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  1. Feature

    Hot Dark Metal Revival
    Forget Black Sabbath. Don't even mention The Darkness. Dirty Power will lead the hard rock revolution to come.
    By Dave Pehling
    Published: November 10, 2004

    Over the Labor Day weekend, while a healthy segment of the local nightlife population was busy at Burning Man, practicing hedonism and learning how to keep desert sand out of orifices, a festival...

  2. Matt Smith

    Husbanding Our Resources
    To close the budget deficit, Mayor Newsom should take on the fire union and SFO's bureaucrats before he closes a single rec center for a single hour
    By Matt Smith
    Published: November 10, 2004

    Let me get this straight. San Francisco's going to shut down health clinics, neglect potholes, and allow trash to pile up in the streets, all because the mayor failed to stick it to the poor and...

  3. Infiltrator

    Infiltrator: I was an Abortion Protestor!
    Outside a Planned Parenthood clinic with Unborn Jesus and the Grim Reaper
    By Harmon Leon
    Published: November 10, 2004

    "People will be driving by, flipping you off," Charlie explains over the phone. "If you can take that sort of thing, then you're our kind of guy!" "People flip me off all the time," I...

  4. Dog Bites

    The Dog Bites Interview: Richard Lewis
    In which the tormented comedian sucks up to our items column by barking. Right. Like a dog.
    John Mecklin
    Published: November 10, 2004

    The phone rings. We sit hunched over with bad posture, running our fingers nervously through our hair, dressed in black from head to toe, Prozac within reach. We know what awaits us. It's the...

  5. Music

    Sound Salvation
    Though difficult to nail down, TV on the Radio's debut is unmistakably genius.
    By Mosi Reeves
    Published: November 10, 2004

    TV on the Radio's utter distinctiveness has driven critics to scrounge for adjectives. The vocal harmonies of Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe have been compared to everything from the Beach Boys and...

  6. Music

    Snake Charmers
    These Arms Are Snakes transforms smart, pummeling rock into a near-death experience.
    By Michael Alan Goldberg
    Published: November 10, 2004

    "I guess your head bleeds way more than any other part of your body," deadpans Ryan Frederiksen, "so it wasn't nearly as bad as it looked." The lanky, longhaired guitarist for These Arms Are...

  7. Reviewed

    Ada
    Blondie
    By Garrett Kamps
    Published: November 10, 2004

    This debut by Ada, aka Michaela Dippel, a singer and producer out of Germany, is an alternately sweet and savory buffet of techy, housy, glitchy, mousey goodness. It opens with the slippery flanged...

  8. Reviewed

    Wolf Eyes
    Burned Mind
    By Chris Dahlen
    Published: November 10, 2004

    In Japan, the march of industry has created the "dark factory," which is staffed entirely by robots and so never needs to turn on the lights; likewise, noise/dub/industrial trio Wolf Eyes remembers...

  9. Reviewed

    Dosh
    Pure Trash
    By Dan Strachota
    Published: November 10, 2004

    I like to think of instrumental hip hop as background music for alternative-universe waiting rooms. Instead of easy listening, lite rock, and smooth jazz, all the doctors in this other world groove...

  10. Reviewed

    Billy Bang
    Sweet Space/Untitled Gift
    By Sam Prestianni
    Published: November 10, 2004

    A trooper on the front lines of the New York culture wars of the early '70s, violinist Billy Bang was a key "Loft Jazz" soldier: a cutting-edge composer-improviser and concert producer who pushed...

  11. Reviewed

    Son, Ambulance
    Key
    By Abigail Clouseau
    Published: November 10, 2004

    Omaha's Son, Ambulance, the indie brainchild of singer Joe Knapp, actually has more in common with its Brit-pop contemporaries than it does Saddle Creek's usual array of sentimental Midwestern...

  12. Reviewed

    The Futureheads
    The Futureheads
    By Abigail Clouseau
    Published: November 10, 2004

    Tired of Franz Ferdinand's melodic dance-punk? Of course you're not, which is why the Scottish group has been the ubiquitous indie-cred conversation topic for the better part of the year. So it's...

  13. OK Then

    OK Then
    A dozen local musicians find a silver lining in the election results. Seriously.
    By Garrett Kamps
    Published: November 10, 2004

    There has got to be a silver lining to all of this, right? I mean, there has to be. It can't all be bad. Yes, Porky Dumbfuck won. Yes, our entire federal government is swinging wildly right. Yes,...

  14. Bouncer

    Bouncer
    From 3 p.m. till late, Bouncer drinks and jibes with fellow liberals at the 500 Club on election day
    By Katy St. Clair
    Published: November 10, 2004

    Greetings, Cultural Elite. Please give me your undivided attention. That's right, put down the Anchor Steam and close that New Yorker . It's time for a simple portrait of some lovely liberals...

  15. Hear This

    Hear This
    Quirky lo-fi pop is On the Speakers; the Roots, the Coup, and more show up for the We the Planet Festival
    By Maya Kroth, Tamara Palmer
    Published: November 10, 2004

    Ever wonder what happened to Creeper Lagoon? I mean the old Creeper Lagoon, the cool local band that got signed and then fawned over by mainstream tastemakers at Rolling Stone , MTV2, and Spin...

  16. BeatBox

    BeatBox
    Diplo teaches dancefloors new Hollertron-icks; the EndUp turns 31; rapper Nas makes a rare live appearance
    By Sam Chennault, Garrett Kamps, Brock Keeling
    Published: November 10, 2004

    "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be at Hollertronix' parties in Philly circa 2002 was very heaven." I'm paraphrasing Wordsworth, of course, but I think that's what he might have said...

  17. Eat

    Not So Suite
    Ambition outstrips performance at a new French restaurant
    By Meredith Brody
    Published: November 10, 2004

    I felt secure in choosing La Suite for the final night's meal of my friends Jeff and John's trip to San Francisco because I'd enjoyed my visits to the numerous restaurants operated by its owners,...

  18. Social Grace

    Of Fads and Fingers
    Do you raise your pinkie when drinking tea, you pretentious goof?
    By Social Grace
    Published: November 10, 2004

    Dear Social Grace, Is extending one's "pinkie" finger when eating or drinking a pretentious affectation (in the words of my mother)? Via the Internet Dear Handy Madam or Sir, I...

  19. Film

    Well Trained
    Polar Express is a kids' action movie that parents will also warm to
    By Luke Y. Thompson
    Published: November 10, 2004

    Most articles written about The Polar Express have focused on its groundbreaking technology, which takes the process used to create Gollum in The Lord of the Rings one step further. Much as...

  20. Film

    The Edge of Treason
    Bridget Jones is betrayed by a dumb, dull sequel
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Published: November 10, 2004

    A week after having seen Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason , no memory of it remains save some scribblings in my notepad, such is the slight nature of this woeful, forgettable sequel. Squandering...

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