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Heroes,Villains,Obsessions

The upcoming release of the Beach Boys' legendary "Smile"session ends super-fan Domenic Priore's Journey to the past

By James Sullivan

Published: March 22, 1995

What do you do if you find your Holy Grail and the public thinks it's just another bowling trophy? In the latest development in one of the longest-running sagas in rock-and-roll history, the...

Feature

The Student Body

Bring out your dead ... for a budget funeral at the San Francisco Collegeof Mortuary Science.

By Susan Carpenter

Published: March 22, 1995

You know what's really weird? Lifting a warm body and putting it in a cooler," says 32-year-old student mortician Lisa Klein. A former waitress now in the final months of a three-semester program...

Letters

Letters

Published: March 22, 1995

Bauhaus in Our House Just picked up the "new and improved" redesigned SF Weekly (March 15). I enjoyed my weekly Boulware fix (despite his troubles at The Nose), and found the "Cyberpornocopia"...

News

The Jerk-Off Boys

Crank callers beseige crisis lines, and little can be done to stop -- or help -- them

By Susan Carpenter

Published: March 22, 1995

The babysitter was perplexed: Her charge, 13-year-old Andrew, had gotten a ring stuck around his penis. "He doesn't know how to masturbate," she whispered to the woman on the San Francisco AIDS...

News

Dog Bites

By George Cothran, Jack Shafer

Published: March 22, 1995

Not in My Corridor The crop-circle mystery will be deciphered long before we discover why McDonald's drive-throughs cause such political anxiety here. The proposal for one in the Haight a few...

News

Matrix's Happy Face

New statistics contradict Jordan's spin on homeless crackdown

By George Cothran

Published: March 22, 1995

Discussing Matrix the other day, Mayor Frank Jordan made the program sound like a misunderstood child. "The media and the advocates have misinformed the public," Jordan griped. "Matrix isn't just a...

Music

Recordings

By Brett Johnson, James Sullivan, Aidin Vaziri

Published: March 22, 1995

The Roots do you want more?!!!??! (DGC) The first thing you must understand about the Roots' debut is that there are no samples and no DJ. I repeat -- a hiphop record with no samples and no...

Music

Barbarian at the Gate

Heavy-metal titan Glenn Danzig inaugurates his own comic book line with Verotik Publishing

By Spence Dookey

Published: March 22, 1995

Comic books and rock and roll have been strange bedfellows for nearly 20 years. First, there was KISS: Marvel Comics Super Special #1 rendered the Knights in Satan's Service in glorious four-color...

Music

Samples

By Sia Michel

Published: March 22, 1995

Southern Comfort Calling last week's South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas, "a bacchanalian orgy of wine, women and song," as one colleague did, is definitely an understatement....

Eat

New Kid on the Dock

Butterfield's makes a splash with good fresh oysters and grilled fish at calm prices

By Barbara Lane

Published: March 22, 1995

I'm not sure when I felt the rave coming on. Certainly the lightly battered, piping-hot smelt with a dab of aioli, presented as a taste teaser, put me in a magnanimous frame of mind. Maybe it was...

Film

Yin and Yang

Martha & Ethel traces the ties that bind; past and present fetter Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker

By Daniel Mangin

Published: March 22, 1995

The nannies who raised them gave Jyll Johnstone and Barbara Ettinger more than a title for their amiable, very personal documentary, Martha & Ethel. German-born Martha Kneifel dispensed much...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: March 22, 1995

Speed Did you notice that summer has arrived? Forget about the sunny respite that abruptly halted the ark-building frenzy -- I'm talking about the Die Hard billboards and the trailers for Batman...

Film

A Woman's Lot

Dolores Claiborne serves up "three square meals of bitching"

By William O. Goggins

Published: March 22, 1995

"Let's not pretend we're at some Norman Rockwell family reunion," snarls Selena (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the prime mover of Dolores Claiborne. While Dolores (Kathy Bates) still refuses to...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Ashley Craddock

Published: March 22, 1995

wednesday march 22 Throwing Muses Can Sire recording artists Throwing Muses pull off the tricky crossover from '80s cult superstars to '90s mainstream megahit? Place your bets as the sometime...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: March 22, 1995

Hey, Everybody: If you haven't bought a box of Girl Scout cookies this year, I suggest you pick up a few boxes of Tagalongs Peanut Butter Patties pronto -- these boxes are sure to be collectors'...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY for an unreal world

By Rob Brezsny

Published: March 22, 1995

Aries (March 21-April 19): The longest flight by a chicken, 302 feet, was accomplished in 1967 by a hen born under the sign of Aries. In 1955, an Aries python provided the only known case of a...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: March 22, 1995

The Smell's the Thing French maid outfits, crotchless bodysuits, tiny penis pencil erasers, beverage squirt bottles shaped like dicks, flavored body paint ("also great on ice cream"). Give a...

Stage

Aisle Seat

By Laura Jamison

Published: March 22, 1995

On the Brink One of our dearest, oldest and most unusual arts institutions is teetering on the brink of demise: On the eve of its 30th anniversary, the multidisciplinary Intersection for the Arts...

Stage

Appetite for Destruction

Forced humor swallows The Art of Dining; in Betrayal a house collapses under treacherous games

By Mari Coates

Published: March 22, 1995

It was a dark and stormy night. Another dark and stormy night -- but after the latest deluge, at least power had been restored for The Art of Dining at Marin Theatre Company. It's possible that the...