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Whirly Birds

The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?

By Amy Linn

Published: March 29, 1995

The winds are mine, as are the metal trees below, the velvet lime of Livermore, and the power to slay and devour furry, fuzzy creatures: Rabbits and mice and ground squirrels -- the warm, meaty,...

News

Abbey Road

Hearst got his rocks off in Spain - now they're headed to Chico

By Kate Rix

Published: March 29, 1995

Once bought, some things simply cannot be returned. But thanks to one of newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst's art-collecting binges, the remnants of an abandoned 10th-century Spanish monastery...

News

Dog Bites

By George Cothran, John Sullivan

Published: March 29, 1995

Damn Lies and Statistics If you tell a lie and get caught, wait a year and tell it again. That's the strategy driving Mayor Frank Jordan's regurgitation of false crime statistics March 20. Citing...

News

Chron/Ex Scofflaws

By Jeff Stark

Published: March 29, 1995

A March 16-17 survey of the Fifth and Mission neighborhood revealed the following Chronicle and Examiner parking cheats: Plates: 2KL978 Permit number: P-210 Make: Honda Parked: expired...

News

Press Parking Perk

Chronicle and Examiner reporters break the rules to park for free

By Jeff Stark

Published: March 29, 1995

San Franciscans Armed With Extra Quarters, Parking Chief Worries," proclaim the Examiner's new bus shelter posters. Truth be known, extra quarters are probably the last thing on the minds of...

Letters

Letters

Published: March 29, 1995

'Body' Politics As a student of the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science ("The Student Body," March 22), I am appalled at the comments of the students interviewed and the reporter who showed...

Music

Recordings

By Sia Michel, Mike Rowell, Eric K. Arnold

Published: March 29, 1995

PJ Harvey To Bring You My Love (Island) Posing like mad Ophelia in her murky drowning pool on the cover of To Bring You My Love, PJ Harvey gets medieval on your ass. It's not just the...

Music

Opiate for the Masses

Morphine's moody, sax-flavored sound plays like the soundtrack to a dime-store novel

By James Sullivan

Published: March 29, 1995

Staggering piles of critical accolades have been heaped on the band Morphine. Scan a newsstand and try to find a rag that's reviewed the Boston trio unfavorably -- you'd have better luck finding a...

Music

Samples

By Sia Michel, Mark Sneed

Published: March 29, 1995

Gangsta, Gangsta It doesn't get much sadder than this: Just weeks after he was diagnosed and hospitalized with full-blown AIDS, rapper Eazy-E (aka Eric Wright) died of AIDS-related complications...

Eat

Dish

By Barbara Lane

Published: March 29, 1995

It's Ugly Out There Let's face it. Times are tough. Competition is intense. And the heavy rains made lots of regular restaurantgoers hunker down in front of the VCR with takeout. So everybody's...

Eat

Last Tango on Haight

Cha Cha Cha welcomes one and all with spicy tapas and kitschy decor

By Barbara Lane

Published: March 29, 1995

I thought I detected a hint of panic in our waitress' eye. And no wonder. From my own less-than-illustrious career waiting tables, I knew we were every waitperson's worst nightmare: two women, a...

Film

Casualties of War

Babies get burned on the battlefield of love in Ladybird

By William O. Goggins

Published: March 29, 1995

Lee Tamahori's Once Were Warriors opens with a picture that's almost too perfect -- a sparkling lake and rolling hills unfold beneath the spotless New Zealand sky, all bounded by the mountainous...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: March 29, 1995

$(Dollars) One "scandal" after another in this sordid town: Hollywood productions typically pay extras $50 a day (plus sandwich and drink) -- or they make a "donation" to a community organization,...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Ashley Craddock

Published: March 29, 1995

wednesday march 29 Prodigal Daughter Violinist and child prodigy Sarah Chang performs Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Opus 64 with the S.F. Symphony and guest conductor Leonard Slatkin....

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: March 29, 1995

Hey, Faggot: I am a 32-year-old white male, divorced for over two years now, and I can't seem to get past the third or fourth date with a woman. When I got married -- at the tender age of 23 -- I...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY for an unreal world

By Rob Brezsny

Published: March 29, 1995

Aries (March 21-April 19): Very important that you treat yourself like a recovering alcoholic this week -- like an incubator baby or a sick puppy just regaining its health. Best if you sit quietly...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: March 29, 1995

Gotham Gag and Gargle It's an 8 pm curtain at Marquis Theatre, a plush entertainment complex amid the neon assault of Times Square. A capacity crowd has paid upwards of 70 bucks to glean...

Stage

The Web of Myth

The poetic power of Ntozake Shange's colored girls; Sweeny seduces with pageantry; Bob Davis' Banjo

By Mari Coates

Published: March 29, 1995

It has been 20 years since Ntozake Shange's ground-breaking for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf made its modest bow via the Berkeley cafe scene and went on to...

Stage

Aisle Seat

Published: March 29, 1995

Till Death Do Us Part Darrah Cloud began writing The Sirens two years ago, long before the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson made domestic violence a regular topic in the daily news. Opening at the...