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Red Herring Editor Tony Perkins is a self-described maverick, a stylish fast-talker with a knack for making friends and influencing people in the high-tech world. Not bad traits for a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, but are they what it takes to publish a "m

By Gordon Young

Published: April 10, 1996

It's easy to determine if Tony Perkins is making a rare appearance at the offices of the Red Herring, the glossy monthly guide to Silicon Valley finance that he launched in 1993. Simply check the...

News

Teething Pains

Why don't dentists report suspected child abuse?

By Lisa Davis

Published: April 10, 1996

Dentist Francisco Ramos-Gomez can't erase the memory of the 16-year-old who arrived in his chair after her father knocked out a few of her teeth. Nor the 3-year-old whose teeth were intact, but...

News

Guardianed Opinion

Contributor Brad Wieners sacked by the Guardian over tour guide aside

By George Cothran

Published: April 10, 1996

On the same day the San Francisco Bay Guardian's Freedom of Information issue hit the stands carrying the headline "Bound and Gagged," publisher Bruce B. Brugmann went berserk and banished Brad...

Letters

Letters

Published: April 10, 1996

All Fired Up Federal Court Special Master James Jefferson's quote ("The Fire Next Time," April 3) is off the wall and way foul. Rest assured that we as firefighters do not plant articles in...

News

Petrelis the Pest

Michael Petrelis has entered the AIDS debate once again

By Ellen McGarrahan

Published: April 10, 1996

It's a weekday afternoon at a sidewalk cafe in the Castro, and Michael Petrelis is being polite. It is not his everyday demeanor. "I'm convinced that the nice approach has a place," Petrelis...

News

Dog Bites

By Jack Shafer, John Sullivan

Published: April 10, 1996

That's Not Funny Never try to explain a joke; you only get yourself in deeper. That's advice SF Weekly should have taken when it received calls over two pieces in the April 3 issue. Loyal...

Music

Boogie Nights

From Old Hollywood to the Viper Room: pianist and "Queen of the Boogie" Hadda Brooks

By Steven Stolder

Published: April 10, 1996

Hadda Brooks has a favorite catch phrase: "I got news for you." Ask about the changes she's seen in the Boyle Heights neighborhood in Los Angeles where she grew up and she curtly replies, "I got...

Music

Samples

By Silke Tudor, Jeff Stark

Published: April 10, 1996

Two Tickets to Paradise Punkers standing outside the Goops show at Slim's last Wednesday were greeted by comedian Cheech Marin as he wandered away from the Paradise Lounge. Adorned with a...

Music

The Time Bandits

Oasis reminds us that our past is present

By Andrew Goodwin

Published: April 10, 1996

On "Wibbling Rivalry," a taped interview released as a bootleg 7-inch, the brothers Gallagher of Oasis argue interminably over younger brother Liam's indiscretions on a cross-channel ferry. Noel...

Music

Recordings

By James Sullivan, Sia Michel, Andrew Lentz, Eric K. Arnold

Published: April 10, 1996

Mark Eitzel 60 Watt Silver Lining (Warner Bros.) San Francisco's most despondent entertainer kicks off his solo career with a controlled version of a telltale cover: Dusty Springfield's...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: April 10, 1996

Yasmina stands six inches away from a mammoth speaker that looms menacingly over her. Her face hidden by a visor, movement begins in her hands and slowly spreads through her arms and legs,...

Eat

Dish

By Paul Reidinger

Published: April 10, 1996

From Crab to Salmon If April 15 is a day of lamentation, it's not merely because of taxes. It's also the day that the crab season unofficially ends in Northern California. Until mid-November,...

Eat

Everything's Coming Up Rose's

Reed Hearon's Rose Pistola captures the Italian essence of its bustling neighborhood

By Paul Reidinger

Published: April 10, 1996

"I don't think of North Beach as having new restaurants," my lawyer friend said as, having entrusted the car to the valet, we stepped into Rose Pistola, Reed Hearon's new North Beach restaurant....

Film

Love in Gloom

In Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre, hope and histrionics carry on to the befuddled end

By Paul Reidinger

Published: April 10, 1996

Franco Zeffirelli's new movie, Jane Eyre (based on Charlotte Brontë's novel), is in many ways strikingly similar to last year's Sense and Sensibility (directed by Ang Lee from Emma Thompson's...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Johnny Ray Huston

Published: April 10, 1996

wednesday april 10 Double Farley Feature Why are the closeted gay actors of yesteryear -- Sal Mineo, Anthony Perkins, and Montgomery Clift, for example -- more interesting than today's...

Halloween

Beat the Press

By Jack Shafer

Published: April 10, 1996

In the early days of radio, when the BBC was still growing into its journalistic knickers, it was not uncommon for a Beeb newsreader to intone these words several minutes before exhausting the time...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: April 10, 1996

Fish-Wrap Wednesday As these words are being typed -- April 3, 1996 -- there's something unmistakable in the air. Weeks of articles, congratulations, tributes, reminiscences, and epithets have...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: April 10, 1996

Aries (March 21-April 19): In the African savanna, water holes are pivotal and precarious. In times of plenty, each species of animal can claim its own special source for bathing and drinking. But...

Stage

Limitless Terrain

Pinter's Alaska celebrates the richness of the human heart and mind

By Mari Coates

Published: April 10, 1996

Midway through the one-act A Kind of Alaska, which is the final work in an evening of four short plays by Harold Pinter at the Aurora Theatre Company, a doctor explains to his patient that she's...

Stage

Aisle Seat

By Deborah Peifer

Published: April 10, 1996

Jail Safe California spends more money to incarcerate its citizens than to educate them -- sort of a fail-'em-then-jail-'em policy. Despite studies that prove the earlier you spend money the...