Email Author Silke Tudor

2001 Stories by Silke Tudor

• Crazy for Christmas

  published December 26, 2001

  Being a San Francisco native, I have only on very rare occasion experienced the traditional white Christmas with carolers, chestnuts, and candy... More >>

• Sound Advice

  published December 26, 2001

  Some of the most exciting shows I've seen in San Francisco have involved local artists expressing themselves in atypical ways. In such a vein, the... More >>

• Revisiting the Ghastly One

  published December 19, 2001

  "Cruelty is remembered and appreciated. ... History doesn't remember the good deeds one does ... only the bad. ... They are the history... More >>

• Sound Advice

  published December 19, 2001

  There's a husband-and-wife lounge duo in Los Angeles called Marty & Elayne that has been performing at the Dresden for the last 20 years,... More >>

• Thrill of a Lifetime

  published December 12, 2001

  Maybe life was a movie after all, and when we died we just walked off the set and returned to reality. Maybe we were taking the illusion too... More >>

• Sound Advice

  published December 12, 2001

  In 1926, while still a child, American composer and spatial-music pioneer Henry Brant traveled across the Atlantic to have an old violin... More >>

• Sound Advice

  published December 5, 2001

  While Charlie Patton and Robert Johnson plumbed the darker side of Delta sinew with gravel in their throats and murder in their souls,... More >>

• Spade Work

  published November 28, 2001

  "It's like this, see: We each pick a mark, someone ankling by the box or nibblin' on one," says Secret Agent X-9, casting an eye around... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published November 28, 2001

  It's difficult to imagine more idyllic digs for "Stinky's Peep Show" than the CW Saloon. The long-standing home of "Stinky's"... More >>

• Soup, Salad, and Surrealism

  published November 21, 2001

  "One, two, three, four! We don't want to wash the floor!" shouts a wild-eyed stilt-walker with a distorted face and a mop. "Five, six, seven,... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published November 21, 2001

  Rudyard Kipling once said, "San Francisco is a mad city, inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people." Until recently, not many would... More >>

• The Tammy Faye Show

  published November 14, 2001

  An arrangement of white flowers sits on the table between Tammy Faye Bakker Messner and John Waters. It is no simple array or floral... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published November 14, 2001

  A few years ago, while digging through the discount bins of her Amsterdam record store, Elisabeth Esselink bore Solex in the hopes of... More >>

• Songs of Science

  published November 7, 2001

  Last year, while replacing my great grandmother's recently deceased budgie, I bought myself a modest little Bourke parakeet. Nothing fancy, just a... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published November 7, 2001

  For centuries, the history of the Roms (or Gypsies) has been written only in their music, because of their nearly pathological distrust of the... More >>

• Railroaded

  published October 31, 2001

  The long-limbed rocker behind the cafe counter knows who I'm looking for before I finish the third of a string of descriptive words I was given... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published October 31, 2001

  In New Orleans, if you have enough dignity to steer clear of Bourbon Street and enough imagination to crave something other than bayou blues, you... More >>

• Photographic Memories

  published October 24, 2001

  Every year, during the onerous months of pre-production for the SF Weekly Music Awards (the event formerly known as the Wammies), I think... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published October 24, 2001

  When the eyeballs that would become the Residents first came together in 1970 -- in the vanguard's stronghold of San Mateo -- it was for... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published October 17, 2001

  The classically trained voice of mezzo-soprano Odetta began to burrow into more dusty depths when she turned to folk music in 1949. First... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published October 10, 2001

  The Rose He Lied By, the debut album by Baltimore quartet Love Life, is a musical bête noire, a silky black... More >>

• Down to the Pond in Ships

  published October 3, 2001

  There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats ... or with boats. ... In or out of 'em, it... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published October 3, 2001

  The first installment of San Francisco-based PLANET° Magazine -- designated as issue zero for reasons detailed within -- has... More >>

• Alien Culture

  published September 26, 2001

  Just a few short days after the World Trade Centers were gored by two passenger planes, a jet airliner roars overhead, low enough in the sky to... More >>

• House Of Tudor

  published September 26, 2001

  We the faithful have been waiting a long, long time for an album of new Damned material -- 14 years to be precise. Sadly, Grave Disorder... More >>