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Art of the Scare

How two Bay Area animators hope to revolutionize Saturday-morning TV

By Joel P. Engardio

Published: March 27, 2002

Mrs. Oglesby is one scary-looking substitute teacher. She's got the requisite mean scowl, gray hair pulled into a tight bun, and horn-rimmed glasses. But that's nothing compared to the giant toilet...

Matt Smith

Staying Alive

An AIDS vaccine should be our government's highest priority. So why is one researcher forced to seek funding from the War on Terrorism?

By Matt Smith

Published: March 27, 2002

At 7:30 a.m. last Wednesday, a day after a roundtable about HIV among Native Americans, and a few hours before a discussion of spirituality and HIV, Don Francis sat on a stage at last week's...

Night Crawler

The Slime of Their Lives

At a messy party for the fetishists known as "sploshers," love is a many-splattered thing

By Silke Tudor

Published: March 27, 2002

In the early 1990s, there was a very nervous little man, with eyeglasses and a baby-bald head, who used to troll South of Market nightclubs armed with a suitcase of pies and a somewhat tentative...

Bay View

Pet Project

A legislator's lighthearted write-your-own-law contest has led to a serious bill to protect animals and kids from antifreeze poisoning

By Matt Palmquist

Published: March 27, 2002

Almost six months after announcing his "There Oughta Be a Law" contest ("Lawmaker for a Day," Dog Bites, Sept. 19, 2001), Assemblyman Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) still couldn't decide which of the...

Dog Bites

For $5.60, We'll Cab It

The high price of buying a Muni pass online

Matt Palmquist

Published: March 27, 2002

Walking to the corner liquor store and interacting with an actual human has always seemed a bit of a chore just to buy a Muni Fast Pass, so we were intrigued to find a link on Muni's home page that...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of March 27, 2002

Published: March 27, 2002

Sound and Fury At Cal, the deaf aren't being heard: In Lisa Davis' "Missed Interpretation" (March 13), we are given a bird's-eye view of the barriers to academic success at Cal for what is...

Music

Joy to the New World

Too Much Joy's Tim Quirk rediscovers the spirit of music-making -- and a unique way to finance a record.

By Andrew Strickman

Published: March 27, 2002

In one 24-hour period last year, Tim Quirk made more money from his recordings than he earned in 12 years fronting the revered underground act Too Much Joy. "Having come up through the indies and...

House of Tudor

House Of Tudor

Sleazy Parisian electro, noirish Australian folk-rock, and intoxicating Turkish world beat

By Silke Tudor

Published: March 27, 2002

Four years after Miss Kittin & the Hacker dominated European dance floors with their Champagne EP, the Grenoble-born electromantic duo has arrived in the States with First Album . Those who...

Hear This

Hear This

The All Girl Summer Fun Band serves up good times and clever lyrics, indie-pop style

By Dan Strachota

Published: March 27, 2002

Some bands are perfectly named. The Supreme Dicks were so cantankerous they were banned from playing at their college; the Butthole Surfers sounded as shit-encrusted and twisted as that name; and,...

Pop Philosophy

Me and you and Bobby McGee

Tribute's just another word for nothing left to lose

By Dan Strachota

Published: March 27, 2002

Before 1969, Kris Kristofferson's biggest achievement was serving as janitor at the Nashville studio where Bob Dylan recorded Blonde on Blonde . In the space of a few short years, however,...

Reviewed

Carolyn Mark and Her Room-Mates

A Tribute To the Soundtrack of Robert Altman's Nashville (Mint)

Lawrence Kay

Published: March 27, 2002

Carolyn Mark is one of those troubling examples of altcountry singers who seem completely devoted to the music, but only in an exaggerated, stereotype-laden fashion that undercuts the style's real...

Reviewed

Cabaret Voltaire

The Living Legends
Mix-Up
The Voice of America
Red Mecca (Mute)

Philip Sherburne

Published: March 27, 2002

We tend to link musical styles closely with fashion trends. It's now almost unthinkable that in the mid-'70s, when hair was feathered, bottoms were belled, and disco and classic rock ruled the...

Eat

Catching a Buzz

Cozmo's Corner Grill

By Matthew Stafford

Published: March 27, 2002

"The most beautiful sound in the world," said E.B. White, "is the tinkle of ice at sunset." San Francisco has always lived and breathed the music of tinkling ice; the town is admittedly conducive...

Social Grace

Guest Pests

What to do about wedding invitees who have their own ideas for planning the event

By Social Grace

Published: March 27, 2002

Dear Social Grace, My fiancé and I are planning a very small wedding. We're well into our thirties, and we're paying for the reception ourselves, on a limited budget. My parents are...

The Mix

Over the Hill

A drinking tour of Potrero

By Greg Hugunin

Published: March 27, 2002

If comfort is the quality you seek in a bar, you need only know one thing: Sadie's Flying Elephant , at Mariposa and Potrero, is home to one of the finest lounge chair collections in the city. The...

Film

Being Leon Barlow

Big Bad Love spends two hours inside a writer's tortured mind

By Bill Gallo

Published: March 27, 2002

The last thing most rookie movie directors would (or should) try to do is crawl inside the fertile, chaotic mind of an impoverished, drunken Southern writer, then throw the whole interior mess up...

Reel World

Amores Perros

A deportation scare gives Mexican filmmaker Carlos Bolado new insight into the film he's shooting in the Mission

By Michael Fox

Published: March 27, 2002

Amores Perros The postman rang twice for Mexican filmmaker Carlos Bolado, and the second time was bad news. "The same week I received the script for Reuben Cabrillo , I received a letter saying...

Night&Day;

Fright Night

"Experiments in Terror" is a night of films creepy enough to unnerve even jaded moviegoers

By Michael Fox

Published: March 27, 2002

It's easy for moviemakers to spook teenagers already unnerved by puberty and the specter of impending adulthood. Scaring grown-ups is a whole different set of knives, but too many horror flicks...

Night&Day;

Drama Queen

A festival of one-acts pays tribute to perhaps America's greatest playwright, Tennessee Williams

By Lisa Hom

Published: March 27, 2002

The late Tennessee Williams, arguably the greatest American playwright and the author of such classics as A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , once stated that his goal was to...

Books

One Book, One State

If San Franciscans tried to choose a single book to read, we'd kill each other. Fortunately, it's been chosen for us.

By Karen Silver

Published: March 27, 2002

It would begin with a committee. A secret group of well-meaning literary types -- booksellers, librarians, and academics -- would get together to choose the "right" book for all of San Francisco to...