Email Author Silke Tudor

2000 Stories by Silke Tudor

• San Francisco Victorians

  published December 27, 2000

  As a band of 15 leather-clad bikers roars into the Cow Palace parking lot, a pale young man in a dark velvet tail coat and starched collar... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published December 27, 2000

  In O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the Coen brothers' new movie based on Homer's Odyssey, three petty criminals played by George... More >>

• Traditions We Share

  published December 20, 2000

  It's a warm, clear December morning, and Christmas is in the air. Outside the storefront quaintly named Guns & Things, a Christmas seal... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published December 13, 2000

  A ringmaster once told me, "Fire is cheap, everyone likes fire." In fact, humans -- like moths -- are drawn to bright light of any kind. Taking... More >>

• The View From Here

  published December 6, 2000

  Suppose that everyone was naturally intuitive ... but that time and society and work and friends and family and bad times and good times helped... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published December 6, 2000

  In the early 1900s, a devotion to entomology led Ladislaw Starevicz to attempt to capture insect life on film. Luckily, the lighting... More >>

• Shop Till You Baaah

  published November 29, 2000

  I know the day after Thanksgiving is one of the busiest shopping days of the year. In economic theory. I've never really experienced the "mad... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published November 29, 2000

  Chan Marshall has written all the songs for the next Cat Power album, a follow-up to her stirring 1998 release Moon Pix; she's even... More >>

• Two to Say Go

  published November 15, 2000

  On June 1, Chrystine Roy, a 29-year-old occupational therapist from Quebec, rose from her sleeping bag and gazed over the sparkling,... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published November 15, 2000

  Considered by the British press to be the greatest songwriter since Bob Dylan, Badly... More >>

• Save the Bats

  published November 8, 2000

  When I was a very small child, I lived in Bali for a time. My memories of nights on the island are vivid and wild, filled with strange animal... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published November 8, 2000

  It's been a while since the Day Glo Abortions have set foot on American soil. Purveyors of punk since the 1970s, the group has lost such... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published October 25, 2000

  I try to squeeze as many dancing girls into this column as is tastefully possible, but rarely do I get really excited. This is a different story,... More >>

• Gnome Sweet Gnome

  published October 18, 2000

  According to the Rosicrucians, a secret society of cabalists, occultists, and alchemists that appeared in 1459, gnomes are "misshapen elemental... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published October 18, 2000

  For young musicians, the romantic promises of the road can be consuming -- the lights, the fans, the booze, the babes, the strange towns -- but... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published October 11, 2000

  Top Ten Weird and Wonderful Things That Happened at SF Weekly Wammies 2000: 10) Members of 401K accepted their Hard Rock award wearing... More >>

• Laugh Tracks

  published October 4, 2000

  Even a quick visit to the bathrooms inside the Fairmont Hotel can be a disarming, potentially infinite journey for a Mission lowlander like... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published October 4, 2000

  Secret South is the fateful, disquieting fulfillment of the promise 16 Horsepower tendered on its first two releases, Sackcloth... More >>

• Guerrilla Action

  published September 27, 2000

  Positioned a short half-block from SFMOMA, the Hotel W is at once imposing and discreet, its smooth dark façade accented by a... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published September 27, 2000

  Not long ago, a perfect mock-up of SF Weekly arrived on my desk. Closer examination of the newspaper revealed the comedic genius of one... More >>

• Fringe Character

  published September 20, 2000

  An eroded man with road-map eyes shuffles toward me, murmuring about the "liftoff" as he sucks the marrow out of a wet, oily chicken bone. He... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published September 20, 2000

  While Frank Zappa was often accused of being a dictatorial bandleader, no musician who came under his influence could disparage the voluminous... More >>

• Bliss Side of Paradise

  published September 13, 2000

  Passing under the sun-dappled trellis gate of the Dunsmuir Estate, my roommate is reminded of the 1980 Christopher Reeve vehicle... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published September 13, 2000

  After 47 years, we are still held in the alluring sway of Hank Williams' short four-year recording career. Everyone from Ray Charles to Don Ho... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published September 6, 2000

  If mentioning the current British music scene brings to mind fey guitar riffs and well-manicured haircuts, you might not be ready for Bristol's... More >>