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  1. Feature

    Charity Begins @ Home
    A young software engineer has a plan to teach Silicon Valley to change its tightfisted ways
    By Joel P. Engardio
    Published: January 5, 2000

    It's going on midnight and the waitress makes her way through the Santa Clara Denny's, offering another round of coffee to every wired, sleepless, overworked soul occupying a booth at the all-night...

  2. Dog Bites

    Dog Bites
    Yawn2K, Hair Today, Gone ... Or Is It?, Wishin' and Hopin'
    As told to Laurel Wellman
    Published: January 5, 2000

    Yawn2K Well, in spite of media fretting -- and may we just take this opportunity to disavow any part we ourselves might have played in fanning fears of riots? -- the year 2000 has arrived,...

  3. South to the Future

    South to the Future
    Workers Strike Against Incandescent Light in Factories
    Machinery left running unmanned, explosion at E. Beigh factory
    Thousands protest extension of workday into evening
    By South to the Future
    Published: January 5, 2000

    An estimated 15,000 factory workers clogged the streets of Manhattan in the wee hours of last night protesting longer working hours and causing untold damage to industrial establishments. The...

  4. Bay View

    Shaky Ground
    Environmental activists adopt a new strategy -- playing the race card
    By Bernice Yeung
    Published: January 5, 2000

    On a chilly Tuesday morning in early December, more than a dozen angry residents of the Midway Village public housing project in Daly City grabbed picket signs and turned out to protest the...

  5. Bay View

    Fork-Beard, Vlad, and the Fat King of France
    The last millennial retrospective you need to read
    By Matt Smith
    Published: January 5, 2000

    As we awake this week, peering into an uncharted thousand years, it might be wise to look back and survey the terrain we've traversed so far. Or at least you'd think so, after two years of insipid...

  6. Music

    Sheer Ambition
    With SeeThru Broadcasting, Dave Sardy and Kevin Wortis envision a new kind of indie label: one that's passionate about music and well-financed
    By Lloyd Langworthy
    Published: January 5, 2000

    I'm trying to start the label that I wish I could have signed to," explains Dave Sardy, on the phone from his Hollywood home. He's taking a break from producing the new Marilyn Manson record in an...

  7. Riff Raff

    Riff Raff
    Transmission Theater, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Mark Hummel
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: January 5, 2000

    Transmission Accomplished? "You can observe a lot by watching," Yogi Berra once said. To which we'll add this corollary: You can observe a lot by watching for what's missing. Like, for example,...

  8. Record

    Longineu Parsons
    Spaced: Collected Works 1980-1999
    By Ezra Gale
    Published: January 5, 2000

    Longineu Parsons Spaced: Collected Works 1980-1999 (Luv n' Haight) Sometime-conventional wisdom holds that jazz is relatively immune to the marketing and promotional forces that shape...

  9. Record

    Various Artists
    Easy Tempo and Jet Society
    By Darren Keast
    Published: January 5, 2000

    Various Artists Easy Tempo Jet Society (Eighteenth Street Lounge) Looking back on the '90s, it's clear that most, if not every, significant musical current of the decade was built...

  10. Record

    Blue Man Group
    Audio
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: January 5, 2000

    Blue Man Group Audio (Virgin) Having trouble coming up with innovative or even interesting ideas in musical theater, Broadway and environs have spent a good portion of the '90s embracing...

  11. House of Tudor

    House Of Tudor
    Bamboleo, Pendulum, "Fetish 2000," Johnny Dowd
    By Silke Tudor
    Published: January 5, 2000

    I am told by a roving acquaintance that there is a huge party every single night of the week in Havana, and that folks go out to dance regardless of their early morning work schedules, pressed onto...

  12. Hear This

    Hear This
    The Giblet Dribblers
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: January 5, 2000

    The Giblet Dribblers Waylon Jennings called it love of the common people: a respect and adoration for folks of modest means, not to mention the immodest things they sometimes do. In spinning...

  13. Eat

    The Doctor Is In
    Tommy's Mexican Restaurant
    By Greg Hugunin
    Published: January 5, 2000

    According to one legend currently circulating at Tommy's Mexican Restaurant, it all began as follows: Many centuries ago, a storm swept over the plains of western Mexico, and a thin finger of...

  14. Eat

    The Sun Also Rises
    Le Soleil
    By Paul Adams
    Published: January 5, 2000

    Le Soleil has become a Richmond standby. The spot is strategically located at the easternmost end of Clement's mighty chain of Asian restaurant delights, and so probably draws a number of customers...

  15. Film

    The Not-So-Magnificent Anderson
    Magnolia
    By Luke Y. Thompson
    Published: January 5, 2000

    When Paul Thomas Anderson's second feature, Boogie Nights , was released in 1997, critics and film industry types fell over themselves to designate Anderson the next big thing, an auteur in the...

  16. Film

    Gimme a Sarong Any Day
    The Hurricane
    By M.V. Moorhead
    Published: January 5, 2000

    You hope for Dorothy Lamour, reclining against a palm tree in her sarong, when you hear the title The Hurricane . Instead, you get well over two hours of Denzel Washington huddled in a cell. In...

  17. Reel World

    Reel World
    Another Day in Paradise, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Band of Outsiders
    By Michael Fox
    Published: January 5, 2000

    Another Day in Paradise The Pacific Film Archive can be a schlep for San Franciscans, to put it mildly. So one of the most heartening developments for S.F. residents in 1999 was the...

  18. Night&Day;

    Art's Progress
    Burn
    By Todd Dayton
    Published: January 5, 2000

    Subscribing to the theory that the means are equally as important as the ends when it comes to the artistic process, Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts' AIRspace (Artist in Residence)...

  19. Night&Day;

    Return of the Indie
    S.F. IndieFest
    By Gary Morris
    Published: January 5, 2000

    "Indie" has become one of the more nebulous terms in the cultural lexicon -- how independent is a movie released by a subsidiary of Disney? Fortunately, there's still plenty of authentic...

  20. Stage

    Theater of the Inevitable
    Beach Blanket Babylon, Shear Madness, Tony n' Tina's Wedding
    By Joe Mader
    Published: January 5, 2000

    Beach Blanket Babylon Sooner or later, you're obliged to go: Your maiden aunt, your widowed grandmother, your Uncle Erwin and Aunt Wilhelmina from the Midwest, or some other such person is...

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