Email Author Silke Tudor

1999 Stories by Silke Tudor

• The House of Tudor

  published July 7, 1999

  If the poppy seedpods and turn-of-the-century sedatives don't give away Jill Tracy's predilection, her song titles might. Certainly, "Evil Night... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published June 30, 1999

  The Demolition Expert When John Greenwood was 11 years old, his sister's boyfriend took him to a stock car race near their small hometown... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published June 30, 1999

  Hobo history is primarily an oral tradition and hobo scrivening only emerged as an abstruse order of symbols to alert, welcome, and direct fellow... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published June 23, 1999

  And So On We were solemnly advised to fill our gas tanks in Maxwell. We peel our sticky city-white thighs off the bench seat and tumble out... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published June 23, 1999

  The Black Heart Procession tramps through winding tunnels littered with moribund carousels and withering belles, over slipping time and... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published June 16, 1999

  Lost in Lost Vegas Anyone who spends any time with Chicken John is compelled to accept certain laws of serendipity -- "Something will... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published June 16, 1999

  This item is only for folks without jobs or other absurd obligations: Throw your sleeping bag, a bottle of bug spray, and several cases of beer... More >>

• It's a Ring Thing

  published June 16, 1999

  Last year's Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth wasn't. Sure, the tall man was very tall and the small man was very small,... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published June 9, 1999

  Bars 1100 Club 1100 Polk (at Post), 771-2022 You can't get any closer to the Polk Street rough trade than in this small,... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published June 9, 1999

  Thee Headcoatees are to Thee Headcoats as the Milkboilers are to the Milkshakes and the Delmonas are to Thee Mighty Caesars -- a female-driven... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published June 2, 1999

  A Basic Framework Until recently, people in this part of the world defined themselves more by their fetishes than their jobs. In... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published June 2, 1999

  With Mike Meyers dressing the cover of this month's GQ and Rolling Stone, we knew it was only a matter of time before the creator of Austin Powers... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published May 26, 1999

  Training When just a wee, bitty miscreant, I began craving a more southerly climate, one where women wrapped their limbs in little more... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published May 26, 1999

  To the casual observer, all scooterists buzzing around town in stovepipe pants and wraparound shades might be part of a single supportive scooter... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published May 19, 1999

  Insidious harassment, inscrutable bureaucracy, and abrupt club closures produce frustrated outrage and despairing queasiness, sensations with... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published May 12, 1999

  Open for Business The compassionate, authoritative voice of KQED's Michael Krasny trickles through my somnolent clock-radio haze: "People... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published May 12, 1999

  This Grand National Banjo Champion displayed more than chops on his three highly innovative solo bluegrass projects for Rounder, but just as... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published May 5, 1999

  Sure Better There's something about horseplayers that sets them apart from other vassals of Lady Luck. They study equine bloodlines and... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published May 5, 1999

  I try not to use this space for grumbling. So what can I say about Mike Ness' solo album Cheating at Solitaire? Well, it is most definitely Mike... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published April 28, 1999

  Earth Day on the Bay Twenty-four folks gather in a loose circle on an observation point overlooking Arrowhead Marsh, examining maps and... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published April 28, 1999

  Long before Talvin Singh was applauded for integrating his musical heritage into club culture DJ Cheb i Sabbah had been uniting songs by tempo... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published April 21, 1999

  Tea and Strumpets It's a lazy Sunday-like Saturday afternoon, one of those early springtime days of warmth that make Northern Californians... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published April 21, 1999

  When William S. Burroughs passed over, San Francisco had already expended itself on the memory of beat poet Allen Ginsberg. And since Burroughs... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published April 14, 1999

  Silke in Overland Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in all her life: it was all ridges and furrows: the... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published April 14, 1999

  He may look like a hippie, but Baby Gramps is actually a well-intentioned mountain man who's come down to the city to offer the friendly folk an... More >>