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What's Really Wrong With the Lower Fillmore?

Could it be the activists who claim they're trying to rebuild it?

By Cristi Hegranes

Published: September 21, 2005

It's a windy Wednesday evening in September, and despite initial attempts at civility, the quarrelsome dynamics of the Lower Fillmore are once again playing out in public. "I want to move beyond...

Matt Smith

Pig Government

The politics of pork has real victims. Just look at New Orleans, or commuters on the Bay Bridge.

By Matt Smith

Published: September 21, 2005

Last Thursday I pushed a stroller with two small children for a couple of hours through tens of thousands of honking, backed-up cars. And boy am I glad I did. I tried, and failed, to squeeze...

The Apologist

FEMA -- a Four-Letter Word?

The only quiz in the world that will tell you if you're an apologist for the Bush administration's Hurricane Katrina response

By Matt Palmquist

Published: September 21, 2005

Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans on Aug. 29, breaching the levees that protect the city from Lake Pontchartrain and flooding most of it; the storm also inundated huge swaths of...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Published: September 21, 2005

Great White Joke Nothing against whitey, but ...: Too funny. Run and hide to a renaissance fair ["Stupid White Tricks," Matt Smith, Sept. 14]?!? Classic. Perhaps these "Caucasians" you...

Music

Split Myself in Two

The dual personalities of Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart

By Justin F. Farrar

Published: September 21, 2005

A golden sun is warming Fruitvale on a Saturday afternoon. I'm seated in the kitchen of Jamie Stewart, the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who is the driving force behind the group...

Music

Finders, Tweakers!

Presenting the Love Week Scavenger Hunt: because ravers aren't already stimulated enough

By Tamara Palmer

Published: September 21, 2005

The world-famous Love Parade returns to San Francisco for its second year here on Saturday, Sept. 24, which means the local dance-music scene will flaunt its many colorful feathers like a peacock...

Misc. Reviews

Misc. Reviews

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This week: Drag City's Galactic Zoo Dossier.

By Justin F. Farrar

Published: September 21, 2005

It's been a while since I read a boss music zine, so the recent arrival of Galactic Zoo Dossier #6 -- a 76-page rag dedicated to obscure psychedelic music and published by longtime indie...

Reviewed

The American Analog Set

Set Free

By Abigail Clouseau

Published: September 21, 2005

The American Analog Set's latest full-length, Set Free , should provide the score to some pretty quintessential autumn moments this year: the donning of new sweaters, the anticipation of kisses on...

Reviewed

Sonic Youth

Goo (Deluxe Edition)

By Rossiter Drake

Published: September 21, 2005

Fifteen years after Sonic Youth's startling alliance with David Geffen paved the way for a new generation of altrockers with major-label muscle, the band's DGC debut, Goo , is back in the form of...

Reviewed

Various Artists

Dimension Mix

By Dan Strachota

Published: September 21, 2005

Quality children's music has seen a resurgence of late, what with albums by Dan Zanes and They Might Be Giants allowing parents to throw away those damn Raffi records forever. Dimension Mix --...

Reviewed

Disturbed

Ten Thousand Fists

By Rossiter Drake

Published: September 21, 2005

There's a menacing edge buried somewhere beneath Disturbed's bludgeoning riffs and howling vocals; the group's latest, Ten Thousand Fists , packs enough of an aural punch to blindside a generation...

Reviewed

J.C. Hopkins Biggish Band

Under a Brooklyn Moon

By Mark Keresman

Published: September 21, 2005

Don't assume from his spiffy 1940s cover-art attire that ex-S.F. folk-rocker J.C. Hopkins (Flophouse) is going all Cocktail Nation on us. Where most exponents of the '90s lounge/neo-swing wave were...

Bouncer

You Suck What?

Katy St. Clair discovers the Marilyn Monroe of dive bars: Randy's Place

By Katy St. Clair

Published: September 21, 2005

My grandfather had the enviable experience of seeing Marilyn Monroe's panties. As a crew member for 20th Century Fox, he was the person who held the fan below her, billowing her skirt upward, in...

Hear This

Hear This

Billy Idol's rebel yell, Seu Jorge's Brazilian croon, and Portastatic's maudlin moan

By Rossiter Drake, Michael Alan Goldberg, Dan Strachota

Published: September 21, 2005

Those with a lingering fondness for the '80s -- and, judging by the enduring popularity of Bay Area cover bands like Tainted Love, there are more than a few of you -- can get their nostalgia fix...

BeatBox

Beat

Find Love Week alternatives in "Meat," "Charlie Horse," "Pussykat," and Nouvelle Vague

By Brock Keeling, Tamara Palmer

Published: September 21, 2005

Lots of club promoters try to lure in patrons with drink specials, but few really give people what they want: free meat. Luckily, the aptly named "Meat" has recognized this void, offering a...

Eat

Call Off the Quest

O'Reilly's Holy Grail satisfies on every level: a beautiful room with interesting and delicious food

By Meredith Brody

Published: September 21, 2005

OK, I know the technology has been around for a long time, but it still amazes me when my friend Carl e-mails me from Japan and says he wants to have dinner at O'Reilly's Holy Grail when he's next...

Dish Enchanted

The Deep Divide

A San Francisco pizza that's geared to the discerning hipster palate

By Bonnie Wach

Published: September 21, 2005

I've always contended that the divide between San Francisco and Oakland/Berkeley goes much further than just traversing a bridge over troubled, gridlocked waters. The physical barrier is one...

Fresh Eats

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Published: September 21, 2005

To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats @ sfweekly.com . La Provence: 1001 Guerrero (at 22nd St.), 643-4333, www.laprovencerestaurant.net . Mission . French. Mangosteen: 601 Larkin...

Film

Love in Gloom

Tim Burton is dead-on again in the darkly delightful Corpse Bride

By Bill Gallo

Published: September 21, 2005

By conservative estimate, Tim Burton stands to rake in half a billion dollars at the box office this year, thanks to a childlike chocolate maker in mauve rubber gloves and, now, a lively dead girl...

Film

Something Missing

Liev Schreiber adapts a best-selling novel, without the best results

By Melissa Levine

Published: September 21, 2005

In 2001, Jonathan Safran Foer made an astounding literary debut. "A Very Rigid Search," published by the New Yorker , was his hilarious, heartbreaking account of an attempt by a young American man...