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While we have not cultivated or honed our food-writing skills as much as our SFist food chroniclers, let alone Meredith Brody, we are quite fond of cheese. While we cannot confirm the presence of cheese at the following events, the art is worth checking out.

SFist interviews Liz Hickok... maker of Jello cityscapes

by Bassek Ba Kobhio, the story of an idealistic new teacher in a rural school whose plans for radical praxis bringing social change to students and villagers is met by strong resistance from the headmaster and the village chief. Co-presented by California Newsreel, the San Francisco Black Film Festival, the Museum of the African Diaspora Present and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. (7:30 pm)

Tonight we're staying up late late late for the Late Night Picture Show at the Clay (2261 Fillmore).

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells: 51 (plus two pictures of groups).

Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word "Jackass" in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we're going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto's craigslist. But it looks like Toronto doesn't contain the kind of jackasses who pee in public pools, as the issue never came up when they interviewed the creators of art installations in their public wading pools.

, opened at SFMOMA at the end of June, we were stuck in Los Angeles (a tragedy in and of itself) with no way to get back home and trying to explain to our non-enlightened friends there exactly who this absurd yet highly meticulous artist is and why we love him so much that we teared up at missing his opening (ok, maybe it was just from the smog). (From a distance, we consoled ourselves by rereading contributor M.C's piece on DR9 when he saw it at the SFIFF, but we needed to see it for ourselves. You understand.)

Last week's winner, the Metro! Hilarious letter from a candidate for the SJ city council that 1) misspells Ron Gonzales's name and 2) gets the date of the election wrong. (Hey Metro, why aren't your letters online?) Gary Singh had a bitch of a time trying to get a burrito in SJ on May 1. Closing down the jailhouse law libraries, and no, the SJ Fourth Street Bowl will not be closing. Chinese youth orchestra performs a piece in tribute to Sarah Winchester. Cover article: the crappy salmon season this year. Rapper who waits tables at Chili's -- check out his track "Tip Yo Waiter." And a frightening picture of an R Kelly doll. No, it is not stained yellow.