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Battleship Down

The USS Iowa was once considered a lock as a San Francisco tourist attraction. So why is the historic warship rusting in Suisun Bay?

By Ron Russell

Published: January 10, 2007

The USS Iowa , the last great battleship from World War II to be mothballed by the Navy, holds a special place in military lore. It helped the U.S. military win in the Pacific after the Japanese...

Matt Smith

Drive-by Reporting

A primer for out-of-town journalists flocking to the Pelosi power story

By Matt Smith

Published: January 10, 2007

Woo hoo! Last Thursday, San Francisco became hometown to the world's most powerful woman. Party on dudes, er, babes, er, ladies, um, anyway: Party oooon! As if. We'll come to hate this,...

Matt Smith

A Union Made in Political Heaven

A labor boss in trouble with the feds joins a high-powered Democratic lobbyist to merge Konocti Resort with Indian gaming

By Matt Smith

Published: January 10, 2007

Democratic members of Congress say they'll forgo the gifts from lobbyists such as skybox parties and rides in comfy corporate jets, and golden-parachute lobbying jobs, all in the name of proving...

Sucka Free City

Prying Eyes

By Scot Bishop

Published: January 10, 2007

If you were raised religious, then you're familiar with the concept of constant surveillance — every moment sized up on Judgment Day, when you get to review your life with the OG. But Heaven...

Sucka Free City

Grave Anatomy

By Ron Russell

Published: January 10, 2007

Sometimes an awful story just keeps getting worse. To wit: The University of California San Francisco Medical Center has settled a lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed to have been sexually...

Sucka Free City

(Don't) Bite Me

A.C. THOMPSON

Published: January 10, 2007

Late last month, 10 tenants at a Skid Row residential hotel filed suit claiming the place was a complete dump, beset by an "infestation of vermin, rodents, roaches, and insects," not to mention...

Music

The Tao of Twosomes

Matt & Kim's band romance

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: January 10, 2007

"Kim and I shared a twin bed for three years, but we figured it was time to grow up, so we bought the double bed." As keyboardist Matt Johnson relays this tidbit over the phone, I can hear his...

Music

Joyful Reunion

Sacto heavyweights Kai Kln rise from the ashes

By Dave Pehling

Published: January 10, 2007

Back in the early '90s when Northwest grunge acts were forging a new style of heaviness indebted to Sabbath, Sacramento's Kai Kln seemed poised to explode from its rabid regional cult. The quartet...

Music

Misc. Reviews

Beat Kings: The History

By J. Niimi

Published: January 10, 2007

In Beat Kings: The History of Hip Hop , Wu-Tang Clan's Mathematics has assembled a revealing documentary from the point of view of the genre's architects. The DVD is an entertaining crash course...

Music

Mixtape Shmixtape

Wherein we review Yay Area mixes of the day

By Tamara Palmer

Published: January 10, 2007

We're kicking off the first Shmixtape of '07 by featuring two open-minded DJs appearing live on the same night this week. That allows for party-hopping club connoisseurs to test-drive the skills of...

Let's Get Killed

Fuck'd up dub

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: January 10, 2007

It was nearing the end of a sweat-loosening December set from local kitchen-sink-electro-funk act Tussle, and the percussion was overtaking the room. Not just in terms of sound, but also literally:...

Reviewed

Nas

Hip Hop Is Dead (Def Jam)

Published: January 10, 2007

As with 2004's "Thief's Theme," the title track to Nas' eighth disc is built around a sample of "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida." But "Hip Hop Is Dead" also resurrects something else: a theme that's been...

Reviewed

Babyshambles

The Blinding EP (Capitol)

Published: January 10, 2007

This diverting five-song EP inaugurates ex-Libertine Pete Doherty's new contract with the only American label brave enough to sign a world-renowned junkie hellbent on seeing how far the English...

Reviewed

The Band

Live at Watkins Glen (Capitol)

Published: January 10, 2007

Live at Watkins Glen was recorded at a racetrack in upstate New York in 1973 to a crowd estimated at more than 600,000 — the largest assembled mass of concert-goers ever (the Allman Brothers...

Bouncer

Never grab the martini shakers at Specs

Katy St. Clair

Published: January 10, 2007

In SOC101 we all learned about "norms." Norms gave Allen Funt a raison d'être when he messed around on Candid Camera ; they are organized ways of behaving, unwritten laws, based on some...

Hear This

The Nastiest EP on the market

By Mark Keresman, Tamara Palmer

Published: January 10, 2007

In the video for its first single "Ungawa," Oakland's Chow Nasty (Joey Enos, Damon Harris, and Zac Hewitt) ogle fierce Amazonian trannies and party like it's 1999 in a streamer-filled room....

BeatBox

Oakland's rap jokesters Kirb & Chris bring ha ha's to Rickshaw

Darren Keast, Toph One, Tamara Palmer

Published: January 10, 2007

Felicia Angeja Viator is best known as DJ Neta . When teamed up with her husband Ross Viator (aka Ross Hogg), the two perform as DJ duo Ital Selection Hi Fi, dropping both dancehall classics and...

Eat

Hungry for More

Resolutions are easy to keep at the Mission District's delightful Weird Fish

By Meredith Brody

Published: January 10, 2007

As sure as the new year brings resolutions, it brings the observation that resolutions are made to be broken. For instance, Anthony Bourdain's musing on a recent television promo for No...

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Published: January 10, 2007

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats . B Restaurant & Bar: 720 Howard (between Third and Fourth sts.), in Yerba Buena Gardens, 495-9800....

Film

This Is Their Brain on Drugs

Cassavetes Jr. and Justin in a box Timberlake team up for real-life tale of killer potheads

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: January 10, 2007

At face value, Alpha Dog — based on a real-life story that's still waiting for its ending — plays like an amped-up, drugged-out episode of Dragnet : In 2000, a gang of SoCal kids...