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1. Feature

   Building Racism

   Segregation and racism are used to pit black and Latino carpenters against each other at a low-income-housing site

   By Lauren Smiley

   Published: March 26, 2008

   As the Aguilar brothers remember it, one afternoon last August the management had some workers cook up shrimp soup and fried fish for the Latino construction men who were...

2. Reviewed

   The Dirtbombs

   We Have You Surrounded (In the Red)

   By Eric Davidson

   Published: March 26, 2008

   It's getting rare to see a music career like the one the Dirtbombs have amassed. For 15-plus years, they've played a spirits-soaked strain of rock 'n' roll that would doom most...

3. Music

   Mike Relm: From "Back in Black" to Blue Man Group

   By Ben Westhoff

   Published: March 26, 2008

   DJ Mike Relm is the Outback Steakhouse of turntablism. He entertains great gobs of people via tried-and-true musical recipes that inflict heartburn upon those who are sick of...

4. Eat

   What Comes Between

   Three different ways to fill the space between two pieces of bread.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: March 26, 2008

   Happy is the city that boasts not only classy high-end restaurants and a variety of ethnic eateries, but also places that devote their full attention to simple dishes they...

5. Film

   Skinny Is the New Fat

   Simon Pegg may not have the ideal physique to play hefty, but he's a good fit for Run Fat Boy Run.

   By Jim Ridley

   Published: March 26, 2008

   As John Simon once said of Jeanne Moreau cast in a virginal role, making Simon Pegg a fat guy is like casting Lassie as a vegetarian. Take Chris Elliott, subtract Don Knotts:...

6. Night&Day

   You're Stupid. No, You're Stupid. No YOU'RE Stupid.

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: March 26, 2008

   It's time once again for the Saint Stupid's Day Parade, held annually on April Fools' Day. The idea is to exorcise the day-to-day stupidity of your year, to point out how...

7. Night&Day

   Pranks for a Higher Purpose

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: March 26, 2008

   With its Pranks books, RE/Search has long championed those who fire philosophical spitballs at all society holds dear: corporations, social constructs, the hegemony,...

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   The Tennis Ball Diaries

   By Michael Leaveron

   Published: March 26, 2008

   Last month, the publishing industry threw its back out promoting the father-son memoirs Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction and Tweak: Growing Up...

9. Night&Day

   The Sex Beat

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: March 26, 2008

   Sex writing used to be the domain of the wildly proficient Anonymous, and there was no need for "best of" collections. But today you people can't stop with the dirty stories,...

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    Might Bite

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Should you go to a gallery show just because the artist is famous? On one hand, no, of course not. On the other hand, notoriety rarely springs from nothing in the art world...

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    Gibbons on the Runway

    By Evan James

    Published: March 26, 2008

    San Francisco avant-garde fashion celebrates a moment of springtime pullulation: Savant Garde. Here, local designers push the limits of fabric construction to way-out places....

12. Night&Day

    Scowls in Bulk

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 26, 2008

    In a recent issue of Hyphen magazine, Ali Wong asserts that fellow comic Bobby Lee's "lack of seriousness shows a serious dedication to kicking the shit out of the model...

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    A Fly-by-Knight Operation

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Cartoonist Keith Knight was a San Francisco institution — before he fucking bailed. The author of syndicated comic strips The K Chronicles and (th)ink up and left us...

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    It's in the Can

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Last year, Danilo Macarrao and Marina Junqueira shook it so hard they won. Before you think "Pfft, I could do that," admit to yourself that in a hard-shakin' town such as ours,...

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    Super 8 Duper

    By Mike Rowell

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Back in the 1990s, local Super 8 auteur Danny Plotnick toured the indie-rock circuit, screening impudent no-budget films such as Dumbass from Dundas and Death Sled II: Steel...

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    Style Wars

    By Ed Gonzalez

    Published: March 26, 2008

    True story: In fourth grade, a nun gave a friend and I detention for breakdancing, squashing whatever dreams two guilt-stricken Catholic-school twerps may have had of becoming...

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    Study in Symmetry

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Many have wondered, since the days of the revolutionary postmodern Judson Church movement in 1970s New York, if there is any truly new ground to be broken in the realm of dance...

18. Night&Day

    Turning Heads

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: March 26, 2008

    In the art world, carving out a space for women is as important as ever, but the four female artists in the exhibition "Make You Notice" aren't interested in issuing a...

19. Night&Day

    End of the Line?

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: March 26, 2008

    When it comes to the ratio of hours spent creating a production to actual time on stage, dance companies tend to get the short end of the stick. Most shows, months in the...

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    Hot Topic

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 26, 2008

    A big question for U.S. women: Are you a feminist? Sandra Oh represented plenty of us when she said, "People who say that they don't like that word have drunk some kind of...