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Letters from February 21, 2001

Published: February 21, 2001

Fallen Warriors Bad to the bone: It may be a legitimate story to explore the psychological trials of those hapless hoopsters, the Warriors ("Daydream Believers," Feb. 14), but to spend so...

Feature

Who Is Clint Reilly, Really?

He's running for mayor again, and this time he wants to define himself, before his enemies do it for him

By Peter Byrne

Published: February 21, 2001

My leather-jacketed host, Clint Reilly, taps a code into the security system that unlocks the metal gate to his 120-acre estate in Napa County. In his black Mercedes sedan, we climb past hillside...

Matt Smith

Burning Questions

How "prescription mill" doctors and indiscriminate pot clubs threaten the well-being of legitimate medical marijuana patients

By Matt Smith

Published: February 21, 2001

Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I think I may have orchestrated mankind's first perfect burn. Anyone who attended high school during the 1970s remembers what a "burn" is: the craft of...

Dog Bites

Trouble at the F-Ex

As told to Laurel Wellman

Published: February 21, 2001

The Moments That Make Up a Dull Day It must be nice to lead a quiet life. Dog Bites was just minding our own business, fretting about hoochie papas and their sad leather and cowrie shell...

Bay View

Transcendental Incarceration

The first San Bruno Jail inmates to take part in an experimental meditation program say it has helped to free their minds, if nothing else

By Joel P. Engardio

Published: February 21, 2001

San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey readily admits the aging county jail complex in San Bruno is a "hellhole," but he has an unusual plan to bring order and rehabilitation to the inmates there....

Music

The Lesser of Two Evils

Somewhere between twisted electronica and cacophonic noise lies the challenging work of J Lesser

By Mike Rowell

Published: February 21, 2001

On a recent European tour, electronica provocateur J Lesser experienced a phenomenon he's unaccustomed to: fans. "I've never had people at shows say, "I just bought your new record and it's good,'"...

Music

Mark Kozelek

What's Next to the Moon (Badman)

By Chris Baty

Published: February 21, 2001

Comedy albums have always been risky purchases. Because jokes lose a little oomph on the second go-round, recordings by comedians usually have the longevity of a fruit fly: You listen to them...

Pop Philosophy

Noise Pop Tip Sheet

Noise Pop Festival; Pound-SF club opening

By Dan Strachota

Published: February 21, 2001

Slanted and unenchanted Watching a music fan get excited about the Noise Pop Festival is akin to spotting a pedestrian wearing shorts in May: You can tell he's new to town. As Noise Pop enters...

House of Tudor

Tudor's House

The Gourds; Brian Kenny Fresno; Guitar God-A-Thon and Wet Sweatpants Competition

By Silke Tudor

Published: February 21, 2001

Rising from the same musical substratum that spawned the Bad Livers, the Old 97's, and Sixteen Horsepower, the Gourds have proven to be the most consistently inspired and unaffected of the groups...

Hear This

Mumble & Peg

Mumble & Peg

By Sam Prestianni

Published: February 21, 2001

Mumble & Peg's new album, All My Waking Moments in a Jar , changes moods like a smoked-out, pint-bleary manic-depressive on a pre-dawn caffeine high. As the title suggests, there's a somewhat...

Eat

Carnival of Sorts

Monte Carlo Restaurant & Bar

By Matthew Stafford

Published: February 21, 2001

One stormy March night in 1699, a group of homesick French and Quebecois explorers found themselves near the entrance to the Mississippi River on the banks of a dark and forbidding swamp. Realizing...

Side Dish

Fresh Eats

The Muscle Behind Masa's

By Harry Coverte

Published: February 21, 2001

Movers and Shakers Executive Chef Ron Siegel skipped out on Charles Nob Hill to reopen Masa's, which just underwent a makeover from famed designer Orlando Diaz-Azcuy, who also designed glamour...

Social Grace

Social Graces

Blind Dates From Hell

By Social Grace

Published: February 21, 2001

Dear Social Grace, I am writing to you for correction and guidance; I believe I handled a bad situation badly, and I want to know what I should've done. A friend, "Brenda," recently set me up on...

Film

Portrait of the Artist

Dutiful if not particularly insightful, Pollock splatters the painter's life on the screen's canvas

By Bill Gallo

Published: February 21, 2001

Van Gogh was a lunatic who cut off his ear. Picasso was a self-absorbed cur who abused women. Warhol turned out to be a weird, desperate loner, Basquiat a doomed junkie. Try as he might,...

Reel World

Reel World!

Local filmmakers win awards

By Michael Fox

Published: February 21, 2001

Things to Come San Francisco's waning international rep as an avant-garde art capital got a thousand-watt boost at the just-wrapped Rotterdam Film Festival, where Mission District media artist...

Night&Day;

Hot Hot Hot

Ban Rarra

By Sam Prestianni

Published: February 21, 2001

Ban Rarra likes playing with fire. The women in this 14-member Haitian-Cuban performance troupe whirl burning batons like wild island cheerleaders; the men spit and swallow flames, brush their...

Night&Day;

Carpe Diem

Diem Jones

By Lisa Hom

Published: February 21, 2001

Diem Jones has no qualms about seizing the day. In fact, carpe diem is his underlying philosophical tenet, the principle by which this creative chameleon lives. Defying the "jack of all trades,...

Stuff

Harden's Crossing

She's finally been invited to the Oscar party, but what will she do after the ball?

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: February 21, 2001

It was to have been a routine stop on a routine press tour, yet another town in which the actress was to show up, chit and chat with the local media about her movie, then move on -- the traveling...

Stage

Making the Rounds

A racy sex farce gets a hot-and-cold treatment

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: February 21, 2001

Squirreled away in the old Sears building on Cesar Chavez is a new black box, Studio 210, where a troupe called Goat Island has mounted Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde . You might remember Schnitzler...

Stage

Blackballin'

Modern American athletics as an outgrowth of slavery

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: February 21, 2001

This new play by Rickerby Hinds treats modern American athletics as an outgrowth of slavery. Four black men, with emblematic sports-names -- Hoop, Down, Stick, and Jab -- ply careers in basketball,...