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See No Evil

S.F. Archbishop William Levada styles himself as a leading advocate for openness among Catholic leaders on the clergy sex-abuse issue. So why doesn't he practice what he preaches?

By Ron Russell

Published: May 21, 2003

At a momentous gathering of U.S. Catholic bishops last June -- the first such conclave after the clergy sex-abuse scandal erupted in Boston and spread across the nation -- San Francisco Archbishop...

Matt Smith

SFO My God

Airport officials have bungled their international business efforts so badly, the city attorney has to investigate

By Matt Smith

Published: May 21, 2003

The president, the national congress, and the business leadership of Honduras have spent a good part of May attempting to unwind a financial debacle created by a group of employees who work for the...

Bay View

Hot Story

Navy admits burning 600,000 gallons of radioactive fuel at S.F. shipyard

By Lisa Davis

Published: May 21, 2003

With little fanfare, U.S. Navy officials in charge of cleaning up the Hunters Point Shipyard acknowledged last week that Navy personnel had burned large amounts of fuel contaminated with...

Dog Bites

The Anarchist Knitting Circle

Mike Benham is a young man searching for community. And searching. And searching.

By Lessley Anderson

Published: May 21, 2003

In 2000, Harvard sociology professor Robert D. Putnam tracked the erosion of American social networks and civic involvement in his book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of May 21, 2003

Published: May 21, 2003

Five Alarm Controversy What an uninformed cheap shot this was: I read with great dismay and disgust the column written by Matt Smith concerning the San Francisco Fire Department ["Hosed,"...

Music

Accidental Tourists

Is the Music the next big thing or just a bunch of very lucky guys?

By Justin Hampton

Published: May 21, 2003

Every once in a while, a few young kids are born with a natural instinct to play arena-quality rock music. Like the hundredth monkey that ends up typing Shakespeare, they evoke the memories of...

Reviewed

Blur

Think Tank

By Nancy Einhart

Published: May 21, 2003

On "Ambulance," the opening track of Blur's first album in four years, Damon Albarn sings, "I ain't got nothing to be scared of," over low, eerie strings and a hymnal choir. But in the months...

Reviewed

Ian McCulloch

Slideling

By Mark Keresman

Published: May 21, 2003

Anyone tuning in to Ian McCulloch's latest solo album expecting to hear another Echo & the Bunnymen release will likely be a tad disappointed. Though McCulloch, that group's singer, is only in his...

Reviewed

The Matthew Herbert Big Band

Goodbye Swingtime

By Philip Sherburne

Published: May 21, 2003

If you're a dance music fan, it might be time to dig out those swing get-ups again: Big-band jazz is coming back with a vengeance. From Chicago, the U.S. capital of house music, for instance,...

Reviewed

Son Doobie

Funk Superhero

By Tamara Palmer

Published: May 21, 2003

Son Doobie (aka Jason Vasquez) was one-third of the Cypress Hill-affiliated hip hop group Funkdoobiest. That act's first two albums, Which Doobie U B? (1993) and Brothas Doobie (1995), both...

House of Tudor

House of Tudor

A polka hall of fame, a reality show about fantasy creatures, and a play that's sure to bomb

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 21, 2003

Polka, like jazz and blues, has regional dialects in different cities across America, complete with dogged devotees, specialized Web sites, and elite halls of fame. Cleveland-style polka is derived...

Hear This

Hear This

Eminently versatile and inventive, jazz pianist Jason Moran points the way toward adventurism with populist appeal

By Sam Prestianni

Published: May 21, 2003

Pianist Jason Moran holds a rare distinction in contemporary jazz: He's not only one of the genre's foremost twentysomething virtuosos -- capable of slinking from old-school boogie to...

Eat

Readings and Eatings

Literary events lead us to the perfect neighborhood restaurant

By Meredith Brody

Published: May 21, 2003

Looking for a pay phone after attending Amanda Hesser's reading last week at A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, I saw that the new Fellini documentary was just about to start on one of the Opera...

Social Grace

Humble Buy

Gratitute without humility, nonsexist courtesy, and blatant gift-grabbing

By Social Grace

Published: May 21, 2003

Dear Social Grace, I am an emerging artist, and when people buy my work, I would like to send a personal note saying thank you in a card along with the documentation. But I don't want it to...

Dish Enchanted

Mini Meals

Where "good restaurant" and "small children" go together

By Bonnie Wach

Published: May 21, 2003

It has recently come to my attention that in a town that professes to be the restaurant capital of the U.S., that boasts cuisine from every U.N.-represented nation-state on Earth, there are scant...

Film

A Long, Strange Trip

Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle concludes with three hours of outrageousness and unfamiliarity

By Andy Klein

Published: May 21, 2003

Cremaster 3 is the final installment of Matthew Barney's five-part Cremaster cycle. If that reads like a typo, be informed that, over the last decade, Barney has been filming and releasing the...

Reel World

City of Hope

Indies need profits, too -- and here's one formula that seems to work

By Michael Fox

Published: May 21, 2003

Elephantine, debt-laden chains dominate motion picture exhibition, and their overriding cash needs wring every quarter -- and most of the fun -- out of moviegoing. (Now playing: commercials before...

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Published: May 21, 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;

Mixing Business With Pleasure

Catch the Sex Worker Film and Video Festival before Ashcroft outlaws fun

By Gary Morris

Published: May 21, 2003

With Bush, Ashcroft, et al. surely planning to outlaw fun of any kind, what better way to honor the true "sweet science" than to attend the third San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Video Festival ?...

Night&Day;

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Published: May 21, 2003

Wednesday, May 21, 2003 Hip hop has gotten a bad rap thanks to certain high-profile artists' questionable antics, like Snoop Dogg's Girls Gone Wild extracurricular activities and 50 Cent's...