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The Revolutionary Test for Lung Cancer

... the medical establishment doesn’t want you to have. Yet.

By Matt Palmquist

Published: July 24, 2002

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. -- John Kenneth Galbraith, economist Dr. Fred Grannis, the...

Matt Smith

The Nature of Politics

Dog owners, compliant pols viciously distort a reasonable attempt to preserve our environmental legacy

By Matt Smith

Published: July 24, 2002

Retired Golden Gate Park gardener Jake Sigg parks his decades-old Volkswagen Beetle at the end of a cul-de-sac halfway up Mount Davidson, steps slowly onto the street, and gives me a friendly, if...

Bay View

Career Noir

Pamela Olsen once planned parties for Pacific Heights matrons. Now she interviews prostitutes and murderers as a private eye.

By John Geluardi

Published: July 24, 2002

It's just past 9 p.m. and novice private investigator Pamela Olsen is walking down a particularly notorious stretch of Capp Street looking for hookers. At first the street is quiet and Olsen thinks...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of July 24, 2002

Published: July 24, 2002

A Golden Shower of Mail Inquiring minds: I understand Matt Smith being upset that the Board of Supervisors did not cut funding for SFO Enterprises as he had recommended in his recent...

Reviewed

Laura Minor

Salesman's Girl (HighTone)

By Chris Baty

Published: July 24, 2002

Salesman's Girl was never supposed to happen. If everything had gone according to plan, Laura Minor would still be tucked away in a Floridian ivory tower, working on her doctorate in poetry. But...

Reviewed

Track Star

Lion Destroyed the Whole World (Better Looking)

Published: July 24, 2002

It's been a while -- five years, to be exact -- but San Francisco's Track Star has finally gotten around to releasing its second full-length, Lion Destroyed the Whole World . The band has made a...

Music

Daydream Believer

Mickey Tachibana dreams of a museum for electronic music

By Dan Strachota

Published: July 24, 2002

Although it's world famous, the Drum Machine Museum isn't exactly the most high-profile arts space. In fact, you can't even see the structure from the street. The museum -- along with owner Mickey...

Pop Philosophy

There's a Riot Goin' On

Ladyfest goes grrl crazy

By Dan Strachota

Published: July 24, 2002

Putting the "Grr!" in grrl power At the Ladyfest Bay Area press conference several weeks back Loolwa Khazzoom explained the driving force behind her new book, Consequence: Beyond Resisting...

House of Tudor

House of Tudor

Gorgeous gams, Country Teasers, and a smattering of sin

By Silke Tudor

Published: July 24, 2002

Depending on your age, you might remember Ann Miller as the comely brunette who danced atop a soup can in an early '70s Heinz commercial, or you could recall her as the luscious "showgirl with...

Hear This

Hear This

Published: July 24, 2002

After forming in 1979, the band released a scant handful of singles and one full-length, opening in Beantown for everyone from the Dead Kennedys to the Cure and blazing a trail across the United...

Eat

Mack Daddy

Chez Papa Bistrot

By Greg Hugunin

Published: July 24, 2002

Chez Papa is doing good business. No, let me correct that: Chez Papa is doing amazing, stupendous, crowded-out-the-door-every-night good business. Critical objectivity aside, I'm glad to see it,...

Social Grace

When Parents Attack

How do you handle a father who won't shut up about his conservative political views?

By Social Grace

Published: July 24, 2002

Hi, Social Grace! My father has a horrible habit of bringing up politics at family gatherings and then attacking people for not sharing his conservative point of view. He'll do this in the...

Side Dish

Remember the Little People

Julia Child celebrates her 90th birthday with an over-the-top feast in S.F.

By Harry Coverte

Published: July 24, 2002

Child's Play On Aug. 1 Julia Child will celebrate her 90th birthday at a party at the Fifth Floor (12 Fourth St.), where in-house chef Laurent Gras and chef Ron Siegel of Masa's will prepare an...

Reel World

Half the Kingdom

The Jewish Film Festival loses its director after 21 years

By Michael Fox

Published: July 24, 2002

Half the Kingdom When the 22nd S.F. Jewish Film Festival kicks off tomorrow night (see Night & Day), longtime director Janis Plotkin will make a surprise announcement: She's stepping down at the...

Film

Powers Off

In Goldmember, Myers' mojo is running low

By Gregory Weinkauf

Published: July 24, 2002

Not much has changed in the 11 years since Mike Myers used the Wayne's World movies as a personal launch pad, tipping his James Bond-spoofing Austin Powers hand only when he was strong enough...

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Published: July 24, 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 admission;...

Night&Day;

Quick Draws

Two shows celebrate the raw world of underground comics, past and present

By Sura Wood

Published: July 24, 2002

The revolutionary Underground Comix artists of the 1960s and '70s forged a free-expression zone where radical politics, drugs, violence, and especially sex -- the more salacious the better -- were...

Night&Day;

Films and Shooting

Two of the most powerful documentaries in this year's Jewish Film Festival are about ... Palestinians

By Gary Morris

Published: July 24, 2002

Most niche film festivals stick pretty much to their subject. With the Silent Film Festival, you get silent movies. Tranny Fest features, well, trannies. The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival ,...

Art

Introductions

Two local artists exhibit for the first time

By Adrienne Gagnon

Published: July 24, 2002

Summer is a sleepy season for the art world. Curators and gallery directors flock to Europe's art carnivals (Documenta, Art Basel, and the like), hoping to pin down that elusive taxonomy of what's...

Stage

Give Till It Hurts

A solid, if conventional, ending for the new Aurora Theatre's first season

By Michael Scott Moore

Published: July 24, 2002

Michael Frayn's Benefactors is nothing like the playwright's two most famous works, which are nothing like each other. Noises Off! is a wild, busy farce about an acting troupe; Copenhagen is...