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Mental Cruelty

Michael Wise and Susan Owsley are recovering schizophrenics who got the right kind of help, and got off the street.The mayor's secret budget cuts will make sure that doesn't happen anymore.

By Peter Byrne

Published: June 13, 2001

Michael Wise spent his childhood in the Potrero Hill projects. His manic-depressive father, a Yellow cab driver, was in and out of state mental hospitals, where he was repeatedly treated with...

Matt Smith

Getting the Treatment

Proposition 36 is based on a noble idea: substituting drug treatment for prison sentences. But the measure needs practical help.

By Matt Smith

Published: June 13, 2001

I've seen Lydia -- a woman whose warm, graceful manner belies her difficult life -- three times since we were children: once at a funeral, again at a wedding, and a third time when her stepfather...

Dog Bites

Dragon Bites

A Beautiful Day to Be Irradiated; We Have Plenty of Lines Open; Annals of Blowback; Press Release of the Week

By Mark Athitakis, John Mecklin, Jeremy Mullman

Published: June 13, 2001

A Beautiful Day to Be Irradiated It was a warm, sunny day with a light breeze, and the view from the high ground there alongside Innes Avenue had me squinting across the bay in pleasure. Way...

Night Crawler

Bow and Arrow, Mind and Body

In the ancient martial art of Kyudo, archers hunt only for truth

By Silke Tudor

Published: June 13, 2001

For me, the bow has always been a provocative weapon. Something in the stillness and tension, the manner in which the archer's body must sit in accordance with the weapon's form -- arms extended,...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

The NIMBY Menace; The Best Music Section Around; Correction

Published: June 13, 2001

The NIMBY Menace Code war: Matt Smith's article "Axing Permission" (May 30) is a strange mélange of inaccuracies and his own strong passions surrounding a subject of much controversy in...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

...We Never Got Around to Publishing; Aw,Jeez; Step 1: Write Press Release; Who Says the Dot-Com Gold Rush Is Over?; Nothing This Month; Today's Zen Koans; Sorry, We Don't Remember You; We Print This Letter as a Public Service; Cupid,Draw Back Your Bow; H

Published: June 13, 2001

...We Never Got Around to Publishing SF Weekly greatly values feedback from its readers. Well, OK, that's a lie. Some feedback we greatly value; other feedback, not so much. A lot of it, to be...

Music

Second Childhood

Alternarock cult faves the Blake Babies reunite -- with eyes on a smaller prize

By Chris Baty

Published: June 13, 2001

Freda Love Smith has what she calls a scheming mind, and moneymaking ideas come easily to her. "I've got a million of 'em," she laughs, referring to the plots she hatches while walking around her...

Music

Working-Class Heroes

Who would endure anonymity, uncertainty, and unhappy lovers to make a scant living? Freelance musicians, that's who.

By David Cook

Published: June 13, 2001

They practice for years to get their chops "like hamburger." They build up a string of weeklies to support themselves, becoming gig whores for anyone who pays for their services. On weekends they...

Music

Lucinda Williams

Essence (Lost Highway)

By Lawrence Kay

Published: June 13, 2001

It's remarkable to hear so powerful and potent an artist as Lucinda Williams sounding as victimized and forlorn as she does on her sixth album. Essence is a perplexing record, partly because of...

Music

Black Dice

Cold Hands (Troubleman Unlimited)

By George Chen

Published: June 13, 2001

Early in its career, Black Dice cultivated a reputation for danger and confrontation that ballooned out of proportion. Begun by students at the Rhode Island School of Design, Black Dice originally...

Pop Philosophy

Pop Philosophy

Trading an axe for a shovel

By Dan Strachota

Published: June 13, 2001

Trading an axe for a shovel These days, there are a lot of men pressed against chain-link fences near our SOMA offices. No, it's not because of some massive sting operation or a kinky sex show;...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

Silke Tudor swoons over Foetus, cowboy space tunes, and Tentacle Sessions

By Silke Tudor

Published: June 13, 2001

The Foetus All Nude Revue abducted my teenage heart. With lyrics like "a woman's place is on my face" snarled in accordance with a red-light-district wallop of upright bass, pelvis-grinding organ,...

Hear This

Hear This

Legendary Jazz drummer Max Roach demonstrates his solo percussive talents

By David Cook

Published: June 13, 2001

Max Roach is known for being the leading drummer of the bebop movement, and justifiably so. He was the first to fully grasp the implications of the new style developed by Kenny Clarke, which...

Eat

Maki

Tiny Titan

By Greg Hugunin

Published: June 13, 2001

The dining area at Maki is about the size of a studio apartment, if you exclude the three pseudo-outdoor tables (they're not in Maki proper, but still in Japan Center's Kinokuniya Building). Peek...

Social Grace

Tune In, Turn On, Eat Lunch

How can a worker in a home politely tell his clients to go away and leave him alone?

By Social Grace

Published: June 13, 2001

Dear Social Grace, I am a professional piano tuner, and when I am working on pianos in people's homes, it is not uncommon for children, and sometimes adults, to stand near me and watch. While I...

Side Dish

The Dining Depression

The latest tidbits of restaurant news about Jardinière, Ozumo, and Eastside West

By Harry Coverte

Published: June 13, 2001

Denton Days Aren't Here Again Gone are the wild hook-up nights at Harry Denton's on Steuart Street, where the 6,000-square-foot dine-and-dance pickup joint once packed in the off-duty secretaries...

Film

Out and About

Someday we won't need the Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, but for now it's good fun

By Michael Fox

Published: June 13, 2001

As the opening credits of the acid-tinged, acid-tongued British TV series Metrosexuality zip by, a bevy of tattooed and pierced loonies in white skivvies belts out the theme song ("My pride/ My...

Reel World

Wagon Master

Director John Ford is "America's Shakespeare," says the author of a new biography

By Michael Fox

Published: June 13, 2001

Wagon Master John Ford directed more than 140 films and produced another 70; his place in movie history is secure. But the filmmaker's contribution to American culture hasn't been properly...

Night&Day;

Sax Appeal

Experimental musician John Butcher wields some of the most evocative, ear-bending effects around

By Sam Prestianni

Published: June 13, 2001

"Wind experimentation has got a bad reputation," says U.K. saxophonist John Butcher , "from players who just demonstrate novel sounds, rather than put them to use. ... I always try to use this...

Night&Day;

From Africa to Hunters Point

This year's Black Film Festival ranges from the controversial and political to the sordid and hysterical

By Lisa Hom

Published: June 13, 2001

Although a Hollywood writer's strike would have blasted the Southern California economy, San Franciscans might not have noticed: There's no shortage of film events in this city. Demanding movie...