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Missed Interpretation

Deaf students wonder why officials at UC Berkeley and UC Davis won't hear their plea for equal access to education

By Lisa Davis

Published: March 13, 2002

Shazia Siddiqi's grandmother was the first to notice that her 3-year-old granddaughter wasn't speaking much. Doctors confirmed what her family feared: Shazia is profoundly deaf. With the aid of...

Mecklin

It's the Journalism, Bruce

Why Bruce Brugmann and his Bay Guardian are (by their own admission) failing

By John Mecklin

Published: March 13, 2002

There was a time not very long ago when San Francisco Bay Guardian Publisher Bruce Brugmann thought he was winning the war of the San Francisco weeklies, and back then, he was in a predatory...

Bay View

Go Nuts

You don't have to be crazy to play the Go Game, but it might improve your chances of winning

By Bernice Yeung

Published: March 13, 2002

From a distance, it is a typical winter weekend at Washington Square Park. The wind is gusting, and joggers and dog-walkers streak across the grass, soaking in the sunshine. Local residents lounge...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of March 13, 2002

Published: March 13, 2002

Liberal Bias The problem with diversity and tolerance: When you wrote the article endorsing Mark Leno ("Mark of Effectiveness," Matt Smith, Feb. 27), were you laughing yourself silly after...

Music

Sound and Vision

Without the inventions of Max Matthews, we wouldn't have CDs, MP3s, techno -- or much more

By Darren Keast

Published: March 13, 2002

The graduate course "Music Controller Design and Interface" meets twice a week in a crumbling old ballroom at Stanford. The course's professor, Max Matthews, is in his late 70s and slightly...

Reviewed

Lambchop

Is a Woman (Merge)

Kimberly Chun

Published: March 13, 2002

In the '70s, "countrypolitan" artists such as Charlie Rich fused traditional country with strings and R&B; in an attempt to woo upwardly mobile Southerners. Modern-day ensemble Lambchop shoots for a...

Pop Philosophy

Music Lesson

At Noise Pop, Alex Chilton proves you can be a fucked-up rock star and survive

By Dan Strachota

Published: March 13, 2002

Big stars "I think Alex Chilton's got a thing for 12-year-olds," a guy next to me mumbled during the recent Big Star "reunion" show at the Fillmore. The claim seemed plausible, considering the...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

Wild psychobilly madmen, and campy incarcerated ladies

By Silke Tudor

Published: March 13, 2002

While the Nekromantix caught the attention of psychobilly aficionados during the early 1990s -- when Kim Nekroman first traded his drumsticks for an upright double-bass shaped like a coffin --...

Hear This

Hear This

The Dead C lifts the veil on its mysterious stoner buzz

By Glenn Donaldson

Published: March 13, 2002

A visit by New Zealand noise trio The Dead C is cause for much rejoicing, considering that the legendary group has toured the U.S. only once before, in 1995. Since its debut cassette in 1987, the...

Hear This

Hear This

Mats Gustafsson joins Gregg Goodman and George Cremaschi for rollicking jazz improv

By Sam Prestianni

Published: March 13, 2002

Berkeley baby boomer and improvising pianist Gregg Goodman periodically curates eclectic shows at his performance space, Woody Woodman's Finger Palace. Three years back, he invited touring Swedish...

Eat

Bayou by the Bay

New Orleans comes to Noe Valley

By Matthew Stafford

Published: March 13, 2002

Last fall, eager to clear my brain and spirit after a visit to anxious New York, I boarded Amtrak's southbound Crescent City and headed for New Orleans. It was Halloween when I arrived, and the...

Social Grace

Checks and Balances

The polite way to make a deadbeat friend pick up the check

By Social Grace

Published: March 13, 2002

Dear Social Grace, I have a friend whose company I enjoy: She's funny, clever, intelligent, and kind. The problem arises when we go out for dinner, drinks, lunch, etc. When the check arrives,...

The Mix

Theatrics

The Gold Dust's bartenders don't just mix drinks, they put on a show

By Greg Hugunin

Published: March 13, 2002

To drop by Union Square's Gold Dust Lounge and see Chuck the bartender do his thing -- he may layer you a Fuzzy Nipple (Kahlúa, peach schnapps, and Irish cream) or fire a straw out of an...

Film

Lipstick Traces

You wanna kiss Jessica Stein, but does she merit the attention?

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: March 13, 2002

Kissing Jessica Stein ends several times -- which likely explains how a film with so short a running time, 96 minutes, feels as though it lasts much longer -- and each conclusion satisfies; each...

Reel World

Decodings

A movie historian resurrects a long-dead experimental filmmaker, and a long-departed era of San Francisco

By Michael Fox

Published: March 13, 2002

Decodings In 1997, local experimental filmmaker David Sherman got married at a pagan church and retreat in Geyserville called Isis Oasis. Chatting with the woman who ran the place, Sherman...

Night&Day;

Monkey Business

The otherworldly chanting of Tibet's Gyuto Monks

By Sam Prestianni

Published: March 13, 2002

In a nation where political and religious leaders draw the line between good and the "axis of evil," it can be tough to grasp the central tenets of Buddhism: non-duality (the fundamental...

Night&Day;

Words of Wisdom

Performance artist Sarah Jones transforms into eight women to examine human rights in her solo show

By Lisa Hom

Published: March 13, 2002

Sarah Jones has the uncanny ability to slip in and out of identities the way most of us change our clothes, but her knack for impressions has little to do with physical appearances. A New...

Stage

Ghost Writer

Room evokes Virginia Woolf -- and any author struggling to create

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: March 13, 2002

It may seem wrong to quote Philip Roth in a review that deals with Virginia Woolf, but I can't help it. "When he went to see a production of Waiting for Godot ," writes Roth about the novelist...

Stage

Peer Gynt

ACT successfully takes on Ibsen's hard-to-stage epic

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: March 13, 2002

Ibsen's epic about a self-aggrandizing scoundrel who grows old without growing wise is nearly impossible to stage, but usually worth seeing anyhow. (Ibsen wrote it for readers, not for playgoers; a...