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INTRODUCTION
The election is only weeks away, and already the voter guides are thudding against our doorsteps. Indeed, San Francisco is abuzz with 11th-hour politicking, but...
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After playing a show in New Orleans in 1999, Digital Underground frontman and Bay Area hip hop legend Shock-G had a one-night stand with a 19-year-old named Cinnamon. As Shock...
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Carl was in town on his annual visit from Tokyo, where he spends most of the year teaching and concertizing, and I wanted to take him someplace wonderful. Not just because he...
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Maybe it's the mark of a great film that it can affect an audience member even when he sleeps through the entire thing. Such was the case with my father at a recent preview of...
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While some old-fashioned turn-ons no longer electrify -- when's the last time you were bowled over by a player piano? -- some retro pastimes have retained their charm. Take...
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The trouble with Wallace Shawn is that he was born to write prose. The actor and playwright son of the legendary New Yorker editor William Shawn has good prose in his system,...
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Last week, the city and the San Francisco 49ers announced that Candlestick Park would be renamed Monster Park, following an agreement on a four-year, $6 million naming-rights...
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Authentic hippie jams, like those whipped up by the Massachusetts collective Sunburned Hand of the Man, operate like ritual magick. Their practitioners must exercise discipline...
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It's recently become apparent to me that I have reached the age when a few misguided folk may start referring to me as "a woman of a certain age." I'd like to stress that this...
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There are at least three movies contained within the covers of H.G. Bissinger's best-selling 1990 nonfiction book Friday Night Lights. One is concerned with the socioeconomic...
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Wednesday, October 6, 2004
Texas columnist Molly Ivins has been compared to Dorothy Parker more times than George Herbert Walker Bush ever shot at grammar and missed, and it's...
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Frank McCourt, in case you haven't heard, is Irish. So's his brother Malachy. By my distracted count, this revue is the second musical production a McCourt brother has written...
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Muddling Along
In the '80s Americans widely embraced the wine cooler, or at least that's what Dog Bites gleaned from the many hours we spent as a youth sitting cross-legged...
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It would be wrong to dismiss Seattle's Blood Brothers as a run-of-the-mill hardcore or punk band. Yes, singers Jordan Blilie and Johnny Whitney are capable of screams and...
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'Tweener fave Hilary Duff effortlessly maintains her wholesome image in Raise Your Voice, a coming-of-age drama (what else would you expect when the star is all of 16?) that is...
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Most folks in the United States don't read for pleasure very much, often opting for the action of 500-channel satellite TV, Sony PlayStation, or Internet porn over mere words...
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The girl's name is Josephine, but her English parents call her Joe Egg after a saying of her very English, very suburban-provincial grandmother's: "Just sitting around like Joe...
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What's the Harmon That?
Effectively infiltrated: Thank you, SF Weekly, for bringing your readers a dose of the hilarious Harmon Leon [Infiltrator]. I've been a fan of Leon's...
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Metalux is an eccentric female duo from Chicago that has developed this complex sound-machine. It's an intricate and cacophonous beast -- with an anatomy made of numerous...
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The French flick Red Lights is being promoted as "an edge-of-your-seat thriller in the tradition of Claude Chabrol and Alfred Hitchcock," but it's far from that. Save for one...
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