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1. Feature
He's Gotta Have It
By Dan Strachota Published: May 1, 2002Few mental illnesses elicit laughter, but sex addiction comes close. Tell a friend that you have a problem with sex, and he's likely to say, "Yeah, me too: My problem is I...
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2. Music
Back to the Future
By Darren Keast Published: May 1, 2002Back in the '80s, the future promised relief from recession, Star Wars (the movie and the missile defense), synth pop, break dancing, Madonna, and a Bush in the White House....
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3. Eat
Slim Pickins
By Greg Hugunin Published: May 1, 2002Having spent her formative years near Church and 30th, my friend Leah told me all about the neighborhood as we drove toward Pomelo. Back in the day, she said, you had the Irish...
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4. Film
Porn to Lose
By Jean Oppenheimer Published: May 1, 2002Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the French film The Piano Teacher, aside from Isabelle Huppert's unnerving and masterful performance, is the totally nonexploitative...
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5. Night&Day
Tough Love
By Michael Yockel Published: May 1, 2002The young and romantically dysfunctional protagonists who populate the dozen short stories in Steve Almond's new collection, My Life in Heavy Metal (Grove Press), trudge past...
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6. Stage
Angels in Afghanistan
By Michael Scott Moore Published: May 1, 2002Homebody/Kabul is better than Angels in America. Exaggeration? Well, no. I didn't like Angels in America, so I may be damning with faint praise. But after eight years of...
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7. Night Crawler
Beetle Mania
By Silke Tudor Published: May 1, 2002Somewhere, sometime, someone said I was just knee-high to a grasshopper. They didn't mean anything by it, but the image was instantaneous: that greenish-brown oblong head...
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8. Music
Go Ask Alice
By Chris Baty Published: May 1, 2002Americans make dismal historians. Most of us can't name our own great-grandparents, much less offer a coherent explanation for the War of 1812 or the decline of the Roman...
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9. Social Grace
Wedding Hells
By Social Grace Published: May 1, 2002Dear Social Grace, My boyfriend of six years and I are talking about getting married. He is finishing his master's degree this spring; we are both currently unemployed. We're...
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10. Reel World
Manhattan
By Michael Fox Published: May 1, 2002Manhattan At 66, Woody Allen is a slight fellow, a little hard of hearing and a tad frail. But he's still imposing when he fixes you with an unblinking gaze, as he did when I...
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11. Night&Day
Living La Vida Leguizamo
By Lisa Hom Published: May 1, 2002A wise man (OK, Plato) once said, "The life which is unexamined is not worth living." By those standards, actor and comic John Leguizamo has lived a life worth his weight in...
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12. Stage
Sisters
By Michael Scott Moore Published: May 1, 2002Sisters is by Wendy Lill, a Canadian member of Parliament who adapted a novel called The Glace Bay Miners' Museum for the stage. The Phoenix Theatre produced a powerful version...
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13. Bay View
A Black and White Issue
By Bernice Yeung Published: May 1, 2002When Amtrak hired Abner Morgan to do electrical work in its East Bay rail yard in 1990 for $9.69 an hour, the Oakland native figured he'd landed a dream job. "It was a secure,...
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14. Reviewed
Pepito
Philip Sherburne Published: May 1, 2002The San Francisco band Pepito -- comprised of Ana Machado and José Márquez, with help from Brian Fraser and Chris Palmatier -- isn't afraid to poke fun at its...
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15. Side Dish
SOMA Sayonara
By Harry Coverte Published: May 1, 2002Bunk at Monk Sad news: After dinner on Saturday, April 20, Café Monk owner Dan Friedlander closed his 565 Fourth St. restaurant for good. Chef/partner Randy Windham, brought on ...
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16. Stage
Stones in His Pockets
By Karen Macklin Published: May 1, 2002Written by Irish playwright Marie Jones and directed by her husband, Ian McElhinney, Stones in His Pockets is about two men who become friends while acting as extras for a big...
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17. Postscript
Dying to Know
By Joel P. Engardio Published: May 1, 2002From our table at a sidewalk cafe in August 2000, my partner Mark and I took turns pointing out things that made us smile: a young couple pushing a baby stroller, a...
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18. Pop Philosophy
She's Lost Control
By Dan Strachota Published: May 1, 2002Every once in a while, there's a show that's so amazing and/or bizarre the audience goes apeshit. Afterward, word spreads, and the event weaves its way into the tapestry of San...
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19. Dog Bites
House of Race Cards
Jeremy Mullman Published: May 1, 2002House of Race Cards After nine months as acting elections chief, Tammy Haygood was finally fired April 23. She'll be best remembered for overseeing two elections racked with...
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20. House of Tudor
House Of Tudor
By Silke Tudor Published: May 1, 2002Numbers' full-length debut opens with "I'm Shy," an essential song of exorcism for lead singer/drummer Indra Dunis, and for any girl habitually accused of being uninterested,...
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