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The Fix Is In

At least that's what Janet Campbell claimed about construction bids at UCSF, where she soon found herself out of a job

Peter Byrne

Published: February 26, 2003

The time: February 2001. The place: Moscone Center. The event: a trade show for those involved in the roofing industry. Milling about in the crowd is Janet Campbell, a former UC San Francisco...

Night Crawler

Industrial Activity

"Love 'n' Hades" resurrects the bacchanalian wonder of the urban warehouse party

By Silke Tudor

Published: February 26, 2003

Industrial neighborhoods are the bustling backstage of a city, like the private areas of a colossal opera house where craftsmen, laborers, and visionaries conspire day and night to fabricate ease...

Dog Bites

Dog Bites

Let's make some serious money off all the hippies who come downtown to protest Bush's war

By Ben Westhoff

Published: February 26, 2003

Peace Dividend We went to the war protest rally downtown two Sundays ago, and it was the largest one we have ever been a part of. We think. Possibly it could have been the smallest, since...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of February 26, 2003

Published: February 26, 2003

Viva NASA The Columbia disaster is no reason to ax the space agency: I am an aerospace engineer and a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the National...

Music

Feline Fatale

Enchanting songstress Cat Power flashes her Cheshire grin -- and her newfound strength

By Philip Sherburne

Published: February 26, 2003

Chan Marshall is surrounded by specters from her past, but it doesn't seem to be getting her down. "I'm really happy," she says upon picking up the phone in New York. Her mail has just arrived,...

Reviewed

Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers

The Complete Specialty Recordings

By Lawrence Kay

Published: February 26, 2003

In 1957, the gospel music world was rent asunder with the revelation that Sam Cooke, the 26-year-old lead vocalist of the renowned Soul Stirrers, had sold out and gone pop. Today's listeners may be...

Reviewed

Peven Everett

Studio Confessions

By Greg Doherty

Published: February 26, 2003

Of the recent deluge of neo-soul artists, few are truly new-sounding, but a handful, thankfully, bring the soul. Peven Everett is the latest hotshot, joining hip hop fusionist Goapele and Stevie...

Reviewed

Mickey Baker

The Wildest Guitar

By Mike Rowell

Published: February 26, 2003

Mickey Baker was a major contributor to the transmutation of R&B; to rock, along with his better-known contemporaries Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. The reason Baker's name isn't more visible in rock's...

Reviewed

Pram

Dark Island

By Anthony Bonet

Published: February 26, 2003

Since its debut in 1992, the Birmingham, England, collective Pram has made music that's so deceptively simple it sounds like it was written on a toy piano -- by children on huge doses of Ritalin....

Pop Philosophy

Air Apparent

The Justice League and Cafe Du Nord survive the winds of change

By Dan Strachota

Published: February 26, 2003

Justice lives! Although there was a U-Haul parked outside the Justice League last week, there's no need to worry. Despite erroneous reports of a closing (courtesy of Billy Jam's Hip Hop Slam news...

House of Tudor

House of Tudor

A tribute to the 2-tone sound, and the sophisticated belligerence of Devil Doll

By Silke Tudor

Published: February 26, 2003

The infectious ska hits that bounced across the British charts in 1979 may not have sounded as confrontational as their punk counterparts, but the bands that recorded them were intrinsically...

Hear This

Hear This

The Love Letter Band sends an old-fashioned indie pop Valentine

By Dan Strachota

Published: February 26, 2003

In this age of e-mails and Internet dating, the love letter is an anachronism -- which makes it that much more heartfelt and romantic. Imagine, for a moment, if you were to receive an actual...

Eat

Chow Fun

One restaurant brings folks together in three different neighborhoods

By Meredith Brody

Published: February 26, 2003

"I screwed myself," I thought, fondly, when I couldn't stop thinking about German food long after I'd written my column last week. I'd eaten so well at the four places I'd gone to (the smoked pork...

Social Grace

I Want It Back

When to return the jewelry to your ex, and when to tell him to piss off

By Social Grace

Published: February 26, 2003

Dear Social Grace, A man who ended a relationship with me on Christmas Day after a serious long-term relationship contacted me -- the day after Valentine's Day, I'll just add -- to ask me to...

Film

River of Dreams

Michael Petroni explores where we go Till Human Voices Wake Us

By Gregory Weinkauf

Published: February 26, 2003

Emerging from Till Human Voices Wake Us , it was easy to overhear some male viewers striving adamantly to put the film's metaphysical themes in their place, to explain them away , as it were....

Reel World

Play It to the Bone

"Michelangelo had the pope and da Vinci had the Medici and we got the studio system"

By Michael Fox

Published: February 26, 2003

Ron Shelton makes his movies with studio and foreign money, but his budgets are so tight -- notwithstanding successes like Bull Durham -- that he writes his scripts like an independent filmmaker,...

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Published: February 26, 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;

Sold American

It's the reel thing: Coke and other brands in a funny montage of product placements

By Michael Fox

Published: February 26, 2003

When James Dean flipped up the collar on his red jacket in Rebel Without a Cause , would-be mutineers everywhere went shopping for an identical look. Forty years later, Will Smith provided the...

Night&Day;

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Published: February 26, 2003

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 Forty years after Sylvia Plath's death, the poet is still a source of fascination. Though the story of her tumultuous marriage to fellow bard Ted Hughes and her...

Night&Day;

Art History

Capp Street and installation art -- still crazy after all these years

By Lisa Hom

Published: February 26, 2003

Since it was founded in 1983, the Capp Street Project has often been home to elaborate art installations. In particular, the project's residency program has given installation artists the time,...