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Hinckle, Hinckle, Little Star (Part I)

There are two joys in life -- making things and breaking things -- and pirate journalist Warren Hinckle has excelled at both

By Jack Boulware

Published: February 14, 1996

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. -- Desiderius Erasmus Quentin Kopp barks into his car phone as he roars down I-80, another overcast afternoon commute for the senator to...

Feature

Hinkle, Hinkle, Little Star (Part II)

There are two joys in life - making things and breaking things - and pirate journalist Warren Hinkle has excelled at both

By Jack Boulware

Published: February 14, 1996

The excitement was not lost on William Randolph Hearst III, who had just taken over his grandfather's Examiner newspaper and wanted to reinvent the Monarch of the Dailies. The plan was to stack the...

News

Pet Sounds

Douglas Hollis combines audio with visual in his larger-than-life environmental sculptures

By Colin Berry

Published: February 14, 1996

Named for Aeolus, the god of wind, Douglas Hollis' Aeolian Harp towers like an alien creature over the entrance to the Exploratorium. A choir of strings stretches between three curved...

News

Dog Bites

By Jeff Stark, Ellen McGarrahan

Published: February 14, 1996

Chased Out of the Temple A tenants organization that regularly thwarts eviction-bearing landlords in the Mission just got its own 30-day notice. St. Peter's Housing Committee, a nonprofit group...

News

Making the Democratic Party Safe for Democracy

Reformist Dems pour sand in the machine's money gears

By George Cothran

Published: February 14, 1996

Now that the local Democratic Party has proven itself able to influence elections with its endorsement, the party's Central Committee has become a fashionable place to start one's political career....

Letters

Letters

Published: February 14, 1996

Of Tabloids and Top Ramen Regarding "Musical Trios" (Samples, Feb. 7) about Dave Ellis and Charlie Hunter: We were both astounded to see our names associated with a fictitious tabloid account...

Music

Recordings

By Paul Wagenseil, Gwendlynn Meno, Sam Prestianni, Silke Tudor, Tim Kenneally

Published: February 14, 1996

Silkworm Firewater (Matador) Silkworm is supposed to be the Next Pavement, according to Steve Malkmus, since Guided by Voices were last year's Next Pavement but fizzled out. Thing is,...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: February 14, 1996

"I'm a flirt," declares Susan Rabin, a note of challenge in her voice. The slight, 40-ish blonde contends that "flirt" is not a bad word, that it is, in fact, a fabulous word. And, as founder of...

Music

Samples

By Sia Michel, Glen Helfand

Published: February 14, 1996

Fire Alarms As Night Crawler reported last November, Survival Research Labs staged "Crime Wave" at an empty lot on Beale Street. Although no public property was damaged and no spectators were...

Music

Hey, Hey, We're the Ickys

Local filmmaker Danny Plotnick captures the Icky Boyfriends on the road to ruin

By Colin Berry

Published: February 14, 1996

Sitting in the back of a Mission District cafe, leaning over a table beneath a Marilyn Monroe poster, bantamweight filmmaker Danny Plotnick is waxing prolific about rock movies, punk zines, and the...

Eat

Dish

By Paul Reidinger

Published: February 14, 1996

To Stir, or Not to Stir One of the more fearful aspects of making risotto is that, if you're a purist, you're supposed to stir it constantly for 20 minutes or so while ladling in hot broth a...

Eat

Hot Flashes

Indian Oven stages its firestorm of spice with a superior menu

By Paul Reidinger

Published: February 14, 1996

At a party recently, a friend attacked what has always been, for me, a sacred cow: big flavor. "Any cook can produce a lot of flavor," he said. "All he has to have is a heavy hand with the...

Film

Loose Knot

City Hall unravels in the attempt to sort out its story of money and murder

By Paul Reidinger

Published: February 14, 1996

The real star of City Hall, director Harold Becker's new movie, is New York City -- a gray, grand, ungovernable metropolis in which human characters play out their petty dramas. In shot after shot,...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Johnny Ray Huston

Published: February 14, 1996

wednesday february 14 Blondes Have More Fun? When Marilyn Monroe starred in Some Like It Hot, she was still playing breathy blondes. But Sugar Kane -- her character in the film -- has a...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: February 14, 1996

Hey, Faggot: My girlfriend is 30 and the veteran of a couple of difficult but intense sexual relationships, each lasting more than three years. She is a very sexual person by nature, in a very...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: February 14, 1996

Aries (March 21-April 19): After poring through the encyclopedias of mythology and decoding the mystic clues in fairy tales and ferreting out divine oracles while channel-surfing after midnight, I...

Stage

Aisle Seat

By Deborah Peifer

Published: February 14, 1996

Shrewd Shrew ? When I think of great moments of misogyny in drama -- and there are so many, going back so many centuries, involving so much of Western literature, and sometimes I get so angry...

Stage

Design for Laughing

Chamber Theater's Hay Fever balances fluff with the rigors of well-timed comedy

By Mari Coates

Published: February 14, 1996

Staging Noel Coward comedies is serious business. Indulge too ecstatically in the froth, and you risk exposing the slender thread of artifice for all to see. Probe too deeply for larger social...