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The Land of Blood & Money

Foreign workers coming into the country for high-paying tech jobs often bring wives with them. When these women are beaten and abused, they have nowhere to run.

By Bernice Yeung

Published: May 3, 2000

Pomeli finally ran away from her husband on October 7, 1997. "The night I left him, it was the worst beating," she recalls, her voice unwavering. "He tried to choke me, my face was bloated, I had...

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

Ken, Ken, Ken; Hey Hey! Ho Ho! Boring Clothes Have Got to Go!; This Week in Lavish Dot-Com Parties

As told to Laurel Wellman

Published: May 3, 2000

Ken, Ken, Ken Sometimes readers write to us to complain that we haven't been mocking some local media figure as frequently as they would like. Look , we always want to answer, if we keep doing...

South to the Future

South to the Future

Walking Tour of Mission Lofts Turns Housing Crisis Into History

By South to the Future

Published: May 3, 2000

May 3, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO -- The sun is just starting to peek through the morning fog when the first group of tourists arrives at the designated meeting place at Bryant and Mariposa streets in...

Bay View

Baby With the Bath Water

Legalizing baby dumping might feel good, but is it smart?

By Peter Byrne

Published: May 3, 2000

On a beautiful spring day in April, Debi Faris wept in public as she described her life work: burying dead babies. The mother of three from Southern California was testifying before a state...

Bay View

O'er the Castro

The gay Betsy Ross adds fuchsia and turquoise to his rainbow flag

By Joel P. Engardio

Published: May 3, 2000

When Gilbert Baker set out to create the first gay pride flag in 1978, his vision of the rainbow was a little different than what everyone else sees in the sky. In addition to the seven hues in the...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Published May 3, 2000

Published: May 3, 2000

We Ignored the Drummer? Well Damn Us All to Hell. I was very disappointed to read Silke Tudor's review of Persephone's Bees (The House of Tudor, April 26), which negligently and rudely excludes...

Music

Electrotherapy

Bay Area electronic musicians have finally decided to hold a festival for their work. Forget the dancing shoes.

By Mike Rowell

Published: May 3, 2000

Before "electronica" there was "electronic," and the Bay Area has been a hotbed of experimental electronic music for decades. There's arguably the greatest concentration of electronic sound...

Music

Dead Set on Deconstruction

On what may or may not be its farewell tour, Negativland makes the most of an age of uncertainty

By Brian Baker

Published: May 3, 2000

It's been seven years since Negativland ventured out to the heartland to relate its strange tales and stranger execution on the stages of America. Don Joyce, one of the band's human interfaces, can...

Riff Raff

Riff Raff

Deep Compilation

By Mark Athitakis

Published: May 3, 2000

What trial-size shampoo bottles are to the weary business traveler, compilation albums are to the music fan -- efficient samplers, used on the fly and practically disposable. At least, that's how...

Music

Chucho Valdes

Live at the Village Vanguard

By Ezra Gale

Published: May 3, 2000

Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes hasn't exactly wanted for publicity in the last few years. A founding member of the Latin jazz supergroup Irakere, Valdes has in recent years signed to Blue Note...

Music

Neil Young

Silver and Gold

By Denise Sullivan

Published: May 3, 2000

What distinguishes Silver and Gold from among the 30 or so other studio albums in Neil Young's massive catalog is that it belongs in the handful that tills the ground known in Young parlance as...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

The Gory Wake; Muzsikás; Bitch Fest; Big Love; James Intveld

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 3, 2000

No more wuggly umps, gashlycrumb tinies, or hapless children torn limb from limb. With the passing of Edward Gorey, the world has lost one of its most elegant humorists and distinctive artists --...

Hear This

Hear This

Peter Kowald Festival: A Future Retrospective

By Sam Prestianni

Published: May 3, 2000

As producer of the Peter Kowald Festival, local improviser Damon Smith intends to pay tribute to the renowned German contrabassist who changed his life. After hearing Kowald's ferocious free jazz...

Eat

Club Car

Gold Coast

By Matthew Stafford

Published: May 3, 2000

Some anonymous sage once noted that San Francisco, like any great city, isn't a homogenous municipality at all: It's a collection of small towns, each with an ambience and sociocultural attitude...

Eat

Eastern Star

Paul K.

By Paul Adams

Published: May 3, 2000

The biggest temptation for a new establishment in Hayes Valley is to take the neighborhood's prevailing aesthetic -- cute, homespun urban chic -- and go overboard with it. Paul K., the new...

Side Dish

Side Dish

Eating Winona; Doon Town; Pictionary; Fore; Star-ing

By Harry Coverte

Published: May 3, 2000

Eating Winona It was a gathering of great minds and still greater dirty jokes at the Regency Building last week. The occasion? The Peter J. Owens Gala of the San Francisco International Film...

Social Grace

Social Grace

Mr. Evil; Forking Pizza; Old-fashioned Gentleman

By Social Grace

Published: May 3, 2000

Dear Social Grace, When in a social situation with a group of people who are not intimate friends, what is the best way for a man to excuse himself to go to the bathroom? "I need to go to the...

Film

Golden Graham

Heather Graham stars in Committed

By Luke Y. Thompson

Published: May 3, 2000

Quick: Who was the most unbelievable movie character to appear on screen in recent memory? Jar Jar Binks? Mini-Me? South Park 's Saddam Hussein? All may be supplanted by Joline (Heather Graham),...

Film

Chicken Caesar

Russell Crowe stars in Gladiator

By Gregory Weinkauf

Published: May 3, 2000

There is a killing late in Gladiator , Ridley Scott's new heroic epic, and it is one of those wonderfully cathartic extinguishings that make a wide-eyed audience rise and cheer. After several...

Reel World

Reel World

Flaming Creatures; Chungking Express; D.O.A.

By Michael Fox

Published: May 3, 2000

Flaming Creatures Jon Moritsugu called with the welcome news that he's in production on his latest lurid low-budget feature. "It's an ensemble piece about the difficulty of creating art in this...