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1998 Stories by Bill Wyman

• Riff Raff

  published August 26, 1998

  Absence of Alice Corey Mason has been easy to spot among the suit-and-tie lunchtime crowd striding around the Embarcadero. Wearing a large summer... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published August 19, 1998

  Musik Thesis: Germany is kinder to S.F. music than even San Francisco is. Exhibit 838: Superstar. The German zine's ninth issue, which recently... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published August 12, 1998

  Strange Developments Nobody was more excited than Miami's DJ Infamous when the winners of the International Turntablists Federation were announced... More >>

• Whitechocolate What?

  published August 5, 1998

  Liz Phair whitechocolatespaceegg (Matador) Gun Shy One of rock's most nagging problems is the negative self-selection of... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published August 5, 1998

  Synchronized Pickaxes For 30 years the resilient songs of the Grateful Dead have repelled the assaults of hundreds of copycat jam bands, the... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published July 29, 1998

  Booster Roosters A hole was left in San Francisco's summer music schedule last year when Queenie Taylor, Bonnie Simmons, and SF Weekly Publisher... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published July 22, 1998

  Downsized On Wednesday morning, July 15, Annie O'Toole, longtime talent buyer at the Great American Music Hall, was informed by the five partners... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published July 15, 1998

  The Latest From SOMA: Of Course! The Irish! Legislation before the S.F. supervisors could end the battle over the future of SOMA's 11th Street... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published July 8, 1998

  Scenes From the Fleadh Intrepid Riff Raff correspondent Heather Wisner brought along her camera to the Guinness Fleadh Festival at San Jose... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published July 1, 1998

  Don't Miss the Boat The people behind the Future Primitive Soundsessions DJ parties have plenty to celebrate. Their newly formed record label's... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published June 24, 1998

  Muni'ed At a recent 8 a.m., we found ourselves in Noe Valley, at 24th Street, waiting for the J Church. When Dog Bites got there, a dozen... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published June 24, 1998

  What's the Situation(ist)? Over the last few months you may have noticed an intimidating group of very bald men in dark sunglasses and bright... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published June 17, 1998

  Those Darn Kids, Part 843,956 The end of the millennium is one of the best things to happen to publishing in the past 1,000 years -- lots of long,... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published June 10, 1998

  Lemonade Map of Wyoming can take a sad song and make it better. Last month, Jeff Stark reviewed the band's debut CD (see below). Two weeks later,... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published June 3, 1998

  We Didn't Think It Was Bad -- We Thought It Was Terrible Last week, when CBS Radio executives marched into Live 105's Harrison Street offices and... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published May 27, 1998

  Big Winners In a flash of apathy unwitnessed since the early 1990s, Riff Raff's First-Ever Big Contest ended last week with three entries -- and... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published May 20, 1998

  The Swing Set Folks carousing through North Beach during the Velvet Lounge opening last week might've noticed a bustle at the Off Broadway (soon... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published May 13, 1998

  Finally, Some Good News We may be hazy and hooch-soaked, but Riff Raff seems to recall a time when punks and lovers of down-and-dirty hard rock... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published May 6, 1998

  Cow Town It's too early to tell, but Holy Cow may get its nightclub permits back sometime this week. The SOMA nightclub lost them four weeks ago... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published April 29, 1998

  Yeah, Well We're Tired of Hearing About Bar Closings Too The doors at the Chameleon have been shut on and off for several months now. Recently... More >>

• Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll. Korea.

  published April 22, 1998

  A few decades ago, a controversial Bay Area critic named Pauline Kael -- yes, the same wild original who went on to become Pauline Kael -- wrote... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published April 22, 1998

  Riff Raff's First-Ever Big Contest Thing For the past five months, Riff Raff has closed this column with a stupid quote from a famous -- or,... More >>

• Beat The Press

  published April 15, 1998

  Here at the Examiner Magazine The most unintentionally fun read of the year has to be the Examiner Magazine's remembrance of New Yorker... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published April 15, 1998

  Trouble in Clubland It's too early to put nails in the coffin, but it looks like V/SF, the dance club at the corner of 11th Street and Folsom, is... More >>

• The Fellows Who Love Music

  published April 15, 1998

  On the inside of their most recent album, A Tribute to Music, there's a photo of an ecstatic Scott McCaughey, the leader of the Young Fresh... More >>