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Beaming in on The Cure

A new type of radiation therapy, developed by a Bay Area company, shows astonishing promise in fighting cancer

By Matt Palmquist

Published: April 28, 2004

The Stanford Cancer Center, an $85 million, 165,000-square-foot facility that opened its doors March 1, feels more like a hotel than a hospital. The high-ceilinged lobby, suffused with natural...

Matt Smith

Museum Quality

The new de Young Museum is an architectural marvel; its parking garage shows what's wrong with S.F. development policy

By Matt Smith

Published: April 28, 2004

While tromping through the dirt, brush, and scattered construction detritus along JFK Boulevard earlier this month, I looked up, became dizzy, and perceived beauty. Walls of an uncertain greenish,...

Night Crawler

Night of the Lively Dead

At the "Zombie Cabaret," where the beleaguered undead gain respite

By Silke Tudor

Published: April 28, 2004

Gonna step on your head, gonna break your bones Gonna rip your eyes out from their holes I'm gonna get you baby Don't try to give me your excuse I just wanna get back at you...

Dog Bites

Where Were Pat and Vanna When the Lights Went Out?

The S.F. taping of Wheel of Fortune goes momentarily dark; Spanganga fades permanently to black

Overheard by Matt Palmquist

Published: April 28, 2004

It's been eight long years since Wheel of Fortune traveled to our fair city -- just check the hash marks on our cell wall. When word got out that game show luminaries Pat Sajak and Vanna White...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Published: April 28, 2004

Let Me Tell You (from editor John Mecklin) Because I'm a recovered crossword puzzle fan -- I used to see pink elephants dancing the tango if I missed a day of the New York Times ' version --...

Music

Holy Grails

Just when we thought it was safe to turn our backs on instrumental indie rock

By Garrett Kamps

Published: April 28, 2004

I remember the exact moment that I first heard Tortoise's Millions Now Living Will Never Die . It was a spring night, 1996, and some friends and I were speeding up the 405 freeway in Southern...

Music

Nash Bridges the Gap

Nash Kato and Urge Overkill were aping cock rock way before the Darkness. Now they're back to reclaim the title.

By Nate Cavalieri

Published: April 28, 2004

For once, judge the book entirely by its cover. The back cover. When you flip over Nash Kato's solo album, 2000's Debutante , the photo on the back presents a portrait of an immaculate rock 'n'...

Reviewed

Evening

Other Victorians

By Nancy Einhart

Published: April 28, 2004

It's often comforting when an album delves into our record-collection subconscious, and Evening's Other Victorians is one that leaves listeners pleasantly haunted by their musical pasts. It...

Reviewed

TV on the Radio

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

By Rachel Devitt

Published: April 28, 2004

Review after orgasmic review has tripped over itself in an attempt to lie prostrate at the feet of TV on the Radio, which may very well be the World's Coolest Band (WCB). Chances are even your kid...

Reviewed

Various Artists

Rock Against Bush Vol. 1

By Christopher O'Connor

Published: April 28, 2004

In recruiting the Warped Tour's front lines, including the Offspring, Sum 41, Anti-Flag, and the Get Up Kids, San Francisco punk label Fat Wreck Chords presents a high-profile first volume in what...

Reviewed

Myles Boisen

Past-Present-Future

By Sam Prestianni

Published: April 28, 2004

The blues is more than a folk-music form derived from the post-slavery African-American experience. It's the deep-feeling essence of the human spirit longing to be free. Of course, Myles Boisen...

OK Then

The Fog of Fog

Talking to my doppelganger, Fog's Andrew Broder, on subjects ranging from war to penis

By Garrett Kamps

Published: April 28, 2004

If everything were right with the world, Andrew Broder -- aka Fog, aka the man responsible for the indie-hip-hop-smash-bang-love masterpiece Ether Teeth (easily my favorite record from 2003) --...

House of Tudor

House of Tudor

The squirlly Full Moon Partisans square off against the folky Two Gallants; puppets give the cat the hatchet

By Silke Tudor

Published: April 28, 2004

One of my favorite groups of the early '90s was a little-known but delightfully deviant Irish trio called the Pale. That band's only EP, Dogs With No Tails -- an eccentric smash of ska, disco,...

Hear This

Hear This

San Francisco's venerable Qunnaum Projects rounds up its entire roster for a landmark hip hop show

By Sam Chennault

Published: April 28, 2004

Whether releasing the literate hip hop of Blackalicious or reissuing the essential oddity Schoolhouse Funk (a compilation of high school funk bands), San Francisco-based Quannum Projects is...

BeatBox

BeatBox

!!! blows the lid off of dance-punk; 2Many DJs lives up to their name with pan-genre mash ups

By Tamara Palmer, Dan Strachota

Published: April 28, 2004

!!! is the rare and thoughtful band that leaves the pronunciation of its name up to the individual (with a suggestion of "chick-chick-chick"). Having garnered international attention last year...

Eat

Hawaiian Aye

If you want aloha, you're better off at Tita's Hale'aina than at Roy's

By Meredith Brody

Published: April 28, 2004

Let me say this right away: I'm the girl tropical drinks were invented for. I like the flavors of coconut, guava, mango, and papaya, and yo-ho-ho-and-a-bottle-of-rum is quite OK by me, too. If it...

Social Grace

The Pits

Olive-eaters, rejoice: You can stop hiding pits in your napkins.

By Social Grace

Published: April 28, 2004

Dear Social Grace, I have recently encountered an etiquette problem twice and am hoping you can help me ascertain the proper handling of the situation. It involves olives -- more precisely,...

Film

After the Fall

Temptation flourishes in the garden of Young Adam

By Gregory Weinkauf

Published: April 28, 2004

Those seeking a spiritual counterpart to the yin of Lynne Ramsay's masterfully moody Morvern Callar will find their yang in David Mackenzie's exquisitely sorrowful Young Adam . Art-house...

Film

Teen Spleen

Talking smack wreaks high school havoc in Mean Girls

By Gregory Weinkauf

Published: April 28, 2004

One thing few may mention about Mean Girls is that it could have been unrelentingly terrible. It isn't -- it's actually pretty fabulous on its own terms -- but consider: a rush-job comedy...

Film

Radio Free Haiti

Jonathan Demme's documentary brings a joyful revolutionary to the screen

By Melissa Levine

Published: April 28, 2004

Every once in a while, you encounter a person who seems to have been born under an urgent, righteous star -- a person who is both a fiery activist lit with the passion of his convictions and a...