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Pawns of the Game

Love, obsession, madness, and other matters of chess

By David Lazarus

Published: January 15, 1997

Omar Cartagena favors the Ruy Lopez. He admires the clean simplicity of the opening line, allowing him to ponder the various offshoots he could take, the alternative paths toward total domination....

Letters

Letters

Published: January 15, 1997

Just Awards Mari Coates' review of Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back! ("New York, New York," Stage, Jan. 8) refers to Elaine Stritch as last year's Tony winner for A Delicate Balance. Actually,...

News

Exile's Return

A bete noire of the liberal juvenile justice crowd reappears -- maybe

By George Cothran

Published: January 15, 1997

Given S.F.'s penchant for small-town politics, it's not surprising that a little-known pamphleteer has caused a minor political crisis in three city departments. The Mayor's Office, the Juvenile...

Music

Samples

By Silke Tudor, Bill Wyman

Published: January 15, 1997

In Memoriam The East Bay music community was shocked and appalled last month when David Nadel, owner and founder of Ashkenaz, the community-conscious nightclub, was shot and killed by a patron...

Music

Sit-Down Sampler

By Victor Haseman

Published: January 15, 1997

Verve Jazz Fest The Fillmore Wednesday, Jan. 8 Like its cousins, classical, blues, folk, and country, jazz is a dues-paying art form, where the success and worth of a musician are...

Music

Recordings

By Victor Haseman, Michael Batty, Jeff Stark

Published: January 15, 1997

Tricky Pre-Millennium Tension (Island) Everything you need to know about Pre-Millennium Tension, proper album No. 2 from urban import Tricky, is on the album cover. It features an...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: January 15, 1997

A group of sharply dressed clubsters gathers in the alleyway behind Cat's Grill & Alley Club. Looking alternately casual and eager, they wait to have their IDs checked. There is a disappointing...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: January 15, 1997

"Inability is often the mother of restriction ... and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance." So says German-born Holger Czukay. It was not Czukay's musical inability, but his...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: January 15, 1997

John Zorn, Mike Patton, Ikue Mori Saxophonist John Zorn first catapulted to improv infamy in the '70s by introducing birdcalls -- crow, goose, duck -- into his experimental arsenal of raw but...

Eat

Alice's Restaurant

Hot Chinese on real china

By Paul Reidinger

Published: January 15, 1997

There are so many arty touches, big and small, at Alice's that the Chinese food itself could easily become an afterthought. The interior design is more like that of a museum than a restaurant, from...

Eat

Dish

By Paul Reidinger

Published: January 15, 1997

The Nose Knows You walk into a decent restaurant and order, say, cioppino. It's a local thing, and at this time of year there's plenty of good fresh crab. (Weather permitting.) But when the...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Gregg Rickman

Published: January 15, 1997

Guimba the Tyrant The ruler of one of Africa's great, pre-colonial kingdoms has let power go to his head in this handsome film from Mali. Cheick Oumar Sissoko's 1993 film may be intended as an...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: January 15, 1997

Cinema Paradiso It was the groundbreaking for the most portentous development in San Francisco entertainment since Planet Hollywood transformed Union Square into a mecca for TV-generation...

Film

Bananas

By Peter Rainer

Published: January 15, 1997

Everyone Says I Love You Directed and written by Woody Allen. Starring Allen, Alan Alda, Goldie Hawn, Tim Roth, Drew Barrymore, and Lukas Haas. Opens Friday, Jan. 17, at the Metro in S.F. and...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: January 15, 1997

The Hands of Orlac This seldom-seen German expressionist film, made in 1924 by Robert Weine (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), is showcased in this premiere revival at the Castro Theater....

Film

Zoom Lens

By Kathleen Maher

Published: January 15, 1997

Three Days in April In this entry from the Castro's "Berlin & Beyond" festival, first-time director Oliver Storz paints the end of the war in a small German village as something like we imagine...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: January 15, 1997

wednesday january 15 Neapolitan Flavor Naples Mayor Antonio Bassolino wants to lure tourists back to the Italian city by the bay, where the history, views, museums, and proximity to Pompeii...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: January 15, 1997

www.absolutely.essential.com It's all too easy to dismiss the cyberculture as being a really groovy club where you're not a member. That would be an obvious initial conclusion to draw from...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: January 15, 1997

Hey, You All: Still on vacation. Here's another repeat. It's all about hair. Hey, Faggot: Please help me. My friends think I'm crazy, possibly even a lesbian. I have never heard of another woman...

Halloween

Mulch

By Chuck Finnie, Phyllis Orrick

Published: January 15, 1997

Government in Exile Political moderate Barbara Kaufman, the newly sworn president of the S.F. Board of Supervisors, sounded a conciliatory tone in opening remarks of her installation speech...