Voodoo Doctor

Sharon Caulder does a brisk business exorcising werewolves and other malevolent spirits. Western medicine is taking notice.

• By Susan Kuchinskas
• Tags: Feature, Health

How Not to Write a Law

The case of Ed Rosenthal is as schizophrenic as Prop. 215; but it's no more so than voters' attitude about pot.

• By Chris Thompson

7 Days

If you don't like the newspaper, steal 2,800 of your own; Perata tries trumping CoCo County; and who owns a jazzman's legacy?

• By Justin Berton, Helene Blatter, and Will Harper
• Tags: News, Politics

Letters for the week of May 14-20, 2003

Raising the bar through criticism, shedding crocodile tears for the military, telling it like it is to pseudo-liberals, and inventing scandal in lieu of reporting.

Malcolm, You, and Me

Malcolm X Film Festival plays Los Medanos College.

• By Jonathan Kiefer

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Billboard

• By Stefanie Kalem and Kelly Vance

Spring Furor

We could all use a little Mayhem!

• By Stefanie Kalem

Jazz 'N the Hood

The struggle continues

• By Stefanie Kalem, Kelly Vance, and Jesse "Chuy" Varela

Hot Wheels

Speed rules at Nitro Nationals

• By Justin Berton and Kelly Vance

Notes on Camp

In praise of uncushioned encounters with nature

• By Stefanie Kalem, Ann Murphy, and Kelly Vance

Ghana Get You

Tanya Shaffer comes back

• By Stefanie Kalem and Anneli Rufus

Mind Openers

Diesel powers small presses

• By Stefanie Kalem, Pat Katzmann, and Kelly Vance

Rebel Yell

Filmmaker Nicholas Ray loathed the '50s, as we can see in his retrospective at the PFA.

• By Kelly Vance
• Tags: Movie Review, Nicholas Ray: Bigger Than Life

Bemoaning Mahowny

If there was any life to this reality-based drama, the filmmakers seem to have missed it.

• By Luke Y. Thompson
• Tags: Movie Review, Owning Mahowny

Cerrito a Go

Neglected former movie house gets a new lease on life, Speakeasy style.

• By Kelly Vance

This Lion's Temperamental

The fare at downtown Oakland's the Rex proves wildly uneven.

• By Jonathan Kauffman
• Tags: Restaurant Review, The Rex

Kauffman's Top Ten

Our critic names the most scrumptious dishes you can count on two hands.

• By Jonathan Kauffman

Damien and the Chocolate Factory

A tour of Dreyer's offers kids the lowdown on metal-flavored ice cream.

• By Michelle Turner

Blood on the Tonsils

Nobody shrieks like the Blood Brothers. Just don't call them "screamo."

• By John La Briola

Return of the Roar

How former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted straightened out Voivod's twisted metal.

• By Jason Bracelin

And Does It Come in XXL?

You know you can't hide from Fat Girl.

• By Katy St. Clair

Critic's Choice for the week of May 14-20, 2003

A stage show that will put you in orbit, a rock collective that's part jam band and part punk, lizards from the Big Easy, and free Jazz on Fourth.

• By Eric K. Arnold, Helene Blatter, Michael Gowan, Larry Kelp, Mark Keresman, Chris Modern, j. poet, Jason Victor Serinus, and Jesse "Chuy" Varela

New and Reissued Vinyl

Hip-Hop

• By Brolin Winning

Manitoba

Up in Flames

• By Garrett Kamps

Xiu Xiu

A Promise

• By Anthony Reynaga

The New Pornographers

Electric Version

• By Maya Singer

Nedelle; The Moore Brothers

Republic of Two; On and Out

• By Stefanie Kalem