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The Living Daylights

Some people with HIV don't get sick for years and years and years. Their lives might contain the clues for the cure.

By Ellen McGarrahan

Published: April 24, 1996

Fifteen years ago this month, the first case of Kaposi's sarcoma in a young gay man was diagnosed in San Francisco. In the intervening years, AIDS has taken 15,580 more people in this city alone....

News

Chatterbox

Published: April 24, 1996

If San Francisco Chronicle political columnists Phil Matier and Andy Ross drive their noses any farther up Willie Brown's bunghole, they'll have to summon the fire brigade to extract them. Get a...

Letters

Letters

Published: April 24, 1996

Egged On Regarding "Taco Bell Library" ("Whose Library Is It?" Bay View, April 17): Oh boy, now we've got something to be exercised about while the world passes us by. So what about Texaco...

News

Prescription for Parking

City officials blame doctors for the misuse of disabled parking placards

By Gordon Young

Published: April 24, 1996

It took a near-religious experience to make Parking Control Officer Robert Greenstrand realize just how widespread the illegal use of disabled parking placards had become in San Francisco....

News

Meet the Dealers

The bud men of Haight Street

By Matt Melucci

Published: April 24, 1996

I first spot William in a crowd of people hurrying along Haight Street. I am moving with the stream of pedestrians, and he is working against it. He could be any young person coming home from...

News

Dog Bites

By Lisa Davis, Ellen McGarrahan

Published: April 24, 1996

In the Poor House Moving into the unoccupied editorial niche just above homeless newspapers is San Francisco's Poor magazine. The debut issue of the 60-page glossy, created by "Dee & Tiny" and...

Music

Moog Swings

Stereolab takes a thrift-store approach to Muzak

By Sally Jacob

Published: April 24, 1996

Stereolab is a London-based sextet that seeks to answer the musical question, nay, to solve the historical and aesthetic dilemma, "How come Steve Reich, Martin Denny, and garage punk all happened...

Music

Samples

By Silke Tudor, Billy Jam

Published: April 24, 1996

Taking a Break Where have we heard this before? Last week, the doors of the Nightbreak were closed to the public. That's right -- no more Sushi Sunday and this time they mean it ... we think....

Music

Teen-Age Kicks

Imperial Teen releases Seasick, its major label debut

By Tim Kenneally

Published: April 24, 1996

It takes a little while to pick Imperial Teen out of the crowd in the Mission District cafe where we're scheduled to meet. Not that vocalist/guitarist Will Schwartz helps matters any: Assuming a...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: April 24, 1996

The giant paid to guard the entrance of the Endup blockades the entire door with only a slight pivot of his tremendous form. An unexpectedly warm smile and a beckoning paw later, a second hulking...

Music

Recordings

By Sally Jacob, Tim Kenneally, James Sullivan, Spence D.

Published: April 24, 1996

Ui Sidelong (Southern) Ui Unlike (Lunamoth) Sasha Frere-Jones is a New York rock critic who likes to put his theories of hybridity into practice: His band, Ui (rhymes with...

Eat

Crossroads

Irrawaddy's Burmese cuisine reflects Chinese and Indian influences, as well as its own soul

By Paul Reidinger

Published: April 24, 1996

After a long and hectic city day, there's something to be said for soft serenity and tangy food: dinner at Irrawaddy, in other words. On the culinary Embassy Row that is Lombard Street between Van...

Eat

Dish

By Paul Reidinger

Published: April 24, 1996

Gold-Plate Special Most of us trundle out the fine china (assuming we have any) only on holidays and other special occasions, but some restaurants use it every day. According to Nancy Oakes of...

Film

Snake Charmer

Chop-socky king Jackie Chan shakes things up in the 1978 actioner Snake in Eagle's Shadow

By Paul Reidinger

Published: April 24, 1996

The action in Jackie Chan's 1978 martial arts movie Snake in Eagle's Shadow is endearingly low-budget -- basically a ballet of violence in which someone occasionally gets killed, but no one gets...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: April 24, 1996

wednesday april 24 Spring Fling Whether you're a green thumb or a black thumb who still appreciates plant life, the 1996 San Francisco Landscape Garden Show has something to offer....

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: April 24, 1996

Hey, Faggot: Have you ever noticed how Germans like to wear dark-colored dress socks with sandals or tennis shoes, even while wearing shorts? It does bring up a very interesting fashion dilemma,...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: April 24, 1996

Aries (March 21-April 19): Between now and 1997, a host of cosmic jokes will tickle you in that sensitive spot right between your funny bone and your panic button. Here's just one example: At the...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: April 24, 1996

The Tribe of Indelible Dogs "I wish my tattoos were this easy," says Renee Harris, opening a brown case to reveal a compact electric tattoo kit. But Harris isn't adding another swirl of...

Stage

Aisle Seat

By Deborah Peifer

Published: April 24, 1996

New Noh In 1968, Japan's first heart transplant was performed. The surgeon was charged with murder, because the heart of the brain-dead fisher was still beating when it was removed from his...

Stage

Half Full, Half Empty

Measure for Measure goes over the top with Shakespeare's grim comedy

By Mari Coates

Published: April 24, 1996

Of all Shakespeare's comedies, the rarely produced Measure for Measure is the most elusive. It seems to dangle before directors and critics like a glittering bauble, begging interpretation while...