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San Mateo Confidential

How a lesbian love triangle involving two police officers and a former kickboxing champion led to a drawn-out privacy lawsuit against the San Mateo County DA who had allegedly outed the kickboxer to her ex-husband, a probation officer who then decided to

By Matt Palmquist

Published: July 2, 2003

"Look around you," says Ramona Gatto, sitting cross-legged in the middle of her sun-bathed living room, gesturing to the framed posters and full-color photographs lining the walls. "Does it look...

Matt Smith

Playing Pool

S.F. has great swimming pools, but political insanity makes them all but useless to families and kids

By Matt Smith

Published: July 2, 2003

When diagnosing complex societal malaise, the simplest and most obvious symptoms can be telling. Where beat cops solicit bribes, there's corruption all the way to the top. Where people support...

Night Crawler

Slides Rule

At a gathering of the Oughtred Society, the reckoning may be dead or logarithmic, but the conversation is always right on the mark

By Silke Tudor

Published: July 2, 2003

To those born after 1970, the thought of sending someone into space with a slide rule seems ridiculous, but, to early Apollo crews, the mere thought of going up without one would have been a good...

Dog Bites

Outfield

From the dugout, you could see small tents rising like goose bumps from the grass

By Tommy Craggs

Published: July 2, 2003

"Barry Bonds sits right on that bench," Joe Barnes was saying to his friend's 4-year-old son, Jacob, last Thursday at 2 a.m., almost three hours into the first-ever Pacific Bell Park slumber party....

Letters

Letters to the Editor

Week of July 2, 2003

Published: July 2, 2003

Of Pimps and Politics Words from the man himself: Gentle people, I bid you greetings and salutations: I am James Robinson; last week I was a vice president of the most powerful transit...

Music

One Nation, Under Funk

DJ Motion Potion's populist approach to spreading the funk has got dance-floor denizens hot, bothered, and coming back for more

By Darren Keast

Published: July 2, 2003

Shelly, a 26-year-old graduate student and lifelong heterosexual, made out with a woman for the first time at the Lower Haight club Nickie's BBQ while DJ Motion Potion was spinning. "It was one of...

Reviewed

Gillian Welch

Soul Journey

By Lawrence Kay

Published: July 2, 2003

It's been two years since Gillian Welch's last album, the dense, masterful Time (The Revelator) , floored fans and recent converts, and three years since her cameos in O Brother, Where Art Thou?...

Reviewed

The American Analog Set

Promise of Love

By Nancy Einhart

Published: July 2, 2003

After the American Analog Set's last album two years ago, singer and principal songwriter Andrew Kenny headed to Columbia University to study biochemistry. Between labs, the budding Ph.D. traveled...

House of Tudor

House of Tudor

The Hackensaw Boys deliver the anachronic; the Graves Brothers Deluxe fire up the Fourth

By Silke Tudor

Published: July 2, 2003

The Hackensaw Boys look as if they could travel two years and 2,000 miles from Virginia and never get the Blue Ridge Mountains out from under their fingernails. More meaningfully, they sound...

Hear This

Hear This

Aceyalone and Prince Paul "Love & Hate the Business" of hip hop

By Tamara Palmer

Published: July 2, 2003

Pioneering Los Angeles lyricist Aceyalone (celebrating the release of his new album, Love & Hate ) and trailblazing New York producer Prince Paul (who also has a new one, Politics of the...

Eat

Double Play

Dinner at Acme Chophouse followed by a swell game in the world's most beautiful baseball stadium -- score!

By Meredith Brody

Published: July 2, 2003

I've always liked baseball: the leisurely pace of the game, the grassy playing field, the uniforms (and the men who wear them), and, last but of course not least, the food -- I like hot dogs,...

Dish Enchanted

Full of Frappé

The only folks who should drink tea-as-milkshake are microwave-challenged Eskimos

By Bonnie Wach

Published: July 2, 2003

So the other day I was midway through ordering a double-iced cappuccino (which, for anyone taking notes, does not mean double the ice or double the milk, but double the espresso; if I'd wanted to...

Film

Ozon Layered

Director François' Swimming Pool is many things at once, all of them good

By Jean Oppenheimer

Published: July 2, 2003

French director François Ozon doesn't like to repeat himself. His last film, 8 Women , was a theatrical, rather campy piece of fluff starring la crème de la crème of...

Reel World

What Dreams May Come

Life after Party of Five, training for Latin American military officers, and the "Godfather of Gore"

By Michael Fox

Published: July 2, 2003

Oakland native Michael Goorjian -- Neve Campbell's love interest in Party of Five , for those of you still harboring a crush -- is in the throes of post-production on the indie feature he wrote,...

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Published: July 2, 2003

Commentary by Gregg Rickman ( greggr1@mindspring.com ). Times compiled from information available Tuesday; it's always advisable to call for confirmation. Price given is standard adult...

Night&Day;

Sun King

The hokum of hippies or a boon to jazz progress? You decide.

By Sam Prestianni

Published: July 2, 2003

The continued existence of the Sun Ra Arkestra a full decade after its leader's passing testifies to the power of Sun Ra's music and mythology. Born Herman "Sonny" Blount in Chicago in 1914, the...

Night&Day;

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Published: July 2, 2003

Wednesday, July 2, 2003 Local boy Arj Barker 's greatest claim to fame is The Marijuana-logues , an 80-minute, three-comedian paean to the joys of pot that landed him and his fellow...

Night&Day;

In Memoriam

Musicians share their memories -- and music -- in honor of a fallen friend

By Hiya Swanhuyser

Published: July 2, 2003

Musicians are better than the rest of us. Even they sometimes don't realize it -- they get stage fright; they say, "I'm no good. I make mistakes. Someone else is better than I am." But performers...

Urban Experience

Independence Days

More than mere fireworks

Published: July 2, 2003

FRI 7/4 The Bay Area will never be described as mainstream, but there's one day a year when we exchange the tie-dye and tofu for red, white, and blue and hot dogs. San Francisco's Fourth of...

Sports/Outdoors

Kick It

International soccer invades S.F.

Published: July 2, 2003

WED 7/2 Face it: As a nation, we're lagging. While the rest of the world has caught on to soccer, the metric system, and ethnic foods, we stubbornly hang on to baseball, inches, and french...