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1. Feature

   Building Overtime

   Off-duty police officers making time and a half are swarming over construction sites, handing out tickets. Only in S.F.

   By Joe Eskenazi

   Published: October 8, 2008

   Six hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty-one cents. This is a figure virtually every builder toiling within San Francisco city limits has had emblazoned onto his or her...

2. Music

   Brightblack Morning Light's slow-rock movement

   By Ron Nachmann

   Published: October 8, 2008

   As the financial apocalypse looms and pundits panic about abstracted value, it makes sense to step back and think about our inner selves and how we tread in the real world....

3. Eat

   I'll Have What She's Having

   Eating at Marnee Thai can be an education in making difficult choices.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: October 8, 2008

   Often, when I go with a group to an Asian restaurant, especially if it's one I've written about, I end up doing the bulk of the ordering. I'm happy, in fact happier, if...

4. Film

   Rachel Getting Married: The other sister

   Anne Hathaway makes a compelling bad girl in Jonathan Demme's pedestrian family drama.

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: October 8, 2008

   Those who believe Jonathan Demme went all soft with Philadelphia and never recovered may not be reassured by his latest movie, an ensemble tale of family pathology gussied up...

5. Stage

   Chazz Palminteri revives A Bronx Tale in San Francisco

   By Chloe Veltman

   Published: October 8, 2008

   Chazz Palminteri's autobiographical solo show, A Bronx Tale, is theoretically about an Italian-American boy's relationship with two father figures — hard-working, morally...

6. Matt Smith

   The American Dream's $700 billion price tag

   By Matt Smith

   Published: October 8, 2008

   During the past few weeks, obscure economics professors have appeared on television screens and in the text of countless newspaper articles to explain how a host of...

7. Music

   Jolie Holland's storytelling grows in scope

   By Ezra Gale

   Published: October 8, 2008

   Say you wandered into the Rite Spot at 17th and Mission streets sometime in 1999. There's a crowd of dot-com cubicle monkeys unwinding at the bar, and a few couples lit by...

8. Fresh Eats

   New Restaurants

   Published: October 8, 2008

   A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Academy Cafe: 55 Music Concourse (in the Academy of Sciences), www.themossroom.com....

9. Film

   Female Persuasion

   Happy-Go-Lucky's optimistic heroine might just convince you to cheer up.

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: October 8, 2008

   The protag of Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky is a modestly gaudy people's heroine industriously repairing the social world, one frayed interaction at a time. After extended...

10. Art

    Julio Cesar Morales re-enacts the birth of California

    By Traci Vogel

    Published: October 8, 2008

    In 2004, when Julio Cesar Morales went to view the Bear Flag Revolt monument in Sonoma, truth was enjoying a particularly slippery moment. Dick Cheney assured the press that...

11. Sucka Free City

    Skippy cartoonist's daughter sues SuperBooty musician

    By Brad Kava

    Published: October 8, 2008

    When SuperBooty singer Mark O'Hara chose the name of Skippy Tornado for his first solo project, he didn't know he'd be facing a bigger storm in the form of a legal battle with...

12. Music

    Classical music’s no-frills Mission digs

    By Khalid Halhoul

    Published: October 8, 2008

    Armed with stringed instruments and intense training from the likes of Juilliard and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Classical Revolution is on a mission to change the...

13. Film

    Lies We Can Believe In

    Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve.

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: October 8, 2008

    A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the War on Terror as it is being waged on the ground, in the air, but most of all in cyberspace. Directed...

14. Stagecap

    Believe it or not, Moby Dick is good material for a musical

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: October 8, 2008

    After putting the "head" in Hedda Gabler and the "sin" in Cinderella, the fishnet- and short-skirt–wearing schoolgirls of the fictional St. Godley's School for Young...

15. Sucka Free City

    Will black neighborhoods in S.F. support the gay marriage ban — again?

    By John Geluardi

    Published: October 8, 2008

    San Francisco may be the spiritual homeland of the gay-rights movement, but that doesn't mean all its residents are of the same mind when it comes to Proposition 8, the...

16. Let's Get Killed

    Frisco Freakout makes a California scene

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: October 8, 2008

    California's psych-rock acts are getting heads buzzed around the globe. The music roughs up '60s San Francisco/Dead influences in filters ranging from heavy metal to punk and...

17. FilmCap

    Saving Marriage

    By Chuck Wilson

    Published: October 8, 2008

    Come November 4, Californians will punch their ballots for or against an amendment to the state Constitution titled "Eliminates Rights of Same-Sex Couples to Marry Act" (aka...

18. Artcap

    October Art Events

    Compiled By Traci Vogel

    Published: October 8, 2008

    1AM SF Gallery Grand Opening The grand opening of a new gallery dedicated to street and urban art. The gallery's name stands for the First Amendment; it promises to offer...

19. Sucka Free City

    Marin Republicans love them some Sarah Palin

    By Katy St. Clair

    Published: October 8, 2008

    It's lonely being a Republican in Marin County. According to Greenbrae resident and former archconservative KSFO radio host Melanie Morgan, only one in four people in the...

20. Stagecap

    Tim Barsky's new play, 7 Beggars, leaves us begging for more

    By Nathaniel Eaton

    Published: October 8, 2008

    I have no idea why Tim Barsky is not a huge household name; he is a megatalent. The Oakland-based Barsky is an unbelievable beatboxer, heartfelt storyteller, poet, flutist, and...