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Coulda Been a Contender

Scrounging for cash in the strangest places, the creators of the karate-themed Adventures With Kanga Roddy children's TV series infuriate investors

By Joel P. Engardio

Published: May 31, 2000

The Venetian blinds are tightly closed in Anthony Chan's corner office, blocking out the afternoon sun and views of the yellow and purple petunias that decorate a nicely manicured lawn outside. The...

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

Ken! Again!; Checkbook Journalism

As told to Laurel Wellman

Published: May 31, 2000

Ken! Again! Just as Rob Brezsny foretold, the depression has set in. We're explaining it away as the inevitable letdown after being named Best Newspaper Column in the Best of San Francisco...

Night Crawler

Night Crawler

Long Live Sport

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 31, 2000

It can still happen: You're strolling around the city on a pleasant spring afternoon, not expecting anything out of the ordinary, proffering cursory salutations to dot-commers walking their dogs...

Postscript

Postscript

From Russia With Sleaze

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: May 31, 2000

Here's a story that has more baroque Russian names and funny twists than a Dostoevski novel, so read carefully: Sam Budovsky and Luba Troyanovsky are an unmarried couple who live in a...

Bay View

Hot and Wired

It was inevitable -- an Internet lounge just for porn

By Joel P. Engardio

Published: May 31, 2000

There is not much strip and very little tease in Justin Damon's live adult theater show. He's pretty much naked before he steps onstage, and the tight Calvin Klein briefs go away seconds after he...

South to the Future

South to the Future

Fox to Air Presidential Pageant 2000

By South to the Future

Published: May 31, 2000

Burbank, Calif. -- The Fox television network has announced it will air a prime-time pageant for would-be presidential candidates on Tuesday, July 4. The live event, which will be broadcast...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Touched by Sarah; Oh, Nick, You Pesky Imp; Who You Calling Chicken, Junior?; Fat and Happy; Purple Monkey Dishwasher

Published: May 31, 2000

Touched by Sarah Your recent review of Sarah by J.T. LeRoy gave me a huge lift to see that a kid that I (and others) left for dead was able to create such a beautiful and moving novel ("The...

Music

The Old Old Thing

Two new collections from Berkeleyites Malvina Reynolds and Harry Smith argue for folk's historical authenticity. Whatever that is.

By Mark Athitakis

Published: May 31, 2000

You'd think there was a law or something. Should you happen to be in charge of the homes section of a daily newspaper, and should you happen to assign a piece about, God help you, stucco, you'll...

Riff Raff

Riff Raff

Flipper's a Cover Band Now, OK?

By Mark Athitakis

Published: May 31, 2000

All reports to the contrary, the recent Dead Kennedys vs. Dead Kennedys lawsuit wasn't about royalties, or even preserving some amorphous concept of punk "integrity." Keeping in mind that the...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

T-Model Ford; Paul Jones; Robert Belfour; Blue Room Boys; Dropkick Murphys

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 31, 2000

Started by young Mississippi blues critic Matthew Johnson, Fat Possum Records was set up as an authentic retort to the slick, white-boy bullshit that has come to dominate blues. Exploring the...

Hear This

Hear This

Phillip Greenlief's
Music for Rilke's Duino Elegies

By Sam Prestianni

Published: May 31, 2000

The great creative artists embrace the totality of existence -- joy and sorrow, passion and powerlessness, life and death. In his masterwork Duino Elegies , celebrated German poet Rainer Maria...

Eat

The Luddite Eats

Paragon

By Matthew Stafford

Published: May 31, 2000

A few years ago, working at one of those high-tech, low-mirth jobs where everyone smokes and drinks to excess to keep themselves from killing the boss and ending up in the slammer, a co-worker...

Side Dish

Side Dish

Color Me Red; No Spitting; Room With a View; Where Are They Now?

By Harry Coverte

Published: May 31, 2000

Color Me Red Harry Denton has all the reason in the world to rub his hands together vigorously. The high-profile raconteur has bounced back from the closing of his namesake restaurant in the...

Social Grace

Social Grace

I Want Chopsticks Too!; Funeral Arrangements; Compliments in the Workplace

By Social Grace

Published: May 31, 2000

Dear Social Grace, When eating in certain Chinese restaurants, I notice that the non-Asian customers (including me) are routinely given forks, though they haven't asked for them. I have...

Film

Horse Sense

Sergei Bodrov's Running Free

By Jean Oppenheimer

Published: May 31, 2000

The moody, feverish images that fill Running Free are so exquisite they almost make up for the film's disastrous auditory misstep: the decision to cast Lukas Haas as the voice of Lucky, the...

Reel World

Reel World

Landscape Suicides; Captives; Naked Killer

By Michael Fox

Published: May 31, 2000

Landscape Suicides The vast open spaces of the West, where the rough terrain has not yet been overtaken by hordes of humans, are beautiful, desolate, and ultimately forbidding. Matthew Barney was...

Night&Day;

Of Heroes and Fools

Joe Goode Performance Group performs at the National Queer Arts Festival

By David Cook

Published: May 31, 2000

Imagine living in an era in which one's association with certain political groups, or even rumors of an association with those groups, was grounds for being thrown in jail, deported, or...

Night&Day;

Hung Jury

"Walker Evans" opens at SFMOMA

By Sura Wood

Published: May 31, 2000

Walker Evans is arguably the greatest photographer America has ever produced. His deceptively simple black-and-white images of poverty, weary Southern sharecroppers, and deserted towns shaped our...

Stage

Stripped Bare

Closer

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: May 31, 2000

Closer is a new bed-hopping play from London. It centers on a stripper with a mysterious scar, and from posters and ads you might get the idea there's nudity -- live nude girls! right there...

Stage

Now Showing!

Don't Make Me Look Too Psychotic & Hidden Parts

By Joe Mader

Published: May 31, 2000

Don't Make Me Look Too Psychotic Bruce Pachtman's often enjoyable solo show is about a failed relationship with a woman who, despite Pachtman's best efforts, seems psychotic indeed. Pachtman...