Email Author Silke Tudor

2000 Stories by Silke Tudor

• Night Crawler

  published May 17, 2000

  The Art of Surfing The surf culture -- once a fringe domain of hardy, freewheeling spirits who aspired only to ride the perfect wave --... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published May 17, 2000

  Been wanting a little Rocky Horror Picture Show fix, but feel too old to sit in a movie theater filled with pimple-faced middle... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published May 10, 2000

  It begins with the penis bone of a raccoon, a slender finger of calcified tissue that dangles "like a halo" in the opening pages of Sarah,... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published May 10, 2000

  Some of the greatest songs on eX-Girl's 1997 loony-pop masterpiece Kero! Kero! Kero! found the Japanese sweet-tart trio... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published May 3, 2000

  No more wuggly umps, gashlycrumb tinies, or hapless children torn limb from limb. With the passing of Edward Gorey, the world has lost one of its... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published April 26, 2000

  To most minds, a German comedian is more a punch line than a promise. And then there's Billy Wilder. The Viennese-born director put Marilyn Monroe... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published April 19, 2000

  Bringing in the ClownsHuge baggy pants striped in vibrant primary hues. Squeaky, oversized shoes. Short, broad polka-dotted ties.... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published April 19, 2000

  Thirty years before Momus created a media buzz with its 1999 "send-me-lyrics-and-I'll-make-you-a-song" disc Stars Forever, Rodd Keith had... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published April 12, 2000

  The Make-Up is not your average garage band. Led by the odd but acute intellect of Ian Svenonius -- whose voice vacillates between... More >>

• A Man Out of Time

  published April 12, 2000

  It would be remiss to consider poet Donald Sidney-Fryer without first exploring his literary lineage: As one of the last living West Coast... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published April 5, 2000

  Past PerfectDrawn by shouts and the dull rumble of physical conflict, three bikers abandon their Harleys at a day camp near the main... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published April 5, 2000

  Conjuring murky depths and sun-speckled porch dances, Beausoleil slithers through jazz, blues, Old World folk, and even a bit of surf,... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published March 29, 2000

  On the BussTwining through a riddle of small alleyways South of Market, we follow two cars that are similarly searching, curling back... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published March 29, 2000

  "There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator" is the tag line for Metropolis, Fritz... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published March 22, 2000

  Not everybody will remember, but during the whole beach-party movie craze, there was a seasonal complement: The ski-party movie craze, during... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published March 15, 2000

  "If I strangle all my fears for you," sings Ledenhed in a halting but crystalline voice, "would you give me something else to do?" Faint... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published March 8, 2000

  Suspended AdulationFolks in the Bay Area can be determinedly contemptuous of mainstream celebrity -- I have watched local... More >>

• The House of Tudor

  published March 8, 2000

  To say Flogging Molly is unprecedented would be a lie. Rabid devotees of the Pogues will find the band joyfully derivative, as... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published March 1, 2000

  I pause for a while on the threshold, standing naked and alone on a plastic runner that leads away from a lukewarm shower into the dimly lit room... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published March 1, 2000

  With a synchronized swish of their leopard skin- and latex-ensconced tails and the jubilant execution of various mini-skirt-big-guitar rock poses,... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published February 23, 2000

  Drawing on '70s-style virility and Detroit grit, American Heartbreak performs fast-paced no-nonsense rock 'n' roll that rails... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published February 16, 2000

  Fairy TailWith rain hammering the city into submission, and relentless NBA parties giving weekend warriors the status of weekend... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published February 16, 2000

  That such a thing as "desert rock" can thrive on our drizzling shores -- even under the insidious nomenclature of "stoner rock" -- seems an... More >>

• Night Crawler

  published February 9, 2000

  Eat, Drink, and Be Wary In Catholic tradition, the patron saint of cooks and chefs is St. Lawrence the Martyr, one of seven deacons... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published February 9, 2000

  As custodians of culture and bearers of tradition, fine musicians were respected as Acadian royalty among those who settled the Point along the... More >>