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1999 Stories by Joel P. Engardio

• Manifest Destiny

  published December 8, 1999

  When the San Francisco Fire Department moved its administrative headquarters to the South of Market neighborhood last year, the city's top fire... More >>

• Rage Against the Machine

  published December 1, 1999

  Sleepless election officials were at wits' end. Nearly two days had passed since the polls closed, and still no one knew the results of the Nov. 2... More >>

• Interview with Tom Ammiano

  published December 1, 1999

  SF Weekly staff writer Joel P. Engardio interviewed mayoral candidate Tom Ammiano in the private upstairs dining room of Chinatown... More >>

• Mister Sandman

  published November 10, 1999

  One man looks out of place milling around the penny arcade and gift shop at San Francisco's ocean-side Cliff House. This spot, precariously... More >>

• The Doctor, the Transsexual, the Bed-Shooting and the Lawsuit

  published October 27, 1999

  Tonight, all Toni Choate wants to do is spend a quiet evening at home, watch a little TV, and, if she's lucky, catch up with her teenage daughter.... More >>

• Might See TV

  published October 20, 1999

  For a while this summer, it looked like PBS was going to get a break. Congress was about to approve future funding for public television, and the... More >>

• Pedaling the Vegan Message

  published September 22, 1999

  Stefan Lynch hasn't quite figured out how to make a chef's toque stay put over his bicycle helmet, but if he's going to change the world à... More >>

• A Chance for Respect?

  published September 8, 1999

  HOLLYWOOD DIDN'T HAVE TO VEER MUCH from the truth to make a cinematic hit out of the Woodward and Bernstein book All the President's Men.... More >>

• The Vintage People

  published August 4, 1999

  Two young women patiently wait for the bus at the corner of Hayes and Gough streets, enduring the typical push and shove of the evening rush-hour... More >>

• Torture of a Transsexual

  published July 7, 1999

  As the plane gently descends over a shimmering lake surrounded by a lush, grassy landscape, Amanda DuValle stares out the window at a serene but... More >>

• A Fading Light

  published June 23, 1999

  Whenever she comes to San Francisco from Ohio, Marge Nabzdyk makes time to visit the Castro, and poke around in A Different Light bookstore.... More >>

• Union Shopping

  published June 2, 1999

  A young man bounds up the stoop of a small Richmond District home and eagerly, but politely, rings the doorbell. He is glad to be out of the car... More >>

• Private Places

  published April 28, 1999

  Officially, there have been no bathhouses in San Francisco since 1984, when health officials grappling with the AIDS crisis shut down the places... More >>

• You Can't Be Gay -- You're Latino

  published April 14, 1999

  The waiter catches his customers giggling as he walks by their table. One woman tries to hide her grin behind a sandwich when Miguel stops to... More >>

• Rewriting History

  published March 17, 1999

  John Philbrook was, by all accounts, very good at his job. A librarian at San Francisco's Main Library, he tutored immigrant children, helping... More >>

• East Side Story

  published March 3, 1999

  Between a little church and a nursing home with a bright, happy mural painted on its side is a residential section of Capp Street that looks... More >>

• Surgery Sans Blood

  published February 17, 1999

  Every so often, Cathy Montoya is awakened on a Saturday morning, like the rest of us, by a pair of smiling proselytizers who have knocked on the... More >>

• Tattoo You

  published February 10, 1999

  It wasn't necessarily odd for a young man to walk into Mom's tattoo parlor on Haight Street carrying a bag of tortilla chips. Nor was it... More >>