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1. Feature

   Whistleblower

   By most accounts, David Kessler's four years as UCSF's medical school dean were a rip-roaring success. So why was he fired?

   By Ron Russell

   Published: April 9, 2008

   In a cafe near his Pacific Heights home, David Kessler — who weighs maybe 160 pounds soaking wet — is expounding in a scholarly fashion on the causes of obesity,...

2. Reviewed

   R.E.M.

   Accelerate (Warner Brothers)

   By Annie Zaleski

   Published: April 9, 2008

   R.E.M.'s fourteenth studio album, Accelerate, lives up to its speedy title. It's loud, quick, and dirty, spinning by so fast that it takes multiple listens to absorb. It's full...

3. Music

   Cat Power Under the Covers: A Listening Party with Jukebox Muses

   By Andy Tennille

   Published: April 9, 2008

   "Hey, Andy, do me a favor. Move the phone away from the speaker, turn it down a little bit, and play it for me one more time." Daryl Brown sits quietly as I re-cue "Lost...

4. Eat

   Izakaya? O Yes

   Small plates but big flavors in Japantown.

   By Robert Lauriston

   Published: April 9, 2008

   In Japan's informal, convivial izakayas, groups of friends or co-workers gather around a table for a few hours, knocking back large quantities of beer, sake, wine, shochu...

5. Film

   Smart People Depicts Dumbass Brainiacs

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: April 9, 2008

   Smart people got no reason to live — and, sure, that's not quite how Randy Newman sang it, but the point still stands. Because in Noam Murro's directorial bow — one...

6. Night&Day

   Bomb Globally

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: April 9, 2008

   Like a tagger with a camera, director Jon Reiss puts his mark on the canon of graffiti films using an appropriate technique: He goes bigger than anyone, hitting five continents...

7. Night&Day

   Top Banana

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: April 9, 2008

   In 2002, Sarah Klein set up an oven in the lobby of San Jose’s Fairmont Plaza Office Tower and got people to make bread. She also makes homemade books about bread and...

8. Night&Day

   Loving Leibovitz

   By Evan James

   Published: April 9, 2008

   Popularly known as the photographer of superb and elevated celebrity portraits-cum-magazine covers, Annie Leibovitz transforms the experience of browsing the newsstand for...

9. Night&Day

   Animal Magnetism

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: April 9, 2008

   “Alternative taxidermy” is a scary phrase, but artist Lauren Davies isn’t concerned with turning stomachs -- well, not entirely. She once made a bunch of little...

10. Night&Day

    New Kid in Town

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 9, 2008

    Vikram Chandra’s fat novel Sacred Games is an excellent counterpoint to the seemingly never-ending Godfather trilogy broadcasts on deep cable. The book is a huge, sweeping...

11. Night&Day

    Tasty Bites

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: April 9, 2008

    The San Francisco International Chocolate Salon is a celebration of confections meant to sound reserved and polite, like the French fêtes that inspired it. However, there...

12. Night&Day

    In Good Company

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: April 9, 2008

    The local Company C Contemporary Ballet -- directed by one-time New York City Ballet dancer Charles Anderson -- counts among its many artistic assets a strong relationship with...

13. Night&Day

    Hidden in Plain Sight

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 9, 2008

    The shadowy world of classified military projects, which accounts for $32 billion a year in funding, is a curious place. The people involved can’t tell you anything about...

14. Night&Day

    Bullet Train

    By Michael Fox

    Published: April 9, 2008

    The high-concept ad campaign for the 1960s deodorant Hai Karate spoofed Western spy movies and Eastern martial arts to ludicrous but memorable effect. Some mighty clever young...

15. Night&Day

    Paul’s House

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: April 9, 2008

    At first glance, Paul Mooney appears far too serious to be one of America’s most incisive comedic wits. Some of his favorite topics are politics and, in his words, the...

16. Night&Day

    Drink Up

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: April 9, 2008

    One of the more enduring mementos to pass through this office was the SF Weakly, a satire crafted by comedian Kurt Weitzmann in 2000. Wisely, Weitzmann moved to Los Angeles...

17. Night&Day

    The Godfather of Steroids

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: April 9, 2008

    A quick look at the press surrounding Jose Canseco’s new book, Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and The Battle to Save Baseball, reveals one thing: Everybody hates Jose...

18. Night&Day

    Cross It Out

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 9, 2008

    It must be real easy to become a cliché if you're a girl holding an acoustic guitar. (Easier than if you're a boy? Discuss.) San Franciscan by way of London Rebecca...

19. Night&Day

    Avant-Garde Aphorisms

    By Michael Fox

    Published: April 9, 2008

    Long before the ubiquitous DVD and its pusherman Netflix upended the traditional moviegoing and movie-showing model, a few visionary local experimental filmmakers had tired of...

20. Night&Day

    She Takes Many Forms

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: April 9, 2008

    The seventh instance of Divafest, the locally produced women's theater festival, comes at you from all over the place. Seattle's Nebunele Theatre company brings Medea Knows...