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The press release was ominous, but not surprising. Last week, Stanford University President Gerhard Casper and University of California President Richard Atkinson announced...
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Bruce Eisenbeil
You can tell a lot about an improviser by the company he keeps. Rob Brown, Sabir Mateen, Daniel Carter, and Roy Campbell are some of New York's...
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xyz
181 Third St. (at Howard), 817-7836. Open daily: breakfast 6:30 to10:30 a.m., lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., dinner 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Parking: manageable ($10 valet...
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Breaking Away
Ted White shyly hopped up on the low stage at Cell Space, simultaneously basking in and waving off the raucous adoration of 300 bicycle enthusiasts. The...
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In Walkin' Talkin' Bill Hawkins, W. Allen Taylor goes looking for Cleveland, Ohio's first black DJ, but Taylor's reasons for wanting to know about Hawkins extend beyond the...
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Sitting Pretty
Director Greg MacKellan and 42nd Street Moon present this 1924 Jerome Kern/P.G. Wodehouse/Guy Bolton gem as a staged concert: The actors read from scripts,...
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Two SF Weekly staff writers have been recognized in this year's Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, a national competition sponsored by the journalism school at the...
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Mike "Sport" Murphy
Willoughby
(Kill Rock Stars)
Precious few people have heard the Skels, late of Ronkonkoma, N.Y. Possibly even fewer got to hear Skels frontman...
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Pomelo is a delight: A neighborhood restaurant worth traveling to, it offers simple, high-quality international food for almost no money.
The restaurant is very small,...
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Better Than Chocolate
Directed by Anne Wheeler. Written by Peggy Thompson. Starring Karyn Dwyer, Christina Cox, Wendy Crewson, and Kevin Mundy. Opens Friday at the...
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Although his books are full of sex and the gleeful detachment that would later come to characterize autobiographical authors such as Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, it's...
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Christmas on Mars
Written by Harry Kondoleon. Directed by Reid Davis. Produced by the Shotgun Players. Starring Beth Donohue, Patrick Dooley, Andrew Hurteau, and Marin Van...
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Vintage
What great stories ("The Vintage People," Aug. 4). I, too, have been caught up in the romance and mystique of the fabulous '40s ever since Mom plopped me in front...
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Tales of the City Richie Unterberger is a smart guy when it comes to music history -- he knows his stuff, revels in musical obscurities, and has toiled on two projects that...
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If the unfortunate events that marred the recent Woodstock '99 festival have any expiatory value, it is perhaps to highlight and remind us of the ideals and intentions of its...
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Wednesday
August 11
Dueling Banjos The long, storied history of the banjo, not including its ignoble misuse as a comic prop or the house instrument of Shakey's Pizza,...
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All SuperBooty fans share one thing; they can all vote.
-- "The California Reformer," Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1999
May 21, Great American Music Hall
For Mark O'Hara,...
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I Coulda Been a Contenda
Now that chef Bruce Hill is back from a jaunt to the Orient, there's been yet another shake-up at the Waterfront. Chef de cuisine Jon Nelson has...
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To Whine and Whine Not
It's long past time now for Mayor Willie Brown to quit huffing and puffing and mewling and whining about how unfair the news media have been to him...
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Fifteen years ago, an unquenchable passion for quirky Europop, a fascination with the Macedonian language, and a willingness to live in war-torn Yugoslavia made Alexander...
