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The Great Left Hope

Matt Gonzalez wants to be mayor. And he doesn't mind climbing over fellow progressives to get the gig.

By Lessley Anderson, Jack Cheevers

Published: October 8, 2003

One evening last August, Matt Gonzalez, the mop-haired Green Party president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, sat amid a circle of mad-as-hell gay activists. Among the dozen or so people...

Matt Smith

Using Arnold to Get Gavin

After watching the mind games of Pumping Iron, mayoral candidate Matt Gonzalez talks of turning slick political marketing against itself

By Matt Smith

Published: October 8, 2003

Though the pageant of the recall race that ended Tuesday was wildly entertaining, it also represented a quandary for public-service-oriented publications such as SF Weekly . The recall's shadow...

Dog Bites

Slip 'n' Slide

In which we discover the dark side of Jell-O wrestling

By Jonathan Kiefer, Joyce Slaton

Published: October 8, 2003

Ten p.m. Friday. All over town Dog Bites' peers are pounding down cocktails at bars, flirting in the kitchen at house parties, or finishing up end-of-dinner cappuccinos at candlelit restaurants....

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of October 8, 2003

Published: October 8, 2003

Carping About Kamala Leave her alone, you beastie boys!: I agree with Peter Byrne's assessment of district attorney candidate Kamala Harris as a competent, smart, and distinguished...

Music

Smooth Landing

After more than a decade as San Francisco's signature house DJ, Mark Farina delivers his long-awaited debut album

By Darren Keast

Published: October 8, 2003

There are literally thousands of house-music DJs in the world, and it seems like a quarter of them live in San Francisco. So what sets Mark Farina apart? How come so many other DJs study his mix...

Music

Anticonflict

Alias' gentle nature informs both his beats and his personality. Just don't tell the rest of hip hop's gruff elite.

By Anna Klafter

Published: October 8, 2003

On a recent September night, Brendan Whitney, 27 -- who raps and produces as Alias for Oakland's Anticon record label -- enters the dressing room backstage at the Fillmore. Surrounded by old...

Reviewed

OutKast

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

By Philip Sherburne

Published: October 8, 2003

Nearly a decade ago, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik announced OutKast as one of hip hop's most inspired acts, and over subsequent albums the duo has created one of the most unusual catalogs in...

Reviewed

Elvis Costello

North

By Mark Keresman

Published: October 8, 2003

There aren't many artists who can go through as many stylistic changes as Elvis Costello and still maintain a sizable and loyal following. Since Costello emerged during the great New Wave Explosion...

Reviewed

Isobel Campbell

Amorino

By Dan Strachota

Published: October 8, 2003

Former Belle & Sebastian cellist Isobel Campbell has a voice like a newborn chick -- fragile and breathy and barely peeping out of its shell. On her previous two records (recorded as the Gentle...

Reviewed

Yukmouth

Godzilla

By Sam Chennault

Published: October 8, 2003

Splitting spleens and blasting gats. Pressing the Benz's pedal to the metal in Gucci stilettos. Popping champagne bottles and fucking in parlors. If at this point you're more titillated than...

OK Then

Sonic Dissidents

Stop Bush! Stop the Republicans! Slackers unite: It's time, once again, to "Rock the Vote."

By Garrett Kamps

Published: October 8, 2003

I'll be the first to admit it: I was once the target audience for MTV's "Rock the Vote" campaign. Not too long ago, apathetic and disenfranchised, about the only thing I knew for sure was that...

Hear This

Hear This

Aerosmith and Kiss tell off the Rolling Stones – sort of

By Abigail Clouseau

Published: October 8, 2003

Imagine this: Aerosmith 's Steven Tyler and Kiss ' Gene Simmons are wrapped in white towels, sitting in the boys' locker room of Old Rocker High School, Rocktown, USA. They're minding their own...

Eat

Hat Trick

Intelligent, satisfying French food that's also quite a bargain

By Meredith Brody

Published: October 8, 2003

A.J. Liebling said that the primary requisite for writing about food is a good appetite. Well, that I have, although the daily renewing of that appetite is something of a miracle (or a curse!). But...

Social Grace

The Corrections

Handling grammar nerds, bosses who interrupt, and the urge to egg a neighbor's car

By Social Grace

Published: October 8, 2003

Dear Social Grace, I am the administrator of a college program which trains teachers to teach students English as a second language. Frequently, I get applications or inquiries from applicants...

Dish Enchanted

Livered and Lost

Given our run of closed restaurants, we're reluctant to reveal our private passion

By Bonnie Wach

Published: October 8, 2003

Like most tales of obsession, mine is fraught with tragedy, loss, and great heaping ladlefuls of disappointment. It began years ago with Rivera ravioli in a can -- 16 ounces of meaty goodness that...

Film

Half Great

Kill Bill's missing something -- like, oh, a proper ending

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: October 8, 2003

The opening credits insist that Kill Bill: Volume 1 is "Quentin Tarantino's 4th film," when it's actually his 3.5th; it's too incomplete to be measured as a whole, more like half a movie waiting...

Film

Fixin' to Die

My Life Without Me strums lively chords in the face of death

By Gregory Weinkauf

Published: October 8, 2003

"I really like the cold -- it makes me feel really alive." There are few more attractive (or more atypical) things a woman can say, and when wunderkind Sarah Polley says this in My Life Without Me...

Reel World

Speed

What would you do with one weekend to write, shoot, and edit a short movie?

By Michael Fox

Published: October 8, 2003

"We're still sort of formulating our team and our resources," says commercial producer Alisa Goldstone. "That's the whole gimmick -- you don't know what you're doing until the kickoff." The...

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Published: October 8, 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 admission;...

Night&Day;

Guerrilla Welfare

Funny feminist activists in gorilla masks, pushing buttons

By Hiya Swanhuyser

Published: October 8, 2003

"Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?" is possibly the most famous question posed by the Guerrilla Girls . But this group of funny feminist activists is notorious not just for...