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Pipe Dreams

A veteran of the Apollo program continues a quixotic quest to send a small rocket of his own design 60 miles high and, in the process, save his soul. Maybe ours, too.

By Tommy Craggs

Published: June 11, 2003

Hollister Municipal Airport sits on 350 acres at the northern edge of town, within a knot of narrow roads named Astro, Mercury, and Mars, and hard by the Elks Lodge, the Ding-A-Ling Cafe, and a tax...

Matt Smith

Hey, Man, Got Any ID?

Why the Legislature shouldn't extend the city's medical marijuana identification system statewide

By Matt Smith

Published: June 11, 2003

Imagine a health care system in a republic we'll call Doobieland, where public health is overseen by frightened, distracted bureaucrats who don't really believe in the medicine they're supposed to...

Bay View

Fear Factor

SARS has barely touched S.F. Yet tourists and others are staying away from Chinatown in droves.

By Bernice Yeung

Published: June 11, 2003

Last Wednesday morning, Shirley Fong-Torres, who teaches Chinese cooking and leads walking tours of Chinatown, sat at a desk in her Commercial Street storefront, greeting customers arriving for...

Dog Bites

The Freeloaders' Handbook

If you ask, they will give. Really.

By M.J.F. Stewart

Published: June 11, 2003

We drove our beat-up Mazda to the Oakland Coliseum on a recent evening with just a stick of gum and bridge money in our pocket. Four hours later, we returned to San Francisco with two ticket stubs...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of June 11, 2003

Published: June 11, 2003

Pissed About Privacy Don't worry; we'll protect yours: While we share your interest in protecting the privacy of medical information, Peter Byrne's recent article was unfortunately filled...

Music

Booty-Trapped

The legendary Jungle Brothers have returned. Why doesn't the hip hop world give a damn?

By Dan Strachota

Published: June 11, 2003

The Jungle Brothers climb off the stage at Emo's nightclub in Austin, following an exultant SXSW showcase earlier this year. Mike G, one of the group's co-founders and MCs (along with Afrika "Baby"...

Reviewed

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nocturama

By Mike Rowell

Published: June 11, 2003

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 12th album, Nocturama , is, like its predecessors, a darkly beautiful, occasionally cantankerous collection of ruminations on life, love, and death. How it stacks...

Reviewed

Fleshies

The Sicilian

By Dave Pehling

Published: June 11, 2003

For every pop-punk travesty pogoing down the MTV pike (Good Charlotte, anyone?) there exists a raging, diametrically non-sucking punk counterpart that will probably never get the attention it...

Reviewed

Freddie Foxxx/Bumpy Knuckles

Konexion

By Tamara Palmer

Published: June 11, 2003

Brooklyn's Freddie Foxxx (aka James Campbell, who also performs under the alias Bumpy Knuckles) seems to share a lot with 50 Cent, the rapper who rose from the streets of Jamaica, Queens, to offer...

Reviewed

Radiohead

Hail to the Thief

By Dan Strachota

Published: June 11, 2003

Strike up the hype machine: Here come those pasty boys from Oxford, readying another assault on the foundations of rock 'n' roll. Whereas on the group's last two albums -- 2000's Kid A and 2001's...

House of Tudor

House of Tudor

Nuclear subs, gothic hip hop, and a world-traveled septet's motley musical influences

By Silke Tudor

Published: June 11, 2003

Close your eyes for a moment and conjure an image of Bishop Joey, founder of the St. Stupid's Day Parade and the First Church of the Last Laugh; imagine his wide grin, rosy cheeks, snowy beard,...

Hear This

Hear This

Brooklyn's Mink Lungs exhale rock that suffers from a delightful identity crisis

By Andrew Marcus

Published: June 11, 2003

Brooklyn's Mink Lungs could bring out the beleaguered parent in anyone, even those too young to remember the late-"80s golden age of slacker rock. You want to sit the band"s members down and...

Eat

Unterman on Food

Our critic falls in love with a local guidebook

By Meredith Brody

Published: June 11, 2003

In my recent paean to guidebooks, I said that at the very least you need a Zagat , even if you only use it as a phone book or memory-jogger, and regardless of your opinions of its faceless-hordes...

Social Grace

Would I Lie to You?

Doing expensive business with friends is often a very bad idea

By Social Grace

Published: June 11, 2003

Dear Social Grace, My partner and I are planning to buy a house together this year. This is the first time either of us have purchased a home, so, as you can imagine, we are embarking on this...

Film

Just Like a Woman

In Respiro, Valeria Golino goes stir-crazy

By Gregory Weinkauf

Published: June 11, 2003

What is it with women, anyway? They want to be safe walking the streets at night; they want to be able to trust strangers; they want the world to be beautiful, free, and wild. Are they nuts?...

Film

Eye Caramba!

The Pang brothers want to feed your horror hunger, but some of their smorgasbord's stale

By Luke Y. Thompson

Published: June 11, 2003

There is one truly striking shock in the new made-in-Hong-Kong-by-Thai-directors horror flick The Eye , but unfortunately, Danny and Oxide (yes, Oxide ) Pang saved the best for first. If the...

Reel World

Barbarella

An early modeling career plus film school results in Sirens of the 23rd Century

By Michael Fox

Published: June 11, 2003

"We're the dolls in the doll house, and Jennifer is playing with us," actor Omewenne quipped on the set of Jennifer Kroot's dress-up sci-fi sendup, Sirens of the 23rd Century . Most of the cast --...

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Published: June 11, 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;

Cain and Abel

It's only a matter of time before someone else in The Lonesome West dies

By Lisa Hom

Published: June 11, 2003

Some sibling rivalry is normal, but the kind of animosity that exists between the brothers in Martin McDonagh 's dark comedy The Lonesome West is extreme. Valene and Coleman are two...

Night&Day;

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Published: June 11, 2003

Wednesday, June 11, 2003 Though we must admit that we're skeptical of any film fest's claim to cover an entire group's experiences, the San Francisco Black Film Festival comes close. The...