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1. Feature

   Transblazer

   She just became the city's first transgender department head, but Theresa Sparks is already setting her sights on becoming the city's first transgender supervisor.

   By Lauren Smiley

   Published: October 21, 2009

   On a recent Saturday morning, Theresa Sparks strode into Rasselas Jazz Club in the Fillmore in her size 11 leopard-print flats, peeled off her sunglasses, and sized up a tough...

2. Music

   The Curse of the Mummies

   By John O'Neill

   Published: October 21, 2009

   Of all the gags perpetrated on the music-going public, none has had the staying power of the Mummies and their so-called "legacy." It's been nearly 18 years since these clowns...

3. Eat

   Pal's Takeaway, Rhea's Deli, and Mission Burger offer handheld delights

   By Matthew Stafford

   Published: October 21, 2009

   If anything demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit, it's the way San Franciscans have kept their highly attuned taste buds nurtured and cared for through these months...

4. Film

   Cirque du Freak tries to get in on the vampire trend and fails

   By Aaron Hillis

   Published: October 21, 2009

   Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to the mass cult followings of...

5. Night&Day

   The Damned United

   By Chuck Wilson

   Published: October 21, 2009

   We call it soccer, but for the Brits, it’s football, and it’s damn serious business. From 1968 to 1974, Brian Clough (Michael Sheen), a manager/coach from the tiny...

6. Night&Day

   Masking Your Fear

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: October 21, 2009

   From the gang that brings painful tears of joy wherever it goes comes Halloween done right, at Lucha VaVOOM. Men in tights, women dishing out beatdowns, teh ghey, and ladies,...

7. Night&Day

   Good Hair

   By Melissa Anderson

   Published: October 21, 2009

   Don Imus’s hateful, racist 2007 remarks about “nappy-headed hos” underscored the immense fear of and fascination with the hair follicles of African-American...

8. Night&Day

   "Wonderland"

   By Traci Vogel

   Published: October 21, 2009

   Curator Lance Fung likes big, sprawling projects. He organized the "Snow Show" for Italy's 2006 Winter Olympics, pairing architects and artists for works made out of frozen...

9. Night&Day

   A Day in the Life

   By Tara Jepsen

   Published: October 21, 2009

   Taraneh Hemami of San Francisco and Ghazaleh Hedayat of Tehran teamed up to curate “One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran,” describing life in the city through...

10. Night&Day

    Cinema Mon Amour

    By Michael Fox

    Published: October 21, 2009

    While foreign filmmakers not named Almodovar or von Trier have a tougher time than ever getting into U.S. theaters , French directors reap one success after another. The Class,...

11. Night&Day

    Gala de los Muertos

    By Evan James

    Published: October 21, 2009

    Día de los Muertos (or "Day of the Dead," for the infinitesimal fraction of English-speaking California residents who haven’t picked up a smattering of holiday...

12. Night&Day

    Tales from the Gripped

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 21, 2009

    When your mother, a very pissed-off mermaid, says, "It is not in my power to grant you death. I can only grant you peace," you're in for it. You've been a bad, bad girl. If...

13. Night&Day

    Caw, Caw

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 21, 2009

    Edgar Allan Poe’s work comes into schoolchildren’s lives when they’re about 12. Strangely enough, kids who have just discovered that they hate everything,...

14. Night&Day

    Stop Demanded

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 21, 2009

    A Web site devoted to complaining about Muni — okay, we get it. (Actually, we love it.) But a night of storytelling dedicated to our maligned transportation service?...

15. Night&Day

    Sans Cart

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: October 21, 2009

    San Francisco street food hit celebrity status a while back, but now we’ve reached a new plateau: the street-food celebrity chef. The duties are the same as for ordinary...

16. Night&Day

    Bigger than Gandhi

    By Dan Strachota

    Published: October 21, 2009

    Ravi Shankar's life has been as well-traveled as his music. Since taking up the sitar in the late 1930s, the Indian musician has released more than 40 albums, composed for film...

17. Night&Day

    Let the Right One In

    By Elena Oumano

    Published: October 21, 2009

    This lucid Swedish indie gem, adapted for the screen by John Ajvide Lindqvist from his novel and directed with imagination and restraint by Tomas Alfredson, releases the...

18. Night&Day

    Moves to Melt You

    By Bonner Odell

    Published: October 21, 2009

    Few who have experienced Montana’s Glacier National Park would argue that it takes the cake for epic scenery among U.S. parks. But if global warming continues at the...

19. Night&Day

    The Hockey Roarer Shiksa Poe

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 21, 2009

    Plenty of theater companies have a focus — Shakespeare, maybe, or adapting novels to the stage. The Bawdy Caste, though, is exceptionally cohesive: These ridiculous...

20. Night&Day

    The Price Is Fright

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: October 21, 2009

    Local heavyish shreddin' indie-rock band Citay lists Black Sabbath as an influence on its MySpace page, so the group's Halloween tribute to Ozzy and the boys isn't coming out...