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2002 Stories by Silke Tudor

• Santo Claus, Santarchy, Leather Santa, and a Crackhead Elf Came to Town

  published December 24, 2002

  My childhood friend rushes through my office door and stands there flushed and panting, impervious to the puddle of rainwater gathering at her... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published December 24, 2002

  Jeffrey Luck Lucas is a dusty-voiced troubadour with degrees in cello and composition and a heart trapped in the borderlands of someone... More >>

• Visions of a Robot Future

  published December 18, 2002

  In the shadow of a sputtering power plant, Evans becomes Innes and ends at the Hunters Point Shipyard, 443 discouraging acres on the... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published December 18, 2002

  If there is anyone in this town who truly appreciates 1968's Space Thing, the soft-core sci-fi wet dream directed by B. Ron Elliott... More >>

• Circular Reasoning

  published December 11, 2002

  Taken out of context, the humble hubcap is something to be contemplated, perhaps even meditated upon. At its most uninspired -- a circle revolving... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published December 11, 2002

  In an article published in Sacramento News & Review this fall, the members of soon to be venerated Sacto quartet FM Knives denied... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published December 4, 2002

  As the sixth-largest city in the country and the first major metropolis north of the Mexican border, San Diego should have more to offer to the... More >>

• The Firm

  published November 27, 2002

  The sculpture rises out of a wave as if inspired by the sand, water, and lime in which it is confined. The lines are fluid, supple, and strangely... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published November 27, 2002

  During a recent Kurt Weill tribute in a small, now-closed cafe, I found myself unexpectedly overcome by the vocal prowess of mezzo-soprano... More >>

• Toy Boy

  published November 20, 2002

  Trumpet-nosed fish and mustache bugs, maniacal monkeys and sneezing slugs, snaggletoothed cats and worried turtles, skull-faced birds and candy... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published November 20, 2002

  I can think of better-suited names for the Invisible Tour -- say, the Auditory Cataclysm Tour or Sonic Tohubohu (drawing on the... More >>

• Return to Chinatown

  published November 13, 2002

  The air is mild and cool, the sun is pale and warm, and the birds are singing as if it were spring. As I enter Portsmouth Square, a young... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published November 13, 2002

  Banned in the Soviet Union for almost half a century, Kote Mikaberidze's 1929 silent movie My Grandmother is a visually striking,... More >>

• Malled

  published November 6, 2002

  Morning fog still hangs heavy in the air, softening sharp edges and blanching the concrete sprawl of Serramonte Center. It's quiet... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published November 6, 2002

  Neko Case -- a longtime Cramps devotee who left home at 15 -- began her musical career in the Pacific Northwest, picking up... More >>

• Massacre Under the Redwoods

  published October 30, 2002

  There is no country charm, no glimmering canopy of starlight, no pregnant harvest moon, no inviting inglenook with hot mulled cider; just a thick,... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published October 30, 2002

  When viewing a picture of a lithe, pointy-nosed fairy with Asiatic eyes or a smarmy leprechaun spinning on his head while balancing a pickax on... More >>

• And the Winners Were ...

  published October 23, 2002

  Though I spend several months every year planning and pondering the chimeric configuration of the SF Weekly Music Awards, I never actually... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published October 23, 2002

  Just as fashion hound Malcolm McLaren ingratiated himself into the heart of the punk scene after meeting the New York Dolls, 43-year-old New York... More >>

• Caught on Tape

  published October 9, 2002

  Minnesota Chrome, Roadie's Roll, Canoeist's Companion, 200 MPH Tape, First-Aid Roll-Up, Gaffer's Tape, 1,000-Mile Tape, Hiker's Helper, Missile... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published October 9, 2002

  You might think a handlebar mustache should only be worn with an ironic wink, but the long, curving whiskers sported by 30-year-old Eugene... More >>

• Breaking Up in Public Is Hard to Do

  published September 25, 2002

  M.I. BLUE and KATY BELL are pleased to announce their formal Dumping of Each Other on Sunday, September 22nd at... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published September 25, 2002

  At his recent appearance at the Odeon, Jason Webley stepped out onto the intimate stage wearing a dentist's smock and a white mask,... More >>

• Remembrance of a Restaurant Past

  published September 18, 2002

  In the essay "The Handling of Neurotics," found in issue No. 2 of Proust Said That, founder and publisher P Segal writes,... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published September 18, 2002

  In Nick Broomfield's documentary Kurt & Courtney, Ms. Love is portrayed as a greedy, manipulative, vicious, untalented bulldozer of... More >>