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1. Feature

   Stimulus Wreckage

   Despite having been accused of deceptive business practices by the attorney general, former students, and ex-employees, Corinthian Colleges are getting millions in federal stimulus dollars.

   By Matt Smith

   Published: September 30, 2009

   Martine Leveque moved to the U.S. from Haiti in 1983 and eventually established a Hollywood career writing subtitles in Italian and French for English-language movies. When...

2. Music

   Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Family Tree

   By Sam Prestianni

   Published: September 30, 2009

   Now in its ninth year, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival is a beloved San Francisco tradition: a free open-air celebration of American roots music in the broadest sense of...

3. Eat

   Burmese Kitchen: From modest lunchtime deli to Burmese restaurant

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: September 30, 2009

   The Civic Center deli known as Larkin Express was the ideal of those who love to find the hidden little restaurants of the city. It was a grungy lunch place that featured...

4. Film

   Michael Moore sells the same old schtick in Capitalism: A Love Story

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: September 30, 2009

   The ushers at a packed screening of Michael Moore's latest movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, came proudly decked out in T-shirts bearing slogans like "Make Love, Not Capitalism"...

5. Night&Day

   Burma VJ

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: September 30, 2009

   How we view the relationship between traditional and new media should forever be changed by Danish filmmaker Anders Ostergaard's terrific documentary about a loosely organized...

6. Night&Day

   Oblivion

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: September 30, 2009

   Born in Lima, the child of Polish Jewish refugees, Heddy Honigmann studied film in Rome, lives in Amsterdam, and has made documentaries in Paris, Rio, and New Jersey. With the...

7. Night&Day

   Passing Strange: The Movie

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: September 30, 2009

   For those (like this critic) who missed singer-songwriter Stew’s Tony-winning, autobiographical rock musical during its runs at the Public Theater and on Broadway, Spike...

8. Night&Day

   This Place Never Gets Old

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: September 30, 2009

   We’re film nerds; we love the illegal film called Los Angeles Plays Itself, which uses unauthorized clips from nearly every major motion picture that features the city....

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   Bro-ing Circle

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: September 30, 2009

   Crotch holes are probably the number one male sewing dilemma. A lot of other stuff, you can take it to the lady at the dry cleaner's, she’ll do it. But will you take her...

10. Night&Day

    Keep Calm and Carry On

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 30, 2009

    San Francisco wants Market Street to cool it. First, the city forced eastbound cars to abandon all hope and turn right, making adjacent Mission Street the highway to hell. The...

11. Night&Day

    Tripping Over It

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 30, 2009

    During a recent experimental film screening, we tried to count experimental film clichés. We failed: There are way too many. Nudity, oceans, and apartment bathrooms are...

12. Night&Day

    Manna from MONO

    By Mike Rowell

    Published: September 30, 2009

    Tokyo’s MONO is one of those “ya gotta see 'em live” bands. Sure, the instrumental quartet’s recordings are lovely, filled with long tracks of glistening...

13. Night&Day

    Baghdad by the Bay

    By Evan James

    Published: September 30, 2009

    With all the emphasis placed on political relations between the “Arab world” and the United States, there isn’t enough emphasis put on the kaleidoscopic...

14. Night&Day

    Kinda Like Hair Club for Men

    By Dan Strachota

    Published: September 30, 2009

    Back in the mid-'90s, bands weren't supposed to dig '70s hard-rock groups like Grand Funk Railroad or Blue Öyster Cult. This was before the White Stripes, before...

15. Night&Day

    Art World Insider

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: September 30, 2009

    At Open Studios, walk into the hives, the factories, the crucibles: the places of art invention. At this opening weekend, in the Mission District and its surrounding valleys...

16. Night&Day

    Rupa and the Multimedia Project

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: September 30, 2009

    For decades, neurologists have been prescribing music for diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. There’s no doubt that Rupa Marya, a practicing physician at...

17. Night&Day

    Life Above the Boards

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: September 30, 2009

    The all-ages West Coast Kings and Queens Chess Tournament aims to be more than just a game. With its chess tutorials, martial arts exhibitions, and discussion sessions in...

18. Night&Day

    Hellraiser

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 30, 2009

    In the 19th century, Grand Guignol terror plays used to shock people — props from the butcher shop took care of that. Although the work is tame compared to current...

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    Writers with Drinks

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 30, 2009

    Amy Tan’s characters are so formulaic, she makes Dan Brown look like William Burroughs. Pow! Tan better get used to it: She’s the guest of honor at Litquake’s...

20. Night&Day

    Stitch of Software

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: September 30, 2009

    Embroidery consists stitching in small segments, obsessively building piece by piece into a work that blossoms into a cohesive, even elegant, hunk of software. Flip a piece...