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Love on the Run

How a combination footrace and frat party became one of the best places in the city to hook up

By Nate Cavalieri

Published: August 11, 2004

I'm standing in the middle of Van Ness during rush hour. I'm breathless and my legs are heavy, and I'm wet with sweat. It's like one of those anxiety dreams about wandering through the halls of...

Night Crawler

Child's Play

The enduring charm of the Life Size Game of Mouse Trap and Circus Contraption

By Silke Tudor

Published: August 11, 2004

The sound of distant applause and laughter rises on the wind, causing shallow wrinkles in the heavy silence hanging over the southeastern edge of Hunters Point. The wedge of a yellow-orange moon...

Dog Bites

Going for the Green

If we're going to watch anybody play golf, it's going to be someone who's patently obscure

John Mecklin

Published: August 11, 2004

We're not a fan of golf (utterly appalled by its horde of cultlike devotees would be a more apt description of our feelings). But as the official St. Louis, Mo., correspondent for Dog Bites, we...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Published: August 11, 2004

Grading the News Informed, but not blow-dried: My husband and I will miss News World International terribly ["Looking Inside INdTV," July 28]. It still broadcasts news, you see, and gives...

Music

Wall Street Playaz

JT the Bigga Figga has turned years of street hustlin' experience into one of the most inspiring new local hip hop labels

By Sam Chennault

Published: August 11, 2004

JT the Bigga Figga leans his long, arching back against the wall and stretches his slender legs across the narrow passageway in front of Luv n' Haight's sandwich counter. Decked head-to-toe in...

Music

They Are Giants

It's been a long time coming, but They Might Be Giants are finally calling the shots

By Scott Faingold

Published: August 11, 2004

They Might Be Giants are in an enviable position. Eighteen years into a recording career that has seen their evolution from indie-label fledglings to corporate rock stars and finally into a...

Reviewed

Nedelle and Thom

Summerland

By Rachel Devitt

Published: August 11, 2004

I cannot get enough of Summerland . It's a bit embarrassing, actually. I keep finding myself driving around, blasting at top volume what may be the most white-bread music ever -- all girl-group...

Reviewed

Derrick Carter + Mark Farina

Live at Om

By Lily Moayeri

Published: August 11, 2004

Capturing DJs Derrick Carter and Mark Farina in their element -- that is, spinning back-to-back sets to a packed house last February at Om's monthly party at Mezzanine -- this double disc attempts...

Reviewed

Dokken

Hell to Pay

By Dave Pehling

Published: August 11, 2004

When this '80s metal band asserts that it was never about commercial hits in its most recent press release, you can smell the pungent waft of revisionist history a mile away. Dokken may have...

Reviewed

The Frenchmen

Sorry We Ruined Your Party

By Dan Strachota

Published: August 11, 2004

Forget about Green Day, Rancid, and the Offspring -- the best pop-punk came from mid-'80s English acts like the Wedding Present, the Shop Assistants, and the Flatmates. The U.K. music press called...

Reviewed

The Notorious B.I.G.

Ready to Die: The Remaster

By Sam Chennault

Published: August 11, 2004

The hedonistic prince lacing the "lyrical douches" of "Big Poppa"; the baritone-silk street hustler careening through the back-alley boom-bap of "Gimme the Loot"; the sad nihilist muddying the...

Reviewed

Department of Eagles

The Whitey on the Moon UK LP

By Dan Strachota

Published: August 11, 2004

If you're going to call yourself Iron Chrysalis and Butterfly Emerging, you'd better make music that's damn good and weird. Luckily, the two New Yorkers in Department of Eagles have crafted a debut...

OK Then

Electra-fied

John Kerry's high school garage band tells all!

By Garrett Kamps

Published: August 11, 2004

Every band has a story -- drugs, deception, debauchery. The Electras are no different. Formed in 1961 by prep school students Andy Gagarin, Jack Radcliffe, Peter Lang, Jon Prouty, Larry Rand, and...

House of Tudor

House of Tudor

Eric McFadden's got an ax to grind. The Clorox Girls re-invent '70s pub-rock.

By Silke Tudor

Published: August 11, 2004

You may recognize Gustavo Santaolalla as the producer of the Amores Perros and 21 Grams soundtracks, or as the man behind the curtain of Kronos Quartet's Grammy-nominated Nuevo , but...

Hear This

Hear This

Catch the Fever's pan-genre rock sickness; Eddie Gale unveils why he's San Jose's "Ambassador of Jazz."

By Abigail Clouseau, Sam Prestianni

Published: August 11, 2004

How does an old-school avant-gardist who made his name with the legendary Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor connect with today's kids? He meets them on the dance floor. At least that's what trumpeter Eddie...

BeatBox

BeatBox

The return of hip hop legend Pete Rock, the pop sphere of "Vanguard," and a strip club with a new M.O.

By Darren Keast, Brock Keeling

Published: August 11, 2004

!!!, Goldfrapp, Erase Errata, Donna Summer, the Faint, and the Minogue sisters are just a smattering of the brand names you've come to know and love, all of which you might hear at "Vanguard."...

Eat

Italian With Tears

The forgettable fare at Tonno Rosso feels like nobody cares

By Meredith Brody

Published: August 11, 2004

My friend Julie was in town for her second annual "pack up Berkeley-student daughter and move her back to L.A. for the summer" visit, and the three of us had a date for dinner. Both she and her...

Dish Enchanted

The Cost of Cool

If you're really in-the-know, you order the mysterious Item No. 24 at Little Paris

By Bonnie Wach

Published: August 11, 2004

I'll never forget the first time I walked into an In-N-Out Burger. There I was, all bright-eyed and expectant -- giddy with the buzz that had preceded In-N-Out's arrival in these parts -- and...

Film

Future Shock

Michael Winterbottom paints a plausibly problematic tomorrow in Code 46

By Gregory Weinkauf

Published: August 11, 2004

The future is almost here. At least, it is according to screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce ( Pandaemonium ) and director Michael Winterbottom ( 24 Hour Party People ), two cinematic visionaries...

Film

Deck Heads

The card game Yu-Gi-Oh! becomes a wild and crazy movie

By Gregory Weinkauf

Published: August 11, 2004

Most boys seem to tumble down the assembly line with their main switch factory-preset to Aggression. Toys are for throwing, Army men are for melting, and eventually grown males consider punching...