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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
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...
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Music
By Sam Prestianni
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,...
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Eat
By Naomi Wise
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...
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Film
By Gary Morris
"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...
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Night&Day
By Heather Wisner
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...
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Stage
By Apollinaire Scherr and Michael Scott Moore
Utopian Terrain
Scratch. Created and performed by Harriet Dodge, Shannon McGuire, Miranda Mellis, and Alessandra Ogren. Live music by Carolyn Cooley, Stormy Knight, Alicia...
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Music
By Andi Zeisler and Martin Johnson
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...
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Film
By Andy Klein
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...
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Night&Day
By Heather Wisner
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...
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Music
Jewel's poetry smacks into a screen door like, uh, a moth
By Keven McAlester
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...
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Halloween
By Silke Tudor
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...
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Night&Day
By Heather Wisner
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...
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Music
By Silke Tudor
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...
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Halloween
By John Mecklin
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...
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Music
By Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner and Bill Wyman
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...
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Halloween
By Rob Brezsny
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...
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News
By Laurel Wellman, P. D. and Matt Smith
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...
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Letters
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...
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