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How development pressure and environmental law may force radical change along the seemingly idyllic but deeply troubled Russian River

By Matt Smith

Published: August 2, 2000

DEPENDING ON HOW YOU APPROACH THE MATTER, Joan Vilms, the spry, fiftysomething champion of the Russian River, is the sort of person you like despite yourself, or else have a hard time getting along...

Mecklin

Yellow-Bellied Journalism

Hearst executives' behavior in the Examiner sale was nothing less than cowardly

By John Mecklin

Published: August 2, 2000

At the height of the media frenzy over the Hearst/ Chronicle /Fang/ Examiner horse-trading extravaganza last week, daily news reporters were calling me, seemingly one after another. The reporters...

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

L'Etat, C'est Moi. Or Whatever; A Spoonful -- or So -- of Sugar

As told to Laurel Wellman

Published: August 2, 2000

L'Etat, C'est Moi. Or Whatever. Dog Bites, who's had a nasty case of the flu -- which we attribute at least in part to July's wretched weather -- has had nothing to do all week but lie around...

Bay View

The Injury and the Odyssey

A deputy sheriff's 10-year adventure in bureaucratic limbo

By Bernice Yeung

Published: August 2, 2000

William Setzler's career as a deputy sheriff came to an end only seven months after it began, on Jan. 20, 1990. At 8:30 that morning, Setzler was called to the first floor of the San Bruno County...

Bay View

A New War of Words

Are you ready for a real newspaper rivalry?

By Jeremy Mullman

Published: August 2, 2000

For all the Sturm und Drang surrounding the sales of the Chronicle and Examiner last week, one important point was overlooked amid the hoopla: With the comparatively quiet arrival of the...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Well, Back to the Drawing Board; Night of a Thousand Boinks; Girl Problems; Puni Concerns

Published: August 2, 2000

Well, Back to the Drawing Board More dirt: OK, so I don't hate the new design, but it looks like SF Weekly got sanitized. At worst it looks like a museum brochure. Take Dog Bites for...

Music

Stream a Little Stream

Or How to Succeed in Webcasting Without Selling Out

By Darren Keast

Published: August 2, 2000

Beta Lounge was born in something of a bubble. When the independent Webcasting site began streaming audio of live DJ sets from its studio on 22nd and Mission streets in 1996, there were only a...

Music

The Royal Whee

Live house band Dubtribe Sound System gets older, wiser, and imperial

By Fred Medick

Published: August 2, 2000

The scene: the Enchanted Broccoli Forest, a Stanford experimental co-op that specializes in alternative substances. The date: 1993, at the height of the house music craze. The band: Dubtribe, a...

Music

Erik Truffaz Quartet

The Mask
(Blue Note)

By Ezra Gale

Published: August 2, 2000

LTJ Bukem's tepid recent album Journey Inwards illustrated the downside of a recent "rediscovery" of live instrumentation by some drum 'n' bass producers -- a parallel to Columbus "discovering"...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

Baypop; Causey Way; Multiple Sensations; The Sparks Festival

By Silke Tudor

Published: August 2, 2000

In a city desperate for creative outlets and support, I must applaud the tenacious. After a conflict with Noise Pop caused the cancellation of what would have been the second local installment of...

Hear This

Hear This

Eddie Moore Jazz Festival

By Sam Prestianni

Published: August 2, 2000

It's tempting to say that the lineup for the 11th annual Eddie Moore Jazz Festival is the best one yet. After more than a decade of adventurous bookings in honor of the much-loved Bay Area...

Eat

Some Hot Tamales

Barrasa Market; La Limeñita; La Palma Mexicatessen; Panchita's; Roosevelt Tamale Parlor

By Matthew Stafford

Published: August 2, 2000

The tamale is one of the most ancient of modern foods, a comestible of infinite variety, inspired kitchen craft, and unifying panculturalism as well as deep and noble lineage. The corn of the...

Eat

An Enchanting Isle

Mezes

By Greg Hugunin

Published: August 2, 2000

If given the opportunity to become one of the thousands, nay, millions of characters who have appeared in the equally innumerable stories dreamed up since the dawn of time -- and no, I'm not...

Side Dish

Koi Sushi?

Crazy, Sexy, Cool; Second Time's a Charm; Thelma & Louise

By Harry Coverte

Published: August 2, 2000

Crazy, Sexy, Cool The cocoon broke open last week and Butterfly is finally flying over on Mission Street, next to Woodward's Garden. This restaurant and jazz club will feature Pacific Rim...

Social Grace

Tipping for Takeout

Are you unsure how to behave? Social Grace answers all your toughest etiquette questions

By Social Grace

Published: August 2, 2000

Dear Social Grace, I purchase takeout meals at neighborhood pizza parlors and Chinese restaurants about once a week. It had never occurred to me to leave a tip when I picked up my order, but...

Film

Reefer Madness

Brenda Blethyn carries on in the best tradition of British movie humor in the pot-centric Saving Grace

By Bill Gallo

Published: August 2, 2000

Irish charm and British eccentricity are hot properties on this side of the pond -- especially among U.S. moviegoers. Witness the phenomenal success here of The Secret of Roan Inish , in which a...

Film

Old Hands

Clint Eastwood directs a crew of veterans in his most engaging film in years

By Andy Klein

Published: August 2, 2000

t's a pleasure to say that Clint Eastwood reverses his recent downward slide -- A Perfect World (1993), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Absolute Power (1997), and True Crime (1999),...

Reel World

Reel World

All the President's Men; The Grateful Dead Movie

By Michael Fox

Published: August 2, 2000

All the President's Men In those dismal years when Tina Brown was converting The New Yorker into an upscale version of People , and every other story had a Hollywood connection, regular...

Night&Day;

Neil Diamond Slept Here

Killing My Lobster's Hot August Nights

By Julie Feinstein

Published: August 2, 2000

Before the city became so famous for Silicon Sorcery (hey, at least it's not silicone), San Francisco was known for seafarers, seafood, and great comedy. Poised at the tip of what may be the sixth...

Night&Day;

Atomic Dance

The San Francisco Butoh Festival

By Rachel Howard

Published: August 2, 2000

Is the San Francisco Butoh Festival successful because the Bay Area butoh scene is thriving, or is the scene thriving because of the festival's success? This eerie post-World War II (and,...