AltWeeklies Wire
Program Has a Dream for Low-Performing Schoolsnew
In spite of campus facelifts, mandatory uniforms and new resources, San Francisco's first three "Dream Schools" have a long way to go before they become the dazzling college-preparatory academies to which San Francisco parents will be clamoring to send their kids.
Lights, Camera, Gospel!new
San Francisco's Voice of Pentecost is a church with a mission to take on Hollywood. Its production company, Christian WYSIWYG Filmworks, is working on a retelling of the Bible story of Joseph, set in a science-fiction world of the future.
Child's Death Exposes Workings of a Moms-and-Pop Cultnew
After a 19-month-old boy was brought dead to an emergency room, investigators discovered four women in thrall to a self-styled mystic named Winnfred Wright. Wright appears to have used psychological coercion on the women, who bore him 13 children.
SF Weekly |
Lessley Anderson |
10-15-2004 |
Crime & Justice
God of the Flies: Arts Gadfly Tries to Map God on the Tree of Lifenew
Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats will attempt to mutate succeeding generations of his fruit flies into more God-like creatures by playing them prayers for seven days and seven nights.
