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Public Enema No. 2

Bondage, fellatio, feces-swapping, and intimate cleansing at the S.F. Art Institute

By Matt Smith

Published: February 23, 2000

Jonathan Yegge, a 24-year-old scholar at the San Francisco Art Institute, is angry, anxious, resentful. "If I have to not have sex on campus anymore, they'd better put that in the student...

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

Muni's source for customer service expertise: Nordstrom

As told to Laurel Wellman

Published: February 23, 2000

Will That Be on Your Nordstrom Card Today? Sex in bus shelters is, as we all know, not exactly the very worst of Muni's problems. Nevertheless, we have been assured that it actually does happen....

South to the Future

South to the Future

New Way to Ease New Economy's Inflation Threat: Release Nonviolent Inmates

By South to the Future

Published: February 23, 2000

February 23, 2000 WASHINGTON -- When U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan hinted last week that he would continue to boost interest rates to reign in record consumer spending and the...

Postscript

How I Learned to Love Hate Radio

KSFO Radio's anti-fans

By Samantha Spivack

Published: February 23, 2000

"Would you please TELL BARBARA that she can thank HER HERO, RONALD REAGAN, for the illegal drug trade?" It's the car-phone guy in Santa Rosa. He hates the radio station. He hates Barbara Simpson....

Letters

Letters

Welcome to Newark, Calif.; Apparently, Ali, We Didn't Hit You Hard Enough; Natural Selection; Invasion of the Dot-Com Parasites; They Aren't All Millionaires; So, You Think We Should Start Paying Silke?; Cursing Those Who Curse the Morg

Published: February 23, 2000

Welcome to Newark, Calif. Finally, someone's had the courage to call S.F. economics on its own inconsistency; the insight to equate leftism of the stripe practiced here with conservatism; and the...

Bay View

Off the Books

A school district administrator's extracurricular foreign recruiting prompts investigations in two countries

By Lisa Dostrovo

Published: February 23, 2000

A school district administrator's extracurricular foreign recruiting prompts investigations in two countries On a March day in 1998, scores of hopeful Filipino teachers filled a meeting room of...

Music

Return of the Living Dead

The noisemongers in East Bay's Dead & Gone revel in their split personalities

By Dave Clifford

Published: February 23, 2000

The Bay Area bludgeoning post-hardcore group Dead & Gone is -- ironically -- back from the dead. After the band's premature breakup in 1997, three members of the quartet -- bassist Brian...

Music

Perfectly Weird

Happily, Zmrzlina's members aren't sure what their own music sounds like

By David Cook

Published: February 23, 2000

At a pair of shows the last weekend in January, local quintet Zmrzlina demonstrated an unusual -- some might say downright weird -- versatility that few bands can convincingly pull off. At a...

Music

What Ails Him? online exclusive

The Cure's Robert Smith reveals the man behind the makeup

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: February 23, 2000

It would be so easy to dismiss The Cure as a band that has outlived its usefulness, that exists long beyond its expiration date. Its best, or at least best-known, moments live in another time, one...

Riff Raff

Riff Raff

The Gavin Seminar

By Mark Athitakis

Published: February 23, 2000

Fear and Loathing in Ballroom A "Are any of those Gavin chumps around tonight?" asked National Joy Band guitarist John Bello from the Paradise Lounge stage, as the fog machine started breathing...

Record

Three Day Stubble

The Figshta Diaries!

By Mike Rowell

Published: February 23, 2000

Three Day Stubble The Figshta Diaries! (Nerd Rock Music) Rubbing and wiggling into its third decade of existence, Three Day Stubble -- San Francisco's foremost proponent of "the...

Record

Nels Cline/Gregg Bendian

Interstellar Space Revisited: The Music of John Coltrane

By Sam Prestianni

Published: February 23, 2000

Nels Cline/Gregg Bendian Interstellar Space Revisited: The Music of John Coltrane (Atavistic) Jazz artists of every stripe in recent years have tried to tackle the colossal musical...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

American Heartbreak, Joe Buck, Polkacide,

By Silke Tudor

Published: February 23, 2000

Drawing on '70s-style virility and Detroit grit, American Heartbreak performs fast-paced no-nonsense rock 'n' roll that rails against, rather than revels in, juvenile stupidity -- suicide,...

Hear This

Hear This

Anne-Sophie Mutter

By Stacey Kors

Published: February 23, 2000

Anne-Sophie Mutter When German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter burst onto the classical scene in the late 1980s, she was also bursting out of her dress -- sporting sexy strapless numbers onstage...

Eat

Mixed Greens

By Matthew Stafford

Published: February 23, 2000

You don't usually see come-ons as sleek and downtown as Nasturtium when you're out in the Richmond trolling for draft Guinness and piroshki. After all, its setting is a neighborhood of one-family...

Eat

Happy B-Day to Me

By Greg Hugunin

Published: February 23, 2000

I've never much been one for celebrating birthdays, particularly those that are my own. It's not like I have anything against such occasions -- I mean, when someone tells me it's his or her...

Side Dish

Side Dish

Fuzion, To All My Friends, Hold the Croutons, Harry's Helpful Hints (Revisited), Buzz of the Week

By Harry Coverte

Published: February 23, 2000

Fuzion Marc Valiani, Jody Denton's old partner at LuLu, and Gary Kurtz -- of Moose's and the Washbag -- are hoping to get their new North Beach spot opened by the end of March. The ill-fated...

The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Colman Domingo

By Barry Levine

Published: February 23, 2000

Damn, I wanna be famous. I mean, don't you? Of course, not for this dinner thing. No, that would be kind of, well, embarrassing. But more like Adam Duritz says, "I want to be Bob Dylan." Yeah!...

Film

Master of the Games

By Bill Gallo

Published: February 23, 2000

Director John Frankenheimer has been putting bad guys on the street since Luca Brazzi slept with a teddy bear, and he shows no sign of letting up at age 70. In Reindeer Games , a relentless (and...

Film

Wonder Bread

By Gregory Weinkauf

Published: February 23, 2000

Step right up, youth of the world, and receive the boomer inoculation that is Wonder Boys , the first feature from director Curtis Hanson since his much-lauded adaptation of James Ellroy's L.A....