Archive Search

Matt Smith

Kees to the City

The mysterious obsession with Weldon Kees, poet, polymath, and icon of San Francisco bohemianism

By Matt Smith

Published: July 27, 2005

Discussed in this essay: John Gartner, The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (a Little) Craziness and (a Lot of) Success in America. Simon & Schuster, 2005. Peter Whybrow, American Mania:...

The Apologist

Muscle & Fitness for Office

Did a multimillion-dollar deal with bodybuilding magazines sour you on the Schwarzenegger? Take quiz, find out.

By Matt Palmquist

Published: July 27, 2005

Two days before assuming the governorship of California, freshly won in the recall election of Gray Davis, movie icon Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a lucrative deal with Muscle & Fitness and Flex...

News

Onward, Christian Lawyers

Why lawsuits filed by anti-abortion activists may be a blessing in disguise for the California stem cell institute

By Ryan Blitstein

Published: July 27, 2005

Nearly nine months after losing at the ballot box, the conservative groups that opposed the California stem cell institute haven't given up. Early this month, the California Family Bioethics...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Published: July 27, 2005

Will the Real Joe Morgan Please Stand (or Shut) Up Arrogant as a doctor: Picked up Moneyball about two years ago and thought it was one of the best-written and [most] insightful sports...

Music

Going Postal

Like it or not, the Zip Code Rapists are back

By Mike Rowell

Published: July 27, 2005

Part comedy act, part psychodrama, the Zip Code Rapists were a volatile, often antagonistic duo who wreaked havoc on San Francisco's underground during the first half of the '90s. You never knew...

Department of What The Fuck?

Department of What the Fuck?

What convicted felons Lil' Kim and Martha Stewart have in common

By Tamara Palmer

Published: July 27, 2005

Hip hop's original sex kitten, Lil' Kim, has been sent up the river for 366 days. That's more than twice the jail sentence homemaker Martha Stewart received for essentially doing the same thing:...

Misc. Reviews

Misc. Reviews

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This Week: Indie Rock Cribs.

By Rachel Devitt

Published: July 27, 2005

Indie Rock Cribs is a mouthwatering peek into the private life of a scorching-hot indie musician in the style of MTV's voyeuristic look at the homes of various and sundry FOPs (that's Friends...

Reviews Reviewed

Reviews Reviewed

This Week: Aquarius Records' Web site

By Justin F. Farrar

Published: July 27, 2005

We like Aquarius Records, the boutique record shop located on Valencia Street in the Mission. The clerks there are helpful, their recommendations sound. And for the extremely discerning music fan,...

Reviewed

The Davenport Family

Field Tales

By Justin F. Farrar

Published: July 27, 2005

Field Tales is a double-disc collection of 35 field recordings from the Davenport Family (aka Davenport), a Wisconsin collective that jams and records like digital-age salt-of-the-earth...

Reviewed

The Peppermints

Jesüs Chryst

By Mike Rowell

Published: July 27, 2005

Some albums grow on you with repeated spins. This second full-length from San Diego's Peppermints probably isn't one of them. On first listen, Jesüs Chryst evokes being at some warehouse...

Reviewed

Orange Juice

The Glasgow School

By Dan Strachota

Published: July 27, 2005

Without Orange Juice, Belle & Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, and Teenage Fanclub wouldn't exist. Hyperbole? Sure. But those later bands would certainly sound markedly less exciting if it weren't for...

Reviewed

Schoolyard Heroes

Fantastic Wounds

By Rachel Devitt

Published: July 27, 2005

Schoolyard Heroes aren't really a rock band -- they are Gothic operettists. Fantastic Wounds , the second album from this young Seattle band, indomitably scales monstrous, bloody themes, nicked...

Reviewed

Various Artists

Whatever: The '90s Pop & Culture Box

By Chris Dahlen

Published: July 27, 2005

Here's what I felt listening to the radio hits of the '90s (and my 20s) for over eight hours: despair (jeez, were the "eclectic '90s" really this bland and frictionless?); horror (were the top hip...

Reviewed

Björk

Drawing Restraint 9

By Rossiter Drake

Published: July 27, 2005

Heavy breathing. A sultry moan. In the distance, a discordant celesta. No, it's not an elaborately textured prank call from some hot and bothered musician; it's "Pearl," one of 11 tracks composed...

OK Then

It Takes a Village Person

The arrest of that cop from the disco band and other headlines we'd like to see

By Garrett Kamps

Published: July 27, 2005

"Police arrest Village People's original policeman in Daly City" Not only did you read that right, but it's completely true. As reported by the Associated Press, "Victor Edward Willis, the...

Bouncer

Arrrr, Matey

The Buccaneer offers good time pirate fun, and a lesson in rejection

By Katy St. Clair

Published: July 27, 2005

Yes, I know that pirates are so 2003, so goddamn Eggers, but they've been on my mind a lot lately so bear with me. I have been spending time in the seat that is carved with indentations for your...

Hear This

Hear This

The sfSound Group's creative-music exploration; vocalist Junior Reid's venerable reggae sounds

By Tamara Palmer, Sam Prestianni

Published: July 27, 2005

Though this show is billed as "The 3rd Annual Rare Groove Revival," the phrase "rare groove" might be a bit misleading to the uninitiated. Indeed, it's record collector-speak that refers to...

BeatBox

BeatBox

Mu brings the techno stompdown to Rx; Mighty hosts a hip hop jammy-jam block party

Published: July 27, 2005

Mu -- the husband/wife team of Mutsumi Kanamori and Maurice Fulton -- occupies that widening space between techno, house, noise, and mohawk rock. Fulton lays down the grooves -- tough and...

Eat

Raw and Polished

The cooking at Blupointe is often first rate, yet the new multilevel seafood restaurant doesn't quite seduce

By Meredith Brody

Published: July 27, 2005

"There's no accounting for taste" is a phrase that used to confuse me, a little. But taste is the only thing that counts, I'd think. It makes more sense to me in its Latin original, De gustibis...

Dish Enchanted

Home Is Where the Corn Bread Is

Even in a new Marina location, you can go Home again

By Bonnie Wach

Published: July 27, 2005

Before I render an opinion that's bound to generate negative mail, let me say I've been a big fan of Home (the restaurant) since its debut in 2002. Home has always seemed very much at home in the...