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In contrast to the guttural, throat-searing screams he unleashes onstage, Jonathan Davis, lead vocalist for the multiplatinum rap-metal band Korn, sounds downright dejected....
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Jeff Kazor is the leader of the Crooked Jades, a local group that specializes in "old-time" string band music, an antiquated forerunner of the better-known bluegrass style....
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In the jungles of South America there's a nocturnal primate known to the Rio Negro tribe as the douroucouli. These tiny, orb-eyed monkeys are an invaluable alarm system to...
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Poor William Randolph Hearst. The snapping dogs of Hollywood just won't leave the guy alone. It's been barely 60 years since a little epic called Citizen Kane portrayed the...
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Tony Kushner's newest play started making headlines well before it had its world premiere in New York back in December. The reasons why are obvious: The majority of the story...
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The first book I acquired as an editor was an illustrated edition of Pablo Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, with a translation by the renowned poet W.S....
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Despite a strenuous workout that involved eliminating the Redevelopment Agency, leasing out 118 light-rail cars, banning big-box stores, tightening rent control, and approving...
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Released in November 2000, A Fistful of Knuckles is the ninth solo effort by People Like Us, the musical moniker of English collage artist Vicki Bennett. This prolific sound...
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Some 35 years after the Summer of Love, having seen an endless parade of runaways, tourists, would-be gurus, and lost souls, the Haight-Ashbury is now home to one of the...
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Derrida (U.S.A./France, 2002)
Jacques Derrida, the French master thinker, is less a philosopher (i.e., lover of thought) than a doubter who wonders if thought is even...
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It's a good thing photographer Martin Parr is British. Otherwise he would have had a field day parodying American customs the way he's skewered those of his native country....
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By devorah major
Curbstone Press (May 2002), $15.95
This poetic view of African-American life in the ever-changing landscape of the Fillmore District is overflowing with...
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"Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" The childhood echo of radio ads for monster-truck rallies, gun shows, and WWF matches drowns out every other thought as we wind our way through the...
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In more than a decade together, Blackalicious' Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel have released only two EPs (1995's Melodica and 1999's A2G) and one full-length (2000's Nia). That's...
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Although the festival has always had a strong Asian content, the influence of guest programmer Roger Garcia, late of the Hong Kong Film Festival, has brought a reassuringly...
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By Wendy Lesser
Houghton Mifflin (May 2002), $24
People are lousy readers. We keep hoping for that "perfect" reading, during which we gather deep meaning out of every line,...
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The new year has not been kind to Georgia-based energy giant Mirant Corp. and its plan for a mammoth new power plant at the foot of Potrero Hill, in the city's Bayview...
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Music to watch girls eat by Someone recently asked me for a list of albums that were good to fuck to. This is the kind of question I like -- not just because it's nerdy and...
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For the length of Abolfazl Jalili's masterful, mysterious Delbaran, an Afghan boy scampers about, trying to earn a living at a primitive truck stop in the unforgiving Iranian...
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Muni Money
If it's good enough for New Jersey, it's good enough for us: I'd like to clarify for your readers several points made in Matt Smith's article in the April 10 SF...
