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Petal Pushers

Orchid collectors, watch your back. Uncle Sam knows what you're up to.

By Phyllis Orrick

Published: February 22, 1995

His loot was wild orchids.Harto Kolopaking, the 28-year-old son of a prominent Indonesian orchid grower, flew into LAX last September carrying 216 rare, jungle-grown orchids in his large suitcases....

Letters

Letters

Published: February 22, 1995

Easy, cheesy Although I chuckled at his many Wings musical in-jokes (and frowned on the blooper "Howard" Arlen), Tom McNichol's cover of Linda McCartney's new frozen food line ("Bland on the...

News

Dog Bites

By Martha Sanchez Beswick, George Cothran

Published: February 22, 1995

Zapping the Zapatistas Interested in protecting the billions Chase Manhattan Bank invested in Mexico, one of the bank's consultants issued an internal memo bluntly calling for the Mexican...

News

S.F. gets off the crapper

By Vince Bielski

Published: February 22, 1995

Deep underground, "The Mole" burrows a hole from the grassy hills by the Great Highway beneath the Presidio. Nothing can stop this round, rock-eating machine, whose tungsten-carbide teeth carve...

Music

Samples

By Sia Michel, James Sullivan

Published: February 22, 1995

Houses of the Holy The gods of typecasting are growing angry: First former Monkee Davy Jones hit the boards in a touring production of Grease, then former Partridge kid David Cassidy blew into...

Music

Recordings

By Sia Michel, Mike Rowell, Sadie O.

Published: February 22, 1995

Royal Trux Thank You (VIRGIN) Nobody does dissipation better than Royal Trux. Riding the down-ward spiral of smack and slack through four LPs and countless seven-inches, guitarist Neil...

Music

Kitschy cool

The Coctails decline to join up with the nouveau Lounge Nation

By Tim Kenneally

Published: February 22, 1995

In these eco-conscious '90s, old newspapers and empty Jolt cans aren't the only things being recycled. Beyond blue bins and redemption centers -- as if to cement our end-of-millennium pact with the...

Music

Goofball makes good

By James Sullivan

Published: February 22, 1995

Former Pavement drummer Gary Young recently took his wife up to the resort at Konocti Harbor to see the Tubes in concert. That's hilarious right there. Konocti Harbor is funny. Fee Waybill is...

Eat

Scenesetters

Julie Ring's Heart and Soul serves up big helpings of ambiance, but the food at Cafe Mars is a world unto itself

By Barbara Lane

Published: February 22, 1995

Julie's supper club has grown up. Not Julie's Supper Club. That SoMa hotspot is still doing a funky '50s retro thing, serving up giant martinis and "fun food" to adoring crowds of yup-and-comers....

Film

Blood simple

"Shallow Grave" a clinical exercise in gore and paranoia; the Tao of girls and guns in "Love & a .45"

By Daniel Mangin, William O. Goggins

Published: February 22, 1995

Three yuppies from Glasgow -- journalist Alex (Ewan McGregor), accountant David (Chris Eccleston) and physician Juliet (Kerry Fox) -- take on a fourth flatmate, who overdoses on drugs the night he...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: February 22, 1995

You Only Live Once The latest word from Quentin Tarantino's world headquarters is that the man of the moment has persuaded Miramax to grant him his very own distribution arm -- not unlike the...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Katia Noyes, John Sullivan, Sia Michel, William O. Goggins

Published: February 22, 1995

Film She's best known for Coal Miner's Granddaughter, an off-kilter, coming-of-age sex comedy that was a hit in the 1991 S.F. International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Now, Cecilia...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: February 22, 1995

Hey, Everybody: About half my mail is responses -- letters from faithful readers offering up their two cents on topics that have come up in the column recently. In the interests of emptying my...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: February 22, 1995

Red Lipstick and Broken Promises Part of what makes a successful "vintage" nightclub is creating an ambiance where patrons can feel secure knowing their stool has no odor whatsoever. There are...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For An Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: February 22, 1995

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Holiday alert! February 28 is Fat Tuesday, the climactic day of Mardi Gras. Traditionally, it's the occasion for one last big blowout binge before 40 days of austere...

Stage

Aisle Seat

By Laura Jamison

Published: February 22, 1995

New York Report Charlie Varon is now in New York, preparing to mount a new production of Rush Limbaugh in Night School. With him is Stephanie Weisman, the director of the Marsh, where Night School...

Stage

It's a jungle out there

"The Dead Monkey" gets stranded on its strangeness; "Happy Birthday" should never be sung in a theater

By Mari Coates

Published: February 22, 1995

It's hard to get a handle on The Dead Monkey, British playwright Nick Darke's voyeuristic peek at a dysfunctional Southern California couple, but I suspect that's exactly what the writer intends....

Stage

Curtain Calls

By Mari Coates, Katia Noyes, Michael Fox

Published: February 22, 1995

Blood Brothers "Tell me it's not true," go the lyrics of the show's final song, echoing my sentiments about this musical by Willy Russell (Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine). Petula Clark plays...