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Breaking Out

The break dancing leaders of Sisterz of the Underground blaze a trail for women in hip hop

By Bernice Yeung

Published: August 21, 2002

It is a Monday evening at Cell Space, a Mission District arts venue, and the last rays of sun filter through the yellowing skylights, casting the empty warehouse space in a deep summer glow....

Mecklin

Papered Over

The Chronicle turns its back on the people of Bayview-Hunters Point

By John Mecklin

Published: August 21, 2002

I am probably dating myself, but I remember a running gag in the early days of Spy magazine that revolved around a mathematical equation. The equation was long, with a great many fractions...

Matt Smith

Business as Usual

The problem today isn't shoddy corporate ethics -- capitalism was built on corruption. The problem is America's bias against government regulation.

By Matt Smith

Published: August 21, 2002

There was once a lanky, bespectacled accountant who doted on his daughters, was fond of puns, and, by the mid-1940s, had become very uncomfortable with his job. The accountant was a spontaneous man...

Night Crawler

Collect Call

Dropping in on Mark "Ultranova" at Blackhole for a little obsession with the art of things

By Silke Tudor

Published: August 21, 2002

The evening is mild but unusually dark. Living, as I do, amid the stuttering bedlam of a popular bar neighborhood, I am unaccustomed to the soft darkness of a residential area after 10, even if it...

Dog Bites

Face Full of Memories

San Francisco now has two -- count 'em, two -- adult dodgeball leagues

Matt Palmquist, Ben Westhoff

Published: August 21, 2002

If you remember anything about growing up on America's playgrounds -- and even a lifetime of therapy can't repress all of those golden years -- you remember the searing shock of a large, red ball...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of August 21, 2002

Published: August 21, 2002

The Straight Dope As long as they don't test for diet Coke: Thanks to Matt Smith for pointing out the dire threat to civilization caused by drug-using professional athletes, and thus the...

Music

Immigrant Songs

The Skyflakes -- and the piNoisepop Festival -- put Filipino-American indie music on the map

By Dan Strachota

Published: August 21, 2002

There aren't many rockin' role models for Filipino-American musicians. Among the few are guitarist Kirk Hammett from Metallica (he's one-quarter Filipino), axeman Joey Santiago of the Pixies, the...

Music

Bring the piNoise

Nine festival favorites

By Dan Strachota

Published: August 21, 2002

PiNoisepop 7 takes place Thursday through Saturday, Aug. 22-24, at Bindlestiff Studio. Here are a few of the most intriguing local artists. Bobby Banduria Stand-up comedian and actor Bobby...

Reviewed

Dave Gleason's Wasted Days

Dave Gleason's Wasted Days (Well Worn)

Lawrence Kay

Published: August 21, 2002

The altcountry scene certainly has no shortage of artists genuflecting toward the late, legendary Gram Parsons. Yet few have retraced his steps as thoroughly and as convincingly as Oakland...

Reviewed

Fog

Fog (Ninja Tune)

Philip Sherburne

Published: August 21, 2002

The definition of hip hop has grown roomier than a puffy parka over the years, making space for clean-lined beatboxing, jazzbo noodling, "conscious" polemicizing, thugged-out terrorizing, and a...

Pop Philosophy

Mac Attack

Camper Van Beethoven's long-lost version of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk album resurfaces -- and inspires a reunion

By Dan Strachota

Published: August 21, 2002

Can the Dead Milkmen's version of Running on Empty be far behind? Loads of bands record covers, but few groups are crazy enough to cover a whole album -- let alone a double album. And it...

House of Tudor

House of Tudor

Free-speech wrestlers, all-girl boy bands, musical ninjitsu, and a restored Metropolis

By Silke Tudor

Published: August 21, 2002

During Star Trek: The Next Generation 's run, the show's fans delighted in their hatred of the Enterprise 's über -wimp, Ensign Wesley Crusher, dedicating countless Web pages to his demise....

Hear This

Hear This

Cornelius makes his Point, reconfiguring pop in unpredictable ways

By Lawrence Kay

Published: August 21, 2002

Like many countries, Japan often seems to simply reflect the popular culture of the United States, regurgitating pop, rap, and rock as each style comes along. In recent years, that relationship has...

Eat

New Life

Tong Palace

By Greg Hugunin

Published: August 21, 2002

I cursed whoever firebombed Tong Palace back in January 2001. I'd just discovered the place a week earlier and decided it would make a fabulous addition to my dining repertoire. The old Tong Palace...

Social Grace

Modern Love

The etiquette of online dating

By Social Grace

Published: August 21, 2002

Dear Social Grace, If you join an online dating service, do you have to send replies to everyone who answers your ad, even if you're not interested in meeting them? I know it seems like the...

Film

Vote Here

An election enables Secret Ballot to explore social relations in modernizing Iran

By Jean Oppenheimer

Published: August 21, 2002

Iranian films that make it to American shores generally fall into two categories: sensitive dramas featuring young children, à la The White Balloon and Children of Heaven , or pointed...

Film

Swimming With Sharks

A shy woman comes of age in a socially competitive resort town

By Bill Gallo

Published: August 21, 2002

Most summer movies about the pain of growing up emerge from the same primal ooze -- lots of teenage anxiety mixed with two or three unruly hormones in the stickum of comic discontent. What a...

Reel World

Payday

Rivers and Tides lucrative run has helped save the endangered Roxie Cinema

By Michael Fox

Published: August 21, 2002

Rivers and Tides is a sublime study of the artist Andy Goldsworthy, but it has served an equally worthy purpose as a life preserver for the endangered Roxie Cinema. A record-breaking seven-week...

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Published: August 21, 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;

Seasoned Dancers

This year, you'll find a bittersweet tinge to the comic ballets of the Mark Foehringer Dance Project

By Heather Wisner

Published: August 21, 2002

Comedy matters to choreographer Mark Foehringer , whose work is colored by his unconventional childhood (raised in Brazil by Minnesotan Lutheran missionaries) and by his terpsichorean history,...