Archive Search Results

1. Feature

   Block Party

   Rose Tsai, Julie Lee, and the Neighbors' Association are set to tuck into a heaping helping of Willie Brown's majority

   By Tara Shioya

   Published: March 25, 1998

   Rose Tsai does not look like the kind of woman to raise hell. Sitting quietly behind the microphone in a studio at KEST this evening, the petite woman with large round glasses...

2. Music

   Riff Raff

   By Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner and Bill Wyman

   Published: March 25, 1998

   What the Fuck Is Greil Marcus Writing About on Page 2 of the New York Times' Arts Section Every Monday? The first of the year saw Berkeley's Greil Marcus debuting a new column...

3. Eat

   Puck's Kitchen

   By Naomi Wise

   Published: March 25, 1998

   Oberon 1450 Lombard (at Van Ness), 885-6555. Open daily 5:30 to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday until 11. The restaurant is wheelchair accessible. Reservations recommended for...

4. Film

   The Nice Guy and the Fat Boy

   By Andy Klein

   Published: March 25, 1998

   Mr. Nice Guy Directed by Sammo Hung Kam-Bo. Written by Edward Tang and Fibe Ma. Starring Jackie Chan, Gabrielle Fitzgerald, and Miki Lee. At area theaters. The American...

5. Night&Day

   Night + Day

   By Heather Wisner

   Published: March 25, 1998

   Wednesday March 25 This Boy's Life Conditions in a harsh Midwestern reform school become slightly more bearable for two boys who befriend one another in Shimmer, the...

6. Stage

   Stage

   By Michael Scott Moore and Apollinaire Scherr

   Published: March 25, 1998

   Naked Ecstasy. "Devised" by Mike Leigh. Directed by Helen James. Starring Sandie Armstrong, William Waghorn, and Beth Donohue. At the Speakeasy Theater, 2016 Seventh St. (at...

7. Music

   House of Tudor

   By Silke Tudor

   Published: March 25, 1998

   Halfway through a recent Asylum Street Spankers show, Mysterious John, the elegantly dressed master of ceremonies for the all-acoustic Nashville-style medicine show, stops to...

8. Film

   Zoom Lens

   By Gregg Rickman

   Published: March 25, 1998

   Karel Kachyna Tribute In the 1960s Karel Kachyna, working closely with the same writer, composer, and cinematographer, made some of the many outstanding films of the Czech...

9. Halloween

   Savage Love

   By

   Published: March 25, 1998

   Hey, Faggot: My husband and I are both in our mid-40s, and have two teen-age kids. My husband has a healthy sex drive, and I enjoy sex too, but far less frequently than he...

10. Night&Day

    This, Too, Are 2-Tone

    By Heather Wisner

    Published: March 25, 1998

    The national Ska Against Racism tour isn't just a good deal for ska fans -- admission works out to roughly $2 per band -- it's also a good deal for the groups tabling the tour,...

11. Music

    Hear This

    By Paul Kimball

    Published: March 25, 1998

    Chris Whitley If you caught either of Texas-born New Yorker Chris Whitley's last two appearances at the Bottom of the Hill, then you already know the greasy sexiness of his...

12. Film

    Pulling the Gimp String

    By Gregg Rickman

    Published: March 25, 1998

    Primary Colors Directed by Mike Nichols. Written by Elaine May, from the book by Anonymous (Joe Klein). Starring John Travolta, Adrian Lester, Emma Thompson, and Kathy...

13. Halloween

    Night Crawler

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: March 25, 1998

    For the Love of Goth A good 20 years after the inception of the gothic movement, San Francisco remains home to 13 goth clubs -- Death Guild, Shrine of Lilith, Roderick's...

14. Night&Day

    Rad Alert

    By Heather Wisner

    Published: March 25, 1998

    What's radical about the Radical Performance Fest? Jo Kreiter, for one. She likes to mount dances where dances don't usually go -- perpendicular to poles, or dangling from...

15. Letters

    Letters

    Published: March 25, 1998

    Hepatitis Youth Outreach While much effort on the part of Lisa Davis ("Viral Combat," March 11) has been spent deconstructing the multimillion-dollar wrangle between Chiron...

16. Music

    Being Country

    Guitarist Bill Frisell and jazz's move away from the city

    By Michael Ullman

    Published: March 25, 1998

    A shy man with a goofy live presence -- he likes to haunt the back of the stage -- jazz guitarist Bill Frisell has an active, quirky sense of humor. He's written pieces such as...

17. News

    Dog Bites

    By Laurel Wellman and T. S.

    Published: March 25, 1998

    Baseball's Been Very, Very Bad to Him We knew Barry Bonds was misunderstood. We knew he was unfairly persecuted. But we didn't know how really, really awful he felt about...

18. Music

    Reviews

    By Mark Athitakis, Dave Clifford and Jill Stauffer

    Published: March 25, 1998

    Madonna Ray of Light (Maverick) "I traded fame for love," are the first words out of Madonna's mouth on Ray of Light. Like hell she did. If she's indeed found true love,...

19. News

    Mail-Order Bandits

    Armed robbers collect stamps -- and cash -- at city post offices

    By Lisa Davis

    Published: March 25, 1998

    Two San Francisco bandits have gone completely postal: They're robbing city post offices. And the federales are offering big dough for their capture, or at least for the...

20. News

    What's the Harman a Big Checchi Account?

    Conflict of interest and the Democrats' wealthy wannabe governors

    By Philip Dawdy

    Published: March 25, 1998

    The rich are very different from you and me, and Jane Harman and Al Checchi are very rich: Depending on day-to-day vagaries of the stock market, Harman is worth an estimated...