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The Sounds of Silence

Why the Bay Area has stopped producing big-time rock bands

By Chris Baty, Nancy Einhart, Philip Sherburne, Dan Strachota

Published: September 18, 2002

What happened to you, San Francisco? You used to be the epicenter of musical culture, the pulsating beacon of righteous noise, the kind bud in the bong of rock. More than almost any other U.S. city...

Mecklin

Rude Awakening

Major news organizations need to snap out of 9/11 emotionalism and ask impolite financial questions about Saudi elites and President Bush

By John Mecklin

Published: September 18, 2002

Periodically, I get a phone call from some journalist or other, wanting to know what I know, from a prior journalistic lifetime, about George W. Bush's possible financial connections to this or...

Night Crawler

Remembrance of a Restaurant Past

Caffè Proust has closed. Long live the Marcel Proust Support Group.

By Silke Tudor

Published: September 18, 2002

In the essay "The Handling of Neurotics," found in issue No. 2 of Proust Said That , founder and publisher P Segal writes, "Mine has always been the intuitive approach; being deeply neurotic...

Dog Bites

Project Censored

Lefty weeklies are always bitching about the mainstream press. Here're some rotten chestnuts we wish the alternative press would quit serving up.

By Peter Byrne, Matt Palmquist

Published: September 18, 2002

Every year, the renowned journalistic citadel at Sonoma State University unveils Project Censored, a list of the top 25 stories the mainstream media purportedly overlooked or undercovered in their...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of September 18, 2002

Published: September 18, 2002

Burning Mad Hey, some of our best friends have purple hair: Lessley Anderson's piece on the way Burning Man's people manipulate the press was an appalling example of the slack supposed...

Music

Cold Chillin'

Hip hop's Atmosphere hails from an unlikely place -- Minnesota

By Dan Reines

Published: September 18, 2002

There's the South Bronx, sure, and Brooklyn. Then there's Philly, of course, and Compton and the whole damn Dirty South. There's lots of places you'd expect hip hop to come from. Minnesota is not...

Reviewed

Sleater-Kinney

One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)

By Nancy Einhart

Published: September 18, 2002

Despite what Greil Marcus and other critics might tell you, Sleater-Kinney is not for everyone. With a plethora of articles in the mainstream press, including a 2001 piece in Time that proclaimed...

Reviewed

Jazzanova

In Between (Atlantic/Ropeadope)

By Andrew Strickman

Published: September 18, 2002

The spirit behind artistic collectives -- be they visual, theatrical, or musical -- is to bring together divergent perspectives to create something at once confluent and strongly independent. The...

Reviewed

Various Artists

Like, Omigod! The '80$ Pop Culture Box (Totally) (Rhino)

By Lawrence Kay

Published: September 18, 2002

There are few moments in current popular culture as delicious as watching a washed-up Martha Quinn shilling on a late-night infomercial for Time-Life's Sounds of the '80s collection. When asked...

Pop Philosophy

Women who Love Women; A Guy Who Hates Noise

The CW Saloon morphs into a lesbian bar, and Kimo's tries to stay open

By Dan Strachota

Published: September 18, 2002

Wait, does this mean Dinah Shore was gay? You win some, you lose some. It's an age-old saying -- overheard as far back as the Crucifixion -- but now it's taking on new meaning thanks to the...

House of Tudor

House of Tudor

A rap-war documentary, the old new wave, and Gypsy-fied French noir

By Silke Tudor

Published: September 18, 2002

In Nick Broomfield's documentary Kurt & Courtney , Ms. Love is portrayed as a greedy, manipulative, vicious, untalented bulldozer of a woman who will threaten anyone who stands in her pathway to...

Hear This

Hear This

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs ride a tsunami of garage-punk hype into town

By Garrett Kamps

Published: September 18, 2002

There's a track on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' self-titled debut called "Art Star," on which singer Karen O satirizes the hype-induced rise of a conceptual artist. Ironically, although this song was...

Eat

A Perfect 10

Osha Thai Noodle Cafe

By Greg Hugunin

Published: September 18, 2002

Consider yourself lucky if you have a 10-spot in your pocket: It's all you need to enjoy the splendors of Osha, a late-night Thai noodle joint that delivers more flavor for the dollar than any...

Social Grace

A Force for Civilization

It's OK to give the cold shoulder to racists

By Social Grace

Published: September 18, 2002

Dear Social Grace, A friend and I were at a bar, and we struck up a friendly conversation with the guy next to us, and we were having a pleasant conversation until he said something very...

Film

Alice Unchained

In Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki soars through the looking glass

By Luke Y. Thompson

Published: September 18, 2002

I might as well just come out and say it: Spirited Away is the best movie I've seen all year. Though it would be a masterpiece in any language, Hayao Miyazaki's animated spectacular (and Japan's...

Reel World

The Midnight Story

Wishing for rain-slicked streets during the S.F. Film Noir Festival

By Michael Fox

Published: September 18, 2002

One of the reigning authorities in film noir, waggish Alameda historian and novelist Eddie Muller, is plotting a major retrospective with Castro Theatre programmer Anita Monga. The San Francisco...

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Published: September 18, 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;

Paufve's Moment

Marilyn Monroe meets the Guerrilla Girls in this passionate, polished dance

By Ann Murphy

Published: September 18, 2002

Every once in a while, a local choreographer comes along who shatters the complacent run of things. Something about her work -- craft, wit, intelligence, a riveting perspective -- makes the viewer...

Night&Day;

Annual Resolution

Focus in on digital filmmaking at this year's ResFest

By Lisa Hom

Published: September 18, 2002

Once the bailiwick of indie filmmakers, the digital revolution has many of Hollywood's bigwigs clamoring for a piece of the pie. With everyone from Steven Soderbergh to George Lucas to Spike Lee...

Art

Block Party

Lacking an arts center,Oakland artists take over a neighborhood

By Adrienne Gagnon

Published: September 18, 2002

One of the great absurdities of the Bay Area art scene is that Oakland, home to a staggering number of local artists, has long lacked many viable outlets for showing and selling art. The city has...