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  1. Feature

    Blind Faith
    A new treatment for victims of severe emotional trauma involving rhythmic eye movements has therapists claiming almost miraculous results. Psychological researchers say the eyes just don't have it.
    Published: January 19, 2000

    The two women on the television screen sit facing each other in padded gray chairs. Surrounded by a mottled-blue studio backdrop, the patient -- a heavyset, masculine woman identified only as...

  2. Dog Bites

    Dog Bites
    Headed for the Cheatin' Side of Town, Making Books, Estimated Time to IKEA: 84 Days!
    Published: January 19, 2000

    Headed for the Cheatin' Side of Town Normally, Dog Bites never calls a man. Quite frankly, why should we? But we made an exception for Silicon Satan, since -- as inexplicable as this is --...

  3. South to the Future

    South to the Future
    You've Got Blackmail: What insiders wouldn't say about last week's media mega-merger
    Published: January 19, 2000

    January 19, 2000 WASHINGTON -- While most newspapers and television news programs couldn't say enough nice things about the AOL-Time Warner merger, key players are expressing concerns -- off...

  4. Night Crawler

    Night Crawler
    Puppet Regimes
    Published: January 19, 2000

    Puppet Regimes Under a pale sky flocked by billowy clouds tinged with deus ex machina sunlight, and nestled in the emerald toes of a small leafy hilltop, is the home of a plum-colored...

  5. Bay View

    Tapped Out
    There're not enough buglers and honor guards to keep pace with dying vets
    Published: January 19, 2000

    Even if you've never witnessed the final military honors afforded a soldier, chances are, thanks to Hollywood, the scene is familiar: the clear, mournful sound of a lone bugle playing "Taps."...

  6. Bay View

    Freedom for a Transsexual
    A refugee from torture is finally let out of jail
    Published: January 19, 2000

    Amanda Duvalle has spent the past month mostly confined to her single room at the drab Mission Hotel, recuperating from surgery to remove a blood clot in her right leg. She can't get around well or...

  7. Music

    Out of the Country
    Richard Buckner gave up on major labels and "y'allternative," but not the art of storytelling
    Published: January 19, 2000

    Richard Buckner signed to a major label and all he got was a stupid eight-track recording console. It wasn't surprising when word came out last spring that Buckner and his record company, MCA,...

  8. Music

    Smells Like Leif Garrett
    The Melvins are (still) willing to provoke and confuse
    Published: January 19, 2000

    The Melvins, legendary innovators of brutal intelli-sludge heavy rock, like to challenge their audience as much as their drum heads and amplifier outputs. As vocalist and guitarist Buzz Osborne...

  9. Riff Raff

    Riff Raff
    Jim Ryan's experimental jazz and the Boom Boom Room mural controversy part II
    Published: January 19, 2000

    New Music, Same Old Story On May 15, 1997, out-there experimental saxophonist John Zorn was in the middle of a set at New York City jazz spot the Knitting Factory when he abruptly stopped. He...

  10. Record

    Various Artists
    Music From the Motion Picture Magnolia
    Published: January 19, 2000

    Various Artists Music From the Motion Picture Magnolia (Reprise) The soundtrack to Magnolia is essentially the long-awaited new album by diva of the underdogs Aimee Mann; nine of the...

  11. Record

    Various Artists
    Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture The Hurricane
    Published: January 19, 2000

    Various Artists Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture The Hurricane (MCA) In 1975, writer Nelson Algren sold off the contents of his Chicago apartment. The novelist -- who...

  12. Record

    The Jesus Lizard
    Bang
    Published: January 19, 2000

    The Jesus Lizard Bang (Touch and Go) It's a familiar story: Hard-working indie band gradually scrabbles its way to infamy and success, lands a major label deal, gets dropped two discs...

  13. House of Tudor

    House Of Tudor
    Teenage Frames, Neomythic, Austin Lounge Lizards, Alan Kaufman, Lowbrow
    Published: January 19, 2000

    They look harmless enough -- all wholesome haircuts, narrow hips, smooth chins, and gangly Midwestern charm -- but Chicago's Teenage Frames have ripped more than one petulant rock 'n' roll...

  14. Hear This

    Hear This
    Maybe Monday
    Published: January 19, 2000

    Maybe Monday For all the racket conjured up at times on its debut Saturn's Finger , Maybe Monday's Fred Frith (guitar), Miya Masaoka (koto, electronics), and Larry Ochs (tenor and sopranino sax)...

  15. Eat

    Hot Hits of the 1990s
    42 Degrees
    Published: January 19, 2000

    In all the fuss over the end of the century (century, hell! millennium ), the '90s have gone largely unanalyzed. This seems unfair, given the sensational nature of the past 10 years: not just O.J....

  16. Eat

    Pho Star
    Vi's Vietnamese Cuisine
    Published: January 19, 2000

    The rumor that members of the kitchen staff from Chez Panisse eat at Vi's in their off hours remains, alas, just a rumor. Calls to Chez Panisse and its employees were answered with demurrals, and...

  17. Side Dish

    Side Dish
    Maharani, Delfina, Belon, and Ben Ulrich
    Published: January 19, 2000

    Dal, Naan, and Thee With all the millions of ducats investors are sinking into new restaurant projects and remodels, I wanted to draw your attention to one of my old favorites for over-the-top...

  18. Film

    Sob Story
    Angela's Ashes
    Published: January 19, 2000

    Boohoo! Frank McCourt had a miserable childhood! Honestly, who can say his childhood wasn't impoverished in some way ... or in many ways? That Mr. McCourt survived and eventually published his...

  19. Reel World

    Reel World
    Ace in the Hole and On the Town
    Published: January 19, 2000

    Ace in the Hole The Chronicle 's long-standing -- though selectively observed -- policy is to review every film that opens for a week or longer. In recent years, however, as a new wave of...

  20. Night&Day;

    Animal Magnetism
    Seal Lion 10th Anniversary
    Published: January 19, 2000

    Ten years ago, San Francisco tour books were apparently translated at last into one of the least-known languages of the animal kingdom. Despite their inability to hit the Union Square shops, or...

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