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Bitch, Bitch, Bitch

Politicos, prudes, and the paranoid protest the programming heard on Bay Area radio stations to the highest authority in the land -- the Federal Communications Commission

By Randall Bloomquist

Published: February 7, 1996

Fred March of Oakland is an opinionated man who speaks his mind. March thinks, for example, that KGO-AM Money Talk host Bob Brinker is a financial quack and apologist for the wealthy. And...

News

In the Cards

The New Main Library retains something of the old

By Ellen McGarrahan

Published: February 7, 1996

You talk about the writing on the wall. All he could do is grab at emotions. What a pleasure it would have been for her to teach him about the excitement of the incomplete, about fervour, and...

News

Dog Bites

By George Cothran, Jack Shafer

Published: February 7, 1996

Stuffed Under a Mattress? The San Francisco Housing Authority is having trouble locating $5.5 million of its funds, and it doesn't appear too interested in finding it, says Barrie Stewart, the...

News

Jail Date

Wives of San Quentin inmates protest politicians' efforts to restrict the Family Visitation program

By Tyler Davidson

Published: February 7, 1996

I'd rather see him executed, to tell you the truth." Not the sort of intimation you'd expect to gush from the lips of a dedicated wife. Then again, the California State Prison at San Quentin...

Letters

Letters

Published: February 7, 1996

Our House in Order Ellen McGarrahan's cover story "Heartbreak Hotel" (Jan. 24) shows how close to the edge of homelessness many San Franciscans live and how important it is to provide decent,...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: February 7, 1996

A go-go dancer gyrates under pulsing lights, bumping and grinding to the hi-NRG beats laid down by DJs Matthew Consola, Downtown Donna, and Sergio. She's got a naughty smile on her face and...

Music

The Laws of Entropy

Davis' DJ Shadow breaks it down

By James Sullivan

Published: February 7, 1996

Fifteen years after rap's initial breakthrough, a second wave of international DJs has capsized the tired notion that samplers are not musicians. Tape-and-vinyl manipulators are now considered...

Music

Samples

By Paul Tullis, Silke Tudor

Published: February 7, 1996

Musical Trios February marks big changes for the Charlie Hunter Trio: Saxophonist Dave Ellis is leaving the group. Ellis, 28, was a founding member of the trio (which includes drummer Jay Lane)...

Music

Recordings

By Sam Prestianni, D. Strauss, Hobart Rowland, James Sullivan

Published: February 7, 1996

The BaBenzele Pygmies with Louis Sarnos bayaka (ellipsis arts) The successful integration of technology and nature in music is tricky business. You've no doubt cringed at the...

Eat

Dish

By Paul Reidinger

Published: February 7, 1996

Permit Me, Please Restaurateurs need a great many things. But in this city, the Holy Grail these days is the permit. You need a clutch of them to operate, and they had better be in order. Even...

Eat

What's in a Name?

2223 Market cruises through an eclectic menu; at the Slow Club, leisurely grazing is all

By Paul Reidinger

Published: February 7, 1996

"At least an hour," I heard the maitre d' say into the telephone as we stepped into that still-nameless restaurant on Market near Noe. No need to hear the beginning of the sentence: The place was...

Film

Mommie's Demons

A 10-year-old endeavors to save her manic mother in Rebecca Miller's Angela

By Paul Reidinger

Published: February 7, 1996

In Angela, Anna Thomson's face looks like a smashed wedding cake: once a beautiful spectacle, now a shapeless ruin. Thomson plays Mae Levesque, a young woman whose pop-music aspirations have...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Johnny Ray Huston

Published: February 7, 1996

wednesday february 7 Look Closely Maoist propaganda and old photographs taken by Western visitors to "exotic" China are often the source material for Hung Liu's art. Liu's Bunny Dance...

Halloween

Take Me Out to the Rock Show?

By Jack Shafer

Published: February 7, 1996

The San Francisco Giants haven't corked their bat in the campaign to build their own $250 million ballpark complex at China Basin. But -- to push the baseball metaphor -- they're concealing their...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: February 7, 1996

The Church of Bill A fine mist falls this afternoon on the Stanford University campus as excited computer nerds frolic up and down the freshly painted halls of their new building, swilling cans...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: February 7, 1996

Aries (March 21-April 19): In the name of the astrological powers that be, I ask only two things of you this week. First, create a three-hour tantric ritual with your Valentine. And second, at the...

Stage

Aisle Seat

By Deborah Peifer

Published: February 7, 1996

Acting Like Directors I've been a fan of Frances Lee McCain's acting since I saw her astonishing work in the 1976 PBS film The War Widow. After I experienced McCain's painfully moving...

Stage

The Dusk of Civilization

Anna Deavere Smith delivers a heart-clutching dialogue about race in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

By Mari Coates

Published: February 7, 1996

"Open your eyes. Watch what's going on," suggests Elvira Evers, as the first act of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 draws to a close. She's a "general worker and cashier," one of some three dozen...