Email Author Mark Athitakis

1999 Stories by Mark Athitakis

• Riff Raff

  published December 29, 1999

  Might We Suggest Hype! II: Electric Boogaloo? It doesn't have a title yet, but the people who created the 1996 Seattle grunge... More >>

• Awkward Christian Soldiers

  published December 22, 1999

  Father David Lowell has a thing about television. He hates it. It's a point he makes a number of times as he walks through the corridors of... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published December 22, 1999

  From the "Can We Please Get the Millennium Over With Now?" Desk From a press release that recently found its way to Riff... More >>

• Whatever Doesn't Fit

  published December 15, 1999

  On the corner of Church and 20th streets, complaining about San Francisco seems inappropriate, if not downright rude. It's a sunny afternoon at... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published December 15, 1999

  O, Pioneers! A sale of the Hotel Utah, one of SOMA's most venerable clubs and residence hotels, is currently pending. "There's something in... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published December 8, 1999

  Requiem for a Cover Band In San Francisco, there are music clubs -- some which aren't even closing -- that foster a richness of... More >>

• A Minor Forest

  published December 8, 1999

  A Minor Forest So, Were They in Some Sort of Fight? (My Pal God) Comprised of two discs of compilation tracks,... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published December 1, 1999

  Jukebox Hero Louis T. Glass was what these days you'd call an early adopter. In 1879, he had apparently gotten sick of working with old... More >>

• Why We Fight

  published November 24, 1999

  This band will surprise you. --From press materials for Third Eye Blind's Blue On Thursday, Nov. 25 -- ... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published November 24, 1999

  Pop (Do We Not Like That?) You're forgiven if you thought that Berkeley's Slumberland Records went out of business a few years ago.... More >>

• Review

  published November 24, 1999

  Various Artists Return of the DJ Vol. III (Bomb Hip Hop) The first two volumes of Bomb's Return of the DJ series... More >>

• Solitary Man

  published November 17, 1999

  Not long after he moved to San Francisco in 1994, Tom Armstrong had something of an epiphany. He was walking home late one night from a concert... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published November 17, 1999

  Silly Rabbit Meet Jeff Byrd. Half man, half bunny, no shame. Last Thursday Byrd, clad in a borrowed bunny suit and toting a megaphone, made... More >>

• Review

  published November 17, 1999

  Various Artists Totally Hits (Arista) For all the loose talk within the music industry that electronic music -- the... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published November 10, 1999

  Audra, Oprah -- Oprah, Audra About three weeks ago, by the grace of Oprah Winfrey, film crews descended on the Covered Wagon Saloon. It's... More >>

• Review

  published November 10, 1999

  Bobby Conn Llovessonngs (Thrill Jockey) It seems at times that Bobby Conn takes the "savant" out of "idiot savant"; for... More >>

• Taken Seriously

  published November 3, 1999

  In 1994, after they had finished a tour of South America, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys came upon a relatively novel idea:... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published November 3, 1999

  Casting a Wide Net On the corner of 29th and Mission streets, where Bernal Heights and the Mission run into each other, say howdy, and then... More >>

• Meet Virginia

  published October 27, 1999

  These days, it's no different for 34-year-old Virginia Rodrigues than for any other international celebrity. The fame, the concerts, the glowing... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published October 27, 1999

  Ghost Story Supposedly, the Great American Music Hall is haunted. Paul Cacciotti, the venue's accountant, recalls an experience he... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published October 20, 1999

  2020 Vision Every night is different at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, which for over 30 years has been hosting a variety of... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published October 13, 1999

  Morrissey Gets Colored Black on the Outside, Because Black Is How He Feels on the Inside On Friday, June 4, Brian Brooks woke up and... More >>

• Review

  published October 13, 1999

  Garth Brooks In the Life of Chris Gaines (Capitol) Garth Brooks has funny ideas of what rockers are supposed to be... More >>

• Little Voice

  published October 6, 1999

  Last month, Tiny Telephone studio celebrated its second anniversary. Actually, there wasn't much of a celebration -- the day pretty much came... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published October 6, 1999

  (Star) Bucking the Trend It is probably the worst-kept secret in the entire San Francisco restaurant scene: Potrero Hill's Circadia Coffee... More >>