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1. Feature

   Free Parking for Sale

   Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

   By Ashley Harrell

   Published: April 2, 2008

   It's not exactly official. It's just two square logs tucked between the pavement and the Caltrain depot, flanked on either end by rusted fencing and graffiti-coated windows....

2. Reviewed

   Rupa and the April Fishes

   eXtraOrdinary rendition (Cumbancha)

   By Dan Strachota

   Published: April 2, 2008

   Gypsy music has become all the rage of late, what with Beirut, Gogol Bordello, and DeVotchKa bringing their Roma-inspired sounds to the masses. Locally, the closest thing we...

3. Music

   Autechre Crafts, Then Shreds, IDM Clichés

   By John Graham

   Published: April 2, 2008

   It's probably the worst acronym in music history. IDM. Intelligent Dance Music. The words come out in a pompous snort, sneering down at anything that deigns to be merely "dance...

4. Eat

   Refined on Fillmore

   Creating new memories with French soul.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: April 2, 2008

   Renaming Lower Fillmore the Fillmore Jazz Preservation District is a classic example of shutting the barn doors long after the cows have fled and the farmer has torn down the...

5. Film

   Fourth and Inches

   George Clooney's ode to screwball comedies of yore is sooooo close. But yet.

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: April 2, 2008

   When Time recently featured George Clooney on its cover accompanied by the headline "The Last Movie Star" — note, not even a question mark at the end — you didn't...

6. Night&Day

   By The Light of the Moon

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: April 2, 2008

   Lunafest, a traveling women's film festival, features nine films made by women from seriously international backgrounds. The auteurs span Korea, Iceland, Colombia, and many...

7. Night&Day

   What You Do with a Drunken Sailor

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: April 2, 2008

   Truss up your breeches for this one: The ships down at Fisherman's Wharf are well known to children and tourists, but once a month, in the dead of night, locals creep to the...

8. Night&Day

   The Herky-Jerky

   By Silke Tudor

   Published: April 2, 2008

   It's hard to believe that the epic battle in Ray Harryhausen's Jason and the Argonauts has only seven skeletons. That inhuman maelstrom of bony fingers and clacking teeth is...

9. Night&Day

   Sandcastles

   By Michael Fox

   Published: April 2, 2008

   In the shifting sands of the Middle East, the only constants are faith and fables. They coexisted quite happily before the rise of fundamentalism, and they find a soulful...

10. Night&Day

    Rod Almighty

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: April 2, 2008

    It's hard not to grant The Twilight Zone an honorary place in the pecking order of cult television. After all, how many other shows encapsulated premillennial anxiety and that...

11. Night&Day

    Terribly Titular

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Since he was posthumously granted the Golden Turkey Award for Worst Director of All Time, Ed Wood has inspired some unlikely, but long overdue, devotion. The Sacramento-based...

12. Night&Day

    Drywall Run

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 2, 2008

    The YouTube video promoting Lucy McLauchlan's new exhibit reveals she was born to make art, attacking walls instead of hedging her bets with disposable canvases. The artist...

13. Night&Day

    Artists' Union

    By Michael Fox

    Published: April 2, 2008

    On a February day in 1919, four pissed-off heavyweights of the silent era signed a pact. Although the movie industry was still young, businessmen had already figured out how to...

14. Night&Day

    Not the Last One

    By Evan James

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Scarcely a soul exists who hasn't already experienced a bilevel bed-filled all-white room filled with trapeze artists and drag queens, if only in the privacy of his or her own...

15. Night&Day

    Cock, Roach

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Mary Roach is legendary. As an author, she is a rare combination of dry wit and ferociously talented investigator. Having produced two books of nonfiction, Stiff and Spook, on...

16. Night&Day

    Remember Hey Faggot?

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Savage Love, the wildly popular sex column by Dan Savage, the editorial director of Seattle's alt-weekly The Stranger, is not just smart and egalitarian — it's also...

17. Night&Day

    Filles d’Afrique

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: April 2, 2008

    There are any number of reasons a collaboration between Urban Bush Women's Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny might have struck both women as...

18. Night&Day

    Forget Shelter, Gimme Asylum

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Texas is a cradle of civilization. After all, the Lone Star State gave the world Bob Wills, Wes Anderson, Danny Elfman, the Butthole Surfers, and the Asylum Street Spankers....

19. Night&Day

    Oh Susana

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Afro-Peruvian chanteuse Susana Baca is a lady with an extraordinary glow, as evidenced by Memoria Viva, the documentary that celebrates her; she matches that outer radiance...

20. Night&Day

    The Agony of de Feet

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 2, 2008

    We don't usually recommend highly sponsored events, but we can't resist the Barback Olympics. No, not the Bareback Olympics. That's a very different event we don't usually...