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The Fire Next Time

Tony Fitzpatrick, an S.F.-based engineer and world-renowned authority on tall buildings, says the most reasonable response to the World Trade Center disaster is also one of the simplest: improved fire codes for skyscrapers

By Matt Smith

Published: September 25, 2002

Of all the acts of ostentatious frippery accompanying Great Britain's bid to lay exclusive claim to Jan. 1, 2000, the Millennium Bridge over the River Thames was perhaps the most humiliating. Not...

Night Crawler

Breaking Up in Public Is Hard to Do

Enduring the heart-rending dissolution ceremony of writers M.I. Blue and Katy Bell

By Silke Tudor

Published: September 25, 2002

M.I. BLUE and KATY BELL are pleased to announce their formal Dumping of Each Other on Sunday, September 22nd at SPANGANGA and you are invited to: SPLITSVILLE ! Bring your Ex-Lover!...

Bay View

Turf Battle

Women's pro football players return to Kezar with a new team in a new league, but still without fans

By Lisa Davis

Published: September 25, 2002

Listed on the San Francisco Tsunami women's football team's Web site, under "employment opportunities": 2002 coaching staff. Back in January, about a minute after the last game of its only season...

Dog Bites

Why Was the Dot-Com Boom So Bad, Again?

The new New Economy: Making "spirit rocks" in a dank basement and attending "Manifesting Money the Psychic Way"

Andrea Nelson, Ben Westhoff

Published: September 25, 2002

The phrase "arts and crafts" sends most artists into cold sweats, but not nearly as quickly as the phrase "data entry," which is why we responded recently to a Craigslist job posting for "arts and...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of September 25, 2002

Published: September 25, 2002

Sartorial Supervision Perhaps Newsom should consider a nice burka: I had a good laugh while reading your article "Image Is Everything" [Matt Smith, Aug. 14]. I attend the supervisors'...

Music

Sophisticated Boom Boom

S.F.'s Famous Burlesque Orchestra provides a safe haven for punks, gorillas, and other odd characters

By Dan Strachota

Published: September 25, 2002

Burlesque is back in a big way -- and we're not just talking bra size. The bawdy theatrical form, which disappeared after the advent of topless bars and porno flicks in the '60s, was originally...

Reviewed

Emily Sparks

What Could Not Be Buried (Wishing Tree)

Chris Baty

Published: September 25, 2002

If there's one thing living in Oakland has made clear, it's that God invented car stereos in a tribute to Mary J. Blige. To hear "No More Drama" booming out of a crappy Continental on a Saturday at...

Reviewed

Psychokinetics

Sensory Descent (Ill Kinetics)

Dave Pehling

Published: September 25, 2002

A standard dilemma for underground rap acts has always been how to deftly bring their more complex, studio-crafted rhymes and beats to life onstage. For Bay Area scene stalwarts Psychokinetics,...

Pop Philosophy

The Monster Mash-up

2 Many DJ's is never enough

By Dan Strachota

Published: September 25, 2002

These boots are made for playin' Songs called "mash-ups" (or "boots") are all the rage these days, with people taking the a cappella version of one tune and the instrumental backing of another...

House of Tudor

House of Tudor

A charming musical grifter, and hell-raising rock-poster artists

By Silke Tudor

Published: September 25, 2002

At his recent appearance at the Odeon, Jason Webley stepped out onto the intimate stage wearing a dentist's smock and a white mask, a shock of orange hair sprouting from his cranium and a...

Hear This

Hear This

The Dave Holland Big Band resurrects booming, brassy old-school jazz

By Sam Prestianni

Published: September 25, 2002

Since first stepping into the spotlight in the late '60s with a stint supporting Miles Davis, U.K. bassist and composer Dave Holland has been in demand as a sideman for his impeccable sense of...

Eat

That's Amore

Pizza parlors

By Matthew Stafford

Published: September 25, 2002

A friend from North Carolina once told me that one of the more popular snack items in the Raleigh area is something called California pizza. What's that? I asked. "Oh, you know," she said, "pizza...

Social Grace

Spit or Swallow?

Etiquette tips for those too timid to send inedible food back to the kitchen

By Social Grace

Published: September 25, 2002

Dear Social Grace, At a restaurant dinner with family and friends, my girlfriend enjoyed the taste but not the texture of her mussels. She didn't want to swallow what was not completely...

The Mix

The Sporting Life

Where to watch baseball and football on 16, 17, or 18 TVs

By Greg Hugunin

Published: September 25, 2002

If there's a problem with watching sports on Sundays during early autumn it's that the average fan lacks the equipment to do the job right. Hence, folks trek to Zeke's , at the corner of Third...

Film

Might Makes Reich

In Das Experiment, ordinary volunteers quickly turn totalitarian

By Bill Gallo

Published: September 25, 2002

It's tempting to see Das Experiment , Oliver Hirschbiegel's harrowing drama about a radical prison-behavior experiment that goes terribly wrong, as specifically German. When most of the volunteer...

Reel World

The A-Clip A-List

A project to splice protest shorts in between mainstream film trailers

By Michael Fox

Published: September 25, 2002

A Merry War A German named Klaus Weber, dismayed by the frenzied redevelopment of Berlin that altered his city's character in the mid-'90s, conceived a novel form of protest: He and some friends...

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Published: September 25, 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;

Battle of the Big Tops

The acrobatic, emotional brilliance of Cirque Éloize

By Karen Macklin

Published: September 25, 2002

In recent years, Montreal has become the birthplace of a new brand of theater called cirque nouveau -- a highly acrobatic, animal-free breed of circus with a European flair. Anyone with a finger...

Night&Day;

Baz's Bohème

Can the director of Moulin Rouge succeed in the opera?