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God and Science; Potshot or Put-on? You Decide.; Dancing Around the Issue

Published: July 4, 2001

God and Science Looking for the wrong miracle: "Intelligent design" is silly nonsense ("Looking for God at Berkeley," June 20). If we can't understand how some feature of life on Earth came...

Feature

Gray Skies

If Gov. Davis has his way, California soon will have dozens of new power plants -- a lot of them in the wrong places, some of them unnecessary, and very, very few of them based on renewable energy

By Jeremy Mullman

Published: July 4, 2001

Perched atop the peak it's named after, the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House is one of San Francisco's least-known architectural treasures. Designed by Hearst Castle architect Julia Morgan, the...

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"They're Hijacking Our Rally!"

Opponents of the Potrero Hill power plant expansion could use a lesson in organization.

By Jeremy Mullman

Published: July 4, 2001

Even in this build-power-at-all-costs political environment, it's not impossible for traditionally powerless, already polluted communities like southeast San Francisco to stop an unwanted power...

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The November Wild Card

Upcoming ballot proposals on public power could complicate the fight over the Potrero Hill plant.

By Jeremy Mullman

Published: July 4, 2001

It's hard to predict what bearing any or all of the three public power proposals on November's ballot might have on the Potrero plant. The proposals would in various ways allow San Francisco to...

Matt Smith

Love in Times of Choler

Political animals on both sides of the development wars snarl all the way to the bank

By Matt Smith

Published: July 4, 2001

Squinting one's eyes halfway closed last Thursday evening at the Arc, a SOMA center for the disabled, one might have perceived two shadowy sumo wrestlers squatting side by side. Their rain-making...

Bay View

Where the Sun Don't Shine

A member of the city task force that enforces open-government laws has been accused of trying to hold illegal meetings. That member is Bruce Brugmann, who is always beating his breast about open meetings.

By Peter Byrne

Published: July 4, 2001

In an ironic twist to a meeting of San Francisco's Sunshine Ordinance Task Force last week, a whistle-blower charged that task force member Bruce B. Brugmann has repeatedly violated the very same...

Music

Everyday People

Replicator's neophytes make noisy rock -- with just the right amount of art mixed in

By Elizabeth Montalbano

Published: July 4, 2001

Conan Neutron (né Newton), the 23-year-old lead singer and guitarist for East Bay trio Replicator, is trying to persuade me that his group wasn't named after the duplication gadget from...

Music

Breaking the Mold

With nu-skool breaks, Felix the Dog and other local DJs learn some new tricks

By Vivian Host

Published: July 4, 2001

Felix the Dog has been playing records in San Francisco for over a decade. If you ask him what similarity there is between mixing house and soul tracks in the late '80s and tearing up dance floors...

Music

Unwound

Leaves Turn Inside You (Kill Rock Stars)

By Philip Sherburne

Published: July 4, 2001

It seems hard to believe that Unwound turns 10 years old this year. Rooted in the Olympia, Wash., punk scene of the early '90s, the trio has remained remarkably vital -- and impressively free from...

Music

Faun Fables

Mother Twilight (Earthlight)

By Sam Prestianni

Published: July 4, 2001

Hailing from the sideshow circus scene in Manhattan, where she dabbled in cabaret-style skits and folk-singer ventures in the '90s, vocalist/guitarist Dawn McCarthy moved to the Bay Area three...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

Silke Tudor celebrates "Indie-Pendence Day," Germanic shock rock, and Cheap Trick covers

By Silke Tudor

Published: July 4, 2001

Where, oh where have all the darlings of "Club Darling" gone? Well, some of those sassy, shaggy, chic, corduroyed upstarts with an ear for all things British and faddishly pop started "Fan Club,"...

Hear This

Hear This

The Briefs launch undie-wetting punk pop

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: July 4, 2001

God save the Briefs. Like all the Sex Pistols/Ramones worshippers before it, the band does nothing to reinvent old-school punk; unlike the other misfits, however, the Briefs do everything possible...

Eat

The Big 4

Robber Barons

By Matthew Stafford

Published: July 4, 2001

By its narrowest definition Independence Day celebrates our decolonization from the British Empire, but in a broader, happier sense the Fourth of July is nothing less than one big national birthday...

Eat

Big Nate's Barbeque

All American

By Greg Hugunin

Published: July 4, 2001

No man is born with a qualifier in front of his name -- he must achieve it or have the qualifier thrust upon him. I like qualifiers, since they add a bit of color to our daily interactions (Hey...

Social Grace

Piercing Questions

Is a nose ring too informal for a wedding?

By Social Grace

Published: July 4, 2001

Dear Social Grace, The man I love has some facial piercings, which I think look great on him, but I think he should remove them when we go somewhere that is a "dress-up" place or to a wedding....

The Mix

¡Sabor!

Mingling with the hoochie mamas, heavy dudes, and drag señoritas

By Greg Hugunin

Published: July 4, 2001

The thing about a San Francisco Fourth of July -- or July in general -- is that it's often too chilly to feel like summer. One alternative: Mission Street's Club Malibu , which is so hot it could...

Film

Kicked Butt

Inept editing, gaping plot holes, unintentional absurdity: What more does an action movie need?

By Andy Klein

Published: July 4, 2001

Kiss of the Dragon -- the latest vehicle for martial arts star Jet Li, a mainland talent who became a superstar in Hong Kong and has since succumbed to the blandishments of Hollywood -- includes...

Reel World

Reel World

Woody Allen ponders a career move after making his new film

By Michael Fox

Published: July 4, 2001

On the Town The Little Tramp fingers the brim of his bowler, coyly cocks his head, and mouths a question. "So you can see?" the intertitle reads. Cut to the flower girl -- but before she can...

Night&Day;

The Sound of Silence

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is worth making noise about

By Gary Morris

Published: July 4, 2001

San Francisco these days is a city of sounds -- from the reassuring thud of dot-commer skulls hitting the pavement to the happy squeal of SUV brakes as they introduce yet another pedestrian to...

Night&Day;

What's Up, Doc?

Bugs Bunny on Broadway is a multimedia salute to cartoons and classical music

By Lisa Hom

Published: July 4, 2001

Many of us weaned on pop culture gained an appreciation for classical music not by taking piano lessons from the biddy down the block, but rather by watching Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies ....