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1. Feature

   Dan White's Motive More About Betrayal Than Homophobia

   By John Geluardi

   Published: January 30, 2008

   Political consultant Ray Sloan took a deep drink of white wine, returned his glass to the bar, and began to reminisce about the political campaign 30 years ago in which he...

2. Music

   Black Mountain's Psychedelic Sprawl Needs a Roadmap

   By Jonah Flicker

   Published: January 30, 2008

   Vancouver's Black Mountain drew from a deep well of psychedelic-rock firewater when recording its self-titled debut, which was released in 2005. The group offered a rush of...

3. Reviewed

   The Mars Volta

   The Bedlam in Goliath (Umvd Labels)

   By Andy Tennille

   Published: January 30, 2008

   If The Bedlam in Goliath, the fourth studio album from psychedelic rock warriors the Mars Volta, proves anything, it's that inspiration can come from dire circumstances. In...

4. Eat

   The Pho Chronicles

   Upscale setting for the Vietnamese noodle soup that's good for what ails you, but nothing like your mother made

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: January 30, 2008

   Nora Ephron nailed it in her witty "The Chicken Soup Chronicles" in The New York Times a couple of weeks ago: "The other day I felt a cold coming on. So I decided to have...

5. Film

   Heroes and Zeroes at Sundance '08

   Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine.

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: January 30, 2008

   Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's Sugar, which premièred in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival (and was inexplicably shut out at the awards right...

6. Night&Day

   Pants on Fire

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: January 30, 2008

   Dr. Ekman knows you're lying, so don't even try it. The top-shelf psychologist is a pioneer in documenting facial expressions, and he's a friend of the Dalai Lama, a go-to guy...

7. Night&Day

   Angry Sex

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: January 30, 2008

   HarperCollins, publisher, hypes Stephen Elliott's new anthology Sex for America with a list of males: Anthony Swofford, Jerry Stahl, Rick Moody, and Jonathan Ames. Funny —...

8. Stage

   Mom's the Word

   Frank Rich was wrong: Dead Mother is actually a pleasure to watch

   By Chloe Veltman

   Published: January 30, 2008

   They called him "the Butcher of Broadway" for a reason. During his tenure as chief theater critic for The New York Times between 1980 and 1993, Frank Rich was widely known as...

9. Sucka Free City

   Code Pink Underestimates Anti-Lefty Sentiment in Miami

   By Chuck Strouse

   Published: January 30, 2008

   Earlier this month, six troublemakers from antiwar group Code Pink went to Miami to stage a protest against a man they consider a terrorist, but many locals consider a hero. To...

10. Music

    Howard Wiley Gains Inspiration from an Unlikely Locale: Angola Prison

    By Ezra Gale

    Published: January 30, 2008

    "All American music originates straight from here," says 27-year-old tenor saxophonist Howard Wiley. He's discussing the music behind his Angola Project, a large, unusual...

11. Reviewed

    Dengue Fever

    Venus on Earth (M80)

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Los Angeles' Dengue Fever is a truly multicultural rock band ... no, wait, don't skip to the next review. Its members are neither a bunch of PC neohippie purists nor purveyors...

12. Fresh Eats

    New Restaurants

    Published: January 30, 2008

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Apollo: 1064 Divisadero (at Turk), Western Addition. Coffee, panini, and...

13. Film

    Under the Knife

    One very bad day in Ceausescu's Romania

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: January 30, 2008

    The extraordinary Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, more comfortably known as "that abortion movie that won this year's Palme d'Or," sheds its secrets slowly, a...

14. FilmCap

    Caramel

    By Ella Taylor

    Published: January 30, 2008

    The multiply blessed young Lebanese writer-director Nadine Labaki looks sublimely like Anna Magnani crossed with Penelope Cruz. Labaki also has the brass and the chops not only...

15. Game On

    Wii's Samurai Warriors Offers Dull Swordplay

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: January 30, 2008

    The very first time I saw the Wii's motion-sensitive "Wiimote" (and after my initial "wha-HUH?" reaction), a single thought bounced in my head like a toddler on corn...

16. Matt Smith

    Four Steps to Success for Gavin Newsom

    By Matt Smith

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Yakking and posing-wise, Gavin Newsom got his second mayoral term off to a busy start. To differentiate between his promises and the truth, let's examine the facts. On Jan. 8,...

17. Sucka Free City

    Cop Shortage Makes Newsom's Police Promise Look Unlikely

    By Benjamin Wachs

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Gavin Newsom has promised to hire 250 new police officers this year. Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums says he'll add at least 70. Richmond is trying to hire 45 more officers. Governor...

18. Music

    Carolina Chocolate Drops: A Treat from S.F.'s Bluegrass & Old-Time Fest

    By Andy Tennille

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Bluegrass music was born in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, but it has found a home away from home in San Francisco. Each October, zillionaire financier Warren...

19. Reviewed

    Top'R

    The Marathon of Shame (Zero Friends/Gurp City)

    By Toph One

    Published: January 30, 2008

    San Francisco rapper Top'R has spent the last 15 years rocking walls with the Lords graffiti crew and stages with the Earthlings and Gurp City collectives. Along the way, he's...

20. Film

    A Gorier, Meaner, and Uglier Rambo

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: January 30, 2008

    A fourth Rambo? The question isn't "Why?" — it's "What took him so long?" Was America's avenging angel of meat planning to just sit out Fallujah and what we're cooking up...