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Raw Footage

To help keep at-risk teens out of trouble, a Tenderloin nonprofit gives them cameras to make films about their lives. The movies win awards, but do they keep kids off the street?

By Bernice Yeung

Published: July 18, 2001

David Mark leans against a parked Honda Civic on the corner of Hyde and Ellis in the Tenderloin. It's a hot June afternoon, and his friends, Cambodian-American teens like David, seek the shade of...

Matt Smith

Now, the Emphatic Colonic News

Chevron to Turks: Bay is pristine! GOP to pot doctor: Good job! Tenants to landlords: You're illegal! Potheads to supervisors: Like, wow -- a sanctuary!

By Matt Smith

Published: July 18, 2001

Quote of the day: Having the Chevron headquarters in the pristine waters of the San Francisco Bay, we understand the Turkish people better than anybody. -- Ismail Kafescioglu, Chevron country...

Bay View

A Touching Story

Homeless people need many things: food, clothing, shelter. But maybe what they really need is a good back rub.

By Matt Smith

Published: July 18, 2001

It is a warm, sparkling Thursday morning at United Nations Plaza, where a small group of volunteers from the Care Through Touch Institute has come to give aid and comfort to the homeless, who are,...

Dog Bites

How Legends Are Born

It pains us to award the Columbia Journalism Review its very own dart.

By Jeremy Mullman

Published: July 18, 2001

The San Francisco Chronicle has arrived, apparently, in the circle of world-class newspapers. Just ask the folks running it. This past Friday, for instance, crotchety yet vague Editor Emeritus...

Night Crawler

Scot to Be Interesting

The grace and power of the Scottish Highland Games, and the dangerous joy of Scooter Polo

By Silke Tudor

Published: July 18, 2001

"I come for the games and stay for the ladies!" bellows Denlow Hunter , a dauntingly large 42-year-old Monte Sereno resident who's wearing the steely gray-blue kilt and mantle of his clan. He...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Power to the People; A Love/Hate Relationship

Published: July 18, 2001

Power to the People What you get by mixing Brown and Gray: Your July 4 cover story ("Gray Skies") on California's rush to build more power plants and its disregard for health and environmental...

Music

The Path Less Traveled

Singer/songwriter Jason Morphew's road to San Francisco -- and success -- takes some odd turns

By Chris Baty

Published: July 18, 2001

If the gospel backup singers on Jason Morphew's "The Living End" sound familiar, they should. Anna Pagen and Nancy Buchée sang on the Jeffersons theme song; they also toured with Lena...

Music

Fireballs of Freedom

Pink & Brown reconfigures rock with colorful costumes, propulsive punk tunes, and a few broken bones

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: July 18, 2001

Over the decades, there's been a virtual carnival of punks happy to give staid rock 'n' roll a swift, steel-toed kick in the side. The more methodical rock becomes, the more excessive bands try to...

Music

Teenage Fanclub

Howdy! (Sony Columbia UK)

By Lawrence Kay

Published: July 18, 2001

Glasgow's Teenage Fanclub is a textbook case of a band that fell victim to its own early brilliance, as well as the mercilessness of circumstance and fashion. In the early '90s TFC established...

Music

Cannonball

Hiphopulation (43 Productions)

By Jesse "Chuy" Varela

Published: July 18, 2001

When bebop revolutionaries challenged the jazz status quo in the '40s, their melodic and harmonic ideas were considered musical anarchy. Despite being denounced by many critics, musicians, and...

Pop Philosophy

Pop Philosophy

BART considers late-night trains, DNA reopens, Napster smooches Metallica

By Dan Strachota

Published: July 18, 2001

You can't get there from here Want further proof that the Bay Area was once ruled by slackers? (Not the lay-around-and-do-nothing type, but the work-in-a-coffee-shop-so-I-can-stay-out-late type.)...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

Tranny punks, Nico tributes, floating gender illusionists, and more

By Silke Tudor

Published: July 18, 2001

Susanne Ofteringer's documentary Nico-Icon beautifully explored Nico's complicated personality and appeal, showing how she moved from German supermodel disgusted with those who found her...

Hear This

Hear This

British neo-traditionalist bridges the folk music gap

By Chris Baty

Published: July 18, 2001

Once upon a time, bridge drugs were the enemy of every parent. Pot and whipits, the Reagan-era authorities said, bought users a one-way ticket to ruin. A breath of laughing gas today implied a...

Eat

Venticello

Very Little Italy

By Matthew Stafford

Published: July 18, 2001

After a century and a half of culinary colonialism, San Francisco's Italian restaurants have evolved in so many different directions that there are options for every mood and financial outlook....

Eat

The Sweet Stench of Success

Shanghai Noodles

By Greg Hugunin

Published: July 18, 2001

Shanghai Noodles is located on a quiet stretch of Balboa in a tiny storefront space that, given the bright lights and spare décor, could just as easily house a dry cleaner. Step inside and...

Social Grace

Social Grace

On the delicate matter of bathroom etiquette

By Social Grace

Published: July 18, 2001

Dear Social Grace, I have two questions of a bathroom nature for you. First, what do you do if you clog the toilet at someone else's house? Second, how do you handle it if you create a bad...

The Mix

End of the Tunnel

You want Cheers in San Francisco? Head to TK's, the bar where everyone is a friend of George

By Greg Hugunin

Published: July 18, 2001

West Portal is a bit fancier than it used to be, but the bars have maintained a certain uniformity: They're all small, draw local crowds, and are hospitable places where people establish a good...

Film

Give Him an Inch

John Cameron Mitchell takes a mile with his silly, fun musical

By David Ehrenstein

Published: July 18, 2001

Times certainly have changed. Twenty years ago, a musical about an East German transsexual rock singer would have premiered in one of New York's off-off-Broadway theaters or cabarets, run for a...

Reel World

Dead Presidents

An annual conference that helps indie filmmakers finance their projects gets canceled -- for lack of funding

By Michael Fox

Published: July 18, 2001

With its funding officially cut from the 2001-02 city budget, the nonprofit International Film Financing Conference (IFFCON) has been forced to cancel its January 2002 shindig. For eight years, the...

Zoom Lens

ZOOM LENS

The Jewish Film Festival

Published: July 18, 2001

The Jewish Film Festival has always been uncommonly enthusiastic about younger filmmakers, recognizing that even their occasionally fumbling explorations of contemporary Jewish life are nonetheless...