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Cops Who SPY

By A.C. THOMPSON

Published: September 27, 2006

This is a story nobody wants you to read. Not your city government, which has done its best to entomb the basic facts within a mausoleum of official secrecy. Not Mayor Gavin Newsom, who is...

Matt Smith

Troublesome Pastimes

One local busybody collects letters from serial killers. Another attacks environmentalists. Guess which one's misguided.

By Matt Smith

Published: September 27, 2006

Fremont warehouse worker and aspiring author Thomas Loudamy, 27, has the most killer hobby. Or, rather, his hobby involves the most killers. Loudamy has drawers full of missives from live-child...

The Apologist

The Chron Behind Bars

A judge has ordered two Chronicle reporters to serve time unless they divulge their source on Bonds' steroid use. Do you think they should be made to spill the beans?

By Matt Palmquist

Published: September 27, 2006

A federal judge last week ordered two San Francisco Chronicle reporters to prison for as long as 18 months, pending their appeal, with the aim of pressuring them into revealing their sources of...

Sucka Free City

Ask a Track Bike!

By Ephraim the Track Bike

Published: September 27, 2006

And there you have it. My track bike species now starts its slow descent from avant- garde chic to common irrelevance. Disgusting. I mean, I know I've made fun of being hip, but to go back to...

Sucka Free City

Keeping the Faith

By Justin Hampton

Published: September 27, 2006

So some kids have bought the old DV8 space in SOMA and plan to open a new club there sometime soon (a few days this week for the Summer Music Conference, and then some official opening date once...

Sucka Free City

Showtime!

Frances Reade

Published: September 27, 2006

There are two types of people in this world, and the line separating them is 10 words long: "It must be weird not having anybody come on you." That is to say, either 1995's tits-and-ass Vegas...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Published: September 27, 2006

Haight Crimes Look to the streets of New York: I live on Page and Shrader, a block away from Haight and Ashbury, and I can't tell you how excited I was when I read the intro blurb about...

Music

Brave New World

M. Ward creates a Post-War state

By Garrett Kamps

Published: September 27, 2006

Hippies, though admirable and well intentioned, often compensate for their excellent politics with profoundly lousy art. Which is a real bummer, as our current political situation is profoundly...

Music

These Girls Don't Do Diva

Scissor Sisters aim for dancefloor transcendence

By J. Poet

Published: September 27, 2006

In the past two years, the Scissor Sisters have had the kind of roller coaster ride most bands dream about. When the New York-based group's indie single, a Bee Gees-style reworking of Pink Floyd's...

Music

Pick Up on This

New artist alert: Glitch Mob

By Darren Keast

Published: September 27, 2006

Like yogurt, some ideas need to ferment before they're palatable to the masses. Take the laptop music micro-movement that kicked off in San Francisco in the '90s. Skinny guys with glasses, hunched...

Music

Misc. Reviews

Band-name watch: Gettin' Grizzly

By Maya Kroth

Published: September 27, 2006

Wolves are so 2005. They had a good run for a while, what with Wolf Parade riding the post-Arcade Fire buzz to indie-rock stardom, Wolf Eyes gouging out the tympanums of anyone within...

Let's Get Killed

Rogue Wave asks for a little help from its friends

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: September 27, 2006

It's no secret that indie-level musicians trade career staples (steady paychecks, regular showers) for the far less cushy life of an artist (sporadic pay, showering at gas stations). But while...

Reviewed

Viva Voce

Get Yr Blood Sucked Out (Barsuk Records)

Nate Seltenrich

Published: September 27, 2006

Marriage is all about communication, compromise, and ... psychedelic indie rock. At least it is for Kevin and Anita Robinson, otherwise known as Viva Voce, who have popped out four albums of the...

Reviewed

Grizzly Bear

Yellow House (Warp)

Jonah Flicker

Published: September 27, 2006

Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear makes music that feels like a visit to a thrift store — while you're fully aware that you're in the 21st century, surrounding you are hints of lives and eras past....

Reviewed

DJ Krush

Stepping Stones (Sony Japan)

Published: September 27, 2006

Japanese beatmaker DJ Krush has always had a Zen-master type of feel to his mood-shifting material, which can abruptly veer from hard-edged big beats to softly melodic ambient stuff. On Stepping...

Hear This

Mojave 3|Lambchop and Alejandro Escovedo|Supersystem

By Jonah Flicker, Michael Alan Goldberg, Mark Keresman

Published: September 27, 2006

Fans of Mojave 3 who've bemoaned bassist-vocalist Rachel Goswell's gradually diminishing role (particularly when it comes to her angelic singing) will be gutted to learn that she's not even in...

BeatBox

Gettin' Super Heavy on a Thursday night

Published: September 27, 2006

Every fourth Thursday, the sound system at the Madrone Lounge serves up confectionary indie rock with sides of dancefloor sweets. Super Heavy Duty DJs are fans of alt rock's top of the pops...

Eat

Bistro on a Budget

Dine in style without the sticker shock at Jimmie Kwok's

By Robert Lauriston

Published: September 27, 2006

Great food, pleasant setting, low prices: That's a tough combination to find in the city. We've got a glorious abundance of cheap eateries dishing out great food with zero atmosphere, and no...

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Published: September 27, 2006

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. Aslam's Rasoi: 1037 Valencia (between 21st and 22nd sts.), 695-0599, www.aslamsrasoi.com . Mission . Indian and Pakistani. Club J2:...

Film

Future Imperfect

Renaissance is black and white and a little dead all over

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: September 27, 2006

The animated feature has become the most tiresome dish available in the googolplex buffet line — more so than even the mopey art-house offering in which bad things happen to good people while...