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Pacifists for War

How the fractured counterrecruitment movement includes those hoping to bring the draft back

By Cristi Hegranes

Published: November 2, 2005

April Owen says activism is in her blood. She went to her first anti-war protest with her mother when she was 9 years old. "I was in pigtails chanting, 'I won't die for Texaco,'" she says. At...

Matt Smith

Welcome to Talkalot

An Arthurian legend: in which the mayor espouses employment in modern high-tech industries while allowing a return to the industrial age

By Matt Smith

Published: November 2, 2005

Despite whatever criticisms one may level at Mayor Gavin Newsom, you have to admit he has balls. Last Wednesday Newsom delivered a State of the City address full of bromides about making S.F....

The Apologist

First Proposition, Then Conception

Take the initiative on the sticky question of parental notification

By Matt Palmquist

Published: November 2, 2005

Among the initiatives on the ballot in California's special election on Nov. 8 is Proposition 73, a constitutional amendment that would require doctors who intend to perform an abortion on an...

Dog Bites

Vote Like This, Dammit!

Overheard By Matt Palmquist

Published: November 2, 2005

Dog Bites, evil? Dog Bites, a lap dog for greedy corporate monopolists? Dog Bites, no better than a McDonald's fry-guy?!? Our legendary touch with hot oil aside, these were devastating accusations....

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, November 2, 2005

Published: November 2, 2005

Cash and Care-y The house that Gavin built: A very interesting article about the mayor ["The Money Went Fore What?," Oct. 26]. I would not disagree with some of [Matt Smith's] points....

Music

Don't Ask Why?

Yoni Wolf's Elephant Eyelash announces a new direction for the hip hop innovator

By David Downs

Published: November 2, 2005

Berkeley musician Yoni Wolf has no problem talking about painful breakups, his views on God, or his Podunk Ohio roots. Just try not to ask him if he's still hip hop. "I'm so glad you didn't go...

Department of What The Fuck?

Music videos: First they were all the rage, then they were all but dead. Thanks mainly to Apple, they're back.

By Chris Dahlen

Published: November 2, 2005

Video killed the radio star in 1981. By the end of the '90s, though, 120 Minutes was dead; MTV had discovered, via The Real World , that reality doesn't bite so much as addict viewers; and the...

I Shit You Not

Call bullshit on Henry Rollins in our fun-time quiz

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: November 2, 2005

In celebration of iconic 44-year-old punk rocker, sociopolitical commentator, and all-around media whore Henry Rollins' current "25 Years of Bullshit" spoken-word tour (which stops at the Palace of...

Misc. Reviews

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This week: the "Rev." in Rev. Run.

By Justin F. Farrar

Published: November 2, 2005

Rev. Run (aka Joseph Simmons) is a founding member of hip hop legends Run-D.M.C., and his new disc, Distortion -- a collection of rap-rock hybrids not unlike the vintage tracks he created with...

Outlandish Theories!

The name says it all! This week: Queen and its new frontman, cock rocker Paul Rodgers.

By Justin F. Farrar

Published: November 2, 2005

Rodgers, you see, was the swaggering frontman for the two bands that were originally responsible for establishing the generic-FM-rock-band archetype: Free and Bad Company. He's the dude who penned...

Reviewed

Various Artists

Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1996

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: November 2, 2005

The 1972 double LP Nuggets , as many a rock 'n' roll aficionado can tell you, was a treasure trove of overlooked 1960s American garage-punk, psychedelia, and fuzz-pop rounded up by rock critic and...

Reviewed

Wilco

Kicking Television: Live in Chicago

By Rossiter Drake

Published: November 2, 2005

From the ashes of Uncle Tupelo, Wilco has become one of America's finest rock bands, its constantly evolving sound a seamless mix of country, folk, and jolting blues that retains its urgency even...

Reviewed

El Capitan

What Ails You

By Nate Cavalieri

Published: November 2, 2005

Where El Capitan's debut, Atwater KNC , presented the band as an amiable, if inoffensive, local country-rock upstart, the quintet's follow-up, What Ails You , makes a substantial leap, skipping...

OK Then

Sun Kil Moon and Antarctica

Local legend Mark Kozelek takes on the songs of Modest Mouse

By Garrett Kamps

Published: November 2, 2005

The weird thing is, he describes it like a compulsion, as if he can't help himself. "You know that feeling when you see some amazing mystery movie and you can't stop thinking about it for three...

Hear This

Highly evolved goth rockers Current 93; OG sax addict Ornette Coleman

By Justin F. Farrar, Sam Prestianni

Published: November 2, 2005

Industrial-goth legends Current 93 are playing just two gigs in the United States this year, and both of them are going down right here. However, if you are considering attending, please do...

BeatBox

Rapper Fatlip, industrial innovators Front 242, and the dancehall star who brought us "No, No, No."

By Tamara Palmer

Published: November 2, 2005

Promoter Jonathan Mack is on a mission to bring more reggae and dancehall to the bay with his monthly "Angel Magik" parties in Berkeley and the recurring "Dancehall Legends" events at the DNA...

Eat

Tacos and Gimlets

Treating the author of Julie & Julia to a little taste of San Francisco

By Meredith Brody

Published: November 2, 2005

I know Roz Chast meant it ironically, but her New Yorker cartoon titled "Another Day in the Salt Mines" seemed just like real life to me. In it, a waiter asks a woman seated at a banquette with a...

Dish Enchanted

Chaat Amongst Yourselves

"Fast, fresh, casual" -- and innovative -- Indian food

By Bonnie Wach

Published: November 2, 2005

It has always seemed peculiar to me that here, in the birthplace of the United Nations, you could run down the street and grab a quick, inexpensive Senegalese or Istrian meal, but going out for...

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Published: November 2, 2005

To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats @ sfweekly.com . Andrew Jaeger's House of Seafood & Jazz: 300 Columbus (at Broadway), 781-8222, www.andrewjaegers.com . North Beach . New Orleans...

Film

Killing Time

In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: November 2, 2005

If Jarhead , director Sam Mendes and writer William Broyles Jr.'s adaptation of Bay Area writer Anthony Swofford's 2003 Gulf War memoir, seems at all familiar -- like, say, a DJ's mash-up of Full...