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When Cesar Reigned

An aging journalist remembers 1999, when an election became a revolution, and the city changed forever

By Matt Smith

Published: October 13, 1999

If I squeeze my eyelids together until the lashes touch, I can still see the silhouette of a lone student facing down a Muni bus in Union Square. I can see the solid figure of a middle-aged man...

Feature

Charmed

The amazing transformation of Carmen Policy, defender of mobsters, babysitter to flashy kid moguls, and now savior of the Cleveland Browns

By Mike Tobin

Published: October 13, 1999

The parade ended with thousands of revelers amassed at Public Square for an afternoon pep rally, cheering for Browns old and new. They saw Mayor Michael White bark. Alongside White, team owner Al...

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

Paranoid Android

As told to Laurel Wellman

Published: October 13, 1999

"While I appreciate that it is easier to let the readers write the column for you, printing the entire ramblings of longtime city investors (whatever the hell that means) was a bit hard to take,"...

Night Crawler

Night Crawler

A Fleeting Remembrance

By Silke Tudor

Published: October 13, 1999

A Fleeting Remembrance Rosette gently pushes herself away from the graffitied wall of the Blue Bar and walks up the hill with delicate, intangible steps that seem to impose on only the tips...

South to the Future

South to the Future

Foreign Cinema in ethnic neighborhood draws community ire

By South to the Future

Published: October 13, 1999

October 13, 1999 SAN FRANCISCO -- When Scott Finkel, a drama teacher at San Francisco's Mission High School, heard that a foreign cinema was opening in the city's down-and-out Mission District...

Music

Thinkin' One Thing and Doin' Another

Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith have paid Miles Davis the highest honor: They've interpreted his fusion work by refusing to imitate it

By David Cook

Published: October 13, 1999

A couple of years ago, Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith set out to revive a body of music many would have liked to see remain dead. Critics have called the work "a sellout," "precious ......

Music

Boxed Ears

From minimalism to Nixon in China to the pop musical, Berkeley composer John Adams has gleefully ignored the boundaries of composition

By Stacey Kors

Published: October 13, 1999

A critic once called composer John Adams the Hamlet of contemporary classical music, accusing him of not being able to make up his mind and settle on a specific musical style. It is a charge with...

Riff Raff

Riff Raff

Morrissey Gets Colored Black on the Outside, Because Black Is How He Feels on the Inside

By Mark Athitakis

Published: October 13, 1999

Morrissey Gets Colored Black on the Outside, Because Black Is How He Feels on the Inside On Friday, June 4, Brian Brooks woke up and got dressed. He put on one of his favorite T-shirts, the...

Record

Review

Various Artists' Future Sounds of Jazz, Vol. 6

By Darren Keast

Published: October 13, 1999

Various Artists Future Sounds of Jazz, Vol. 6 (Compost) In the early '70s, Miles Davis (with his On the Corner album) and Herbie Hancock (with his short-lived sextet) picked up and...

Record

Review

Garth Brooks' In the Life of Chris Gaines

By Mark Athitakis

Published: October 13, 1999

Garth Brooks In the Life of Chris Gaines (Capitol) Garth Brooks has funny ideas of what rockers are supposed to be like, which is just fine; rockers have had funny ideas about country...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

"Benefit for East Timor," Pulley, Casino Royale, Freakwater, and Outdoor Cinema

By Silke Tudor

Published: October 13, 1999

Most of us would be hard-pressed to describe any aspect of the Maubere culture -- the curious commingling of animism and Christianity that overpowers the close influences of Hindu and Islam; the...

Hear This

Hear This

Equal Interest

By Sam Prestianni

Published: October 13, 1999

As the band's name implies, Equal Interest works from the premise that each player must contribute in equal proportion to the others if the group's music is to transcend the sum of its parts and...

Eat

Back to the Future

By Matthew Stafford

Published: October 13, 1999

It was the kind of a day, as Raymond Chandler never said, that made the Market Street palm trees seem right at home. The Farallons, San Francisco's age-old visual barometer, could be seen out on...

Eat

A Walk on the Mild Side

By Greg Hugunin

Published: October 13, 1999

A terrible thing happened to my friend Michelle a few weeks back. We were having cocktails at a certain high-end hotel and eatery when the bartender served her a somewhat funky glass of wine. A...

Side Dish

Side Dish

Moondance, Frankly, My Dear ..., Book 'Em, Clever Waiter Tricks, Bells and Whistles, Comings and Goings, and Going Public

By Harry Coverte

Published: October 13, 1999

Moondance Pretty much the entire opening crew has vacated Moonshine over on Broadway: The endeavor, moneybagged by New Line Cinema, didn't really get off to a good start. After the upscale...

Film

Revenge of the Nerds

Published: October 13, 1999

David Fincher needs a hug, the poor bastard. Or possibly a diaper change. Ever since 1992, when he ruined the Alien series with the excrescence of his pointless, senseless third installment, he's...

Reel World

Reel World

Kitten With a Whip and Chasing Rainbows

By Michael Fox

Published: October 13, 1999

Kitten With a Whip Before Jack Stevenson got married and moved to Denmark in 1993, the author ( Desperate Visions: Camp America ) and film collector obliged this town's once-healthy appetite for...

Night&Day;

Double Takes

"Degas to Picasso: Painters, Sculptors, and the Camera"

By Sura Wood

Published: October 13, 1999

The ambitious 364-piece exhibit "Degas to Picasso: Painters, Sculptors, and the Camera" assesses the impact of photography on the work of late-19th-century European artists, ranging from Picasso,...

Night&Day;

Fright Night

"Facing Fear I & II"

By Gary Morris

Published: October 13, 1999

What with Y2K, runaway rents, Waco, Rudy Giuliani as art critic, and a thousand other scary forces, fear and trembling -- once the exclusive province of existentialists and the paranoid -- have...

Stage

The Crucifixion of Galilei

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: October 13, 1999

A version of The Life of Galileo nine years ago, by the Berliner Ensemble in Germany, may stand as the best play I've ever seen. The Wall had fallen eight months before, and without any special...