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Last of the Independents

By Kathleen Maher

Published: November 6, 1996

Red Vic The Red Vic has an unlikely history for an art house. It was founded 16 years ago in 1980 by a six-person collective who came out of a political canvassing organization, Citizen's...

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Last of the Independents

By Kathleen Maher

Published: November 6, 1996

Victoria No matter what's going on outside, and god knows there can be plenty going on at 16th and Mission streets, inside the Victoria is a haven where people go to see something unusual --...

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Behind the Scenes

Published: November 6, 1996

A moviegoer's companion to Bay Area theaters, from the palaces to the pits Act One/Two 2128 Center (at Shattuck), Berkeley (510) 548-7200 Admission: $7.50, $4 kids/seniors...

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Last of the Independents

By Bill Wyman

Published: November 6, 1996

Stanford Possibly the most perfectly realized filmgoing experience in the Bay Area is Palo Alto's Stanford Theater. It's been restored to something close to an exact reproduction of its 1920s...

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Last of the Independents

By Michael Fox

Published: November 6, 1996

Four Star Veteran independent theater operator Frank Lee reopened the Four Star in 1992 as a mainstream Chinese theater. Lee split the theater into two screens and installed new seats last...

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Last of the Independents

By Gregg Rickman

Published: November 6, 1996

Roxie The Roxie Cinema, says programmer Elliot Lavine, is the oldest continuously running theater in town, having opened as the Poppy Theater in 1912. The group of film devotees who transformed...

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SF Weekly's Ultimate Guide to Bay Area Filmgoing

"The Final 10 Percent": The Art of Moviegoing

By Michael Sragow, Gregg Rickman, Joe Mader

Published: November 6, 1996

I go to movies hoping for the kind of excitement that can tune up a person's entire mental and emotional system. One of the few times I got it in recent years came after a screening at the Galaxy...

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1997 Film Fest Calendar

Published: November 6, 1996

What's in store in specialty fests for 1997 American Indian Film Festival (21st) Phone/Fax: 554-0525/554-0542 E-Mail: aifisf@aol.com Director/Organizer: Michael Smith, founder...

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The Future of Moviegoing: A Round-Table Discussion

Published: November 6, 1996

Fox: Let's start with a general question. There's a perception that San Francisco is a first-rate film town. Is that true? Bill, you want to start? Banning: Well, I think it's definitely true....

News

Seismic Punt

UC ignores its own engineering report on shoring up the Golden Bears' stadium, but the fans don't care

By John P. Lyons

Published: November 6, 1996

Every time the coin drops to the field at the start of another football game at UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium, school officials are hoping for more than a Golden Bears victory. "We all pray that...

Letters

Letters

Published: November 6, 1996

Clear as a Bellwether The "YOU Decide" issue (Oct. 30) was the most complete, yet concise, overview of our complicated ballot published in San Francisco. All the other daily and weekly...

Music

Hear This

By James Sullivan

Published: November 6, 1996

June of 44/Rex/Grassy Knoll/A Minor Forest Looking for a little mindless diversion to usher out the hand-wringing anguish of election season? Best look elsewhere, because the bands on these two...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: November 6, 1996

Observe the essential breakbeat in its natural habitat at Future Primitive Soundsession's "21st Century Urban Breakbeats." This exhibition will encompass the kinetic rhythms of the Chemical...

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Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: November 6, 1996

Glenn Spearman Double Trio In reference to his incendiary approach toward improvisation, Glenn Spearman once said: "I'm never gonna quit playing this way, man. ... That's my rifle -- my...

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Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: November 6, 1996

Outside the 848 Community Space hangs a small, handwritten sign that reads quite simply "No Christians." This is promising. It is Allhallows' Eve after all, and true to the spirit of the night and...

Film

Second Time Around

By Michael Sragow

Published: November 6, 1996

2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (like Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow) is pretentious and overelaborate, yet hypnotic in its impact and exhilaratingly audacious...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: November 6, 1996

wednesday november 6 Durst's Mop Will Durst has threatened to shave his head on live TV if Bob Dole doesn't win the presidential race, and though the election wasn't over at press time,...

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Unspun

By Phyllis Orrick, Susan Rasky

Published: November 6, 1996

The Stern Watch Brace yourself for a big dose of Howard Stern. By early next year, barring interference from Justice Department antitrusters or the Federal Communications Commission...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: November 6, 1996

Of Legos ... Perhaps because of last week's book festival, the Bay Area has recently whelped a host of interesting new tomes. SF Weekly readers who remember my cover story last year on Mal...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: November 6, 1996

Aries (March 21-April 19): Are you familiar with gargoyles? On Gothic buildings, they were the grotesque stone creatures designed to scare away evil spirits. I suggest you acquire a scary guardian...