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1. Feature

   Punk Family Values

   Meet the Rosenthals: two generations of art stars in one six-story warehouse.

   By Jennifer Maerz

   Published: May 7, 2008

   Carola Anderson carries a pitcher of limeade through her sprawling SOMA home affectionately known as the Complex, the ice cubes bouncing among sprigs of mint. A black beret is...

2. Reviewed

   Subtle

   Exiting ARM(Lex)

   By Oscar Pascal

   Published: May 7, 2008

   Subtle has built a steady reputation for crafting progressive style-melds. Under that moniker, masterminds Adam "Doseone" Drucker and Jeffrey "Jel" Logan aim to satisfy their...

3. Music

   Atmosphere paints self-effacing shit gold

   By Ben Westhoff

   Published: May 7, 2008

   On one hand, it shouldn't be surprising that rapper Slug is insecure, considering he has a song called "They're All Gonna Laugh at You," and another that tells the fantastical...

4. Eat

   Lucky Spot Hot Pot

   Sichuan cuisine spices up the Portola District.

   By Robert Lauriston

   Published: May 7, 2008

   The Portola District has been off the rest of San Francisco's culinary radar since the mid-1980s, when the great barbecue joint Vic & Betty's closed down. Recently, the...

5. Film

   Get Out of Jail Free

   Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack in Standard Operating Procedure.

   By J. Hoberman

   Published: May 7, 2008

   It's been 20 years since Errol Morris made The Thin Blue Line, a found "noir" that served to free an innocent man convicted of murder. Gathering evidence and dramatizing...

6. Film Feature

   Summer Grows Up

   The season of big budget bangs uses its brain

   By Chuck Wilson

   Published: May 7, 2008

   Explosions, pratfalls, and robots; heroes, aliens, and blondes — it must be summertime at the movies. Beyond the flash, though, it's striking to note just how many...

7. Night&Day

   Turks All Lit Up

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: May 7, 2008

   The Center for the Art of Translation's monthly Lit & Lunch series provides downtowners with brain refreshments at the noon hour; we wish we worked near the swanky gallery so...

8. Night&Day

   I Left My Heart in a Donut Shop

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: May 7, 2008

   Iggy Scam, famous among Mission District punks as a 'zine writer, musician, and activist, has grown older. He changed his name back to Erick Lyle, for example. He hasn't...

9. Night&Day

   Art Pulse

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: May 7, 2008

   In his ongoing robotics art project, Serpentine Robot Arm with Tendon Transmission, Carl Pisaturo is attempting the impossible: "the artful handling of wine glasses." He's...

10. Night&Day

    Street Fighting Woman

    By Michael Fox

    Published: May 7, 2008

    After four decades of historical reductivism and revisionism, the incendiary student protests of 1968, here and in Europe, have been neatly placed in a box labeled "the antiwar...

11. Night&Day

    The Burroughs Adding Machine

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Augusten Burroughs has a pair. After years of dancing on the line between memoir and fiction, with all the crazy people in his past coming out of the woodwork to level charges...

12. Night&Day

    Peripatetic, Poetic, and Chic

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 7, 2008

    In college, many of our friends were philosophy majors. In retrospect, this was a mistake on our part: Those people drink too much, and not for fun. Eventually, we realized...

13. Night&Day

    The Kids are Alright

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Children's art, like children's literature, can be downright profound in its simplicity, not to mention refreshing for the lack of guesswork and determined contemplation the...

14. Night&Day

    One Google Guy

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Charlie Ayers had one of the best head chef jobs in the world: He ran 10 cafes in Mountain View, creating the best food possible for people who didn't have to pay for it, with...

15. Night&Day

    O Happy Day

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Rarely does the bad news suddenly turn to good, and then get even better. So let's savor it: Kim Nalley's sweet jazz boite went belly up, we were told, but then made a...

16. Night&Day

    Land Ho!

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: May 7, 2008

    For some, the KFOG KaBoom! is a perfectly good waste of thousands of dollars of pyrotechnics, thanks to the music of Dave Matthews. But imagine watching the show while sitting...

17. Night&Day

    New Blood

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: May 7, 2008

    In the 1980s, three Mississippi 12-year-olds famously spent six years filming a shot-for-shot VHS remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The misfit heroes of writer-director Garth...

18. Night&Day

    Summer in the City

    By Nirmala Nataraj

    Published: May 7, 2008

    No need to limit your al fresco arts activities to Stern Grove. The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival ensures that you can get some fresh air and take in a few of the Bay Area's...

19. Night&Day

    Butt Rock

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: May 7, 2008

    We thought the prize for weirdest-named local artist went to Poopy Lickles, but here we've just learned about Butt Johnson. Ding ding ding! Trophy's all yours, Butt! Many other...

20. Night&Day

    Sweet Land

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: May 7, 2008

    Today, when the appearance of a flag pin can absorb an entire news cycle, it's good to remember people like William Ray, a Navy sailor who literally dipped himself in patriotic...