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Mom & Pop Crackdown

A city task force is aggressively suing business owners, some of whom are facilitating crime in their neighborhoods. And some of whom are just making donuts.

By Bernice Yeung

Published: March 29, 2000

A fault line runs somewhere through the intersection of Mission and 20th streets, an imaginary border separating two of the city's more notorious street gangs. During a gang initiation a few months...

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

Sticks and Stones; or, A Rare Moment of Lucidity

As told to Laurel Wellman

Published: March 29, 2000

Sticks and Stones; or, A Rare Moment of Lucidity Dog Bites' dad, who spends a certain amount of time composing extremely cutting letters to the editor (not, fortunately, of this publication, or...

Night Crawler

Night Crawler

On the Buss

By Silke Tudor

Published: March 29, 2000

On the Buss Twining through a riddle of small alleyways South of Market, we follow two cars that are similarly searching, curling back and forth around three short dark city blocks, struggling...

South to the Future

South to the Future

What's Red and White and Black all over: A leftist weekly insults a liberal black politician

By South to the Future

Published: March 29, 2000

March 29, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO -- A local alternative weekly is in hot water with one of San Francisco's most famous residents. Celebrated actor Danny Glover has publicly denounced the San...

Bay View

A Republican by Any Other Name

GOP candidate sniffs out chances in district elections

By Peter Byrne

Published: March 29, 2000

n a muggy Saturday afternoon in February, Rose Chung kicked off her candidacy for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. In November's general election, the 41-year-old former beauty queen will be...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Letters from March 29, 2000

Published: March 29, 2000

Snuff Porn Some observations I have after reading both the Weekly and the Guardian (March 15 issues): Your cover story on Falun Gong is very strange. The headlines infer that Falun Gong is...

Music

Space Craft

Happy hour stars and alien boosters in San Francisco, Jondi & Spesh are anxious about the techno stardom Britain wants to give them

By Susan Derby

Published: March 29, 2000

"We're not famous-famous," says Stephen Kay, aka Spesh, of Bay Area dance music production team Jondi and Spesh. DJs and possibly another 100 non-DJ techno specialists are familiar with them, the...

Music

Breaking the Sound Barrier

Dubphonik's genre-stretching ideology has made it ground zero for new ideas in jungle, hip hop, and reggae

By Darren Keast

Published: March 29, 2000

The job of the promoter in a city with as many entrenched music scenes as San Francisco can be tricky. The two main objectives of the party presenter -- to innovate and to satisfy -- often seem...

Riff Raff

Riff Raff

In the Ballpark

By Mark Athitakis

Published: March 29, 2000

In the Ballpark Of all the pleasant surprises that attended Yo La Tengo's recent four-show stint at the Great American Music Hall, one of the most pleasant was seeing songstress Barbara...

Record

Crooked Fingers

Crooked Fingers

By Denise Sullivan

Published: March 29, 2000

Crooked Fingers Crooked Fingers (Warm) Neil Young dedicated Tonight's the Night to friends who lost their ways and lives to drugs. Likewise, Crooked Fingers takes on the scourge of...

Record

Various Artists

Machine Soul: An Odyssey into Electronic Dance Music, Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music

By Mark Athitakis

Published: March 29, 2000

Various Artists Machine Soul: An Odyssey into Electronic Dance Music (Rhino) Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music (Ellipsis Arts) The early negative reviews of Rhino's...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

"Alloy Orchestra," "Bardot a Go-Go"

By Silke Tudor

Published: March 29, 2000

"There can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator" is the tag line for Metropolis , Fritz Lang's fantastical look at a future in which the...

Hear This

Hear This

Gianni Gebbia

By Sam Prestianni

Published: March 29, 2000

Gianni Gebbia Sicilian saxophonist Gianni Gebbia is something of a pariah among international jazz hipsters. A consummately lyrical player dedicated to experimental investigation, his signature...

Eat

Fanning the Flames

By Greg Hugunin

Published: March 29, 2000

One night I had a few too many cocktails and told my girlfriend I loved her. This was, as she pointed out, a ploy to get out of driving her home ("Stay with me tonight... I love you!"), but still,...

Eat

Everything Old Is Old Again

By Matthew Stafford

Published: March 29, 2000

We were standing in the foyer of the restaurant waiting for an opportunity to present ourselves to the maitre d' while the addled lady in front of us proceeded with a story she had begun spinning...

Side Dish

Side Dish

Mommy, What's a Harry?; Harry's Spring Fashion Preview, Spills and Thrills

By Harry Coverte

Published: March 29, 2000

Mommy, What's a Harry? Dear Harry, How did you get hired at the Weekly ? Your column is the most vapid waste of space I have seen in either of the weekly rags. Are you a food critic or a...

Film

Empty Head

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: March 29, 2000

Not so long ago, The Skulls would have starred Tom Cruise -- but in which role? He could have been either lead; the one he didn't choose could have landed in the lap of James Spader or Rob...

Film

Pump It Up

By Gregory Weinkauf

Published: March 29, 2000

It's hard to escape the potent magic of pop music. Some consumers never do, hovering forever in thrall to three-minute sermons of neurotic idiocy blasting from the commercially conjoined pulpits of...

Reel World

Reel World

Stand and Deliver, Truth or Dare, On the Beat

By Michael Fox

Published: March 29, 2000

Stand and Deliver "My family pioneered Spanish-language film exhibition in the U.S. three generations ago," says Lawrence Martin, with equal parts pride and bravado. His family owned and operated...

Zoom Lens

Zoom Lens

Noises Off

By Sura Wood

Published: March 29, 2000

Noises Off If you've grown weary of having your senses blasted by special effects and Dolby digital, Alloy Orchestra offers a refresher course in the purity of sound and image. In the last...