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1. Feature

   36,000 Feet Under the Sea

   The strange quest of San Anselmo's Graham Hawkes, who will dive a two-man submarine to the deepest point in the ocean. If someone gives him $7 million.

   By Lisa Davis

   Published: June 10, 1998

   It's a Thursday afternoon in an unremarkable garage workshop in Point Richmond, where some of the world's most advanced underwater technology is parked, as if it were a weekend...

2. Music

   Hear This

   By Sam Prestianni

   Published: June 10, 1998

   John Lurie & the Lounge Lizards John Lurie has written, directed, and produced his own films, appeared in a crop of unusual cinematic ventures as both a lead (Down by Law,...

3. Eat

   Bird of a Different Feather

   By Naomi Wise

   Published: June 10, 1998

   Peregrine 642 Irving (at Eighth Avenue), 566-5515. Open for lunch Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Open for dinner Sunday...

4. Film

   Zoom Lens

   By Gary Morris

   Published: June 10, 1998

   "Kim Ki-Young: Master of Madness" In a just world -- or one with better international film distribution -- Korean auteur Kim Ki-Young would be ranked in the B-movie pantheon...

5. Night&Day

   Outsmart the Art

   By Heather Wisner

   Published: June 10, 1998

   Art is supposed to be moving, but a new four-part exhibit at Yerba Buena inverts the relationship, so that viewers move the art, or the art moves all by itself. Collaborative...

6. Stage

   Stage

   By Apollinaire Scherr and Michael Scott Moore

   Published: June 10, 1998

   Utopian Terrain Scratch. Created and performed by Harriet Dodge, Shannon McGuire, Miranda Mellis, and Alessandra Ogren. Live music by Carolyn Cooley, Stormy Knight, Alicia...

7. Music

   Reviews

   By Andi Zeisler and Martin Johnson

   Published: June 10, 1998

   Jeff Buckley Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk) (Columbia) It was only a little over a year ago that Jeff Buckley became a cliche: the promising young rocker dead...

8. Film

   Two If by Sea

   By Andy Klein

   Published: June 10, 1998

   The Land Girls Directed by David Leland. Written by Keith Dewhurst and Leland; based on the novel by Angela Huth. Starring Catherine McCormack, Steven Mackintosh, Rachel...

9. Night&Day

   Time Signatures

   By Heather Wisner

   Published: June 10, 1998

   Jupiter, the king of the gods, risks the wrath of two women in Jean-Philippe Rameau's Platee when he raises the hopes of a grotesque (and gullible) marsh nymph by pretending to...

10. Music

    Oh, Silver Deities!

    Jewel's poetry smacks into a screen door like, uh, a moth

    By Keven McAlester

    Published: June 10, 1998

    Few pop-culture developments have been so inevitable as a book of poetry by Jewel, rock music's reigning queen of dime-store spirituality. A ripe tomato of a woman and a rotten...

11. Halloween

    Night Crawler

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: June 10, 1998

    Ready, Aim, Inspire "All three of my brothers are missing one of their front teeth," says R. Burns, a gracious, broad-shouldered rogue who has spent most of his morning...

12. Night&Day

    Night + Day

    By Heather Wisner

    Published: June 10, 1998

    Wednesday June 10 Cups and Pints Threats of Islamic terrorism, the sidelining of drunk and injured players, and striking Air France pilots in the host country have...

13. Music

    House of Tudor

    By Silke Tudor

    Published: June 10, 1998

    Chances are anyone who has stepped into a New York jazz club in the past 35 years has felt a tingle created by Olu Dara, the dapper don of the cornet. His arrival in NYC in the...

14. Halloween

    Mecklin

    By John Mecklin

    Published: June 10, 1998

    Chronicle of Failure One wonders what it would take for the San Francisco Chronicle to publish negative news about Willie Brown. Perhaps if Willie shot Dianne Feinstein...

15. Music

    Riff Raff

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

    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, the group placed an...

16. Halloween

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

    By Rob Brezsny

    Published: June 10, 1998

    Aries (March 21-April 19): In my opinion, you'd look great with a shaved head. I'd even be interested to see you with multiple eyebrow piercings, a conical wizard's hat, and a...

17. News

    Dog Bites

    By Laurel Wellman, P. D. and Matt Smith

    Published: June 10, 1998

    Chronicle of Disgruntlement For a dull newspaper, the Chron sure has a lot of grumpy staffers. Not that the gripers ever seem to take much action. A few huffy memos, a...

18. Letters

    Letters

    Published: June 10, 1998

    Photo Finish I picked up the Weekly this morning and I was so impressed by the photographs accompanying the feature story ("Perverted Justice?" June 3) that I had to let you...