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1997 Stories by Johnny DiPaola

• Riff Raff

  published December 24, 1997

  Welcome to the Majors On Saturday, Dec. 6, Creeper Lagoon drummer Patrick Mangan took a day off from recording songs for a new album at Sony... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published December 17, 1997

  A Musician's Life Thursday evening, Dec. 4, jazzman Calder Spanier played a show at 330 Ritch with the swing band Jellyroll. He was returning home... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published December 10, 1997

  INXS Frontman Michael Hutchence Did Not Die of Autoerotic Asphyxiation But police sources insisted that the singer with the Australian band INXS... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published December 3, 1997

  Back to Mono! A couple of weeks ago in Los Angeles, San Francisco Neil Diamond cover group Super Diamond played their third sold-out House of... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published November 26, 1997

  Are You Sure, Keith? Our quote of the week comes from a communique released by the self-hyping Marginal Prophets, the local hip-hop outfit that... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published November 19, 1997

  Two Words for All Gen-Xers Attending This Weekend's Jane's Addiction Concert Who Might Think This Reunion Is Somehow Less Embarrassing Than Boomer... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published November 12, 1997

  Rock 'n' Requiem The Day of the Dead was the appropriate setting for the death of live music at one of the Mission District's most sprightly... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published November 5, 1997

  Radio Free Richmond For the last three years, Richard Edmondson has played a cat-and-mouse game with the Federal Communications Commission.... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published October 29, 1997

  Ethical Laundry Riff Raff isn't always snotty; sometimes we just sit around and ponder big ethical questions. Here's what we've been chewing on... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published October 22, 1997

  Critic's Corner: The End of a Long, Long Story The Chronicle promised us a horse race but didn't even provide a winner's circle after the handsome... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published October 15, 1997

  Things We Did on Grass Now we know why Chet Helms and company waited until October to throw a 30-year anniversary celebration of the Summer of... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published October 8, 1997

  Bring the Noise Live music venues are rare enough in San Francisco, but hip-hop clubs are scarcer than rubies on Twin Peaks. For years now,... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published October 1, 1997

  Saturday Afternoon in the Park Static Faction drummer J. Shagawat says she's frustrated in the same way other rock musicians in San Francisco are:... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published September 24, 1997

  Punk Politesse With any luck, old punks will never end up like the rather depressing ex-hippies -- San Francisco can't afford the detritus of two... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published September 17, 1997

  Selvin Watch: By the Numbers In newspaper writing, the saddest mistakes are the ones that are hard to make. That's why watching Joel Selvin's... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published September 10, 1997

  As Phony as a $3 Bill Like folks at Dead shows of the past, where cries of "I need a miracle" wove between drum rumbles and bong gurgles, many of... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published September 3, 1997

  Chapter 37 in an Ongoing Saga After the San Francisco Chronicle's two-year search -- two years! -- to add a second pop music critic to the... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published August 20, 1997

  The Drummer Vanishes In a moot juxtaposition of publicity spin and state propaganda, Riff Raff offers the two pictures seen here. One we received... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published August 13, 1997

  Some Friendly Advice to All Baby Boomers From the Music Editor Concerning the 20th Anniversary of Elvis Presley's Demise Upon That Fabled Toilet,... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published August 6, 1997

  Publicity TKO In keeping with the current spirit of publicity in San Francisco, Riff Raff offers no comment on the reported scuffle between OMC... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published July 30, 1997

  Ingenuine Draft For the record, that was Dave Grohl -- the guy who played drums in Nirvana -- onstage at the Fillmore doing a Miller commercial... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published July 23, 1997

  Another Reason Why S.T. Should Henceforth Be Known as Riff Raff's "Goth Correspondent" Those of you who were watching Hard Copy on June 26 -- and... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published July 16, 1997

  A Clarification, Courtesy of the Music Editor, Regarding the Credo at the Very Bottom of This Column That's "flack," not "flak." We like flak.... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published July 9, 1997

  Lawyer Rock Colossal Pictures -- the San Francisco multimedia company that brought you MTV's Liquid Television, among other things -- has filed... More >>

• Riff Raff

  published July 2, 1997

  Kinetics Kop Krackerite Three Thursdays ago, at one of the Kinetics' regularly packed shows, at Bruno's, a promising future began to unfold for... More >>