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You Grab the Monkey; We'll Bring the Knife

Monkey Knife Fight is everywhere, but what -- oh what -- does it mean?

By Dan Siegler

Published: October 23, 2002

Say the words "Monkey Knife Fight" to anyone who lives in the Mission District, and you'll probably get one hell of a reaction. Prepare to be grabbed by your lapels and thrown a look of excitement...

Matt Smith

Notes From the Edge

The choices are dark and dreary, but the only candidate for governor is (be still, pounding heart) Gray Davis

By Matt Smith

Published: October 23, 2002

As any far-flung news correspondent knows, the remote bureau has clear advantages over the home office. The poor main-newsroom hacks in New York (or London, or wherever the case may be) slog away 9...

Night Crawler

And the Winners Were ...

If you missed this year's SF Weekly Music Awards ... well, what can we say? You screwed up big time, bucko.

By Silke Tudor

Published: October 23, 2002

Though I spend several months every year planning and pondering the chimeric configuration of the SF Weekly Music Awards, I never actually know what will happen. We hire the talent, pack the Bay...

Dog Bites

After the Series, Mumm's the Word

Bubbly and baseball, plus a quirky collection of 78 RPM records

Lessley Anderson, Tommy Craggs

Published: October 23, 2002

To celebrate their National League Championship Series-clinching win over St. Louis a week ago, the Giants cracked open 20 cases of Mumm Cuvée Napa, a delicate, medium-bodied sparkling wine...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of October 23, 2002

Published: October 23, 2002

Bark of Darkness Another happy resident in Matt Smith's bright world: Besides disliking dogs, Matt Smith seems to suffer from a loathing of democracy. The result is another dog-bashing,...

World Series

Series Clincher

Our spies-about-town tell you -- the non-ticketed majority -- the best party spots for World Series watching

Published: October 23, 2002

G I A N T   E X P E C T A T I O N S If, like us, you aren't willing to take on a third mortgage to score tickets to the World Series,...

Music

Who's That Girl?

Pushy's Madeline Minx wants to be both Madonna and Woody Allen

By Dan Strachota

Published: October 23, 2002

A Pixies song plays on the stereo at the Lone Palm bar, followed by tunes from the Smiths and the White Stripes. Madeline Minx doesn't seem to notice any of them, resolutely sipping from her...

Reviewed

LCD Soundsystem

"Losing My Edge" (DFA)

By Philip Sherburne

Published: October 23, 2002

The retro '80s fetish is in full force these days, with acts such as Fischerspooner, W.I.T., and Felix da Housecat rocking bubbly synth-pop and rehashed new wave, and leg warmers, skinny ties, and...

Reviewed

Cynthia Dall

Sound Restores Young Men (Drag City)

By Mike Rowell

Published: October 23, 2002

San Francisco resident Cynthia Dall first surfaced in the early '90s as a photo stylist and model for Lisa Carver's Rollerderby zine, creating salacious and disturbing images for the infamous...

Reviewed

Tipsy

Remix Party! (Asphodel)

By Dave Pehling

Published: October 23, 2002

One of the first outfits to focus sampling tricknology on creating a modern counterpart to Jean-Jacques Perrey's '60s electronic avant-pop and Les Baxter's exotic '50s orchestrations, Tipsy crafts...

Pop Philosophy

Make Sure There Aren't Any Squares at My Funeral

Punk hero Matty Luv passes on

By Dan Strachota

Published: October 23, 2002

Life is cheap, but living is expensive Wakes tend to be somber affairs, in which people in suits suck down weak drinks and gnaw on snacks that, no matter how well-prepared, taste like chalk....

House of Tudor

House of Tudor

Electroclashers, grotesque miscreations, and flying imbeciles

By Silke Tudor

Published: October 23, 2002

Just as fashion hound Malcolm McLaren ingratiated himself into the heart of the punk scene after meeting the New York Dolls, 43-year-old New York club DJ Larry Tee -- best known for the RuPaul hit...

Hear This

Hear This

Amon Tobin's gorgeous, genre-mashing electronica

By Garrett Kamps

Published: October 23, 2002

A while back, it seemed like electronic music pundits couldn't invent subgenres fast enough. You had trip hop, techstep, breakbeat, broken beat, illbient, ambient, drill 'n' bass, IDM, and a dozen...

Eat

Supper With the Sultan

A La Turca

By Matthew Stafford

Published: October 23, 2002

Go just about anywhere in the world and you'll find that the tastiest, most authentic regional foods aren't found in four-star hotels or carefully sanitized McRestaurants but at sidewalk food...

Social Grace

Get a Grip

Handshaking smackdown: the wimpy wrists vs. the bone-crushers

By Social Grace

Published: October 23, 2002

Dear Social Grace, Sometimes when people -- it's always men, now that I think of it -- shake my hand, they squeeze too hard. This happens a lot, and I'm certain at least some of them are doing...

The Mix

Mission Too

Avoid the Mission's pee stink when you venture south of Cesar Chavez

By Greg Hugunin

Published: October 23, 2002

Trek south of Cesar Chavez Street and you'll enter what could be called the Other Mission, an area that doesn't run as deep, barwise, as the Mission proper, but that spares you the ever-present pee...

Film

The New Deal

Starting fresh, Jerry Seinfeld once again works hard for nothing

By Luke Y. Thompson

Published: October 23, 2002

You ever notice those people? You know, the so-called "stand-up comedians"? Who are those people? What's the deal with them? And what does that mean, anyway, "stand-up"? I mean, it's not like...

Reel World

The Miracle Worker

Our intrepid columist helps save the Presidio Theater from oblivion

By Michael Fox

Published: October 23, 2002

Back on March 20, we reported that Gorilla Sports had abandoned its proposal to expand its sweatbox Shangri-La into the Presidio Theater space. This followed the news that the current tenant,...

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Published: October 23, 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;

Swan Song

Giselle locked in a psych ward? Must be Mats Ek's Swan Lake

By Heather Wisner

Published: October 23, 2002

Just as Swan Lake is one of the best-loved Romantic ballets, Swedish choreographer Mats Ek is one of the most highly regarded revisionists of the classical repertoire (keeping good company with...