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Letters to the Editor

Got It; Got It; Didn't Get It; Female Cracker Morons Who Maim; Ounce of Prevention; Our Apologies, John; The Oddest Clarification We've Published This Year

Published: May 17, 2000

Got It As a recent victim of domestic violence, I was distressed to read in your May 3 edition ("The Land of Blood and Money") about the plight of women here on H-4 visas with battering H-1B...

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

Thank You ... Thank You Very Much; Yet More Gratitude; Love Your Server. Is It Gucci?; Greek Grammar Debate Rages On

As told to Laurel Wellman

Published: May 17, 2000

Thank You ... Thank You Very Much It is doubtless a horrible comment on our personality that when, in 11th grade, our best friend wanted to hang out and discuss the details of her perfect...

Night Crawler

Night Crawler

The Art of Surfing

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 17, 2000

The Art of Surfing The surf culture -- once a fringe domain of hardy, freewheeling spirits who aspired only to ride the perfect wave -- has, over the last 40 years, permeated mainstream society...

Bay View

Babes in Toyland

Two hackers piss off Mattel and spawn an Internet legal imbroglio

By Bernice Yeung

Published: May 17, 2000

Early this year, a self-taught software programmer in Sweden named Eddy Jansson e-mailed a computer science grad student in Canada named Matthew Skala. Jansson suggested that the two men, who ran...

Bay View

Record Caper

Long-missing Alcatraz files make their way back to the Bay Area

By Lisa Davis

Published: May 17, 2000

Al Capone has returned to the Bay Area. That's to say, an approximately 8-inch thick stack of files on Alcatraz prisoner No. 85, Alfonse Capone, long sought after by historians and authors, has...

Music

Black Rage

The Coup just may be the greatest, angriest, most militant hip hop act around. So what's up with the Puff Daddy tour?

By Adam Bregman

Published: May 17, 2000

The Coup -- probably the most radical hip hop group that's ever existed -- has dropped three brilliant albums on the world during the last 10 years. Public Enemy, the only other hip hop act that is...

Music

Fun, Fun, Fun

As they prepare for their next album and U.S. tour, the Donnas prove they may be growing up but they remain the perfect antidote to Britney and Christina

By Katherine Turman

Published: May 17, 2000

Donna C. exudes the breathless giddiness of an MTV Total Request Live viewer; her "Ohmigawds" are as genuine as any Backstreet Boys-loving pubescent, her giggles approaching the near-hysterical...

Riff Raff

Riff Raff

The Wedding Present; Bands Wanted(Talent Helpful, But Not Required); Oops

By Mark Athitakis

Published: May 17, 2000

The Wedding Present Weddings are generally boring. Or, rather, they're boring to write about -- how the New York Times consistently stomachs scribbling about the pâté available at...

Music

Various Artists

Live From the Afterworld --Recordings at the Afterworld Lounge 1991-1993
(Electro Motive Records/ Qualipy)
Clit Stop Live CD Sampler
(Swezlex Recordings)

By Mike Rowell

Published: May 17, 2000

The Bay Area has seen many fringe music venues come and go in the last decade, the Afterworld Lounge being one of several establishments that provided an outlet for more adventurous performers...

Music

Suzzy Roche

Songs From an Unmarried Housewife and Mother, Greenwich Village, USA
(Red House)

By Denise Sullivan

Published: May 17, 2000

"Unmarried housewife and mother" is a job description that probably rates a couple of points higher than "folk singer" in the current job market, and Suzzy Roche is all three, which makes her...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

Rocky Horror Picture Show; Unauthorized Fab Mab Reunion Show; Ideas in Animation; Slow Poisoners

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 17, 2000

Been wanting a little Rocky Horror Picture Show fix, but feel too old to sit in a movie theater filled with pimple-faced middle school kids? How 'bout a live re-enactment of the cult classic...

Hear This

Hear This

Rovaté III with Gerry Hemingway

By David Cook

Published: May 17, 2000

Rovaté III with Gerry Hemingway Gerry Hemingway first came to the attention of creative improv fans as a member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet on his 1985 tour, and he's played off and on...

Eat

En Español

B44

By Matthew Stafford

Published: May 17, 2000

Paris, London, and Rome are cities with monochromatic aesthetics; solid, venerable, and with a millennium or three of accrued grit and grandeur to maintain their status quos. Paris is particularly...

Eat

Rough Magic

Bocce Cafe

By Greg Hugunin

Published: May 17, 2000

Bocce Cafe isn't the best Italian restaurant in North Beach, nor is it the second best, the third, or even the fourth. It isn't the most storied eatery, although it does have a history, having...

Side Dish

Side Dish

Should I Stay or Should I Go?; A French Toast; Steep Climb; Chain, Chain, Chain

By Harry Coverte

Published: May 17, 2000

Should I Stay or Should I Go? There was a collective groan of dismay when opening manager and lady-about-town Kimberly Bakker announced that she was leaving Le Colonial for pursuits in the Big...

Social Grace

Social Grace

Old-Fashioned Gentleman Revisited; Can I Eat Meat with Vegans Present?; Recycling Etiquette

By Social Grace

Published: May 17, 2000

Dear Social Grace, Your reply to "Old-fashioned Gentleman" (May 3) was very astute. ["Gentleman" had expressed dismay that a compliment on a female co-worker's appearance was met with...

Film

By His Own Creed

Ethan Hawke stars in Hamlet

By Andy Klein

Published: May 17, 2000

Holy moly! Yet another version of Hamlet ? Will they never stop? Ah well, at least Michael Almereyda's new adaptation is one of those really different takes on the venerable play. While the...

Film

Deranged in the Mesozoic

Disney's Computer-Animated Feature Dinosaur

By M.V. Moorhead

Published: May 17, 2000

Dinosaurs used to be cool. In 1969, if you had asked me what was the best movie ever made, the answer would likely have been The Valley of Gwangi , in which a group of cowboys in the Mexican...

Reel World

Reel World

The Blood Oranges; The Public Eye

By Michael Fox

Published: May 17, 2000

The Blood Oranges San Francisco native Philip Haas thrived in the '80s making mesmerizing documentaries about artists from Aboriginal ground painters to David Hockney before turning his hand in...

Night&Day;

All Aboard!

Electric train lovers, young and old, unite on Junior Engineering Day

By Max Millard

Published: May 17, 2000

If there's a single toy that appeals equally to both children and adults, it's the electric train. Infants are fascinated by their first glimpse of tracks circling the Christmas tree, and older...