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  1. Feature

    N-E-G-L-E-C-T
    By Lisa Davis
    Published: September 11, 1996

    Hurried health care has a price tag. More than 300 people are killed or placed in danger annually because of nursing home negligence. Among them are those patients who are simply not cared for....

  2. Feature

    Trickledown Health Care
    Hospitals and nursing homes call it "subacute care," but for some patients, it's just a death sentence
    By Lisa Davis
    Published: September 11, 1996

    Her name is "Patient A," at least that's how she's memorialized in a Hillhaven Skilled Nursing Facility citation file at the California Department of Health Services. She was 80 years old, and had...

  3. Letters

    Letters
    Published: September 11, 1996

    Heart Like a Wheel As a career San Francisco bicycle messenger (18 years and counting), I can assure you that I was rather shocked to watch the Jasons and Jennifers of the next messenger...

  4. Music

    Samples
    By Jeff Stark
    Published: September 11, 1996

    Rumors There were more rumors than hangovers in the wake of this year's Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Most of the prattle surrounded two events: a motorcycle accident that...

  5. Music

    SF Weekly Picks
    By Silke Tudor
    Published: September 11, 1996

    Wednesday, September 11 Bluetones Not sick of Britpop yet? Well, that's good because England's got plenty more where that came from. The Bluetones have a decidedly Northern sound (a la the...

  6. Music

    Recordings
    By Michael Batty, Sam Prestianni, Sarah Vowell
    Published: September 11, 1996

    Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Songs and Music From the Motion Picture "She's the One" (Warner Bros.) One thing can be said in praise of this soundtrack: It is indeed a soundtrack....

  7. Music

    Night Crawler
    By Silke Tudor
    Published: September 11, 1996

    Bundles of colorful balloons mark the entrance to Big Top 23, a dusty circus midway nestled in the heart of an industrial, waterside district alongside the Islais Creek Channel. From the street the...

  8. Music

    Suspicious Minds
    By Sarah Vowell
    Published: September 11, 1996

    A small man on a big stage looks and sounds far, far away. It's not just physical distance that separates him from the rest of us. Years and years stand between, blocking his little flailing limbs...

  9. Music

    What Wynton Doesn't Hear
    Lester Bowie explains
    By Sam Prestianni
    Published: September 11, 1996

    In a recent Utne Reader article, grandly titled "The Music of Democracy," neo-conservative Wynton Marsalis blows off the last three decades in the evolution of jazz. He implies that all new-music...

  10. Eat

    Savor the Day
    A world of crepes in Noe Valley
    By Paul Reidinger
    Published: September 11, 1996

    Babies growing up elsewhere might still be stuck with a jar of Gerber's pureed carrots for dinner, but on a recent evening at Savor, a new creperie in stroller-choked Noe Valley, the highchair set...

  11. Eat

    Dish
    By Paul Reidinger
    Published: September 11, 1996

    Name-Dropping Flying Kamikazes, the rock 'n' roll sushi bar in the Marina, has been notably successful in its first year of operation -- so successful, in fact, that the restaurant is being...

  12. Film

    Dunciad and Illeanad
    By Michael Sragow
    Published: September 11, 1996

    American Buffalo Directed by Michael Corrente. Starring Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz, and Sean Nelson. Grace of My Heart Directed by Allison Anders. Starring Illeana Douglas, John...

  13. Night&Day;

    Night+Day
    By Heather Wisner
    Published: September 11, 1996

    wednesday september 11 Sharp Shooter There's been lots of talk lately about the plight of Tibetans, who have endured Chinese occupation of their nation since 1945, but photographer Phil...

  14. Halloween

    Savage Love
    Published: September 11, 1996

    Hey, Everybody: Responses concerning Brooklyn's question about the inability of his girlfriends to come from intercourse alone [Aug. 14], and my reply to him, continue to pour in. Here's a sample:...

  15. Halloween

    Unspun
    By Phyllis Orrick, Susan Rasky
    Published: September 11, 1996

    Don't Get Mad -- Get On-Line That's what Tony Raymond, former Web master for the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), did when it became clear that the FEC had little real interest in making...

  16. Halloween

    The Grid
    By George Cothran, Chuck Finnie
    Published: September 11, 1996

    Hallinan's Hot-Check Hassle District Attorney Terence Hallinan keeps making headline hay out of his embezzlement investigation at the Juvenile Probation Department, posing behind a pile of...

  17. Halloween

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World
    By Rob Brezsny
    Published: September 11, 1996

    Aries (March 21-April 19): I wouldn't exactly compare this week to a smooth cruise in a limousine. Nor can I predict eight lanes of yellow brick road stretching to infinity under a sheltering sky....

  18. Stage

    Off-Balance
    By Mari Coates
    Published: September 11, 1996

    Balancing Act Performed by Diane Amos. Written by Amos and Jim Medellin. Directed by MJ Pritchard. At the Marsh, 1062 Valencia. Call 826-5750. Falling somewhere between autobiographical...

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