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Features: Bedtime for SoMA?
Residents want to get some sleep. That could spell lights out for the South of Market club scene.

Real Art: Art lives on every utility pole, parking meter, fire hydrant and SF Weekly box.

Wharf Watch: The World War II submarine Pampanito is cheaper than a ride to the Rock.

Millie's Map: Millie's bout with homelessness.

Job Interview: A gallery owner who hates galleries.

Beauty Bargainer: Neighborhood drugstores have a larger selection of inexpensive, interesting beauty products than any department store cosmetic counter.

White Weddings: The design team of Ristarose makes something old into something new.

Miss Pinkie Shears: The debonair miss gives her fashion advice.

Concrete Runway: Stephen Anderson at Haight at Fillmore.

Film Grotesque: Critics stick it to Gummo.

Waking Up Is Hard to Do: A San Francisco-based record label pushes the divergent worlds of electronic music and independent rock closer together--and the only stipulation is that a band must, simply, bliss out.

Sleepy Sounds: Terminally unhip forms of music converge at Terrastock West.

Hipster Porn: There's a ferocious need to entertain at the Werepad.

Down and Dirty: Sax player Robert Stewart's music evokes memories of jam sessions and juke joints.

Old and in the Way: Sonic Youth is stuck in the '80s.

Club Guide: A week's worth of hot night-clubbing.

Meatless Meals: Valentine's Cafe's intense veggie flavors.

How to Make Buckeyes: A vegan dessert from Jill Stauffer, local thinker and publisher of h2so4 .

Dining Out Vegetarian: What's good about San Francisco.

From Sex to Serials: Six sex-industry workers and one witch tell strippers how to break-into a publishing career.

Book Picks: Brief reviews of Aphrodite, Blue Bossa and High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess.

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