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COLOR IT GONE

Having remodeled the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Harry S. Parker III requests your permission to bulldoze the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and move it all the way across town

By Ellen McGarrahan

Published: October 4, 1995

On this particular afternoon, the Director is in the driver's seat. Not literally, of course. Literally, he is sitting in a chair at a table on the sixth floor of the Cartier Building on Post...

News

Punks Odd Couple

How Dick Collier and George Lazaneo brought about the second coming of the Trocadero Transfer

By James Sullivan

Published: October 4, 1995

The Trocadero Transfer has gone from riches to rags. Midway through its 18 years, the once-thriving gay nightclub in San Francisco's SOMA district was reduced to tatters, first by the specter...

News

Dog Bites

By Amy Linn, John Sullivan, Jack Shafer

Published: October 4, 1995

The Streets of Frank Jordan Savvy community activists in the Tenderloin are hitting Mayor Jordan where he lives. Or pretends to live. Jordan, whose re-election campaign emphasizes public safety...

News

The Difference Between Comics and Literature

Cartoonist Paul Mavrides fights the Board of Equalization over more than taxes

By Jeff Stark

Published: October 4, 1995

A carnival of kitsch erupts from every corner of the Mission apartment Paul Mavrides has called home since 1979. Acrylic plates, the kind schoolchildren bring home from crafts classes, dot the...

Letters

Letters

Published: October 4, 1995

Pluggin' Away Your report on the recent changes in the pop music department at the Chronicle ("Raspberry Beret," Samples, Sept. 27) does a disservice to my erstwhile colleague, Michael Snyder,...

Music

Samples

By Seana Baruth

Published: October 4, 1995

Tangled Web The South Bay's progressive and experimental music mainstay, KFJC in Los Altos, debuts its World Wide Web page this week -- excellent news for Bay Area eclecticists unable to tune...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: October 4, 1995

Friday morning, Sept. 29. Seated in a corner of the posh Benson Hotel lobby in Portland, Ore., two gentlemen in tailored suits leisurely read the Oregonian and sip their morning coffee from...

Music

Recordings

By Tim Kenneally, D. Strauss, J. Poet

Published: October 4, 1995

Sonic Youth Washing Machine (DGC) We probably owe Sonic Youth a lot more than we realize. At the very least, the band reaffirmed the crucial relationship between music and the cultural...

Music

Food Sexy

Cibo Matto eats to the beat

By Johnny Ray Huston

Published: October 4, 1995

First, some facts. Cibo Matto (it means "crazy food" in Italian) is two Japanese girls who live in New York: Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori. Cibo Matto has released one single: "Birthday Cake," the...

Music

The Barefoot Contessa

The melancholy mornas of Cape Verde's Cesaria Evora

By J. Poet

Published: October 4, 1995

Cape Verde is composed of 10 small islands, nestled in the Atlantic 350 miles off the coast of Senegal. When Cesaria Evora was a girl, her isle, S‹o Vicente, was green and lush, like a perfect...

Eat

Dish

By Paul Reidinger

Published: October 4, 1995

At Home on the Range Dish got a big telephone raspberry from Niman Schell, the tony meat purveyor, without even being able to ask this innocent question: Do happy animals taste better?...

Eat

In Elkas Wake

Yoyo makes a big splash with imaginative, well-executed seafood dishes

By Paul Reidinger

Published: October 4, 1995

Tapas -- those little plates of food that can be mixed and matched into an entire meal -- do not belong exclusively to the Spanish. The Japanese have them, too. They're called tsumami, which the...

Film

Red Scare

Nadja plays off (and with) the lesbian-vampire genre

By Johnny Ray Huston

Published: October 4, 1995

Nadja (Elina Lswensohn) is a trust-fund brat of sorts, coasting on a limitless money supply and a few other family perks. She wears a lot of black, and she lives in New York. She has huge dark eyes...

Film

Chip Shot

Psychic Detective supplants narrative with computerized gimmickry

By Paul Reidinger

Published: October 4, 1995

Psychic Detective, which has its world premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival next week, is a video game tarted up to resemble a movie. It offers five hours' worth of live-action footage...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Johnny Ray Huston

Published: October 4, 1995

wednesday october 4 Sharin' With Karen Pegged as a ditzy kook after such films as Five Easy Pieces and Trilogy of Terror, Karen Black is more than a character actress. She wrote the country...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: October 4, 1995

Hey, Faggot: Me and my girlfriend are very attractive and straight-looking (lipstick lesbos), so it's hard to find friends who won't flirt with us together or separately. A couple of months ago we...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: October 4, 1995

Whither the Wharf Rats? A local news item recently detailed a horrific proliferation of rats ruining the serenity of the Marina Green, citing testimonials from concerned joggers and pet owners...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: October 4, 1995

Aries (March 21-April 19): Aries of the Week is Grandma Betty, a 66-year-old fireball from Philadelphia. Betty retired from her job at the phone company last year in order to launch a full-time...

Stage

Bumpy Flight

The Marin revival of Cuckoo's Nest is a sturdy, if reserved, rendition of the archetypal good-vs.-evil play

By Mari Coates

Published: October 4, 1995

Portraying an archetypal character as anything other than a cliche is no small feat. Imagine the difficulty of playing in a carnival of archetypes and you have an idea of the challenges facing the...

Stage

Aisle Seat

By Laura Jamison

Published: October 4, 1995

It's Been Real By the time you read this, friends, I'll be putting down roots on the other coast, in that other city -- ask not which, as we all know that only one other city rates, besides our...