Email Author Silke Tudor

1998 Stories by Silke Tudor

• Night Crawler

  published December 30, 1998

  Geeks Just Have More Fun The check-in office of the Edgewater West Adult Resort stinks of chlorine bleach -- that sharp, chemical smell... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published December 30, 1998

  Comeback of the Year We don't mean comeback in the "returning a career to its past glories" sense. After all, the person in question here is John... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published December 30, 1998

  In Scotland, there is no holiday more important, or dire, than Hogmanay. We're talking Scots drunk on glug (an unhealthy combination of fruit, red... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published December 23, 1998

  Why Kitty Katty Cannot Be Explained in a Headline There is a pearl-pink castle on 17th Street, near Sanchez. It's strange how you can miss... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published December 23, 1998

  Spin Off Over the past four weeks, former Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell has spun a few sets at various underground warehouse parties... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published December 23, 1998

  For some of us, Jesus Christ Superstar is a guilty pleasure somewhere between Deepak Chopra and Three's Company: It's cheesy as all hell but can... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published December 16, 1998

  A .40-Caliber Christmas Even in this so-called Valhalla, Christmas clings to the city like a scrupulously tucked coddling blanket. There is... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published December 16, 1998

  The Hawkins Family is one of those groups you expect to see at the Paramount Theater attended by a sold-out crowd of gregarious folks dressed in... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published December 9, 1998

  Cruising the Oakland Riviera The memory drifts back slowly, probably altered by the enthusiasms of youth and drugs: I'm sitting on the edge... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published December 9, 1998

  Over the last few years, Blixa Bargeld has passed through town with the Bad Seeds, lending his sadistically seductive guitar to Nick Cave's... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published December 9, 1998

  Bent, But Not Broken Beanbender's, the esteemed Berkeley jazz and experimental music space, has had something of an identity crisis in recent... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published December 2, 1998

  Alcatraz Revisited The snapping chill that drives dawn is yet two hours away, and the city is buried in the placid warmth of night, quiet... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published December 2, 1998

  People Who Lived When Jim Carroll -- poet, rocker, and recovered heroin junkie -- played the Great American Music Hall last month, he took a few... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published December 2, 1998

  It's easy see how Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire has benefited from the Squirrel Nut Zippers' style and fame: Zippers guitarist James Mathus and... More >>

• After the Politics

  published November 25, 1998

  With the bustling, grumbling 22 bus stop, the drugstore, the fast-food joint, the corner dive bar, the fresh fruit stand, the optional BART... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published November 18, 1998

  Info: Night Crawler By Silke Tudor The Science of the Art of the Political For a moment, just coming off the 980, this... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published November 18, 1998

  Born from the free-flowing house band that first made the floating nightclub "Giant Step" a Lower Manhattan institution, Groove Collective... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published November 18, 1998

  The Check -- and the Fragile Master Tape -- Is in the Mail On Nov. 9, the Kingsmen, authors of the mush-mouthed party classic "Louie, Louie,"... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published November 11, 1998

  Pornucopia "There's just nothing like seeing cocks and cunts as big as Godzilla," laughs Dr. Carol Queen, panel moderator and clip-show... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published November 11, 1998

  For Oleg Bernov, Igor Yuzov, and Zhenya Kolykhanov -- better known as the Red Elvises -- the sweltering croon and swiveling hips of The King could... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published November 11, 1998

  Hanson, Disco Drag, and Other Literary Endeavors True, the New Main Library isn't the hippest of places to go swimming in the pop music media... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published November 4, 1998

  Just Another Halloween "There will be no cameras of any kind allowed within the sacred space," says Madrone, coordinator of this year's... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published November 4, 1998

  We didn't need to be beaten over the head with the scores from Titanic and Pulp Fiction to realize that movie soundtracks long ago ceased being... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published November 4, 1998

  Suckers Normally we don't fall for cheap publicity stunts. But every once in a while some band -- well, it's usually the Gun & Doll Show --... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published October 28, 1998

  Info: Night Crawler By Silke Tudor Superheroes in Our Midst It's a bright, sunny Friday afternoon in South Park. The grass is... More >>