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1. Feature

   The Wrong Stuff

   Candidate Newsom is “narcissistic,” “thin-skinned,” “disloyal,” and “friendless.” And that’s from his former supporters.

   By Ashley Harrell

   Published: September 9, 2009

   An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that former California Senate majority leader, John Burton, supports Gavin Newsom's candidacy. On a gray July morning in...

2. Music

   Girls hook fans with addictive debut of hazy hits

   By Marc Hawthorne

   Published: September 9, 2009

   Valium. Morphine. OxyContin. Fentanyl. Ketamine. MDMA. Methadone. Pot. Cocaine. This kind of drug name-dropping by members of local indie-rock outfit Girls, and by the writers...

3. Eat

   Trek to the Sunset's Outerlands for inventive New American fare

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: September 9, 2009

   There aren't many reasons for foodies to travel to the outermost reaches of what's already termed the Outer Sunset, especially those last few blocks before the Great Highway...

4. Film

   The September Issue captures Vogue's lioness at her peak

   By Melissa Anderson

   Published: September 9, 2009

   When, in the early '00s, I worked as a freelancer for a publication two floors below Vogue — this was pre–Devil Wears Prada — each sighting of Anna Wintour,...

5. Arthouse

   Arthouse movie listings for September 9-15, 2009

   Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: September 9, 2009

   To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. Fever Night: Jordan Harris and Andrew Schrader's acid-trip horror film. Thu., Sept. 10, 8 p.m. $6....

6. Night&Day

   Go Forth and Publish

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: September 9, 2009

   When A.J. Jacobs released his 2004 book The Know-It-All, detailing his effort to read all 44 million words of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, we weren’t surprised:...

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   Rowr!

   By Evan James

   Published: September 9, 2009

   Mesmerizing manipulations of motion studies, Super 8 sequences of rhythmic light and color, and nonnarrative celebrations of Coney Island's Astroland all get their 15 (or...

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   Mission Artist Sendoff

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: September 9, 2009

   San Francisco artist David Ireland, who passed away in May at age 78, proved to be one of the most challenging figures in a field already brimming with ornery ideas: conceptual...

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   Sunday Boozy Sunday

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: September 9, 2009

   With more than 40 handcrafted beers from seven local companies, Brews on the Bay means you can drink, seriously, while ostensibly probing the mysteries of hops. It also means...

10. Night&Day

    Frank Reviews Himself

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 9, 2009

    For the past five years, Frank Bruni was the chief restaurant critic for The New York Times, so you might expect that his memoir, Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time...

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    Art of the Worlds

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 9, 2009

    Luis Arias Vera's pre-Incan signs and symbols, Casper Banjo's brick walls, and the sharply graceful lines of Juan R. Fuentes' linocuts are the bedrock iconography of "3...

12. Night&Day

    Bent Brent

    By Mike Rowell

    Published: September 9, 2009

    Local comedian Brent Weinbach’s second full-length album, The Night Shift (on S.F. label Talent Moat), is a surrealist audio collage far removed from conventional comedy....

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    Murder Most Foul

    By Michael Fox

    Published: September 9, 2009

    The U.K. was a major beneficiary of the Marshall Plan, along with Germany and the rest of Western Europe. Yet food rationing did not completely end in Britain until 1954,...

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    Pace Yourself

    By Tara Jepsen

    Published: September 9, 2009

    We see the joy of drinking sake overcome many a Bay Area alcohol- and raw-fish enthusiast, and who wouldn’t want to elevate their pursuit? Ours is a town with plenty of...

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    Gesamtkunstwerk It, Girl

    By Evan James

    Published: September 9, 2009

    Nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner would have been mortified to hear himself compared to the enterprising queer party planners responsible for present-day San...

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    Math Jazz

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: September 9, 2009

    The Bad Plus came to most people’s attention by covering “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” so it’s fitting that the rock-loving jazz trio should tackle another gem...

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    The New Mayer of Soul

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: September 9, 2009

    The past few years have seen a clutch of young male crooners embracing the lost art of blue-eyed soul with no-nonsense prowess. Beyond the reinvention of Warp Records wonderboy...

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    Slavic Soul Party

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: September 9, 2009

    In remote Russian villages, seasons are marked by boisterous celebrations such as the winter Koleda and summer Kupala, where young and old join in vibrant, and decidedly...

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    Tony Manero

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: September 9, 2009

    Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s alarming Tony Manero—set in the dark days of the Pinochet regime and named not for its protagonist but rather his ego-ideal, John...

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    Beeswax

    By J. Hoberman

    Published: September 9, 2009

    While no one’s idea of an action film, Andrew Bujalski’s Beeswax feels less charmingly aimless than its radically slight precursors Funny Ha Ha (2002) and Mutual...