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Daydream Believers

In the middle of another catastrophic season, the Golden State Warriors refuse to face the probability that they're as bad as they seem

By Jeremy Mullman

Published: February 14, 2001

In the media room just outside the Golden State Warriors ' locker room, head coach Dave Cowens is sitting alone behind a table on a raised platform, waiting as reporters file in to ask him...

Matt Smith

Smoke and Smearers

Potheads distort the record -- and endanger the justice system -- as they try to recall the Marin DA

By Matt Smith

Published: February 14, 2001

Of all of the underreported stories of 2001 -- the simian Evernet (1) , secret BART tunnels (2) , Hetch Hetchy reactor problems (3) -- the most egregious by far is the fact that marijuana smokers...

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

Hawaiian Shirts, Expensive Condos, and the Hoochie People

As told to Laurel Wellman

Published: February 14, 2001

Bidding While Rome Burns Remember when your high school, desperate to raise morale on days on which the poorly ranked football team had a game, would declare Hawaiian Shirt Day? It worked...

Bay View

The Battle for Walpert Ridge

A lawsuit over a proposed Hayward country club promises to be more than just another environmentalists-vs.-developers fight

By Bernice Yeung

Published: February 14, 2001

Tucked in the Hayward hills, past miles of new tract housing, is a swath of sloping grassland dotted with oak and bay trees, and clusters of grayish rocks. As it stands today, this land, Walpert...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Letters from February 14, 2001

Published: February 14, 2001

Don't Ask, Don't Tell ... ... And don't hold your breath: As a gay Navy veteran who had the misfortune to serve under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," I think it is naive to think that any research...

Music

All Fired Up

The Blast Rocks!!! are enthusiastic about their music -- and they've got the exclamation points to prove it

By Dan Strachota

Published: February 14, 2001

Heather Anderson, 23-year-old drummer for the Blast Rocks!!!, has an unusual way of setting up her kit: She tapes it together. Of course, it helps that her kit consists of a glass jar, a cookie...

Music

Proof Positive

Brooklyn's Antibalas resurrects Fela Kuti's Afrobeat sound -- as well as his revolutionary politics

By Darren Keast

Published: February 14, 2001

Before he traveled to the United States in 1969, Nigerian superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti composed largely within the confines of "highlife," a dance band format with ties to Africa's colonial past....

Music

Growing Up Is Hard to Do

With its second album, Oranger leaves its playful past behind

By Todd Peterson

Published: February 14, 2001

"I feel like I'm in sixth grade," says Mike Drake, the chief songwriter for psychedelic Wunderkinder Oranger. He is sitting to one side of a sea of glad-handers at a music industry meet 'n'...

Pop Philosophy

Pop Philosophy

Alternative Press

By Dan Strachota

Published: February 14, 2001

Tomorrow's news today Upon looking through the latest issue of Alternative Press magazine, I had one question: Are the publishers so hard up for copy that they need to spend 30 pages telling...

Hear This

Hear This

Dominic Duval

By Sam Prestianni

Published: February 14, 2001

Bassist Dominic Duval makes each musical gesture count, whether he's fleshing out the manic chord clusters of pioneering pianist Cecil Taylor or plucking perfect-pitch harmony with new-school...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

Lost & Found Sound

By Silke Tudor

Published: February 14, 2001

In what sounds like the warm quietude of early afternoon, when morning chores have ended and preparations for dinner have not yet begun, a woman sings to her child about difficulty and despair....

Eat

International Death Match

Malee Thai & Vietnamese

By Greg Hugunin

Published: February 14, 2001

Perhaps five bites into our meal at Malee Thai & Vietnamese Restaurant & Bar, my friend Chloe and I decided Malee needs to relocate. The reason we came to this conclusion is that the...

The Mix

The Mix

Togetherness

By Greg Hugunin

Published: February 14, 2001

"PleasureZone" certainly isn't for everybody, but judging by the 500-plus mostly twenty- and thirtysomethings who've packed the Manhattan Lounge for this Saturday night event, this monthly...

Social Grace

Social Grace

What's That Smell?

By Social Grace

Published: February 14, 2001

Dear Social Grace, We work in a small medical office (there are three of us, including the doctor), and there are patients that come in with extremely strong, sometimes obnoxious perfume or...

Film

Thistle Be the Day

Ratcatcher tells the classic coming-of-age tale, Scottish style

By Luke Y. Thompson

Published: February 14, 2001

Be not deceived by the Merchant Ivory name attached to Ratcatcher ; those in search of repressed emotions among the corseted well-to-do will be in for a nasty shock. For this is a Scottish...

Reel World

Reel World

Ghost World; Castro Theater; Breaking into Hollywood

By Michael Fox

Published: February 14, 2001

Bring It On Terry Zwigoff sounds so chipper that I don't recognize his voice at first. The famously pessimistic Potrero Hill filmmaker is so upbeat he's even coined a tag line -- "the first teen...

Night&Day;

Funking It Up

Maceo Parker

By Katherine Brown

Published: February 14, 2001

How cool is Maceo Parker ? Think cucumbers. Think ice. Think twice before giving up the opportunity to see this quintessential saxman play live: If there's anything Parker's proven over four...

Night&Day;

What's Love Got to Do With It?

Valentine's Day Amusements

By Lisa Hom

Published: February 14, 2001

In an age when television networks attempt to play both matchmaker and relationship counselor with "reality" shows, it's no wonder that cynics like myself feel obligated to pooh-pooh romantic love....

Stage

Dublin Fields

Irish playwright Mark O'Rowe knows his Mamet -- and his Martin Amis

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: February 14, 2001

Howie the Rookie is yet another piece of evidence that the results of David Mamet's influence on young playwrights from the U.K. have been healthier and more interesting than most of his own...

Stage

I Think I Like Girls

A fictionalized documentary about lesbianism

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: February 14, 2001

This play about lesbianism, like The Vagina Monologues and Another American: Asking and Telling , is based on actual interviews. Leigh Fondakowski, the playwright, talked to something like 77...