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-- Avenue Q: This tee hee-inducing musical features un-Seaseme Street-like puppets (e.g., a closeted homosexual republican, for starters) and an ode to racism. What's more, the indie production won a surprise Tony Award for best musical, as well as best score and book, beating out Disney's Wicked. It opens tonight at 7 p.m at the Orpheum Theater, 1192 Market; $25-$90.

Conan, we hardly knew ya.

Did you get your tickets?

Let's just get this right out of the way first-- we love Jesus Christ Superstar and we're not too proud to admit it (blasting it on our stereo, on the other hand...) We love the songs, we love the story, we love the lyrics, we love the singing, we love everything. Not only that, we think the songs rock. And if you don't believe us, go check out the Afghan Whig's cover of "the Temple" and see what we mean. We also think that the play's main riff-- that malevolent, bad-ass riff, the one played while Jesus is receiving the thirty-nine lashes, is one of rock's great unknown riffs.