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Bitter Medicine

How Naiveté, greed, and the new new thing brought Brown & Toland, San Francisco's largest doctors' group, to the verge of bankruptcy

By Peter Byrne

Published: May 10, 2000

As a boy living behind the Iron Curtain, Michael E. Abel obsessively read and reread The Stars of Eger , a novel about courageous Hungarians fighting off a Turkish invasion in the year 1552. Off...

Mecklin

Mecklin

Cleaning Out the Swamp

By John Mecklin

Published: May 10, 2000

Because my wife is from New Orleans, she and I occasionally compare politics, as practiced there and here. I think a bit of cross-cultural comparison could be helpful right now, because a few of...

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

Parody This!; Cranky Dog Bites! Cranky!; Chicken Soup for the Stomach

As told to Laurel Wellman

Published: May 10, 2000

Parody This! Slumped at our desk and coughing fitfully, we were pleased to get a call from Correspondent Jim Cecil, who had just come into possession of a copy of SF Weakly -- a parody of...

Night Crawler

Night Crawler

The Voice of Sarah

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 10, 2000

It begins with the penis bone of a raccoon, a slender finger of calcified tissue that dangles "like a halo" in the opening pages of Sarah , the stunning debut novel of Tenderloin dweller J.T....

Postscript

Postscript

Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: May 10, 2000

Two weeks ago, the World Bank dismissed Joseph Stiglitz while he was out of the country. If you don't know why that matters, you haven't been paying attention. Stiglitz wrote a damning essay about...

Matt Smith

Cracker Morons Who Maim

Bicyclists vs. motorist cracker morons and their inbred Sacramento siblings

By Matt Smith

Published: May 10, 2000

Cracker Morons Who Maim It seems like at least once a month I'll find myself in a streetside shouting match with some cracker moron who's abuzz with road rage. I'll be rolling along in the...

Bay View

Greasing the Rails

Willie Brown's buddies rescue a disgraced city contractor

By Matt Isaacs

Published: May 10, 2000

The grand opening of Muni's F line extension to Fisherman's Wharf in March marked one step in the rebirth of the city's eastern waterfront. It was also a rebirth of sorts for Stacy & Witbeck, the...

South to the Future

Less Than Seven Zeroes

The dot-com party circuit's dirty little secret

By South to the Future

Published: May 10, 2000

May 10, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO -- "Look at that," announces veteran dot-com partygoer Tiffany Wren, "the CFO just puked all over the ice sculpture." Elsewhere a loud pop precedes a burst of mock...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

You Mean the Ken Garcia?; Rotten Apples; Saxually Speaking, Size Doesn't Matter; Dead on Revival; We're Not Whiners!; Now You Know

Published: May 10, 2000

You Mean the Ken Garcia? Dog Bites is usually the first thing I read when picking up an SF Weekly . Why? Because (a) it's hilarious, (b) you always have just the right word or "turn of phrase"...

Music

Sonic Revival

To save a floundering local avant-jazz scene, the Alliance of Emerging Creative Artists is bringing back the old-fashioned school of mentoring

By Sam Prestianni

Published: May 10, 2000

Support for Bay Area creative music has reached a low point. Only three small venues currently feature adventurous jazz, improv, or experimental concerts on a quasi-regular schedule: Luggage Store...

Music

Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em

Zakir Hussain is one of the country's finest tabla musicians, but can Indian percussion music play in Peoria? It just did.

By Ezra Gale

Published: May 10, 2000

"Percussion is one aspect of musical culture that needs to be highlighted," insists Marin-based Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain. He's speaking on the phone from his Peoria, Ill., hotel room, only...

Riff Raff

Riff Raff

Free Lars Ulrich!; New Groove; Sound Off

By Mark Athitakis

Published: May 10, 2000

Free Lars Ulrich! Metallica has done some exceedingly silly things in its time -- we're still trying to figure out that whole San Francisco Symphony thing the band perpetrated last year. In...

Music

The Apples in Stereo

Discovery of the World Inside the Moone
(SpinArt)

By Bernice Yeung

Published: May 10, 2000

Georgia's Elephant 6 Recording Company, a collective of musicians with the same penchant for lo-fi indie rock, has spawned an imaginative genre of pop music through a confusing system of mixing and...

Music

Two Ton Boa

Two Ton Boa
(Kill Rock Stars)

By Dave Clifford

Published: May 10, 2000

Sharing a childlike fascination with dead things and arcane lore, Two Ton Boa sounds perfectly suited to the films of Tim Burton. Like the famed director of such modern fairy tales as Edward...

Music

Sleater-Kinney

All Hands on the Bad One
(Kill Rock Stars)

By Todd Dayton

Published: May 10, 2000

Next stop Woodstock Rockfest 2000, right grrrls? Hardly. If the widespread hubbub over last year's The Hot Rock left many wondering if the Portland-Olympia trio would soon outgrow its indie...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

eX-Girl; Blues Fuse; Grrlyshow

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 10, 2000

Some of the greatest songs on eX - Girl 's 1997 loony-pop masterpiece Kero! Kero! Kero! found the Japanese sweet-tart trio constructing art-punk opuses with little more than startling harmonies...

Hear This

Hear This

Mad Professor

By Todd Dayton

Published: May 10, 2000

If the names King Tubby and Lee "Scratch" Perry are synonymous with the emergence of dub in Jamaica, it's only natural that Scratch protégé Mad Professor (born Neil Fraser) has been a...

Eat

East Is East

Miss Saigon

By Matthew Stafford

Published: May 10, 2000

When I was your basic bomb-beshadowed neurotic kid growing up in the stressful '60s, I couldn't decide which would be worse: being a girl and having babies, or being a guy and heading for Vietnam....

Eat

Out on Bail

Gin Joint

By Greg Hugunin

Published: May 10, 2000

Recently, I spent a week traveling the back roads of rural Nevada, perhaps the 10th time I've done this -- a very long story -- so I'll just touch on the wild mustangs and how you've never...

Side Dish

Side Dish

Bauerware; Profit Margins; Bing, Bing, Bing

By Harry Coverte

Published: May 10, 2000

Bauerware A few weeks ago, Harry squeezed off a roll of film at Michael Bauer's book signing up in Sonoma. The pictures of the mysterious critic turned out just fine -- in fact, there were a...