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Country Rogue

Mendocino publisher Bruce Anderson is smart, sophisticated, and savage

By Michael Checchio

Published: July 17, 1996

Bear Lincoln was an American Indian cause celebre almost made to order for Bruce Anderson's newspaper. A deadly shootout had erupted on the Round Valley Indian Reservation in Mendocino County on...

News

The Life and Times of T.J. Anthony

Combative pol fights his last battle

By George Cothran

Published: July 17, 1996

Pacific Gas & Electric lobbyist Sam Lauter interrupted his workday July 2 to drop by the home of longtime political ally T.J. Anthony. Reminiscing with his old friend, Lauter noticed the lights...

News

Dog Bites

By Gordon Young, Lisa Davis, Bill Wyman

Published: July 17, 1996

Back to the Future Last week, SF Weekly warned that you might want to take pause before plunging your savings into the stock offering of Wired Ventures Inc. -- the parent company of Wired...

News

Bombs Away

The Pigeon Lady of Noe Valley has neighbors diving for cover

By Gordon Young

Published: July 17, 1996

Alfred Hitchcock would feel right at home on the 1300 block of Sanchez Street in Noe Valley. Actress Tippi Hedren is nowhere in sight, but a winged menace is out in full force. Pigeons, to be...

Letters

Letters

Published: July 17, 1996

In the Public's Eye I'm relieved to know that Wired and its graphic design-obsessed cyberhell is not the future after all ("System Crashing," July 10). That said, and with kudos, too, I...

Music

Suspicious Minds

By Sarah Vowell

Published: July 17, 1996

If I was a Mekon I'd drink pints of beer And talk about Adorno And have a lot of friends -- Too Much Joy, "If I Was a Mekon" Liquor, theory, friendship: The Mekons have for the...

Music

SF Weekly Picks

By Silke Tudor

Published: July 17, 1996

Wednesday, July 17 "downhear Lounge" How time flies when you're having fun .... San Francisco's favorite club series turns 1 this week. Seems like just yesterday that Kristine Maddocks and DJ...

Music

For the Love of Cheese

By the Editors of Might Magazine

Published: July 17, 1996

First, there was silence. There were no chilling, icy-perfect opening chords of electric guitar, no explosions of rock-your-fillings, churn-your-stomach drumbeats, no sudden earthquakes of deeeep,...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: July 17, 1996

The large door swings open as if anticipating a new arrival. The doorman, a sleek black man in a cream-colored suit, smiles and with a gesture of welcome bids us enter the inner sanctum of Bruno's,...

Music

Recordings

By Michael Batty, Sarah Vowell, Andrew Goodwin, Sam Prestianni

Published: July 17, 1996

Neil Young with Crazy Horse Broken Arrow (Reprise) A Pink Pages writer recently extolled the latest release by Neil Young and Crazy Horse as "playing with the boundaries of noise and...

Eat

Welcome to the Neighborhood

Baker Street Bistro strikes a low-key Parisian note in Cow Hollow

By Paul Reidinger

Published: July 17, 1996

A squadron of tots -- rosy-cheeked and saucer-eyed -- reconnoitered the Memoirist and me as we sat in the Baker Street Bistro over a recent noon hour. Their mothers may have stopped in (as had we)...

Eat

Dish

By Paul Reidinger

Published: July 17, 1996

Private Issue JT's, Jeremiah Tower's opulent bistro adjoining Stars, now serves dinner only two nights a week -- Friday and Saturday. But that doesn't mean the restaurant is on the ropes....

Film

Shite Made Rite

Trainspotting Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, and Robert Carlyle.

By Michael Sragow

Published: July 17, 1996

Mark Renton, the most articulate, self-aware buddy in an Edinburgh clique of ne'er-do-wells and heroin addicts, is the anti-hero of Trainspotting, a lowdown glory of a movie that makes every other...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: July 17, 1996

wednesday july 17 They Give Good Phone Don't count the Rev. Larry Poland among the fans of the late Robert Chesley's "pornographic elegy" Jerker or the Helping Hand. When Poland heard a...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: July 17, 1996

Belli's Most Demanding Role As the local news fills up with more obituary information on the late attorney Melvin Belli, listing his famous clients and landmark courtroom techniques, another...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: July 17, 1996

Aries (March 21-April 19): Once upon a time, a spunky Aries set out on a journey across the wasteland, hoping to reach heaven on Earth. For eons she trod the badlands, navigating through the tests...

Stage

Home-Grown

The movement imagination of Robert Henry Johnson

By Katia Noyes

Published: July 17, 1996

In a just world, blessings would fall onto every young artist: plenty of family and neighborhood support, devoted public-school arts education programs, private scholarships for professional...

Stage

Once More Onto the Beach

A visit to (dull) Camp Shakespeare

By Mari Coates

Published: July 17, 1996

Sometimes going to the theater feels like an exercise in associative memory. For instance, California Shakespeare Festival's unspeakably dull production of Henry V (directed by James Bundy at the...

Stage

Aisle Seat

By Deborah Peifer

Published: July 17, 1996

Yesterday My first question to Neal Shorstein is, Why a revival of The Boys in the Band, Mart Crowley's 1968 paean to gay self-loathing? Shorstein's response is immediate. "I was watching the...