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Tequila sunset: Cava22 is the Mission's answer to Tres Agaves

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Best of the Bay 2008
Hotlist
Top Chefs Tell All - Stars of Bravo Network's Top Chef series give you their culinary insights and behind the scenes dirt. More...
6:30pm, $25. Commonwealth Club, 595 Market second floor, SF. (415) 597-6705, tickets.commonwealthclub.org/

Raphael Saadiq - Stellar R&B and bouncy soul from the Oakland vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. More...
8pm, $22. Bimbo's 365 Club, 1025 Columbus, SF. www.bimbos365club.com
20th Annual Fiddle Summit - A jigger's worth of swingin' stringers plucks up the Downtown Berkeley Music Festival. More...
8pm, $22.50. (Festival through Sun/24) Roda Theater, 2015 Addison, Berk. (510) 548-1761, www.downtownberkeleymusicfest.org

"Popcorn Superhet Receiver" - The illustrious Magik*Magik orchestra performs the West Coast premiere of Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead's renowned symphonic essay.
8pm, $15-$60. Herbst Theater, 401 Van Ness, SF. www.cityboxoffice.com
Raven - Are you ready for a night of 100 percent old-school thrash metal? Then hit up these British heavy metal godfathers. More...
8pm, $12. Rockit Room, 406 Clement, SF. (415) 387-6343, www.rockit-room.com

Zona - Performers 2boys.tv stretch the boundaries of queer cabaret with skewed camp iconography and dark revelry in this theater piece. More...
8pm, $22-$34. Show through 8/31. New Conservatory Theater Center, 25 Van Ness, SF. (415) 861-8972, www.nctcsf.org
Rebel Girl - Grab your sharpie and scrawl "bitch" above your belly button, cause zinester Gina de Vries has organized a riot grrrl revival meeting. More...
7:30pm, $10-$20. Center for Sex and Culture, 1519 Mission, SF. (415) 255-1155, www.sexandculture.org

The Waifs - Their name might sound weak-kneed and timid, but this gutsy, soul-shaking Australian trio are anything but meek. More...
9pm, $25. Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell, SF. (415) 885-0750, www.gamh.com.com
Rock Make Street Festival - Local rockers Tartufi, new seamster mecca Whiz Bang Fabrics, and music promoters the Bay Bridged give birth to this new baby fest. More...
11am-6pm, free. Treat between 17th and 18th Streets, SF. www.myspace.com/rockmakestreetfestival

Rocco Deluca - Rockin' blue-eyed soul from the son of one of Bo Diddly's backing guitarists. More...
8pm, $12. Hotel Utah Saloon, 400 Fourth St., SF. (415) 546-6300 www.hotelutah.com
Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp - Wannabe musicians perfect their instruments, polish their acts, and perform as a band. With Extreme(!) and King's X. More...
6pm, $35. The Fillmore, 1805 Geary, SF. 1-888-762-2263, www.rocknrollfantasycamp.com

Warchild - A captivating drama about the aftermath of the Bosnian war, and one woman's quest for her missing daughter. More...
7pm and 9pm, $10. Roxie Film Center, 3117 16th St., SF. (415) 863-1087 www.roxie.com
SMV: The Thunder! - Thunderous rock with sky-splitting force from bassists Stanley Clark, Marcus Miller, and Victor Wooten. More...
8pm, $39.50. Regency Center, 1290 Sutter, SF. (415) 421-TIXS, www.goldenvoice.com

Ice Cube - The cuddly man from Compton leaps off the silver screen to spit rhymes from his new album Raw Footage. More...
8pm, $46.50. The Fillmore, 1805 Geary, SF. (415) 846-6000 www.livenation.com
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SFBG TV goes to the Altered Barbie art show on August 8. Video by Lisa Pickoff-White and Eric Zassenhaus.
arts & entertainment
In Zona by 2boys.tv, life is a multilayered, dark queer cabaret

All aboard the bountiful bandwagon for better taste

Lost Boys: The Tribe vants to suck your DVD

What we've been up to

The cultural map has changed, and Paris is no longer its center

Daniel Mendelsohn's How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken could use a little bitchiness

What to do Aug 20-26, 2008

"Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship"

Two high concept shows take the meta approach to curating

Music
Raphael Saadiq brings an immaculately casual vibe

Janelle Monae androids out, Curlew rollicks, Irmin Schmidt and Kumo manipulate, and the Delicious Vinyl All-Stars rmxx themselves

The 20th Annual Fiddle Summit jigs up the Downtown Berkeley Music Festival

A trip to Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp

Singer-Songwriter Issue: Parsing the return of the singer-songwriter in a superficial age

Singer-Songwriter Issue: Vienna Teng finds inspiration in unexpected places

Singer-Songwriter Issue: Serena Southam conjures that old-timey magic

Singer-Songwriter Issue: Kaki King dreams in guitar and goes from there

Singer-Songwriter Issue: More folks to look out for at Outside Lands

Singer-Songwriter Issue: Local singer-songwriters come in praise of their faves

Singer-songwriter Rupa Marya leads the charge toward boundary-busting pop

Film
Bosnia and consequences in this captivating drama

How to act the Steve Coogan way: an interview with the Hamlet 2 man

Hamlet 2 moonwalks and roller skates to comic glory

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