Email Author Silke Tudor

1995 Stories by Silke Tudor

• Night Crawler

  published August 2, 1995

  About four years ago I went to my last rave: Labor Day weekend at Mr. Floppy's Flophouse in Oakland -- three days of music, dancing, drinking, and... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published July 26, 1995

  Hippies, yuppies, and cultural thrill-seekers line up outside the Asian Art Museum on the off chance that an additional performance of "Chinggis... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published July 19, 1995

  I half expected the people lining Stockton Street last Sunday afternoon to be protesters from the local chapter of the Cultural Integrity... More >>

• Samples

  published July 19, 1995

  Them's Fightin' Words If you watched any of the Lollapalooza coverage on MTV or E! last week, you may have caught a glimpse of S.F.'s... More >>

• Samples

  published July 12, 1995

  Everyone's a Critic When Matador Records asked San Francisco's Zip Code Rapists to tag-team review the label's current crop of releases for... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published July 12, 1995

  With fetish fashion now firmly rooted in mainstream culture -- in Macy's catalogs, perfume advertisements, and MTV -- it was only a matter of time... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published July 5, 1995

  Growing old in the spotlight isn't easy. Fans can be so unkind. Put on a few extra pounds, start losing your hair -- people talk. Stars don't have... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published June 28, 1995

  Lying prone in the middle of the dressing-room floor, arms and legs raised slightly, pale bald head shining, Moby looked more like a turtle stuck... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published June 21, 1995

  Even if there's no such thing as a free lunch, last week reaffirmed that some of the best things in life are free. In the spirit of the Lesbian,... More >>

• Club Crawl

  published June 14, 1995

  San Francisco club crowds may be a diverse lot, but you can count on one thing: You will always get a reaction. If New Yorkers sit in stone-faced... More >>

• The Swing Set

  published May 17, 1995

  Mango gives a Mary Kay smile as she slides across the floor, exposing dimples and pearly-white teeth, her old-fashioned taffeta skirt twitching to... More >>

• Recordings

  published May 17, 1995

  Engine 88 Clean Your Room (Caroline) It must be written in some Music 101 textbook that good rock and roll should devote at... More >>

• Samples

  published April 26, 1995

  Burnin' Down the House It was any musician's worst nightmare when Rick Rubin's Laurel Canyon guest house/studio burned down April 11.... More >>

• Recordings

  published April 5, 1995

  Elastica Elastica (DGC) It's telling that rock criticism's favorite "strong women" -- Liz, Courtney, PJ -- have all recently... More >>