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Quick Flick

They're young, they're artsy, and they've got exactly 48 hours to make a movie

By Matt Palmquist

Published: November 5, 2003

SYNOPSIS: A team of film students from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco qualifies to enter a national contest to make a five-minute movie in 48 hours. First place wins $10,000 and a...

Matt Smith

Lee Way

The public career path of Andrew Lee explains a lot about what's wrong with Willie Brown's style of politics and governance

By Matt Smith

Published: November 5, 2003

I wasn't present last month when Sunset neighborhood political broker Julie Lee and her dutiful son, Andrew, entered the office of Supervisor Chris Daly, sat in his two extra chairs, and made their...

Night Crawler

Hair Story

Combing the aisles at the World Beard and Moustache Championships

By Silke Tudor

Published: November 5, 2003

No, no, not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin. -- from "The Three Little Pigs" Time was that an oath made on a man's beard was as binding as blood. The beard, or its lack, denoted a man's...

Dog Bites

Brain Drain

We know words like "propinquity." So are we smart enough for Mensa?

By Nancy Einhart

Published: November 5, 2003

The last time Dog Bites took an IQ test, we were 4 years old and classified as "gifted." Figuring we had nowhere to go but down, we were always deathly afraid of taking another one. So it was with...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of November 5, 2003

Published: November 5, 2003

Monster Mash The coolest music comes from da people, not corporations: Your recent story "Corporate B Cool" [Oct. 22] is interesting in its speculation on the not-so- distant future of...

Music

Sappy Joes

The members of Rogue Wave are crazy about each other -- and we're happy for them. Really.

By Garrett Kamps

Published: November 5, 2003

The musicians in Rogue Wave look like Muppets. Guitarist/vocalist Zach Rogue (né Schwartz), his soft features framed by golden, surfer-boy hair, is the Kermit of the group;...

Music

True Grit

With its latest album, Death Cab for Cutie reclaims the word "indie"

By Abigail Clouseau

Published: November 5, 2003

There was a time in the '80s when underground and mainstream music were as different as mohawks and three-piece suits. Independent record labels that made a dent in the major labels' cruel music...

Reviewed

Rancid

Indestructible

By Sam Prestianni

Published: November 5, 2003

If Bruce Springsteen were a punk rocker, he'd be in Rancid. Just as the Boss once galvanized a generation of working-class young people with his down-to-earth tunefulness and fist-pumping bids for...

Reviewed

Beulah

Yoko

By Abigail Clouseau

Published: November 5, 2003

Oh the can of worms calling your record Yoko opens. Let's break it down. Yoko is considered by many to be the evil force that broke up the Beatles. She's also the inspiration and love interest of...

Reviewed

Plastikman

Closer

By Justin Hampton

Published: November 5, 2003

Ever since blowing people away in '93 with the infamous Sheet One , longtime techno iconoclast Richie Hawtin, aka Plastikman, has influenced countless DJs and electronica aesthetes with his spare...

Reviewed

Rechenzentrum

Director's Cut

By Philip Sherburne

Published: November 5, 2003

This must be the year of the overload, and not only for pop music (and the eastern seaboard's electrical grid). While OutKast and Basement Jaxx have been busy stuffing new albums with as much funky...

Reviewed

Spiritualized

Amazing Grace

By Lily Moayeri

Published: November 5, 2003

The first thing one thinks of when it comes to Spiritualized is drugs. Part of this has to do with central member Jason Pierce's transparent drug references, and part of it has to do with album...

OK Then

Giving a Folk

A Mighty Wind takes the piss out of folkies, but in the best possible way

By Garrett Kamps

Published: November 5, 2003

Here in the world of music criticism, we altweekly writers have a reputation for being snide, snarky, and dismissive. Pick up the Chronicle and you'll find intelligent, respectable pop critics...

House of Tudor

House of Tudor

Relive your favorite blackout with Chatterbox, Biography of a Bar: San Francisco 1986-1990.

By Silke Tudor

Published: November 5, 2003

Despite the dearth of prominent cheekbones, which the Panthers attribute to a lack of breeding, the post-punk five-piece is one of the most attractive bands coming out of Brooklyn. Not just...

Hear This

Hear This

We Are the World Music: Bill Frisell and Marc Ribot play the S.F. Jazz Fest

By Sam Prestianni

Published: November 5, 2003

Given that jazz is widely acknowledged as the international language of music, it makes sense that two of the genre's top guitarists -- Bill Frisell (pictured) and Marc Ribot -- have found...

Eat

Country in the City

Fried chicken and homemade baked goods taste like the Midwest right here at home

By Meredith Brody

Published: November 5, 2003

There's one pair of food writers whose career I have always envied: Jane and Michael Stern, the Roadfood authors, whose life together seems to be one long road trip, traveling America's highways...

Social Grace

Slight of Hand

Embracing eccentrics, unmasking friends, and doing the "BlackBerry prayer."

By Social Grace

Published: November 5, 2003

Dear Social Grace, I shall put this bluntly: I hate shaking hands. It irritates me to no end. In social situations, I find it rude that a person is willing to shove some body part at me after...

Dish Enchanted

Together at Last

Pizza combines with Indian food to form a more perfect union

By Bonnie Wach

Published: November 5, 2003

I will not now, nor will I ever, confess to being a know-it-all, despite much evidence to the contrary. But if I were ever to admit putting my mouth where my money ain't, it would certainly not...

Film

Silly Humans, Matrix Is for Kids!

Revolutions runs a playful joy ride through a nifty vision of hell

By Gregory Weinkauf

Published: November 5, 2003

A not terribly long time ago in an uninhabitable galaxy called Burbank, a generally astute movie studio founded by four Polish siblings alienated a young hotshot filmmaker. The studio was Warner...

Film

Elephant , Man

Gus Van Sant explores the American high school

By Bill Gallo

Published: November 5, 2003

The spooky beauty of Elephant , Gus Van Sant's strange take on the Columbine massacre, arises not from the shock of sudden violence but from the filmmaker's steady gaze at the numbing routines of...