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Might See TV

Joel Engardio picks his way through the political minefield around ITVS, the San Francisco group that Congress created to put the edge back in PBS

By Joel P. Engardio

Published: October 20, 1999

For a while this summer, it looked like PBS was going to get a break. Congress was about to approve future funding for public television, and the Republican majority was not making its usual case...

Bay View

We Used to Be in Pictures

San Francisco's once-hot film industry is in a slump; will it come back?

By Sura Wood

Published: October 20, 1999

Debbie Brubaker, a line producer for film and video, has worked in the Bay Area's film production industry for the last 15 years, but this has been a tough year for her: In 1998 she worked on three...

Mecklin

Mecklin

Ammiano's Surprise, and Promise

By John Mecklin

Published: October 20, 1999

During my lunch hour last Friday, I wandered into the tail end of a phony Willie Brown publicity event at the Fourth Street CalTrans station. There was a small crowd, composed largely of Willie...

Bay View

Long May She Reign?

A new book scrutinizes the city's imperial history

By Peter Byrne

Published: October 20, 1999

In Gray Brechin's new book Imperial San Francisco -- Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, the founder of the San Francisco Chronicle , Charles de Young, is murdered by a disgruntled reader. The...

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

Apply Now! Space Is Limited!

As told to Laurel Wellman

Published: October 20, 1999

Is it hot in here, or is it just us? The combination of the past week's unseasonable temperatures and the volume of e-mail we've been getting on the subject of who should -- and who shouldn't...

Night Crawler

Night Crawler

Warrior Worship

By Silke Tudor

Published: October 20, 1999

Warrior Worship Not since Star Trek has a television show inspired the cult-like veneration enjoyed by Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys . Fans rattle off...

South to the Future

South to the Future

High School Students Sabotage Security Bar Codes

By South to the Future

Published: October 20, 1999

October 20, 1999 AUSTIN, Texas -- In the wake of the Littleton, Colo., massacre at Columbine High, schools around the country are rushing to beef up security on campus. In addition to metal...

Music

Tone Deft

With their DMT project, Eddie Def and DJ Cue are trying to rewrite the rules of hip hop

By Darren Keast

Published: October 20, 1999

One of the important things to know about DMT is that it is a very fast-acting [hallucinogen]. Users will feel the effect almost immediately, with the peak effect occurring very quickly... [test...

Music

Thar She Bows

Performance artist Laurie Anderson puts a modern musical spin on a classic American novel

By Stacey Kors

Published: October 20, 1999

In her program notes to Songs and Stories From Moby Dick , Laurie Anderson explains her fascination with Melville's literary masterpiece: "Being a somewhat dark person myself," she says, "I fell...

Riff Raff

Riff Raff

2020 Vision, Housekeeping, and Scene, Heard

By Mark Athitakis

Published: October 20, 1999

2020 Vision Every night is different at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, which for over 30 years has been hosting a variety of traditional music, from old-timey country to bluegrass to...

Record

Review

Charlie Haden Quartet West with Chamber Orchestra's The Art of The Song

By Ezra Gale

Published: October 20, 1999

Charlie Haden Quartet West with Chamber Orchestra The Art of The Song (Verve) It would be a bit presumptuous to call bassist Charlie Haden's latest release, The Art of the Song -- a...

Record

Review

Faust's Ravvivando

By Mike Rowell

Published: October 20, 1999

Faust Ravvivando (Klangbad) Three decades after the members of Faust met in Hamburg, Germany, a new album by the krautrock kingpins even existing in 1999 is an accomplishment. It being one...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, TV Killers, WAMMIES, Smashing 1970s, and Atomic Bitchwax

By Silke Tudor

Published: October 20, 1999

Growing up in Adana, on what was once the border between the Turkish and the Byzantine worlds, young Omar Faruk Tekbilek found himself surrounded by philosophers, artists, musicians, and actors....

Hear This

Hear This

Jackie McLean and Steve Lacy

By Bill Kisliuk

Published: October 20, 1999

For many fans, jazz really is a church, a place in which to explore the deeper principles and remember the elders. So concerts at Grace Cathedral, which have become an annual feature of the San...

Eat

Several Jugs of Wine and Thou

By Matthew Stafford

Published: October 20, 1999

It's simple: A bunch of grapes feels the pull of gravity and falls to the ground, breaking its skins in the process. It's sunny out, the weather's warm, and the yeast in the atmosphere mixes it up...

Eat

The Thai of Your Life

By Greg Hugunin

Published: October 20, 1999

It took a while to realize just how deeply Basil had screwed me. I was having dinner with a friend at another Thai restaurant. Not a fabulous one, such as Marnee Thai, but a good one, or at least...

Side Dish

Side Dish

Flash in the Pan, One Hand Clapping, Open and Shut, The Wading Pool

By Harry Coverte

Published: October 20, 1999

Flash in the Pan Has San Francisco finally reached restaurant saturation point? I mean, you can only spend so much of your money and time on food and the dining experience, right? This last week...

Film

He Spread, She Spread

By Gregory Weinkauf

Published: October 20, 1999

It would be very easy to dismiss this movie with bold swipes of cynicism: low overhead (affordable cast, L.A. locations); guaranteed return (twentysomething controversy); and a coarse, zinger-laden...

Reel World

Reel World

The Kid, Sweet Smell of Success, Chelsea Girls

By Michael Fox

Published: October 20, 1999

The Kid Writer-director-actor-producer-editor Eli Rudnick hops on and off a bench,surveying the empty seats in the cozy new cinema on Sherman Street. Our conversation ranges from the false...

Night&Day;

You Don't Know Jack

"Post-War Alienation: Film Noir Educationals"

Published: October 20, 1999

American postwar mythology insists we were all shiny happy people living in Levittown. But of course, along with the gray flannel suits and housewives in heels came ulcerative businessmen,...