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Dream Makers

How teachers, parents, and a young white principal have taken plans for a Dream School in the Bayview and made them a dream of their own

By Lessley Anderson

Published: March 9, 2005

On a Friday afternoon in February, the auditorium of Gloria R. Davis College Preparatory Academy is filled with seventh- and eighth-graders and some of their parents. Excited chatter bounces off...

The Apologist

Pop Goes the Pop King

Or is Michael Jackson simply misunderstood? Take quiz, find out.

By Matt Palmquist

Published: March 9, 2005

The widely anticipated criminal molestation trial of Michael Jackson began last week in Santa Maria, Calif., where the pop superstar stands accused of sexually abusing a teenage cancer patient at...

Dog Bites

We'd Like to Buy the Coach a Coke

Jane Logan and Jackie Ortega are applying the fitness club model to the creative arts

John Mecklin

Published: March 9, 2005

In a recent conference call between local press and Warriors Executive Vice President Chris Mullin, the first question about the trade that brought star point guard Baron Davis to town came from...

Weekly Obsessions

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on March 9, 2005

Published: March 9, 2005

Should you ever find yourself in the market for a personalized NFL jersey , and should your name, given or chosen, be, oh, let's say, ANAL ANNIE or ASS MONKEY or CUM QUAT or MOTHERLOVEBONE or even...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, March 9, 2005

Published: March 9, 2005

Mailbag on Fire The first bit of mail after publication of Harmon Leon's "My Dinner at Applebee's With White Supremacists!" [Infiltrator, Feb. 23] contained reasonable-sounding letters that...

Music

The United Colors of M.I.A.

This Sri Lanka-born, London-based MC knocks down more walls than our global village can even think to put up

By Rachel Devitt

Published: March 9, 2005

Dangling off the edge of a note, Maya Arulpragasam -- aka M.I.A. -- offers a seemingly innocent salutation on "Amazon," a track from her desperately anticipated debut release, Arular . "Hello/...

Music

Fookin'-A

Kasabian has its sights set on becoming the coolest -- and most stereotypical -- Britrock band around

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: March 9, 2005

In addition to the ever-popular "bloody wankers" and "daft cunts," there are two somewhat more charitable insults that Britons hating on their nation's dominant rock bands like to sling....

Reviewed

Boom Bip

Blue Eyed in the Red Room

By Chris Dahlen

Published: March 9, 2005

Boom Bip should hire more singers. That's not a knock against his vibrant downtempo instrumentals: Like an interior decorator, he takes disparate sources -- rock guitars and Eastern-flavored...

Reviewed

Doves

Some Cities

By Abigail Clouseau

Published: March 9, 2005

When the Doves released their debut in 2000, Lost Souls , it was clear that there was something different about the Manchester quartet's sound, an inexplicable quality that mixed psychedelic rock...

Reviewed

The Golden Republic

The Golden Republic

By Andrew Miller

Published: March 9, 2005

Relentlessly engaging and dazzlingly complex, the Golden Republic's full-length debut makes listeners actively aware of its compositional craftwork. "The Turning of the World," for example, follows...

Reviewed

Pit Er Pat

Shakey

By Jon Pruett

Published: March 9, 2005

Pit Er Pat's debut gives off the air of someone who appears to be lost, disheveled, and otherwise confused, but who in all actuality couldn't be more locked into his well-thought-out goals. The...

Reviewed

Destroyer

Notorious Lightning

By Jon Pruett

Published: March 9, 2005

On this six-track EP, a handful of tunes from Destroyer's totally awesome 2004 art-synth overload Your Blues are given a rock/folk/freak facelift courtesy of last year's tourmates, Frog Eyes....

Bouncer

Caught in the Riptide

Katy St. Clair on the Sunset's David Lynch aura and a cool new bar full of ghosts

By Katy St. Clair

Published: March 9, 2005

The Sunset is the most David Lynchian area of the city. First, to get there you drive up the Lost Highway that is Market to Portola to Sloat. Midway through, you arrive in the fog of Twin Peaks....

Hear This

Hear This

The Futureheads do new wave right; IQU shows us why it's outlast peers Cibo Matto, Pizzicato Five, and Cornelius.

By Tamara Palmer, Dan Strachota

Published: March 9, 2005

Last winter, in a review of the Futureheads ' debut, Rolling Stone proclaimed that the British quartet had "reclaim[ed] pop punk." But don't let that sway you, the band is actually good, a rare...

BeatBox

BeatBox

"Bump" offers a reason to get down in downtown; the Blood & Fire Soundsystem makes its Bay Area debut.

By Brock Keeling, Ross Viator

Published: March 9, 2005

In theory, I just love the idea of hanging downtown for a night out, being whisked from one club to the next until the wee hours of dawn. It seems so urban and alluring in all of its...

Eat

Secret Garden

Intriguing Italian food in a delightful setting tucked away in a mysterious hidden courtyard

By Meredith Brody

Published: March 9, 2005

Carl, one of my favorite gastronomes, is back in town, and it's clear when he phones to set up a dinner date that he's in an Italian mood: "Have you already written about Quince? Or Incanto?" Yes,...

Dish Enchanted

Attachment Cooking

When a chef just can't let a certain dish go

By Bonnie Wach

Published: March 9, 2005

When I was in seventh grade, back in the days when girls still took home economics (I realize I don't seem nearly as attractive as I did 10 seconds ago, but I try not to lie on anything 'cept my...

Film

Out Like a Lamb

Chronicling Hitler's last days with an awkward note of sympathy

By Bill Gallo

Published: March 9, 2005

The chilling oddity of Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall is not limited to the fact that it's the first mainstream German film to grapple with Adolf Hitler -- six decades after his death. Set, for...

Film

Talkin' 'Bot Love

Like Big Fish for little kids, Robots works hard to please everyone

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: March 9, 2005

"From the creators of Ice Age ," boasts the poster for Robots , which is no ringing endorsement. That 2002 animated feature, a sort of Three Mammals and a Baby in a prehistoric setting, looked...

Film

Without Sin

It isn't the movie you may think it is, but Hostage will get your attention

By Luke Y. Thompson

Published: March 9, 2005

If you're looking for an escapist shoot-'em-up action-adventure, and figure a Bruce Willis flick is a reliable option, think twice. Hostage certainly delivers violence and heroics, but not in a...