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How dangerous is Al Qaeda in America?

A public service message brought to you by the U.S. Justice Department, SF Weekly, and other patriots

By Mark Athitakis

Published: July 3, 2002

          THE AL QAEDA THREAT: R ecently, you may...

Matt Smith

Unbusy Signal

How long does it take Pac Bell to install a phone? Let us count the days.

By Matt Smith

Published: July 3, 2002

For every summertime delight, there's a downside. Flies always follow Popsicles, and if summer vacation brings joy to most students, it also lets the schoolyard bully rampage free. In this, the...

Night Crawler

All's Faerie in Love and Lore

It's futile to insist on certainty when you're talking to, or about, the Radical Faeries

By Silke Tudor

Published: July 3, 2002

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. -- Sir James Matthew Barrie I...

Dog Bites

Date Night

How you, too, can be named one of S.F.'s 100 most eligible bachelors

Jane Meredith Adams, Jason Dorn, Matt Palmquist

Published: July 3, 2002

A few months ago when we picked up the Valentine issue of the Nob Hill Gazette, we were intrigued by the "Top 100 Most Eligible Bachelors." We thought to ourselves, "How does one go about...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of July 3,2002

Published: July 3, 2002

Balancing the Account The controller responds: As I told your reporter, I was not going to interrupt my work on the city's budget to respond to your four-page list of 36 questions related...

Music

The Keys to Success

DJ Lebowitz may be the strangest punk pianist around -- or even the only one

By Nancy Einhart

Published: July 3, 2002

The sign on the wall of Haight Street's swanky Club Deluxe says "DJ Lebowitz," but what most of the rain-mussed crowd doesn't realize is that the spiky-haired hipster spinning easy-listening tunes...

Reviewed

The Flatlanders

Now Again (New West)

By Lawrence Kay

Published: July 3, 2002

Sometimes country bands are like high-class wines: They just need time to ripen. That's certainly the case with the Flatlanders -- Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock -- West Texans...

Reviewed

Hank Dogs

Half Smile (spinART)

By Chris Baty

Published: July 3, 2002

Ah, the minor key. Folkies have been inhabiting its flattened thirds and darkened chords for generations, culling pathos from its ample stock of yearning, erecting careers in its shadowy glens....

Pop Philosophy

The War on Raves

Forget terrorists; let's fight the dancers

By Dan Strachota

Published: July 3, 2002

You can dance if you want to -- well, no, you can't The government doesn't want you to dance. Actually, the government doesn't want you to take drugs, and it thinks that getting you to stop...

Hear This

Hear This

Puffy AmiYumi brings its madcap genre interpolations stateside

By Charlie Amter

Published: July 3, 2002

America must be a humbling place for Puffy AmiYumi. First, Sean "Puffy" Combs makes Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura alter their band name from Puffy to Puffy AmiYumi for stateside releases, and then...

Eat

World Beat

Peña PachaMama

By Matthew Stafford

Published: July 3, 2002

Up in the towering reaches of the Andes, in present-day Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, the descendants of the Incas still indulge in an age-old celebration known as a pachamama . A great pit is dug...

Social Grace

Armed and Courteous

What's the polite way to tell someone you're packing a gun?

By Social Grace

Published: July 3, 2002

Dear Social Grace, Because I am a responsible adult who feels it is my moral obligation to take responsibility for my own safety, as well as being trained and equipped to protect the safety of...

The Mix

Trendspotting

Where the fashionistas drink

By Greg Hugunin

Published: July 3, 2002

Blame the soft, forgiving lighting or an ever-present house soundtrack that can make the shortest stroll feel like a sashay down the catwalk, but XYZ , in Third Street's tony W Hotel, seems a fine...

Film

Sex and the Special Bus

Romance gets retarded in Pumpkin

By Gregory Weinkauf

Published: July 3, 2002

If there's any truth to reincarnation, the spirit of Napoleon may walk among us today. It's not unreasonable to conjecture that he has taken up residence in Bill Gates or Joel Silver, but --...

Reel World

Independence Day

The good news: A major studio turned his book into a movie. The bad news: Hardly anyone will ever see it.

By Michael Fox

Published: July 3, 2002

Imagine this: You write a successful novel, and soon thereafter some Hollywood types show up with an enticing offer. Even better, the people in question have talent, track records, and a major...

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Published: July 3, 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;

Out of West Africa

The legendary Orchestra Baobab has reunited and is bringing its Pan-African sound to San Francisco

By Sam Prestianni

Published: July 3, 2002

The vibrant port city of Dakar has inspired some of the world's most gifted black musicians, from popular Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour to American jazz legend John Coltrane. In 1970, an...

Night&Day;

Time Travelers

An avant-garde choreographer re-creates historic San Francisco photos in real life

By Lisa Hom

Published: July 3, 2002

Avant-garde choreographer Ann Carlson has worked with nontraditional performers before -- including live animals. The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts artist-in-residence incorporated lawyers,...

Stage

Songs to Die By

Sean San José moves from raw nerve to whole person in this band-backed play about AIDS

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: July 3, 2002

You may have heard that Sean San José's new solo show, I Feel Love , is about his parents, who died of AIDS. That's not true. The show is about almost everything else. The main character --...

Stage

Bodies and Hearts in the Face of the Monster

It's a variation on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair, but with genders reversed. If you think that sounds interesting, you're mistaken

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: July 3, 2002

Toni Press-Coffman's play about sex and the media reverses the Monica Lewinsky formula: Instead of a powerful older man shtupping a cow-eyed intern, we watch a middle-aged, female mayor seduce a...