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Infiltrator

What Part of "Wait Until Marriage" Don't You Understand!

Infiltrator goes to a teen abstinence educators' conference -- and gets laid!

By Harmon Leon

Published: September 28, 2005

They solved it. Problem solved. The way to stop teen pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases is for teens simply not to have sex. It's just that easy. Teen abstinence is our...

Dog Bites

Volunteers

Fear, loathing, and the Chronicle's voluntary termination incentive program

By Tommy Craggs

Published: September 28, 2005

The San Francisco Chronicle 's labor accord with the Northern California Media Workers Guild was ratified by the union's sullen and defeated membership in July, but for anyone who doubted the...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Published: September 28, 2005

Pop Vulture Hey, it takes a lot of work to become the bard of the self-absorbed, self-righteous, comfortably middle-class progressive: Great job on skewering the Chron and particularly...

Music

Shades of Bluegrass

Gillian Welch and Split Lip Rayfield celebrate -- and upend -- tradition at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

By Sam Prestianni

Published: September 28, 2005

Bluegrass is one of those slippery genres born in the rich, dark loam of Rural Americana. You could call it the bastard child of the Grand Ole Opry, the white man's backwoods blues, or even country...

Reviewed

Jamie Lidell

Multiply

By Jonathan Zwickel

Published: September 28, 2005

This straightforward homage to Stax/Volt-era soul is a serious departure for Jamie Lidell, a genre-stretching British knob-twiddler whose previous solo work consisted of shadowy, artfully damaged...

Reviewed

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals

Jacksonville City Nights

By Nate Cavalieri

Published: September 28, 2005

Admittedly, we washed our hands of Ryan Adams when the antics of the altcountry pinup became as shamelessly precious as his subtly titled sea-change record, Rock N Roll . When he took time away...

Reviewed

Ric Ocasek

Nexterday

By Rossiter Drake

Published: September 28, 2005

Since his Cars sputtered to a halt in 1987, Ric Ocasek has largely eschewed a solo career, releasing a handful of indifferently received records and touring only once. Still, he's left his imprint...

Reviewed

The Fall

Fall Heads Roll

By Abigail Clouseau

Published: September 28, 2005

I've done some bad things in my day; I suppose all of us have. Still, I've recently been turned around, for good this time, and I owe it all to Mark E. Smith. See, in the 56 minutes it took me to...

Reviewed

Her Space Holiday

The Past Presents the Future

By Abigail Clouseau

Published: September 28, 2005

"In a dream you called me up and asked me quietly if I would like to meet you for a drink, but when I got there you just looked at me as you spoke to yourself," Marc Bianchi sings on "You and Me,"...

Reviewed

Joggers

With a Cape and a Cane

By Abigail Clouseau

Published: September 28, 2005

I recall fondly the thrill of arriving at a random high school house party to find a band playing. Most of the time this meant terrible songs and amateur delivery, but occasionally you'd come...

OK Then

All Together Now

Devendra Banhart's latest indicates his neo-folk movement may just be hitting its stride

By Garrett Kamps

Published: September 28, 2005

I first met Devendra Banhart in December 2002. He was 21 years old, and he had just released his introductory record, Oh Me Oh My ... the Way the Day Goes By the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming...

Bouncer

I Think, Therefore I Drink

Asking the Big Questions at a working-class Latino dive bar with chafing dishes full of beanie weenies

By Katy St. Clair

Published: September 28, 2005

To paraphrase John Kerry, you can be very certain about something and still be very wrong. This has been bothering me for quite some time. Right-wingers are (usually) intelligent people who are...

Hear This

The Double delivers its much-hyped electronic rock; the return of folk master Richard Thompson

By Rossiter Drake, Justin F. Farrar

Published: September 28, 2005

Fresh off the release of its major-label debut, Loose in the Air (Matador Records counts these days, right?), the Double will arrive at Mezzanine this week to set the stage for French pop...

BeatBox

T. Raumschmiere's punk rock techno and Tha Alkaholiks' boisterous hip hop

By Tamara Palmer

Published: September 28, 2005

Berlin's T. Raumschmiere , aka producer Marco Haas, operates an eclectic record label called Shitkatapult. The label name happens to be a great term to describe the upfront, techno-punk approach...

Eat

You Know What It Means

To miss New Orleans -- so feast on authentic N.O. turtle soup, crawfish étouffée, and jambalaya right here in North Beach

By Meredith Brody

Published: September 28, 2005

I make my living remembering meals, and some of the food I've eaten has stayed delicious in my mind for decades: the first lunch I had at the late, lamented Ritz Old Poodle Dog, downtown, with my...

Social Grace

Someone's Gonna Pay for This

On first-date dinners, road-trip gas, interpreters, and massage therapists

By Social Grace

Published: September 28, 2005

Dear Social Grace, I'm a professional sign language interpreter, and I was recently asked by a friend to interpret at her cousin's wedding. My friend's sister is deaf and was not expected to...

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Published: September 28, 2005

La Provence: 1001 Guerrero (at 22nd St.), 643-4333, www.laprovencerestaurant.net . Mission . French. Mangosteen: 601 Larkin (at Eddy), 776-3999. Civic Center. Vietnamese. Maverick:...

Film

Artful Dodging

Polanski's Oliver Twist misses the grit of Dickens' classic

By Jean Oppenheimer

Published: September 28, 2005

It's almost impossible to watch Roman Polanski's rendition of Oliver Twist without drawing parallels between the deprivations endured by the book's young protagonist and the director's own brutal...

Film

Played for Fools

The Greatest Game cheats history, and just about everything else

By Bill Gallo

Published: September 28, 2005

Anyone vaguely familiar with the rules of golf knows that you may not improve your lie, ground your club in a sand trap, or -- most grievous of all -- subtract strokes from your score. This last...

Film

Sinking Feeling

At the bottom of the ocean lies a worthless Blue movie

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: September 28, 2005

Into the Blue offers precisely what one would expect from the director of Blue Crush and the writer of Torque : beautiful stupidity. Its every frame dripping from a noxious recipe of suntan...