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Dead Heat

Despite the deaths of Aaron Williams and Mark Garcia, the SFPD continues to use pepper spray on suspects who stand a good chance of dying in custody.

By Gordon Young

Published: May 15, 1996

Mark Garcia's well-being centered on one thing -- staying off crack cocaine. He kept the small Millbrae apartment he shared with his former wife and two daughters obsessively clean as he struggled...

News

Bring in Da Noise

Michael Goldberg's rock 'n' roll Web dream

By Paul Critz

Published: May 15, 1996

When Michael Goldberg first started writing about rock 'n' roll, rock FM radio was in its infancy. Trapped in the body of a pimply prepube, the budding music journalist busied himself by penning...

News

New Editor at SF Weekly

Published: May 15, 1996

Dirk Olin has been appointed editor of SF Weekly effective June 10. He replaces Jack Shafer, who resigned last month to accept the deputy editor position at Slate, a new on-line magazine. Olin...

News

Where Angels Fear to Tread

In Wrestling With the Angel, a collection of essays he edited, author Brian Bouldrey explores faith and religion among gay men

By Mari Coates

Published: May 15, 1996

The subject is marginalization, and writer Brian Bouldrey, whose literary identity seems as fused with Roman Catholicism as it is with being gay, has plenty to say. He's the author of a...

Letters

Letters

Published: May 15, 1996

Inspection Rejection In "No Way Out" (Bay View, May 8), which pertains to the conditions at the Ambassador Hotel, you quote city building inspector Ivan Sarkany: "The entire building is rotten....

News

Dog Bites

By Jeff Stark, James Sullivan, George Cothran

Published: May 15, 1996

Schooled in Prayer Clamoring to save young black students from educational alienation, the San Francisco School Board might have tripped over the thin line separating church and state. Witness...

Music

Recordings

By Tim Kenneally, D. Strauss, James Sullivan, Aidin Vaziri

Published: May 15, 1996

Ass Ponys The Known Universe (A&M;) On 1994's Electric Rock Music, Ass Ponys vocalist/lyricist Chuck Cleaver sang of spontaneous combustion, microcephalics, and protagonists born --...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 15, 1996

It's Saturday afternoon and North Beach locals sit drinking vino inside Caffe Trieste. GianFranco Giotta, a Sinatra-like singer with brown-tinted sunglasses and a side-part, belts out a selection...

Music

Plane Talk

The spiritual trips of saxophonist Pharoah Sanders

By Sam Prestianni

Published: May 15, 1996

Although he has never stepped foot on Indian soil, Pharoah Sanders says that he's always felt the country in his blood. "I have these dreams of me playing in some kind of musical event in India...

Music

Tabla Manners

Cornershop at the intersection of indie and Indian

By Sia Michel

Published: May 15, 1996

Anyone who's ever scoffed at the term "one-world music" should listen to the Cornershop song "Jullandar Shere," whose two versions "6 a.m." and "7:20 a.m." both open and close 1995's Woman's...

Music

Samples

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 15, 1996

Satan Takes a Holiday Knowing they were about to embark on a 10-week European tour with Unsane, someone should have given the members of Neurosis a copy of "Satan's Cheerleaders," SPIN's recent...

Eat

Cocoa Nuts

At Alfred Schilling, there's no escape from chocolate

By Paul Reidinger

Published: May 15, 1996

Our weekend visitor was an unrepentant chocoholic, and when we stepped into Alfred Schilling at noon on a warm weekday, she paused at the glass cases in the front to stare at their wealth of...

Eat

Dish

By Paul Reidinger

Published: May 15, 1996

Caffe to Go If you love Caffe Roma but find its North Beach location a little daunting, take heart: In July, there'll be another one, at 885 Bryant, across the street from the Hall of Justice....

Film

Shooting Stars

Valerie Solanas throws a murderous wrench into the gears of the Factory in I Shot Andy Warhol

By Paul Reidinger

Published: May 15, 1996

Lili Taylor's furrowed-brow Valerie Solanas careens through I Shot Andy Warhol like a party-crasher spoiling a not-very-interesting party. She's Adrenalin Woman, unable to refrain from singing her...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: May 15, 1996

wednesday may 15 All Hail the Chief Former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Wilma Mankiller joins author Michael Dorris (A Yellow Raft in Blue Water) in an onstage conversation as...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: May 15, 1996

The Secret of San Francisco "In just 30 minutes you discover the historical and cultural wonders -- the myth, magic, and beauty -- of one of the world's most captivating cities. History and the...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: May 15, 1996

Aries (March 21-April 19): It's quite possible that a talking pig will soon appear to you in a dream and grunt, "Greed is good." When you wake up, this may influence you to expect too much from the...

Stage

Fast Times in Rural Kansas

Sexual feeling in Marin Theater Company's Picnic

By Mari Coates

Published: May 15, 1996

A wonderful thing happens when the cast of Marin Theater Company's Picnic (directed by Danny Scheie) settles down and stops making the text sound like cartoonish commentary on the '50s: William...

Stage

Aisle Seat

By Deborah Peifer

Published: May 15, 1996

Out of the High School and Onto the Stage A poet can write in a garret. A singer can croon a cappella. But a playwright can't know what works without actors and an audience, especially an...