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And a Reagan New Year!

Learning to live with -- and even love -- a retro-'80s fad that just ... won't ... die

By Ben Westhoff

Published: January 1, 2003

Flashing fluorescent colors bounce athletically around the room. "Material Girl" is blasting, and hundreds of people's bangs are losing volume. I'm sweating, and the women all around me are...

Matt Smith

Fissilingual Predictions

Chewing on the past and future is a New Year's cliché that no word-loving breedbate can resist

By Matt Smith

Published: January 1, 2003

With 2002 emitting death rattles and 2003's cervical mucous plug just popping out, it seemed again time to fustigate(1) that reliable bromide: New Year's reflections and predictions. In 2003, will...

Dog Bites

Guesses Over Guinness

The regulars love to subvert the contest. It's yet another twist to the city's toughest pub trivia night.

By Len Albin, Alex Lash

Published: January 1, 2003

Question: Which chanteuse traded salty verses with Shane MacGowan on "Fairytale of New York," the Pogues' Christmas paean to the Irish of the Big Apple? Answer: Kirsty MacColl. Bonus question:...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of January 1, 2003

Published: January 1, 2003

Turning the Tables Wake up, folks!: Your columnist Matt Smith is one of the great American heroes of our time for turning the tables on Total Information Awareness and publishing John...

Music

Preaching to the Unconverted

Martin Luther wants to save your soul -- music, that is

By Darren Keast

Published: January 1, 2003

Martin Luther is explaining the Trojan-horse strategy he's devised for breaking out of his billing as San Francisco's best-kept soul secret. He punches up a song on his Macintosh, sending a...

Reviewed

Sean Paul

Dutty Rock

By Greg Doherty

Published: January 1, 2003

Sean Paul's success in commercial hip hop markets doesn't make him a sellout -- yet. His ubiquitous ganja-burner anthem, "Gimme the Light," is genuine dancehall reggae, even if backed by Atlantic's...

Reviewed

John Peel

FABRICLIVE. 07

By Tamara Palmer

Published: January 1, 2003

Saying that mix CDs are a dime a dozen gives them too much value. The worst of the lot sit pathetically -- and in great quantity -- on the shelves at Tower and Virgin, dressed up with photos of...

House of Tudor

House of Tudor

Plane old new wave/speed metal, the visualization of sound, an African update of Carmen, and the über-proto-feminist lifestyle-radical

By Silke Tudor

Published: January 1, 2003

Equipped with a synthesizer that sounds as if it has rusted and a drum kit that clearly fears for its life, the Portland, Ore., duo Point Line Plane twitches along the lonely, jagged crevice...

Hear This

Hear This

Ipecac Records' fourth annual New Year's Eve Binge and Purge Fest celebrates the label's almost perverse diversity

By Dave Pehling

Published: January 1, 2003

Since being founded by former Alternative Tentacles label manager Greg Werckman and avant-rock maverick Mike Patton in 1999, Ipecac Records has established itself as one of the most eclectic and...

Eat

Half-Baked

Unexpectedly underwhelmed at Roxanne's

By Meredith Brody

Published: January 1, 2003

I put some thought into where I wanted to eat my first review meal in the Bay Area. Should it be someplace brand-new, someplace venerable, someplace that had recently reimagined itself? Someplace...

Film

Hard Luck

Being fortunate brings its own curses in Intacto

By Bill Gallo

Published: January 1, 2003

Intacto , the first feature film by 34-year-old Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, is a complex meditation on luck, fate, and the torments of memory. It has some opaque moments, and once in...

Reel World

My Favorite Year

It's easy to be positive about the upcoming year in local film

By Michael Fox

Published: January 1, 2003

Whether it's the champagne buzz or my natural ebullience I can't say, but I'm always optimistic on Jan. 1. OK, we avid moviegoers are enthusiastic year round , thrilling to trailers, advance...

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Published: January 1, 2003

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;

Nocturne

Surviving the Holocaust through music

By Karen Macklin

Published: January 1, 2003

By Nov. 15, 1940, the Germans had forced nearly 500,000 Polish Jews into a walled ghetto inside Warsaw; by the time the Germans retreated from the country about four years later, only 20 Jews were...

Night&Day;

What the Body Does

Choreographer Joe Goode's first play

By Karen Macklin

Published: January 1, 2003

For nearly two decades, the endlessly imaginative Joe Goode has used his sharp intuition to blur the lines between dance and drama. He and his high-energy ensemble of Bay Area-based move-makers --...

Holiday

Holiday

Published: January 1, 2003

For additional events, see our Music Listings on Page 70. 1984: Welcome 2003 by partying in the '80s, 9 p.m.-4 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31, $15. Cat Club, 1190 Folsom (at Eighth St.), 431-3332....