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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.
By Dara Colwell
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...
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Dog Bites
Dog Bites
Headed for the Cheatin' Side of Town, Making Books, Estimated Time to IKEA: 84 Days!
As told to Laurel Wellman
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 --...
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South to the Future
South to the Future
You've Got Blackmail: What insiders wouldn't say about last week's media mega-merger
By South to the Future
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...
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Night Crawler
Night Crawler
Puppet Regimes
By Silke Tudor
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...
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Bay View
Tapped Out
There're not enough buglers and honor guards to keep pace with dying vets
By Lisa Davis
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."...
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Bay View
Freedom for a Transsexual
A refugee from torture is finally let out of jail
By Joel P. Engardio
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...
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Music
Out of the Country
Richard Buckner gave up on major labels and "y'allternative," but not the art of storytelling
By Mark Athitakis
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,...
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Music
Smells Like Leif Garrett
The Melvins are (still) willing to provoke and confuse
By Dave Clifford
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...
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Riff Raff
Riff Raff
Jim Ryan's experimental jazz and the Boom Boom Room mural controversy part II
By Mark Athitakis
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...
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Record
Various Artists
Music From the Motion Picture Magnolia
By Denise Sullivan
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...
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Record
Various Artists
Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture The Hurricane
By Mark Athitakis
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...
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Record
The Jesus Lizard
Bang
By Mike Rowell
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...
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House of Tudor
House Of Tudor
Teenage Frames, Neomythic, Austin Lounge Lizards, Alan Kaufman, Lowbrow
By Silke Tudor
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...
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Hear This
Hear This
Maybe Monday
By Sam Prestianni
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)...
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Eat
Hot Hits of the 1990s
42 Degrees
By Matthew Stafford
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....
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Eat
Pho Star
Vi's Vietnamese Cuisine
By Paul Adams
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...
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Side Dish
Side Dish
Maharani, Delfina, Belon, and Ben Ulrich
By Harry Coverte
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...
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Film
Sob Story
Angela's Ashes
By Gregory Weinkauf
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...
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Reel World
Reel World
Ace in the Hole and On the Town
By Michael Fox
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...
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Night&Day;
Animal Magnetism
Seal Lion 10th Anniversary
By Todd Dayton
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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