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Sign of the Cult-Buster

Anti-cult crusader Ford Greene and the town of San Anselmo are staging a nasty public fight over Greene's strident anti-Bush political signs. But is that an old religious enemy we see behind the curtain?

By Ron Russell

Published: October 5, 2005

Maybe it was "Defy Evil Bushism" or "Christmas Is No Fun in Fallujah." Or it may have been one of the other not-so-subtle references to President George W. Bush posted on the sign next to his law...

The Apologist

Agog Over Google

As a simple Internet search engine has grown into a billion-dollar tech behemoth, the question becomes: Is Google good? Take quiz, find out.

By Matt Palmquist

Published: October 5, 2005

In the seven years since its creation by a couple of Stanford graduate students, Google Inc. has blossomed from a simple online search engine into a technological behemoth, all but besting search...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, October 5, 2005

Published: October 5, 2005

Scored Card Infiltrator drops the ball: What a letdown ["Abstinence a Go-Go!," Sept. 28]. I read the whole fucking (or nonfucking) column, only to find out that you got laid by someone you...

Music

One Band Clapping

The much-hyped Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and the phenomenon of the indie band as small business

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: October 5, 2005

Answering his cell phone on an early Thursday afternoon, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah main man Alec Ounsworth has pretty much no idea where he is -- aside from lounging on the back porch of a house...

Music

Scrawlin' Out

Local hip hop gets an online boost from a selection of top-notch blogs

By Tamara Palmer

Published: October 5, 2005

Blogs, blogs, blogs -- everyone has his own blog. At last count there were something like three blogs for every man, woman, and child on the entire planet. Wait, hold on ... OK, now it's four. And...

Reviewed

The Juan Maclean

Less Than Human

By Dan Strachota

Published: October 5, 2005

On his first full-length as the Juan Maclean, New Hampshire resident John Maclean tries the impossible: making house music palatable to indie rockers. If anyone could do it, you'd think Maclean...

Reviewed

Paula Frazer

Leave the Sad Things Behind

By Mark Keresman

Published: October 5, 2005

Melancholia comes easier to some than others -- but like most any state of mind, it's what one does with it that counts. S.F.'s Paula Frazer (who fronted altcountry locals Tarnation in the '90s)...

Reviewed

The Red Krayola

Singles

By Justin F. Farrar

Published: October 5, 2005

The history of underground legends the Red Krayola can be split into two radically different chapters. The first ('66 to '68) is the story of a psychedelic noise-rock trio from Houston that...

Reviewed

Metric

Live It Out

By Abigail Clouseau

Published: October 5, 2005

I wonder what Metric (and sometimes Broken Social Scene) frontwoman Emily Haines was like in high school. Like most emerging indie rock icons, she was probably socially awkward, the only sort of...

Reviewed

Calla

Collisions

By Abigail Clouseau

Published: October 5, 2005

At a record release party for the band's previous effort, Televise , New York's Calla played an entire set in total darkness save for a bright spotlight that shone at the audience from the rear of...

OK Then

Blandalicious

Hometown heroes Blackalicious achieve mediocrity with The Craft

By Garrett Kamps

Published: October 5, 2005

Blackalicious is easily one of this city's biggest sacred cows, musically speaking. The brainchild of high school friends MC Gift of Gab and producer/DJ Chief Xcel, Blackalicious was founded all...

Bouncer

Chaos Theory

Where to drink when you find yourself broke-down in Oak-town

By Katy St. Clair

Published: October 5, 2005

The origins of the word "chaos" are surprising (well, let me clarify that by saying, "The origins of the word 'chaos' are surprising if you are a total geek." Everyone else can return to...

Hear This

Jazz cats the Dead Kenny G's stick it to everyone's favorite wuss; DMBQ drops a bluster-bomb on 12 Galaxies

By Sam Prestianni, Mike Rowell

Published: October 5, 2005

Kenny G is the most reviled com poser in contemporary instrumental music. A bombastic performer who can barely play his soprano sax beyond a few trademark gimmicks, he is nonetheless a...

BeatBox

Local crew Bayonics drops multiculti hip hop; Timo Maas brings his mixed-up dance sound from Germany

By Tamara Palmer

Published: October 5, 2005

With news, interviews, and live footage of local and national artists and DJs, the TV program Distortion 2 Static (airing Sunday nights at midnight on WB20) is the Bay Area's hip hop lifeline on...

Eat

Bravo Italia

An authentic restaurant that you'd be happy to find in Italy, much less on Union Street

By Meredith Brody

Published: October 5, 2005

Who knew, when Peter invited me to an evening of new chamber music performed by Earplay at the Herbst Theatre, that the second piece would be about vegetables? Certainly not Peter, who'd scored the...

Dish Enchanted

This Week in Soup

A weeklong odyssey through the delicious soups at Isabella's

By Bonnie Wach

Published: October 5, 2005

So there I was thumbing through David Rakoff's latest collection at my favorite bookstore, Phoenix Books, when the smell hit me -- a tantalizing waft of earthy greens, chicken broth, and something...

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Published: October 5, 2005

To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats @ sfweekly.com . Cafe de la Presse: 352 Grant (at Bush), 398-2680. Downtown . French. La Provence: 1001 Guerrero (at 22nd St.), 643-4333,...

Film

ISO Substance

The Craigslist documentary is sweet, but not very deep or interesting

By Melissa Levine

Published: October 5, 2005

Indian virgin seeks willing woman. Wanted: heavy metal chef. Redheaded family seeks redheaded pet. For hire: preop transsexual e$cort. "I am stalking shell-car guy." Diabetic cat support group....

Film

Writes and Wrongs

In Capote, a murder leads to a masterpiece leads to an undoing

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: October 5, 2005

This fall, the roll call of gigantic ghosts inhabiting cinematic biographies continues unabated, with Joaquin Phoenix as a shrunken Johnny Cash in Walk the Line , David Strathairn as an...

Film

Exhuming McCarthy

The Red Scare returns in Good Night, and Good Luck

By Jean Oppenheimer

Published: October 5, 2005

Good Night, and Good Luck , a riveting movie that's as entertaining as it is socially and politically important, could not have come at a more propitious time. But more than just the right film at...