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Inside the Savage Nation

He adored beatniks, trolled the streets of North Beach in a beret, and was once Timothy Leary's gatekeeper, and now he packs a gun.

By Ron Russell

Published: July 19, 2006

Michael Savage is angry. He's angry at the President of the United States. He's angry at Time magazine. He's angry at CNN. And he's super-angry at Congressman Jack Murtha. The object of the San...

Matt Smith

This Is Your Sport Off Drugs

If only baseball would deal with the drug problem instead of cowering in fear

By Matt Smith

Published: July 19, 2006

Imagine that George Mitchell's conflict of interest-ridden whitewash-in-the-making of a baseball steroids investigation somehow turned into an aggressive, impartial probe. The Justice Department's...

Sucka Free City

Our Foreign Correspondent

By KEVIN O'CONNOR

Published: July 19, 2006

The handsome young man, who gives his name as Michael, is wearing a University of San Francisco Ski and Snowboard Club T-shirt. The back of the black shirt shows the silhouettes of a skier and a...

Sucka Free City

Blah-ging

By Karen Zuercher

Published: July 19, 2006

During my vast stretches of free time — between working full time, raising a 1-year-old, keeping my family in clean clothes, and remaining married — I like to catch up on my reading. For...

Sucka Free City

Knit of Time

By Ben Westhoff

Published: July 19, 2006

At 1:32 in the morning on a Saturday in February 2005, Bernal Heights resident Nina Rosenberg launched her quixotic quest to hang thousands of tiny red sweaters from the locust tree in front of her...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Published: July 19, 2006

Remembering Joe We miss him, too: It is a wonderful article Matt Smith wrote about my dear friend, Joe Dignan ["I Wish I'd Written That," July 12]. Through the article, I could vividly see...

Music

Here Come the Mutant Men

Brazilian legends Os Mutantes invade the States

By Mike Rowell

Published: July 19, 2006

When Sérgio Dias of legendary Brazilians Os Mutantes attended the Fillmore in 1968, he never dreamed that one day he'd play the venerable San Francisco ballroom. But that's where the guitarist will...

Music

If It's Not Scottish, It's Crap!

Camera Obscura and that other Scot band

By Mark Keresman

Published: July 19, 2006

Famous Scots actor Sean Connery once damned his cinematic alter ego James Bond. "I'd like to kill him," said Commander Connery, as his work as an actor seemed forever (in the 1960s and '70s,...

Music

Misc. Reviews

Beverly Hills' dark underbelly

By Dan Strachota

Published: July 19, 2006

You know what's so great about high school? The free time. You can sit around all day, popping zits, talking about which girls have the biggest hooters, imagining what it would be like if Axel F...

Music

Hip Hop's Hit Ticker

Dabrye's nerdy interior

By Jonah Flicker

Published: July 19, 2006

While hip hop may be a relatively nascent genre, it's already dealing with some identity problems. The influx of commercialism is arguably turning a vibrant and informative music into cookie-cutter...

Let's Get Killed

Piper at the Pearly Gates

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: July 19, 2006

R.I.P. Syd Barrett . The original crazy diamond is now a sparkle in the sky, having passed away last week of unnamed causes. The songwriter who helped usher into the music world genuine...

Reviewed

Mr. Lif

Mo Mega (Definitive Jux)

By Tamara Palmer

Published: July 19, 2006

With dreadlocks of unusually impressive girth, it would be easy to mistake the rapper Mr. Lif for a ganja-soaked reggae star. And though his family hailed from the island of Barbados, eventually...

Reviewed

Johnny Cash

American V: A Hundred Highways (American/Lost Highway) Personal File (Columbia/Legacy)

By Rob Patterson

Published: July 19, 2006

The title of A Hundred Highways , Johnny Cash's final recordings, actually understates the roads and mileage he traveled — literally, spiritually and musically — and their resonance...

Reviewed

Corrupted

El Mundo Frio (HG Fact)

By Andy Beta

Published: July 19, 2006

Whereas 2006 has shown critics stuck on Japan's Boris' fine trick of gluing glam and shoegaze to lugubrious drone on the almost-bubblegum breakout Pink , fellow countrymen Corrupted keep creeping...

Bouncer

Watching World Cup at Pompei's Grotto

By Katy St. Clair

Published: July 19, 2006

Here is the center of my universe these days, the thing that makes me tick and tock, my motivation for getting out of bed in the morning: I am incredibly horny. I have what the yogi might call an...

Hear This

Oneida vs. Raconteurs: one big riff deserves another

By Michael Alan Goldberg, M.A.G, Dave Pehling

Published: July 19, 2006

Of all the noisy Brooklyn-based bands making a fractured racket on an indie-rock soundscape, few fly their freak flag as high as veteran outfit Oneida . Since being founded by ridiculously...

BeatBox

Z-Trip's second-homecoming

By Eric K. Arnold, Tamara Palmer, Dave Pehling, T.P

Published: July 19, 2006

The ongoing love affair between genre-busting maestro DJ Z-Trip and his fiercely loyal fans in the Bay Area started almost 10 years ago. San Francisco was one of the earliest cities outside of...

Eat

Dinner and a Show

The food duels with presentation at the best little sushi house in San Francisco

By Meredith Brody

Published: July 19, 2006

With dozens and dozens of sushi bars in this hungry city — it seems that the sushi bar has overtaken the cocktail bar in numbers — I still hadn't found my raw-fish nirvana. I'd had...

Eat

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town.

Published: July 19, 2006

Ate: 995 North Point (at Polk), 409-6915. Russian Hill . Mediterranean fusion. Cha-Ya: 762 Valencia (at 19th St.), 252-7825. Mission . Japanese vegetarian/vegan. Crave: 2367 Market...

Film

Go-Nowhere Men

Kevin Smith's still hanging at the Quick Stop, trying to grow up. Or not.

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: July 19, 2006

Two weeks ago a colleague insisted that Superman Returns isn't the remake of the 1978 original, as I wrote, but a reinterpretation — its melancholy flip side. Where the Christopher Reeve...