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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
