiana Spencer, cheated in life and in casting, in The Duchess.

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: September 24, 2008

   The Duchess is the best women's movie of the summer. Don't get too excited: Sex and the City, Mamma Mia!, and The Women set the bar so dismally low that almost any film with a...

5. Night&Day

   New Old Romantics

   Published: September 24, 2008

   Going solely by the tunes on Cut Copy’s new disc, In Ghost Colours, you’d swear the Aussie trio dresses in frilly shirts, gravity-defying hairdos, and other...

6. Night&Day

   Pier Review

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: September 24, 2008

   If Hollywood ever tries its hand at Escape from San Francisco, we hope there are kayaks involved. There just aren’t enough kayaks in action films, you know? We imagine the...

7. Night&Day

   Sports Buffs

   By Katy St. Clair

   Published: September 24, 2008

   When you think of nudism and the Olympics (and who doesn't?), your mind probably goes to the Nazi propaganda films of Leni Riefenstahl, where perfectly sculpted Aryan specimens...

8. Night&Day

   Persistent Vegetative State

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: September 24, 2008

   As far as we can tell, doctors don't study nutrition. In fact, if you ask a regular medical doctor about the relationship between what you eat and how you feel, you're likely...

9. Night&Day

   Indiewood North

   By Michael Fox

   Published: September 24, 2008

   Yes, the Mill Valley Film Festival caters to the moneyed crowd living the good life in Marin County. But festival programmers Mark Fishkin and Zoe Elton have never flinched...

10. Night&Day

    Just Add Water

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: September 24, 2008

    According to Ted Siebert’s The Art of Sandcastling, a 1990 book referred to as a “bible” by folks in the know, seawater is an ideal bonding agent. “As...

11. Night&Day

    Playing Dead

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: September 24, 2008

    Dead Channels: The San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film is a 10-day celebration of offbeat cinema that takes the "fantasy" genre and stretches it to incorporate not only...

12. Night&Day

    Quaken and Stirred

    By Jonathan Kiefer

    Published: September 24, 2008

    Writers make mistakes. This is true; it has been fact checked. Hence, Litquake, the city's annual festival of words and the people who use them effectively, which has gone on...

13. Night&Day

    Hot Mess

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 24, 2008

    Tim Roda's photographs are creepy. Constantly, a child is shown in situations that have an incredible potential for wrongness. Your hide prickles looking at them; you're ready...

14. Night&Day

    The Floating Needle

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: September 24, 2008

    It may be the “tramp stamp” in America, but in Japan the tattoo remains an underground art, long associated with the yakuza, or organized crime. Some modern tattoo...

15. Night&Day

    The Rocks-y Theater

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 24, 2008

    California runs into her two ex-boyfriends, the San Andreas and Hayward faults. There's tension, and then they double-team her: This is one of many geological sex puns in...

16. Night&Day

    Put Down the Credit Card and Back Away

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 24, 2008

    "Stop shopping!" is the constant ministration of Reverend Billy, a political-minded New York City performance art character. He doesn't want you to starve or suffer by not...

17. Night&Day

    Allah That and a Bag of Chips

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: September 24, 2008

    For the three Muslim-American stand-up comics showcased in the concert film Allah Made Me Funny, terror is something more than stage fright. Mohammed “Mo” Amer and...

18. Night&Day

    No Shame On You

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 24, 2008

    Gay Pride still probably scares the white off rice in some places, so just imagine what effect Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore has on people. Sycamore is so deep in a left-wing...

19. Night&Day

    Religulous

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: September 24, 2008

    Bill Maher’s one-man stand-up attack on religious fundamentalism is a dog that has more bark than bite—a skeptical, secular-humanist hounding of the hypocrites,...

20. Night&Day

    Flower Power

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 24, 2008

    Jennifer K. Wofford's drawings adorn streetside kiosks up and down Market Street; they are taken from her new graphic novel. "Flor de Manila y San Francisco" charts the...