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The Cheetah Club

How a rare group of spotted patients and a small cadre of persistent doctors could help change the face of cancer research

By Joel P. Engardio

Published: November 1, 2000

Julie Berruto didn't rip her skirt or tumble over a missed step the day she brought cheerleading practice at Concord's Clayton Valley High School to an abrupt halt. As the girls rehearsed their...

Bay View

Down on Brown

Many blacks in Bayview/Hunters Point say they feel ignored by the mayor. In this election, they are returning the favor.

By Peter Byrne

Published: November 1, 2000

At the busy corner of Third and Palou streets, the business heart of San Francisco's African-American community, the political chatter is vastly different than it was five years ago. Then, Willie...

Matt Smith

Fear, Loathing, and Non Sequiturs at Chico State

Or, how humanoids, hemp, and Ralph Nader will save us from Propositions I, L, and M

By Matt Smith

Published: November 1, 2000

It was 9 a.m. on a Monday, I'd been up all night, and I knew that if I closed my eyelids, they'd scrape painful grooves down the panes of my eyeballs. So I stared blankly northward. I was...

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

Renfrew report; Mercury News; Dot-com junkies; Propositions K and L

As told to Laurel Wellman

Published: November 1, 2000

Stet! Rumor has reached Dog Bites that the Renfrew report is complete -- but that nobody in San Francisco has seen it. What, you don't remember the Renfrew report? Perhaps you share the...

Mecklin

Disaster Plans

Face it -- Props K and L both stink as ways to manage growth. But we have another option.

By John Mecklin

Published: November 1, 2000

I have a wonderful neighbor who has an immigrant-in-America background that is heartwarming, even in extreme summary: After landing in New York from Germany with very little money, this neighbor,...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Letters from November 1, 2000

Published: November 1, 2000

The Housing Mess Good work! Here's our rental résumé: I was pleased to read John Mecklin's thoughtful case for building coalitions as a way of solving our housing crisis...

Music

Home Is Where You Hang

Virgil Shaw and Yuji Oniki inject new life into the singer/songwriter genre by writing about places they've been

By Vanessa Bee

Published: November 1, 2000

At one point in time, being a singer/songwriter was a high-minded calling. Troubadours across the country told of political unrest, the rights of the oppressed, and how the times they were...

Music

Band in a Box

Markus Popp's new sound installation makes being an electronica superstar easy

By Mike Rowell

Published: November 1, 2000

It's Friday the 13th at Bottom of the Hill, and Markus Popp -- sole member of Berlin-based outfit Oval -- is bobbing his head behind a Frankenstein-ish tabletop rig that includes a Macintosh...

Music

The 6ths

Hyacinths and Thistles (Merge)

By Lawrence Kay

Published: November 1, 2000

By all accounts, Magnetic Fields main man Stephin Merritt is indie pop's ultimate renaissance man -- Irving Berlin, Leonard Cohen, and the Human League all rolled into one. Merritt is an...

Music

Pop Philosophy

Political Song Contest

By Dan Strachota

Published: November 1, 2000

It's not easy being green As Election Day bears down upon us like a Mack truck on a rainy highway, my mailbox has been flooded with responses to the political songwriting contest. Well, perhaps...

Hear This

Hear This

Damon & Naomi with Ghost

By Dave Clifford

Published: November 1, 2000

Although this is the season of haunted houses and macabre creatures, the scariest thing about Damon & Naomi -- the former rhythm section from indie rock legends Galaxie 500 -- is their...

Eat

Package Tour

Roy's

By Greg Hugunin

Published: November 1, 2000

Of all the Hawaiis I've come to know during six trips to the islands, I'm most familiar with two of them. On the one hand, you have the relatively untouched Hawaii of soaring cliffs and lush,...

Side Dish

Side Dish

A Bad Mix

By Harry Coverte

Published: November 1, 2000

Must Have Been a Dirty Ice Cube Here's hoping that you are fully recovered after seeing Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam at Shoreline this Halloween. For those not yet recovered, Halloween was last...

Social Grace

Social Grace

The Sound of Idiots

By Social Grace

Published: November 1, 2000

Dear Social Grace, My boyfriend and I love live music, but we've run into a recurring problem lately. We buy our tickets in advance, wait eagerly for the night of the concert to come, enjoy a...

Film

Farrah to Poor

With clipped wings, Charlie's Angels fly way too low to the ground

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: November 1, 2000

The opening credits of Charlie's Angels hint at a movie that never appears in the film's expurgated 94 minutes; the tease is too soon rendered a disappointment. A Mission: Impossible -style...

Film

Lumet Lite

The Yards borrows liberally from its predecessors, but that may not be a bad thing

By Bill Gallo

Published: November 1, 2000

Any moviemaker who ventures into the sewers of New York City corruption will find Sidney Lumet's wet footprints. In classics like The Pawnbroker, Serpico , and Q&A; , this streetwise film master...

Reel World

Reel World

Grotto Film Project; Latino Film Festival

By Michael Fox

Published: November 1, 2000

High Hopes Studio execs loathe and fear nothing more than screenwriters who want to direct. (Haven't they heard of Sturges and Wilder? Then again, look what happened to Nora Ephron.) But I...

Zoom Lens

Zoom Lens

Latino Film Festival

By Frako Loden

Published: November 1, 2000

Revenge of the Latinas Latin a Film Festival would be a better name for this year's wealth of outstanding women's performances. Not counting the festival's "Women and Film" conference and the...

Night&Day;

The Fisher Queen

Cleopatra, The Musical

By Joe Mader

Published: November 1, 2000

Theater Rhinoceros is involved in two big-time productions this week. Thanks to a certain New York City mayor's ex-wife and terrific national press, greater visibility will go to The Vagina...

Night&Day;

Cray in the Bay

The Robert Cray Band at the S.F. Jazz Festival

By Katherine Brown

Published: November 1, 2000

Jazz festivals abound in the Bay Area, from North Beach to Berkeley to San Jose, but there's a simple reason for that: There's a lot of great jazz here. This superabundance of festivals means that...