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A Question of Risk

Plans for a biodefense "hot lab" at Lawrence Livermore have ecologists, disarmament advocates, and mainstream scientists up in arms

By Ron Russell

Published: January 28, 2004

For more than 10 months, U.S. and coalition forces have scoured Iraq for biological weapons and the laboratories that may have produced them. Here at home, with little media scrutiny, the Bush...

Night Crawler

Go, Gabriel, Go

Spending time at the Illbilly Rhodehouse, where, if you're lucky, you'll find an archangel who really knows how to play

By Silke Tudor

Published: January 28, 2004

Blow, Gabriel, blow, Come on and blow, Gabriel, blow. I've been a sinner, I've been a scamp, But now I'm willin' to trim my lamp, So blow, Gabriel, blow. -- Cole Porter Things...

Dog Bites

Ms. Macabre

Meet an S.F. artist who likes to play with dolls – in a most bizarre way

By Bernice Yeung

Published: January 28, 2004

In Monique Motyl's studio (which is really a room painted cotton-candy pink in her Alamo Square apartment), there is a bookshelf filled with plastic storage boxes in which she keeps her art...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Published: January 28, 2004

Scary Good This guy's a machine: Thank you for Lessley Anderson's excellent profile of endurance runner Dean Karnazes, including her accomplished homework on a fairly obscure sport ["Ultra...

Music

Sex, Lies, and Audiotape

Jeff Fare and the Paradise Boys may be S.F.'s best hope for electro-rock success

By Dan Strachota

Published: January 28, 2004

Few American cities devoured the electroclash (or "nu-electro") movement more voraciously than San Francisco. By the summer of 2002, weekly clubs like "Sex With Machines" and "Fake" played the...

Music

Electro Lite

Here's a beginners (and possibly enders) guide to the rest of the S.F. electro-rock scene:

By Dan Strachota

Published: January 28, 2004

Luxxury Trying to cash in on the electro-rock scene (way too late), unintentionally aping all those bands that popped up in 1987, trying to cash in on the new wave scene (way too late)....

Reviewed

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists

Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead

By Abigail Clouseau

Published: January 28, 2004

When Ted Leo & the Pharmacists' Hearts of Oak came out last year, most agreed that the former Chisel frontman had finally found his niche: '60s mod coolness, swingy '70s riffs, and '80s punk...

Reviewed

The Church

Forget Yourself

By Mark Keresman

Published: January 28, 2004

Way back in the mid-1980s in my hometown of Pittsburgh (when life was cheap), one particular night offered two fairly prestigious shows from two bands that hadn't played our city before: Glen...

Reviewed

Kid606

Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You

By Ben Bush

Published: January 28, 2004

Oakland's Kid606, aka Miguel Depedro, has made a career out of applying the mentality of hardcore punk to various styles of computer-generated music, from ambient electronica to mainstream hip hop....

Reviewed

Metric

Old World Underground

By Abigail Clouseau

Published: January 28, 2004

We first encountered Metric singer Emily Haines as the meek but cute voice on Broken Social Scene's "Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl." "Park that car, drop that phone/ Sleep on the floor,...

OK Then

Feeding Back

If six avant-garde musicians get together in an art gallery, does it make a sound? You betcha.

By Garrett Kamps

Published: January 28, 2004

I've heard a lot of complaints these past few months that the San Francisco music scene is dying. Citing factors such as a lack of venues and practice spaces, shrinking audience support, and...

Hear This

Hear This

For rock that actually rocks, check out the brutal sounds of Sweden's Opeth

By Dave Pehling

Published: January 28, 2004

Mainstream American metal may have transformed into a pathetic parade of tattooed guys whining about how their daddies didn't love them, but at least die-hard headbangers can look to Sweden for...

BeatBox

BeatBox

Get your frown on at "Dark Sparkle" or put on some stilettos and check out "High Heels"

By Brock Keeling, Tamara Palmer

Published: January 28, 2004

Weepy with melancholia? Riddled with existential angst? Wearing exaggerated amounts of black eyeliner and/or torn fishnet stockings? Then the popular "Dark Sparkle" might be your cup of absinthe....

Eat

Hot Stuff

The best Sichuan food in the Bay Area comes from a modest place in Albany

By Meredith Brody

Published: January 28, 2004

When I lived in Southern California and would visit my family in the Bay Area, friends in L.A. and N.Y. always wanted to hear about the new hot places in San Francisco where I'd eaten, as research...

Dish Enchanted

The Baja Way

Nick's crispy fish tacos are so irresistible we had to eat them in our car

By Bonnie Wach

Published: January 28, 2004

Readers, please forgive me for what you're about to receive. It's an anecdote about my 2 1/2-year-old son, a subject I've resisted writing about until now because I'm aware that nothing turns...

Film

Pop It, Lock It, Yo

You Got Served exhumes something suspiciously akin to break dancing

By Gregory Weinkauf

Published: January 28, 2004

Good day, friends and homies. I bring word of a project entitled You Got Served , which appraises the current state of urban American street dancing and the dancers who dance it. The good news is...

Reel World

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Jamming guns, love as a virus, and a movie that travels by foot

By Michael Fox

Published: January 28, 2004

Six million smackers may seem like plenty of dough to make a movie, especially one headed straight to DVD (following a pay-per-view broadcast). But not if it's a sci-fi flick crammed with special...

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Published: January 28, 2004

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;

True Crime

In photographer Hans Winkler's world, art can be a weapon, a motive, or a setting

By Joyce Slaton

Published: January 28, 2004

Heaven knows what Hans Winkler's East Village neighbors must have thought when he began documenting neighborhood crime scenes. Upon hearing of a nearby murder, Winkler would head out to photograph...

Night&Day;

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Published: January 28, 2004

Wednesday, January 28, 2004 A big group of men can be frightening or funny; ditto for all-male entertainment forms. We're thinking of The Usual Suspects , The Man Show , and Les Ballets...