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Unsportsmanlike Conduct

The chaotic, unsuccessful, and utterly charming first year of the San Francisco Tsunami of the Women's American Football League

By Lisa Davis

Published: January 23, 2002

Two lines of women face each other on the field of Berkeley's Grove Street Park, the San Francisco Tsunami's third practice field in as many months. Securing a football field in San Francisco is...

Matt Smith

Horse Senseless

City closes Golden Gate Park stables for long-needed rehab; only-in-S.F. protest has privileged horse-owners refusing to move mounts

By Matt Smith

Published: January 23, 2002

A horse in a reclining frame of mind will drop down onto its front knees, tuck one hind leg inward, and roll over on its side. "It's a sort of collapsing motion," explains Peter Rich, a rancher who...

Bay View

The Last Hope

A new law gives one more chance at freedom to abused women sent to prison for killing their batterers

By Bernice Yeung

Published: January 23, 2002

Olivia Wang sits at a computer in her cramped office on McAllister Street, surrounded by five cardboard boxes. The boxes are nondescript, holding bulging folders of ordinary-looking legal...

Bay View

Tabled Salt

Plans to buy Cargill's huge saltworks and restore them to wetlands are thwarted by a sour economy

By Jeremy Mullman

Published: January 23, 2002

The economic slowdown has created a lot of scars in the Bay Area: empty buildings and sputtering development projects. But the biggest victim of the economy -- in terms of acreage, at least -- may...

Dog Bites

The Butler Bellwether

Forget the consumer price index. If you really want an economic indicator, ask the help.

By Mark Athitakis

Published: January 23, 2002

On a sunny afternoon a little while back, we found ourselves inside the mansion of a wealthy Pacific Heights couple. How wealthy? So wealthy that we had to promise not to reveal their names. So...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of January 23, 2002

Published: January 23, 2002

Trains, Boats, and Automobiles Reviving Aquatic Park: I thought your article about Aquatic Park hit the bull's-eye ("Balkans by the Bay," Matt Smith, Jan. 16). A key benefit of the Fort Mason...

Music

Far Afield

With Quiet American, Aaron Ximm transforms the whole world into a recording studio

By Darren Keast

Published: January 23, 2002

On the introduction to John Cage's 1965 album Variations IV , a narrator quotes the composer: "Music is all around us, if only we had ears. There would be no need for concert halls if man could...

Reviewed

Matt Pond PA

The Green Fury (Polyvinyl)

By Chris Baty

Published: January 23, 2002

Matt Pond has a frog in his throat. It's a slimy, bloated thing, and Pond is in constant struggle against it, twisting and contorting his voice to push his songs past the obstruction. The melodious...

Pop Philosophy

Seeing -- and Writing and Playing -- Red

Elder statesman

By Dan Strachota

Published: January 23, 2002

In these days of hounding the homeless and embracing wiretaps, it helps to laugh. Fortunately, our fearsome leader, George W. Bush, knows what we need and delivers -- with a pretzel to the larynx...

House of Tudor

Sound Advice

Animal memoirs, royal vocalists, and intestinal fortitude

By Silke Tudor

Published: January 23, 2002

Although the Animals may be second to the Rolling Stones in terms of lasting influence and popularity among British R&B; groups from the '60s, even Brian Jones admitted Animals frontman Eric...

Hear This

The Week's Can't-Miss Performance

The Brooklyn Sax Quartet unleashes a dense matrix of polyrhythms and buttery tones

By Aaron Shuman

Published: January 23, 2002

Though the Brooklyn Sax Quartet is touring the West Coast to support its first CD, The Way of the Saxophone , it would be misleading to hail this as the group's debut. Tenorist David Bindman and...

Eat

Fork-Ups

Women seem to love the place -- if you want to scope babes, Spoon is for you.

By Greg Hugunin

Published: January 23, 2002

"Spoon" sounded like a cool name for a restaurant. It's one of those simple, familiar words that resonate across our great language. The basic meaning refers to the gentlest of eating utensils,...

Social Grace

Good Spirits

The proper way to send a lady a drink

By Social Grace

Published: January 23, 2002

Dear Social Grace, I endeavor to always be a gentleman; however, I have recently run into questions about the propriety of sending a lady a drink at a bar. First, if said lady is sitting at a...

Side Dish

Reinventing the Meal

How valet parking cost one high-powered sommelier $26,000

By Harry Coverte

Published: January 23, 2002

Valet Vamoose It may have been a kinder, gentler grand theft auto, but that doesn't help French Laundry sommelier Keith Fergel, who's now carless after a bar patron swiped his ride from 15...

Film

Hero and Villain

Piñero captures all that was beautiful and ugly about the writer of the same name

By Andy Klein

Published: January 23, 2002

Miguel Piñero was poet, playwright, and actor -- and thief, liar, and junkie. If everyone has within him a mix of the beautiful and the ugly, few of us have either to the extremes...

Reel World

The Gore Gore Girls

Underground filmmakers find horror in everyday San Francisco

By Michael Fox

Published: January 23, 2002

The Gore Gore Girls Modern horror movies imagine psychopaths in hockey masks, zombies in the mall, and other malevolent monsters of the suburban subconscious. In Charm , a scream-packed and...

Reps Etc.

Reps List

Film Reps List for 1-23-2002

Compiled By Gregg Rickman

Published: January 23, 2002

Times compiled from information available Tuesday; it's always advisable to call for confirmation. Price given is standard adult admission; discounts often apply for students, seniors, and members....

Night&Day;

Dramatic Readings

The Poets Theater Jubilee brings verse to the stage

By David Cook

Published: January 23, 2002

Legend has it that Allen Ginsberg's career officially began in October 1955 with his groundbreaking reading of "Howl" at the former Six Gallery. The unprecedented performance not only established...

Night&Day;

Food for Thought

For those with strong stomachs, a reading by the author of Fast Food Nation

By Lisa Hom

Published: January 23, 2002

Sometimes it pays to be kept in the dark. If not for Eric Schlosser 's exposé Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal , I'd be scarfing down a Big Mac and fries right...

Art

Heads Up

These unconventional portraits are all surface -- but they're still loads of fun

By Adrienne Gagnon

Published: January 23, 2002

"Hey check it out -- Alan Greenspan is a rug! That is so rad." The hipster chicks sharing a cigarette on the sidewalk in front of the Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery have discovered the work of Rob...