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1. Feature

   State of the Cart

   Join us as we map the street food scene and find out why there aren't more vendors in this most food-involved and temperate of cities.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: July 16, 2008

   Nobody would deny that San Francisco, an intimate, walkable city that attracts (and needs) millions of tourists annually, is famed as a gastronomic destination. An estimated...

2. Music

   Survival of the fittest for the summer’s big music events

   By Ezra Gale

   Published: July 16, 2008

   In the early 1990s, Lollapalooza's triumphant summertime tours were a victory lap for the Alternative Nation. So many teenagers clamored to spend their concert dollars on such...

3. Eat

   When Tourists Hit the Beach

   You can do worse than Panta Rei's swinging decor and homemade pasta, but you can also do better.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: July 16, 2008

   You can't help but feel sorry for the tourists who wander around North Beach, hungry and confused. Even with all the information available in guidebooks, on Web sites, and in...

4. Film

   Heart of Darkness

   Heath Ledger peers into the void as Christopher Nolan's Batman returns.

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: July 16, 2008

   What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan's Gotham City — if "pleasure" is the right word for a movie that gazes so deeply and sometimes despairingly...

5. Night&Day

   Being Bad Feels Pretty Good

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: July 16, 2008

   Remember when you discovered that Andrew Clark was just a troubled soul, just like you, and that Claire Standish was simply a girl with horrible parents who needed a hug? Hint:...

6. Night&Day

   Blowin’ Up

   By Ashley Harrell

   Published: July 16, 2008

   If we told you there’s this great band – this balloon bass band – called Unpopable, what would you think? Would you lose respect for us immediately? Would you...

7. Night&Day

   Puttin’ on the Mitz

   By Michael Fox

   Published: July 16, 2008

   In the late ‘60s, when the gulf between the entertainment establishment (think Bob Hope) and the counterculture (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby) was at its widest, Mitzi Gaynor...

8. Night&Day

   Local Word-Gardening

   By Nirmala Nataraj

   Published: July 16, 2008

   Latino poetry is a category that spans multiple cultures, languages, and legacies -- from the pre-Columbian origin myths and political salvos of Pablo Neruda to the...

9. Night&Day

   Saddle Up

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: July 16, 2008

   It’s nice how the annual Bicycle Film Festival always makes time for those who suck on energy gel and click through Whole Foods in cycling shoes. July 25, for instance,...

10. Night&Day

    60 and Counting

    Published: July 16, 2008

    The Secrets, a taboo-splintering drama set in and around a women’s religious school in the mystical northern Israeli city of Safed, is the quintessential S.F. Jewish Film...

11. Night&Day

    Ghost Stories

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Ever since San Francisco decided its seven square miles were too good for dead people and moved all cemeteries out to Colma, "cemetery city" has been way more interesting. A...

12. Night&Day

    Swiss Engineering

    By Michael Fox

    Published: July 16, 2008

    The system devised to project Yves Netzhammer’s video installation Furniture of Proportions is an elegant work of art in its own right. It looks like a giant’s...

13. Night&Day

    Ships Ahoy

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Of the many square-rigged, tall ships sailing into port this week for the Festival of Sail, we’re most excited about the Nina. The ship, which starred in 1492 (the movie),...

14. Night&Day

    Let Them Entertain You

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Comediennes Beth Lisick and Tara Jepsen are our own Amy Sedarises: You don’t know whom they’re mocking, exactly, but you’re well aware it could be you. At their...

15. Night&Day

    So Much Drama!

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Set in a downtown oasis, the San Francisco Theater Festival offers stage newbies and die-hard performance lovers a potent cocktail of thespian fun, without the exorbitant cost....

16. Night&Day

    Odissi at ODC

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: July 16, 2008

    These are complicated times. While most good Bay Areans beleaguer themselves with double doses of NPR to shore up their cultural sensitivity, perhaps we can suggest adding a...

17. Night&Day

    Brideshead Revisited

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: July 16, 2008

    A movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s tale of England collapsing under the pressure of social change—even one that has passed through the pop filter of co-writer...

18. Night&Day

    Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Thirty years ago, Roman Polanski did a very bad thing, but he was never brought to justice because he went away -- to Europe. Of course everyone thinks he's guilty as sin,...

19. Night&Day

    CSNY: Déjà Vu

    By Michelle Orange

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Neil Young wanted to tour the country that re-elected George W. Bush, dole out some demerits, light some fires, and maybe even sell a few copies of his 2006 album, Living With...

20. Night&Day

    The Unknown Woman

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: July 16, 2008

    Remember Giuseppe Tornatore, who made the overrated but harmlessly cute Cinema Paradiso, about the grumpy projectionist who made him the fabulous filmmaker he is today? Meet...