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This is NOT a story about L.A. Lakers star Kobe Bryant

Meet John Cox, a USF swingman who is a cousin and friend to Kobe -- and quite at home with his own game and his own life

By Matt Palmquist

Published: February 27, 2002

With seven minutes remaining in the first half of a mid-February game, the visiting University of San Francisco Dons begin to break away from their West Coast Conference rivals, the Loyola...

Matt Smith

Mark of Effectiveness

Why Mark Leno ought to serve in the Assembly, and Harry Britt should go back to New College

By Matt Smith

Published: February 27, 2002

I think it's precious that George Deukmejian's legacy -- the one now being claimed by Republican gubernatorial candidates -- would, if it were based on real life, consist mostly of a Sacramento...

Night Crawler

Ann-Margret, in the Flesh

Beyond age 60, the legendary sex kitten has an adoring Castro crowd writhing in ecstasy

By Silke Tudor

Published: February 27, 2002

I still remember the first time I saw Viva Las Vegas . More accurately, I remember the first time I saw Ann-Margret dance, with her bed-tossed hair, those tight black leggings just hinting...

Bay View

Damage Control

S.F.'s Elections Department has been paying a team of PR consultants as much as $225 an hour to polish its tarnished reputation

By Peter Byrne

Published: February 27, 2002

Last fall Tammy Haygood, director of the San Francisco Department of Elections, hired several outside consultants to perform damage control after her department was beleaguered by accusations of...

Dog Bites

The House That Chuck Built

What nasty business is behind the biggest donation to the new gay and lesbian center?

Joel P. Engardio, Lisa Hom

Published: February 27, 2002

When an estimated 7,000 people walk through the doors of San Francisco's new $15 million gay and lesbian community center during a weeklong opening gala next week, prominently displayed above the...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Defending the Public Defender; Landlords vs. Tenants

Published: February 27, 2002

Defending the Public Defender It's the 21st century? Already?: As I read "The Last of the Burtons?" (Feb. 6), I was deeply offended by Peter Byrne's description of Kimiko Burton, our San...

Music

Cutting Edge

With Knife Play, San Jose's Xiu Xiu carves cathartic music from traumatic experience

By Kimberly Chun

Published: February 27, 2002

Even though Xiu Xiu's debut album, Knife Play , is chock-full of references to death and despair, bassist Cory McCulloch insists it could have been a lot bleaker. "I wanted to play really happy...

Reviewed

Brigitte Fontaine & Areski

L'Incendie (Get Back)

Silas Paine

Published: February 27, 2002

In the last 10 years or so, folk music, in all its glorious manifestations, has been steadily reinfecting underground music. What better time, then, for the Italian label Get Back to reissue...

Reviewed

DJ Z-Trip & DJ P

Uneasy Listening, Volume 1 (Self-released)

Greg Doherty

Published: February 27, 2002

Blending a wide array of rock, pop, and rap from the '70s through the '90s, Phoenix's DJ Z-Trip and Tulsa's DJ P whip together a giddy platter of anachronisms on Uneasy Listening, Volume 1 ....

Pop Philosophy

Call the Zookeepers

The elephant known as Noise Pop has wandered into the living room

By Dan Strachota

Published: February 27, 2002

You can't escape it. It's everywhere you go. Your hairstylist, your dentist, your proctologist -- they all want to know about this year's Noise Pop. And if you grumble and grouse and say, "There's...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

Adult.'s dispassionate synth-pop, and Si*Se's diaphanous trip-hop

By Silke Tudor

Published: February 27, 2002

Unraveling the secretive world of Detroit electro is no easy task, given that most of its agents insist upon identity concealment. The history of Adult. is no different. The duo's first release...

Hear This

Hear This

Christopher Adler blows Laotian breezes via the khaen, a traditional mouth organ

By Sam Prestianni

Published: February 27, 2002

While most creative musicians dabble with so-called ethnic instruments in an effort to expand the tonal and timbral range of their work, San Diego's Christopher Adler takes the concept to another...

Eat

Rock 'n' Bowl

Rock Soup

By Matthew Stafford

Published: February 27, 2002

In a childhood crowded with Curious George, Augustus Gloop, and the collected works about Tintin and his dog Snowy, Stone Soup was one of my favorite works of literature. It tells the story of...

Social Grace

Awkward Moments

The difference between West Coast and East Coast manners

By Social Grace

Published: February 27, 2002

Dear Social Grace, I am a fan of your column and generally agree with your replies to readers' questions, but I must disagree with your answer to "Breaking Up With a Friend" [Feb. 6] , who...

The Mix

Rocking Out

Striking a new chord in the Polk Street bar scene

By Greg Hugunin

Published: February 27, 2002

The times are definitely changing on lower Polk Street. You'll still see magnificent-breasted transvestite prostitutes and shady characters nodding from dark alleys, but you also can class it up at...

Film

Good Grief

In The Son's Room, a family falls apart and pulls together

By Bill Gallo

Published: February 27, 2002

Victor Hugo called grief "a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched," and anyone who has ever found himself touching the sleeve of his father's favorite jacket on the day after...

Reel World

Word Is Out

Award winners from the S.F. International Film Festival

By Michael Fox

Published: February 27, 2002

Word Is Out The envelope, please: The winners of the S.F. International Film Festival's esteemed Golden Gate Award for Bay Area Documentary are Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco's Sundance topper,...

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Published: February 27, 2002

Commentary by Gregg Rickman ( greggr1@mindspring.com ). Times compiled from information available Tuesday; it's always advisable to call for confirmation. Price given is standard adult...

Night&Day;

Hungry for Dance

Two choreographers create "nondance" dances in The Stomach Never Lies

By Ann Murphy

Published: February 27, 2002

"Opinion No. 3:," choreographer Selene Colburn says, her voice flat and unadorned like a country girl's at a cow auction, "Rock 'n' roll is the ultimate populist art form." She is standing...

Night&Day;

Out in the Open

A documentary film takes a poignant look at gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews

By Lisa Hom

Published: February 27, 2002

Back in the days I worked at a video store in Flatbush, a Brooklyn neighborhood with a large population of Orthodox Jews, I was always curious about that intensely private group, which seemed as...