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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...
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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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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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"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...
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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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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...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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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...
