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Psycho Dogs

What makes canines go crazy? The answer is in their genes.

By Eliza Strickland

Published: March 7, 2007

At four in the morning, Melanie Chang was sitting up in bed, singing along to Madonna's "Crazy for You." She stared at the dog crouching on the floor of her bedroom, a wild-eyed creature too scared...

Matt Smith

Free Trade (in Doctors)

If physicians really cared about our health, they'd drop their iron wall against immigrant doctors

By Matt Smith

Published: March 7, 2007

With its thousands of acres of universities, conservatories, libraries, bookstores, teaching hospitals, med schools, and other enterprises dedicated to sharing knowledge, San Francisco is a place...

Sucka Free City

Fight Club

By Will Harper

Published: March 7, 2007

Even for people who find local politics as dull as oral sex with a dental dam, the looming state Senate fight between Mark Leno and incumbent Carole Migden features some compelling story lines....

Sucka Free City

Monster Mashed

By Mary Spicuzza

Published: March 7, 2007

If you haven't heard of the Monster Cable Products labor controversy, it's a lesson in the unexpected ironies of our globalized economy. Judging from the Monster affair, cheap immigrant labor just...

Sucka Free City

Making a Killing

By Michael Stoll

Published: March 7, 2007

No, this is not the Zodiac speaking. Instead it is I, Paramount Pictures, who along with Warner Bros. has lightly fictionalized, filmed, and marketed the story of the hippie-era taunting serial...

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of 3-7-2007

Published: March 7, 2007

The Last Laugh? This is in response to Mr. Cohen's letter ("Black and White," Letters, Feb. 28), wherein he attempts to trivialize the importance of the photos, saying the self-deprecating...

Music

New Coke

Clipse reinforces the power of powder

By Sam Chennault

Published: March 7, 2007

Cocaine/Crack rock is ... A) A national scourge, resulting in a generational holocaust following its boom in the early- to mid-'80s, leaving an entire generation of urban youth permanently maimed...

Music

Something Like a Menomena

Portland band boosts indie rock's eclecticism

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Published: March 7, 2007

"So ... do I get permission to act like a really moody, temperamental artist now?" asks Menomena's Brent Knopf with one of many happy-go-lucky laughs. The amiable singer/guitarist/keyboardist isn't...

Music

Rest in Peace

Beloved counterculture rag Arthur stagnates somewhere between dead and indefinite hiatus

By KEACH HAGEY

Published: March 7, 2007

In the end, there just wasn't enough peace and love to go around. After five years of publishing consistently interesting music, arts, politics, and drug journalism in the mold of the underground...

Let's Get Killed

The snorification of indie rock

By Jennifer Maerz

Published: March 7, 2007

"When did indie rock get so boring?" That was the question posed by my fellow showgoer at Noise Pop's opening-night bash once Tapes 'n' Tapes launched into their set. And I hate to say it,...

Reviewed

Bright Eyes

Four Winds EP (Saddle Creek)

Ed Masley

Published: March 7, 2007

Apparently, that Vote for Change tour really got to Conor Oberst. He opens his latest release, Four Winds , with a violin-fueled title track channeling a previously untapped inner Springsteen. The...

Reviewed

Fujiya & Miyagi

Transparent Things (Deaf, Dumb & Blind)

Dave Pehling

Published: March 7, 2007

Given the group's name and its obvious love for the minimalist funk of Future Days -era Can, it isn't farfetched to think Fujiya & Miyagi are descendents of iconic krautrocker Damo Suzuki. While...

Reviewed

Bloc Party

A Weekend in the City Vice Records

Tony Ware

Published: March 7, 2007

A crush can be such a mushy and inelegant experience. Unrequited love feigns the poetic even as it's pathetic. And full-on obsession has its big-budget explosions. But a band reaching for a...

Reviewed

Do Make Say Think

You, You're a History in Rust (Constellation)

Jonah Flicker

Published: March 7, 2007

The world of indie rock has never really embraced the concept of the instrumental jam band. The few exceptions that (barely) fit into that category — Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Mogwai,...

Reviewed

Various Artists

Company (2006 Broadway Revival Cast) (Nonesuch Records)

Brock Keeling

Published: March 7, 2007

In a city plagued with people scrimping for nerd credibility, you'd assume Stephen Sondheim's musical theater oeuvre clogs many an iPod's "most recently played" list. Alas. Take, for example, the...

Bouncer

Stud recovery

Katy St. Clair

Published: March 7, 2007

Rehab is the new kabbalah for celebrities who want to re-examine their motivations and mistakes. But instead of Jewish mystics it has Jewish Ph.D.'s. Instead of red wristbands it has white hospital...

Hear This

Mountain Goats graze through three sold out shows

By Mark Keresman, Ed Masley, Sam Prestianni

Published: March 7, 2007

Portland's Charlie Salas-Humara is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist best known as Panther . Like a one-man short-wave set with purposely faulty control knobs, his new mini-album Secret...

BeatBox

Get your funk on for free

Andy Beta, Toph One, Tamara Palmer

Published: March 7, 2007

San Francisco night life isn't necessarily super-expensive, but it's still a treat to find quality DJs for absolutely nothing — as promised with "Free Funk Friday." DJs B-Cause and...

Eat

Getting Its Dues

Retro meets modern at the Presidio Social Club

By Meredith Brody

Published: March 7, 2007

Even though the Presidio has been open to noncombatants for some time now, I still feel a thrill when I glide through its gates, unchallenged by the MPs who used to man them. Until a few years ago,...

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Published: March 7, 2007

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats . Bella Venezia: 3215 Mission (at Valencia), 642-4896. Mission . Italian. Country Sky: 3321...