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Twice Burned

A Hong Kong mob's attempted takeover of Chinatown went up in flames when a gang arsonist snitched. Now Peter Chong, the mob's alleged U.S. leader, is in custody and feeling the heat.

By Matt Isaacs

Published: June 14, 2000

Chol Soo Lee and a friend drove the Great Highway in darkness, discussing how they would set the fire. Lee was a little nervous. He'd never burned down a house before, but the job paid $25,000, and...

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

Burn Rate; Return of the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project

As told to Laurel Wellman

Published: June 14, 2000

Burn Rate So there we were, wandering aimlessly down Stockton after completely striking out at the Emporio Armani sale on one of the many, many shopping trips that are so familiar to regular...

Night Crawler

Night Crawler

Battle Royale

By Silke Tudor

Published: June 14, 2000

The lights are blinding and the arena is ominous, 48 square feet surrounded by 19-foot-tall walls made of 1-inch polycarbonate. The crowd is hungry for it: Eyes feverish, necks straining to get...

Postscript

Postscript

Mike's Political Walking Tour of Old San Francisco

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: June 14, 2000

You may have seen the bronze, compasslike Barbary Coast Trail plaques embedded in sidewalks around the city. Each shows a clipper ship, some old buildings, and a smiling hatted miner holding a pan...

South to the Future

South to the Future

E-tailers Surf the Anti-Microsoft Wave

By South to the Future

Published: June 14, 2000

June 14, 2000 SEATTLE -- Ask Robert Peabody, founder of the online shopping service eBuyitNow.com , what he was doing two weeks ago, and he laments, "We were calling our lawyers. It was...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

A Family Affair; One Angry Man; I Am the Walrus ... Koo Koo Ka Choo; Dot-Commers vs. Greedy Fuckheads; Where's the Love for the Cyclist?; Barely Legal

Published: June 14, 2000

A Family Affair Your recent article regarding my family finances seems more revealing about the author than the subject (" Thrift and Consequences ," Bay View, June 7). Peter Byrne confessed in...

Music

Changing the True School

Berkeley's Zion I is out to prove that hip hop and drum 'n' bass aren't strange bedfellows

By Darren Keast

Published: June 14, 2000

In a simpler time, a few friends could get together, pour all the quirky little sounds and ideas from their daily lives into an eight-track, and come up with an album the whole hip hop community...

Music

Building a Better Battleship

Graham Reynolds scores films, conducts unconventional symphonies, and rewrites the rules of modern jazz

By David Cook

Published: June 14, 2000

The lights go down, and the images begin to flicker on the screen: Hands perform the gestures of cooking food, washing dishes, and winding the riggings on a battleship. With each movement, they...

Riff Raff

Riff Raff

Welcome to the Atrocity Exhibition; Musical Theater

By Mark Athitakis

Published: June 14, 2000

Welcome to the Atrocity Exhibition Noe Venable talks like a rocker, sings like a jazz crooner, and tells stories like an old folkie -- which gets you into a hell of a mess trying to nail down...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

Tiki Tones; Rudy Ray Moore; Phantom Surfers; Rogue's March

By Silke Tudor

Published: June 14, 2000

With The Leisure Experiment , the Tiki Tones have launched their seaside guitars into a futuristic Jetsons stratosphere filled with glowing vacuum tubes and transistors. Their new world is...

Hear This

Hear This

White Stripes

By Dave Clifford

Published: June 14, 2000

Like their simple candy-cane visual aesthetic, the White Stripes appear quite deliberately minimalist. Always dressed in red and white and adorning their records in that color scheme, the Stripes...

Eat

Battle Sushi, Part Deux

Amberjack Sushi; Sanraku Four Seasons Japanese Restaurant; Mas Sake; Kabuto Sushi

By Greg Hugunin

Published: June 14, 2000

Awhile back, I had the very great pleasure of reviewing three sushi restaurants over the course of four nights in a sort of head-to-head (to-head) contest that, if nothing else, proved the...

Side Dish

Side Dish

Corked; Gawk 'n' Roll; Surf's Up; Cheers!; Burn and Turn

By Harry Coverte

Published: June 14, 2000

Corked In case you haven't heard (in which case, it's time to gingerly remove your head from that hole) PlumpJack Winery is screwing up its grape juice. The September release of its ultra-premium...

Social Grace

Social Grace

Tipping policy at an open bar; Serving plates; Addressing the Interviewer; Wedding Ushers; Noisy Neighbor

By Social Grace

Published: June 14, 2000

Dear Social Grace, I recently attended a private party at which there was an open bar with a bartender mixing drinks for the guests. As no money is changing hands, how much am I required to...

Film

Mutha's Day

Samuel L. Jackson is Shaft

By M.V. Moorhead

Published: June 14, 2000

The title of the 1971 Gordon Parks detective movie Shaft worked as a double entendre -- when it presented Richard Roundtree's "black private dick" John Shaft as a superstud at whom women of every...

Film

Crash of the Titan

Don Bluth's Titan A.E.

By Luke Y. Thompson

Published: June 14, 2000

It's the year 3028, and man ... is an endangered species !(Haven't we heard that somewhere before, like last month?) But this time around, the threat is a little more intimidating than those...

Reel World

Reel World

Show Me Love; Like Water for Chocolate; Lust for Life

By Michael Fox

Published: June 14, 2000

Show Me Love Writer/director Mary Guzman had a "Eureka!" moment in the shower. Since beginning the street-wise Latina lesbian romantic fable Desi's Looking for a New Girl , in the Mission and...

Night&Day;

The Other Alcatraz

"made in usa: Angel Island Shhh"

By Bernice Yeung

Published: June 14, 2000

For nearly 80 years, many Chinese immigrants were barred from entering the country through the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first law to bar people from this country on the basis of race or...

Night&Day;

The Great Haul of China

The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology

By Sura Wood

Published: June 14, 2000

A tangible benefit of the thaw in Sino-American relations is "The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology," an extraordinary show that arrives in the U.S. after seven years of intense diplomatic...

Stage

Play Out the Play

The Taming of the Shrew

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: June 14, 2000

The Taming of the Shrew is like The Merchant of Venice -- built on the pattern of what we would now call a Minority Character coming around to the worldview of a Christian, male-dominated, and...