Email Author Silke Tudor

2003 Stories by Silke Tudor

• House of Tudor

  published August 27, 2003

  Like cigar smoke drifting through a porch screen door, the voice of Eleni Mandell is as sweet, warm, and elusive as a late-night... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published August 20, 2003

  The San Francisco Bay Area is home to the largest contingent of machine artists in the world. Many of us are familiar with the bone-crushing,... More >>

• FhREaKin' Outside

  published August 13, 2003

  Preliminary reports from Candlestick Point promise clear skies with temperatures reaching the upper 70s, a light breeze coming in... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published August 13, 2003

  My opinions about sampling and file sharing are not popular among my musician friends, but I maintain that the free exchange of music over the Web... More >>

• Pinheads and Vidiots

  published August 6, 2003

  The things that we see And the lights they reflect Exist in our minds As one and the same Yet a... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published August 6, 2003

  François Truffaut asserted that film should be a medium of personal expression, like paint or pen, and that the character and passion of the... More >>

• S.F.'s Big Adventure

  published July 30, 2003

  The barman leaning in the doorway of Vesuvio takes a look at me and shakes his head. "You missed 'em," he says, flicking his... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published July 30, 2003

  First the humorous, funky sex appeal of Electric Six and now the hilarious, sci-fi-ghetto fury of the Lost Sounds. It seems my prayers have... More >>

• You, Too, Can Be in Movies!

  published July 16, 2003

  I don't remember the title associated with my earliest movie memory (truth be told, I probably fell asleep before the trailers finished). I do... More >>

• This Month in Movie Land

  published July 16, 2003

  - The Paramount Theatre (2025 Broadway, Oakland) presents Charade, with Jim Riggs playing the Mighty Wurlitzer, on Friday, July 25,... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published July 16, 2003

  While pundits sometimes argue the fact, the rest of us accept it: The Ramones were the first punk band. No muss, no fuss, just four chords, two... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published July 9, 2003

  Last week, if you told me I'd be writing about a member of the Grateful Dead I would have laughed out loud and taken bets. Alas, even one sworn to... More >>

• Slides Rule

  published July 2, 2003

  To those born after 1970, the thought of sending someone into space with a slide rule seems ridiculous, but, to early Apollo crews, the... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published July 2, 2003

  The Hackensaw Boys look as if they could travel two years and 2,000 miles from Virginia and never get the Blue Ridge Mountains out... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published June 25, 2003

  Eric Arthur Blair was born on June 25, 1903, in Motihari, India, where his father was employed as a civil servant, but he was raised and educated... More >>

• After a Fashion

  published June 18, 2003

  It is widely acknowledged that the perversity of taste knows no limits. -- New York Times fashion critic Guy... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published June 18, 2003

  It may come as a surprise to avid Galaxie 500 fans, but I don't believe Dean Wareham shits confetti; in fact, I feel the singer/songwriter's... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published June 11, 2003

  Close your eyes for a moment and conjure an image of Bishop Joey, founder of the St. Stupid's Day Parade and the First Church of the Last Laugh;... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published June 4, 2003

  On the cover of Young Miss America, Gold Chains' latest and greatest album, a collage of anorexic supermodel body parts,... More >>

• Life, Cubed

  published May 28, 2003

  In the beginning was Chance, and Chance was with God, and Chance was God. -- from The Book of the Die A... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published May 28, 2003

  Folks seem unusually irritated by this year's Black and White Ball, as if the $200 ticket to see Joan Jett, Deborah Harry, Buck Owens, Pete... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published May 21, 2003

  Polka, like jazz and blues, has regional dialects in different cities across America, complete with dogged devotees, specialized Web sites, and... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published May 14, 2003

  As San Francisco's quintessential session man -- for artists such as Tom Waits, Jonathan Richman, the B-52's, Bill Laswell, Pere Ubu's David... More >>

• Holy Mütter

  published May 7, 2003

  There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. -- Sir Francis Bacon There are those who would... More >>

• House of Tudor

  published May 7, 2003

  A ramshackle madman with the soul of a bard, the wit of a surrealist, and the skill of a Gypsy, Jason Webley embodies that which is most... More >>