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Separate and Unequal

Hidden in the city's special day classes, like the roots of San Francisco's segregation itself, are disproportionately high numbers of African-American and Latino kids.

By Alison Pierce

Published: January 25, 2006

It's second-period reading class on a Tuesday morning at AP Giannini Middle School and sunlight filters through the branches of a massive pine outside the classroom windows. The pungent odors of...

Matt Smith

Pouring Money Down a Hole

We tried to warn you. A new audit shows how a PGA tournament sucked millions of dollars from city parks.

By Matt Smith

Published: January 25, 2006

The official guidebook to San Francisco politics goes like this: On one side of the political isle are "progressives," including many of the members of the Board of Supervisors, who see their job...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Published: January 25, 2006

We're Charging Forward Building community trust, one incarceration at a time: Your recent article on San Francisco's homicides ["Let It Bleed," Jan. 18] raises important issues for our...

Music

Nu Shooz

Film School grows better as it grows older -- shoegazer comparisons be damned

By Dan Strachota

Published: January 25, 2006

I am one of those annoying people who, for the most part, like a band's earlier work better. Especially in this modern, accelerated era, where everything seems to have the half-life of a mutant...

Reviewed

Sean Hayes

Big Black Hole and the Little Baby Star

By Dan Strachota

Published: January 25, 2006

On his fourth full-length, Oakland-based singer/ songwriter Sean Hayes moves closer to that most unusual of amalgamations: the danceable folk singer. More than ever before -- save for maybe...

Reviewed

Luke Doucet

Broken (And Other Rogue States)

By Chris Baty

Published: January 25, 2006

There's enough liquor in Luke Doucet's new album to derail the best-laid plans of a dozen AA chapters. The Canadian singer-songwriter (and one-time Sarah McLachlan guitarist) dances across his...

Reviewed

Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio With Special Guest Billy Bang

Live at the River East Art Center

By Sam Prestianni

Published: January 25, 2006

About three-quarters of the way into this spirited CD/DVD set by Chicago's premier deep-soul/jazz combo, band leader Kahil El'Zabar launches into a preacher's monologue: "Life is really really...

Reviewed

Matthew Shipp

One

By Sam Prestianni

Published: January 25, 2006

In a surprising departure from his groove-deep, electro-acoustic explorations of the past few years as the head of Thirsty Ear's "The Blue Series," forward-jazz vet Matthew Shipp channels his...

Reviewed

Prince Douglas

Dub Roots

By Justin F. Farrar

Published: January 25, 2006

For the past several years, Basic Channel, a European label specializing in minimal electronics, has been reissuing a slew of roots records originally recorded in the late '70s and early '80s by...

Reviewed

Hot Chip

Coming on Strong

By Dan Strachota

Published: January 25, 2006

The next time someone tells you whitey ain't down enough to rap, send him in the direction of Hot Chip. These London motherfuckers know that true homies be bumping Yo La Tengo when they do a...

OK Then

Brodreo Drive

It's like a beer commercial. A XXX beer commercial.

By Garrett Kamps

Published: January 25, 2006

SF Weekly headquarters is located in a sterile building that houses a great deal of other offices and companies and conference rooms. In other words, where I work is much like where you work....

Bouncer

Repaired Social Club

Is Annie's Social Club the 19th Cheese of bars? And what the hell is the 19th Cheese anyway?

By Katy St. Clair

Published: January 25, 2006

What is there to do but sit around and wait for the 19th Cheese? I know it's out there. I only hope that it will arrive in my lifetime. The other evening I went out for a birthday celebration for...

Hear This

Find out what Spain's done for Josh Rouse; take on LSD and the Search for God

By Michael Alan Goldberg, Tamara Palmer, Sam Prestianni

Published: January 25, 2006

When last we heard from Josh Rouse , he was delivering to us his break-up album, 2005's Nashville , which was lyrically steeped in the misery stemming from his recent divorce. Apparently Rouse...

BeatBox

Oscar G brings a box of beats all the way from Miami

By Tamara Palmer

Published: January 25, 2006

The Oakland collective that calls itself DeeCee's Soul Shakedown frequently brings its cool vibe to S.F. via its lively events at venues such as DNA Lounge and Club Six, consistently hosting...

Eat

Tofu for What Ails You

Tasteful design and designed tastes rule at the vegan Medicine Eatstation

By Meredith Brody

Published: January 25, 2006

By now everybody knows that You Are What You Eat. In an age when a book-flacking doctor appears on both Oprah and The View within a week, pushing as cancer- and Alzheimer-fighting agents...

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Published: January 25, 2006

To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats @ sfweekly.com . Belden Taverna: 52 Belden (at Pine), 986-8887. Downtown . Mediterranean. Benjarong Thai: 1968 Lombard (at Webster), 441-8999....

Film

Take This Woman

Piper Perabo plays a boring bride with an untimely lesbian streak

By Melissa Levine

Published: January 25, 2006

It happens so often these days. A comedy opens with clever jokes, endearing characters, and an enjoyably brisk pace, all of which put you at ease. This'll be fun , you think, settling into your...

Film

Rocky Waters

Annapolis salutes all the classic boxing clichés

By Bill Gallo

Published: January 25, 2006

No one has ever mistaken Rocky Balboa for an officer and a gentleman, but that's just about what we get in the numbingly predictable and none-too-stirring Annapolis , an underdog-makes-good...

Film

Valley of the Dolls

Steven Soderbergh's Bubble bursts over a sleepy Midwestern town

By Melissa Levine

Published: January 25, 2006

The big news about Bubble , the new film by director Steven Soderbergh ( Erin Brockovich , Traffic ), is the way it's being released. Rather than opening first in theaters, then later on DVD and...

Film

Heavenly Hag

Emma Thompson's Nanny McPhee becomes a thing of beauty.

By Bill Gallo

Published: January 25, 2006

There is evidently no limit to the sacrifices actors will make for their art. If you thought beautiful Charlize Theron went the distance by transforming herself into a bloated, scowling murderess...