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1. Feature

   Working-Class Struggle

   Three housekeepers and a day laborer take action against deadbeat employers who abuse immigrants

   By Matt Smith

   Published: March 19, 2008

   Gloria Esteva, a diminutive housekeeper from Oaxaca, Mexico, is wearing an orange T-shirt and carrying a large bullhorn. She exhorts a crowd of about 50 protesters who are...

2. Reviewed

   Renee Sebastian

   Mrs. Sebastian (Self-released)

   By Doug Wallen

   Published: March 19, 2008

   Not quite neo-soul and not quite old-school, Renee Sebastian dresses the sunny simplicity of classic soul in the slick new duds of radio R&B, not unlike a purer version of...

3. Music

   The Black Crowes interview Maxim couldn't get

   By Andy Tennille

   Published: March 19, 2008

   Deep inside a fortified bunker in the mountains near Arco, Idaho, the Black Crowes have convened to rehearse for their upcoming world tour. Chris Robinson is seething. "I...

4. Eat

   Snazzy and Jazzy at Yoshi's

   Some interesting and fancy Japanese cooking is paired with a glamorous restaurant and nightclub.

   By Meredith Brody

   Published: March 19, 2008

   Traditionally, you don't go to an entertainment venue for terrific food. Whether it's a jazz club or a medieval jousting tournament, what's on your plate comes a distant...

5. Film

   She Got Game

   Jacques Rivette's Duchess puts a postmodern spin on the oldest of love stories.

   By Nathan Lee

   Published: March 19, 2008

   Having returned from the center of Africa, "held prisoner by savages for two years before fleeing," the Marquis de Montriveau (Guillaume Depardieu) is the talk of Paris...

6. Night&Day

   Insider Art

   By Hiya Swanhuyser

   Published: March 19, 2008

   Lamaldita and Comparulos are the pen names of a brother and sister art team, and they want to show you something. Walk into "The Prison Project" art exhibit, and you'll find...

7. Night&Day

   Skate Jonze

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: March 19, 2008

   Most people don't realize that the man behind Being John Malkovich and Adaptation is also one of the guys responsible for Steve-O stapling his scrotum to his leg. But director...

8. Night&Day

   Nights of the Golem

   By Ezra Gale

   Published: March 19, 2008

   If you're planning on attending any of the Jewish Music Festival's myriad concerts this week solely to soak in some sentimental Klezmer songs that'll make you want to reach for...

9. Night&Day

   War On Sale

   By Michael Leaverton

   Published: March 19, 2008

   Remember when Bush was angling to invade Iran ASAP and televised news responded with explosion-laden road-to-war segment graphics? Way to salt the glass, guys. It's no secret...

10. Night&Day

    Down the Bat Pole

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Every generation seems to rediscover certain suspicions about Batman and Robin, two rich, toned playboys who favored masks, spandex, bat caves, and each other's company to the...

11. Night&Day

    Reign O'er Me

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 19, 2008

    When a dumpy caterpillar stops eating long enough to transform into a butterfly and unfurl its beauty upon the land, the symbolism is nearly too much for the world, especially...

12. Night&Day

    Not So Much with the Bomb-Throwing

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 19, 2008

    You're thinking you know what "anarchy" means, right? But it doesn't always mean vicious young white men running roughshod over anti-war protests and molesting plate glass....

13. Night&Day

    Finding Your Way

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 19, 2008

    For those who like their entertainments wrapped as tightly as a present, Lost Highway will drive you insane. No surprise there: It's a David Lynch film, so enough about that....

14. Night&Day

    Time Shift

    By Michael Leaverton

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Joey Piziali's art centers on one of the few things that can withstand the ravages of time and still remain beautiful: an aging city. Using paint, tape, billboard paper, wood,...

15. Night&Day

    And That's Final

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 19, 2008

    You're probably freaked out by teenagers. They're so weird! They won't look at you, and they move too darn fast. At the Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam Grand Slam Finals, though,...

16. Night&Day

    Half Full

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 19, 2008

    So two Welsh guys walk into a library, and find a million pounds. Well, not really a million pounds, but its literary equivalent: an unpublished, unknown, early Noel Coward...

17. Night&Day

    We're Totally Not Board

    By Hiya Swanhuyser

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Skateboard art isn't what it used to be. Although we liked the skull-and-roses thing pretty well, the scene went and grew up, and it's better now. The world of graffiti-based...

18. Night&Day

    Duchess of Langeais

    By Nathan Lee

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Having returned from Africa, where he was "held prisoner by savages for two years before fleeing," the Marquis de Montriveau (Guillaume Depardieu) is the talk of Paris society....

19. Night&Day

    Snow Angels

    By Nathan Lee

    Published: March 19, 2008

    An unusually blunt melodrama by David Gordon Green, melodious poet of such sentimental delicacies as George Washington and All the Real Girls, Snow Angels introduces a pair of...

20. Night&Day

    If This Pool Table Could Talk

    By Evan James

    Published: March 19, 2008

    The world of drag is filled with impressively resourceful solutions to flawed circumstances, which is why some of the finest entertainment in town happens on top of a slab of...