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  1. Feature

    Jackpot
    How four tiny Indian tribes, with help from powerful gambling interests, are trying to transform the Bay Area into a slot machine Mecca
    By Ron Russell
    Published: October 27, 2004

    When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's deal with the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians to bring Las Vegas-style gambling to San Pablo came unraveled in August -- amid an outcry over potential traffic...

  2. Mecklin

    Of Asterisks and Small Pols
    When the city government tries to play satire police with the press, everyone with a sense of humor -- and a belief in the Constitution -- should be concerned
    By John Mecklin
    Published: October 27, 2004

    satire trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly irony the use of words to express something other than and esp. the opposite of the literal meaning...

  3. Matt Smith

    Apathy to the Rescue
    How to make the undecideds break for Kerry? Threaten to turn off Survivor and Friends reruns.
    By Matt Smith
    Published: October 27, 2004

    Scowly-faced, bowl-cut Robert Haaland takes a keen drag on his cigarette as he lopes across Ashbury Street Thursday evening. As one of 22 hyperactive candidates competing to represent San...

  4. Infiltrator

    Haunted House–a–Boo-Boo
    There are many levels of scary. Infiltrator takes a job where he can use them all.
    By Harmon Leon
    Published: October 27, 2004

    It's Halloween. Booooooo! Wooooo! Sorry to scare you, but it's for good reason. I came across an ad on Craigslist trumpeting the need for haunted-house workers in Marin and decided to get a job in...

  5. News

    The Ackerman Election
    The school board races focus on a superintendent's future and progressive versus downtown political infighting. Kids aren't much mentioned.
    By Nate Cavalieri
    Published: October 27, 2004

    On a Tuesday night two weeks ago, Arlene Ackerman, San Francisco's superintendent of schools, parked herself squarely in the middle of a horseshoe-shaped table, peered over her sunglasses, and...

  6. Music

    Highly Evolved
    Psychic TV's long-awaited reunion pales in comparison to singer Genesis P-Orridge's odd transformation
    By Tamara Palmer
    Published: October 27, 2004

    "The job of the artist is to suggest the incredible in order for the possible to happen," says Genesis P-Orridge, influential musician, countercultural icon, and -- soon, hopefully -- a completely...

  7. Music

    Some Kind of Monster
    After three decades in fishnets and bondage gear, the Cramps are still creepy
    By Eric Davidson
    Published: October 27, 2004

    "Nothing we do is meant to be a parody or campy joke." Or so says Cramps frontmanimal Lux Interior in the liner notes of the band's latest rarities CD, How to Make a Monster (Vengeance). This may...

  8. Reviewed

    März
    Wir Sind Hier
    By Philip Sherburne
    Published: October 27, 2004

    März, the German duo of Ekkehard Ehlers and Albrecht Kunze, opened its first album with a short loop of Nick Drake's "From the Morning," nailing down its aesthetic -- yearning, melancholic,...

  9. Reviewed

    Talking Heads
    The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
    By Rossiter Drake
    Published: October 27, 2004

    David Byrne long ago traded in commercial viability and his arsenal of big suits for a Panamanian accountant's wardrobe of sensible whites, an enigmatic collection of solo recordings, and a quirky...

  10. Reviewed

    Talib Kweli
    The Beautiful Struggle
    By Sam Chennault
    Published: October 27, 2004

    Talib Kweli is one of the most compelling voices in hip hop, and it isn't because he's an oasis of high-minded political thought in a desert of materialism, misogyny, and PC boogeymen. Despite his...

  11. Reviewed

    Various
    Left of the Dial: Dispatches From the '80s Underground
    By Michael Alan Goldberg
    Published: October 27, 2004

    In the decade before Nirvana made it safe (and commercially viable) to rock alternatively, the underground music world sporadically coughed up "quirky" bands like R.E.M. or the Cure into a...

  12. Reviewed

    Menomena
    I Am the Fun Blame Monster!
    By Abigail Clouseau
    Published: October 27, 2004

    "Force yourself to breathe." So begins Menomena's I Am the Fun Blame Monster! It's a prophetic lyric fragment considering the confusingly perfect nine songs that are about to follow and, yes,...

  13. Reviewed

    The Late Great Daniel Johnston
    Discovered Covered
    By Abigail Clouseau
    Published: October 27, 2004

    For many, it's hard to understand how the shrill-voiced, clinically bipolar, and often childlike songwriter Daniel Johnston found himself with a double-album tribute that contains covers of his...

  14. Bouncer

    Bouncer
    Comets on Fire: so cool, so hot, so misunderstood
    By Katy St. Clair
    Published: October 27, 2004

    One big misconception of comets, the solar variety, is that they are made of fiery gas. Actually, comets are composed mainly of ice. Another misconception is that comets appear suddenly and leave...

  15. Hear This

    Hear This
    Mark Mallman packs two days worth of energy into an hour's worth of rock; Alternative Tentacles turns 25 in style
    By Garrett Kamps, Dave Pehling
    Published: October 27, 2004

    Once upon a time -- Sept. 10 and 11, 1999, to be exact -- Minneapolis' Mark Mallman sat behind his electric piano and played a pop song for 26.2 hours straight alongside a 30-member rotating...

  16. BeatBox

    BeatBox
    Cool sounds abound at "Beats Vs. Bush"; "Mad Mexi Monster Party" combines erotic wrestling and saucy beats
    By Brock Keeling, Tamara Palmer
    Published: October 27, 2004

    Billed as "a dance party for regime change," "Beats vs. Bush" will benefit the advocacy group MoveOn.org . The night will do anything but stand still musically, with a dozen DJs handpicked for...

  17. Eat

    The Raw and the Cooked
    Curious George, of Aqua and Fifth Floor, opens his quirky new jewel box
    By Meredith Brody
    Published: October 27, 2004

    For sentimental reasons, I knew just where I wanted to take my 11-year-old godson, Chester, for dinner a couple of months ago, when he was visiting the Bay Area from the East Coast: George...

  18. Social Grace

    Back to You
    How to return gifts graciously when the wedding goes kaput
    By Social Grace
    Published: October 27, 2004

    Dear Social Grace, At the last minute my fiance decided to back out of our wedding. And now I need to return some bridal gifts, but have no idea what to write in the cards ... or should I even...

  19. Film

    Messed Around
    As Ray Charles, Jamie Foxx turns an ordinary bio into an extraordinary one
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Published: October 27, 2004

    Ray , director Taylor Hackford's 15-years-in-the-making biography of Ray Charles, begins as you might hope: with 1959's "What'd I Say (Part 1)" pulsing on the soundtrack, the organ's low moans...

  20. Film

    Icky, Icky, Icky
    Nicole Kidman falls in love with a 10-year-old boy ... sorry, her dead husband
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Published: October 27, 2004

    Even before the movie begins, as the New Line logo is still coalescing on a dark screen, a man speaks the soundtrack. He's talking about reincarnation and about what he would do if his wife, named...

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