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As a Matter of Fat

The city's new weight discrimination law is badly reasoned, legally defective, costly, and bad for public health

By Peter Byrne

Published: January 17, 2001

In the neon flatlands of San Lorenzo, near a fast-food restaurant strip and a Jenny Craig weight-loss center, is Arroyo High School. It is a pure California school architectonic: a maze of open-air...

Matt Smith

The Plot Thins

Yes, SF Weekly has been secretly trying to rid the city of artists. It's working pretty well, don't you think?

By Matt Smith

Published: January 17, 2001

It was only a matter of time before someone outed us. I only wish we'd been exposed by an investigative journal more prestigious than a neighborhood supplement to the Los Angeles Times . Whatever....

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

A cannabis club in the Fangxaminer building. This could explain a lot.

As told to Laurel Wellman

Published: January 17, 2001

James and Ted in Up in Smoke ! People keep asking us, "How can the new Examiner possibly make all the mistakes it makes?" Up till now, we've had to tell these people: We have no idea ....

Bay View

The $32,000 Question

Who the hell is Stan Flouride, and what was he doing on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

By Joel P. Engardio

Published: January 17, 2001

Home viewers didn't get to see Regis Philbin's initial reaction when Stan Flouride, a local eccentric and neighborhood fixture in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury District, won the "fastest fingers"...

Bay View

A Sentence Without an Ending

The "used-car rabbi" gets probation instead of jail, but the question of what he did with millions of dollars in donations remains unanswered

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: January 17, 2001

A few moments of comedy brightened Judge Martin Jenkins' courtroom on Jan. 4, when Bentzion Pil, the so-called "used-car rabbi," was sentenced to nine months in a halfway house for a minor sort of...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Letters from January 17, 2001

Published: January 17, 2001

The Ackerman Agenda Another school of thought: I wonder if Jeremy Mullman did any research at all about public school funding before writing about Arlene Ackerman and the Weighted Student...

Music

The Whee Design

Call and Response updates the West Coast sound for the new millennium

By Dan Strachota

Published: January 17, 2001

Call and Response is practicing at drummer Jordan Dalrymple's Berkeley apartment. "This is a song you make out to," singer Carrie Clough says by way of introduction. "In a Chevy van with a...

Music

Momus Stars

Folktronic (Le Grand Magistery); Nightsongs (Le Grand Magistery)

By Katherine Brown

Published: January 17, 2001

"Have I been tarred with the brush of Dylan, Beck, and Harmony Korine, who all used down-home imagery ironically to amuse sophisticated urban audiences? Am I a craven and opportunistic rootless...

Music

The Causey Way

Causey vs. Everything (Alternative Tentacles)

By Mike Rowell

Published: January 17, 2001

The Causey Way is a musical collective revolving around the unimonikered Causey, a messianic ex-skateboarder with an unnerving resemblance to David Koresh. Allegedly hailing from a compound outside...

Pop Philosophy

Pop Philosophy

Uri Geller and I Am Spoonbender

By Dan Strachota

Published: January 17, 2001

I'm thinking of a liquid that's wet Ah, winter has arrived at last, with its sideways-falling precipitation and quaintly out-turned umbrellas. Sitting in front of the computer after arriving at...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

"Cover to Cover"; Brian & Chris; "Haydn and the Gypsies"

By Silke Tudor

Published: January 17, 2001

Conceived by the music scene preservationists at Popular Noise Foundation, "Cover to Cover" is an evening of local bands each playing two songs from other Bay Area groups, either breathing or...

Hear This

Hear This

The Original Comets

By Lawrence Kay

Published: January 17, 2001

Halley's comet passes the Earth only every 76 years, and though their schedule is less infrequent, an appearance by the Original Comets -- Bill Haley's first backup band -- is still pretty rare....

Eat

2001: A Food Odyssey

Bacar

By Matthew Stafford

Published: January 17, 2001

Bacar isn't just a restaurant; it's an extravaganza, an eagerly awaited, two-years-in-the-making culinary spectacular with a big budget, an all-star cast, mezzanine seating, and multiple subplots....

Social Grace

Social Grace

It's My Party

By Social Grace

Published: January 17, 2001

Dear Social Grace, Through no fault of my own, I end up at tedious little cocktail parties at least once a week -- even more often at this time of year. I've been a grown woman for quite a long...

The Mix

The Mix

Symbiosis

By Greg Hugunin

Published: January 17, 2001

The ritual begins slowly at 111 Minna Street Gallery . At 10:15 p.m., as a DJ eases into the first set of the night, the crowd numbers 50 -- or make that 100, and growing. People are young and...

Film

A Woven Life

Slow down, breathe deeply: Here comes Yi Yi's ultra-leisurely portrayal of Taiwanese family life

By Andy Klein

Published: January 17, 2001

With luck, Yi Yi (A One and a Two) , the seventh release from writer/director Edward Yang, one of Taiwan's most respected filmmakers, will open a vein of interest in Taiwan's cinema, but it will...

Reel World

Reel World

S.F. International Film Festival; Brian Gordon; Elias Merhige

By Michael Fox

Published: January 17, 2001

Sans Soleil Much like the movies they present, film festivals reflect the vision of one or two people plus the inspired work of hordes of assistants. Since one man's good taste is another's...

Zoom Lens

Zoom Lens

Berlin & Beyond

By Gary Morris

Published: January 17, 2001

In one of the more notable cultural gestures of the century, Europe exported armies of artists, mostly from Germany and Austria, to reshape and redefine Hollywood during the 1920s and '30s. Many...

Night&Day;

Mighty Funny Warriors

My Own Private Sukiprata

By Lisa Hom

Published: January 17, 2001

We've all heard of mail-order brides, but what about mail-order grooms? Aging Western women should be able to order young, exotic Asian husbands from catalogs, too, shouldn't they? And though we're...

Night&Day;

Move Over, Woody

Spalding Gray

By Sam Prestianni

Published: January 17, 2001

Arguably the nation's arch memoirist, Spalding Gray was the king of confessional storytelling long before riffing on one's own life turned into a fad. In classic monologues, from the Obie...