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1999 Stories by Silke Tudor

• Night Crawler

  published December 29, 1999

  And Bingo Was Its Name. Oh.It's a brisk San Francisco evening, the kind that transforms hanging stoplights into kaleidoscopes and masks... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published December 29, 1999

  So here we are staring down the double barrel of a loaded 20-Ought calendar year; it's a little difficult not to be completely underwhelmed. I... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published December 22, 1999

  Roamin' HolidayIn this strange, Gold Rush town, where individuals are prized over families, and promises of indulgence and instant... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published December 22, 1999

  Not that I'm generally a big follower of such things, but this Wednesday is not only the winter solstice, it is the night on which the moon... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published December 15, 1999

  Mushroom CrowdEven on the blacktop, away from the trees, the verdant light around the Crystal Springs Watershed is dappled and... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published December 15, 1999

  Skipping through pull-top alleyways with a belly full of monkeyshine, Zmrzlina flits between delirious syncopation and sleepytime bedroom... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published December 8, 1999

  Santa FranciscoIn December of 1995, with only six months of Night Crawler under my belt, I was invited to follow an insurgent... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published December 8, 1999

  Led by the alluring androgyne Adrian Roberts, Blue Period makes more of an impact just standing around at the bar in all its sparkly,... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published December 1, 1999

  Swan SongIn the 1930s, as vaudeville began to give way to the more revealing burlesque show, female impersonators struggled to find a... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published December 1, 1999

  For three years, a misdirected invite to a Southern California art opening has hung above my desk. The show was called "21st Century Tiki" and the... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published November 24, 1999

  The Dating GamePerhaps it's happened to you: Plagued by an early morning deadline, your mind evades rest, swirling and tumbling,... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published November 24, 1999

  At her most pop, the diminutive, wavy-tressed Nina Storey belongs at the intergalactic roadhouse, funking it up alongside Jamiroquai... More >>

• Thanksgiving, No Thanks

  published November 24, 1999

  Aaah! It's Thanksgiving, that fine American holiday on which folks gather under a single roof to consummate their familial dysfunction in the... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published November 17, 1999

  Dog CrazeIn a rare convergence of nature and desire, the lingering November fog recedes long enough to make brunch near the zoo a... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published November 17, 1999

  It was a cold, dismal, casual-beige-Gap-sweater day here in San Francisco when the Billy Nayer Show's leader, Cory McAbee, packed up his... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published November 10, 1999

  And Now, the Devil-EttesA bevy of Devil-Ettes step onto an elevator in the Las Vegas airport. Bleary from four endless nights in Sin... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published November 10, 1999

  For 30 years, the Exploratorium, whose often-ignored tag line is "the museum of science, art and human perception," has been offering artists a... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published November 3, 1999

  Autumn of the DeadIt is a given that, after birth, the only inevitability in life is death. This is not the moribund fretting of an... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published November 3, 1999

  For years I have harbored an irrational, childish animosity toward Joe Strummer. See, at one time Strummer toured as a guitarist for the... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published October 27, 1999

  16 Reasons to Produce Next Year's Wammies 1) Patsy Cline puts the "cunt" back in country within the first five minutes of the... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published October 27, 1999

  While the Bordeaux-based Les Nubians toss out Public Enemy and Arrested Development as influences, it's no accident that the only "tribute"... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published October 20, 1999

  Warrior WorshipNot since Star Trek has a television show inspired the cult-like veneration enjoyed by Xena: Warrior... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published October 20, 1999

  Growing up in Adana, on what was once the border between the Turkish and the Byzantine worlds, young Omar Faruk Tekbilek found himself... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published October 13, 1999

  A Fleeting Remembrance Rosette gently pushes herself away from the graffitied wall of the Blue Bar and walks up the hill... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published October 13, 1999

  Most of us would be hard-pressed to describe any aspect of the Maubere culture -- the curious commingling of animism and Christianity that... More >>