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The AIDS Civil War

The promise of a new treatment has opened a painful divide

By George Cothran

Published: February 19, 1997

Hope troubles Joey Richardson. He talks brightly about the hard life he's lived for most of his 40 years, sauntering past topics such as his family's breakup, being raped, his drug addiction, his...

News

Who's Watching the Zoo?

As the $48 million June ballot measure looms, so do questions about the financial assumptions behind it

By Jeff Stark

Published: February 19, 1997

The San Francisco Zoo's $48 million bond was supposed to be an easy sell. Slated for the June ballot, it was supposed to be about moving animals out of tiny concrete cages into grassy open spaces;...

Letters

Letters

Published: February 19, 1997

Butt Out That was a nice piece of city color on billboards ("Where the Coppertone Girl and Carl Lewis Roam," Unspun, Feb. 12), but -- what's this? More cigarettes and booze? Free ads for Lucky...

Music

Live It Down

By Jeff Stark

Published: February 19, 1997

Sebadoh, Those Bastard Souls Fillmore Saturday, Feb. 8 Never mind their somewhat meritorious achievements on record -- Sebadoh are notoriously bad live. Guitarist and frontman Lou Barlow...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: February 19, 1997

Whew! Already four years have passed since Bondage A Go-Go first opened its leather-clad doors. Purists said that it would never last -- that the bridge-and-tunnel crowd would overwhelm all the...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: February 19, 1997

"A Transformation of Pictures," featuring Brian Kane, Cheryl Leonard, Brian Pearson, and Scott Rosenberg Indeterminacy is a major component of 20th-century music theory. From Braxton to Cage,...

Music

Riff Raff

By Silke Tudor, Bill Wyman, Michael Batty

Published: February 19, 1997

Rumors of Demise For several months now rumors regarding the state of financial affairs at the Trocadero have been flying. Of course, talk of audits and bankruptcy are nothing new in the club biz,...

Music

Recordings

By Michael Batty, Curtis Bonney, Martin Johnson, Jesse "Chuy" Varela

Published: February 19, 1997

Dirty Three Horse Stories (Touch and Go) Why Australian instrumentalists Dirty Three should have piqued the interest of higher-profile supporters and tourmates like Pavement, Sonic...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: February 19, 1997

During Valentine's weekend, hundreds of fetishy fiends converge on the city's only mixed safe-sex club, the Power Exchange, where they may relish in the anonymity of glory holes and the sting of a...

Eat

Wine Country

How the PlumpJack Cafe became a fixture

By Paul Reidinger

Published: February 19, 1997

There are 99 bottles of wine on the wall at PlumpJack Cafe, and then some. Although the restaurant is quite snug by the standards of its gastronomic peers (such as Hawthorne Lane and Mecca), the...

Eat

Dish

By Paul Reidinger

Published: February 19, 1997

Tasting Menus The fourth annual Taste of San Francisco, staged in the Empire Ballroom of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel on Feb. 6, tasted largely of the Mediterranean. And Union Square. Of the...

Film

Second Time Around

By Michael Sragow

Published: February 19, 1997

Sunset Blvd. A murdered screenwriter. An idealistic young female reader working her way up in a studio. A producer who might consider pushing a baseball project if he could turn it into a...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: February 19, 1997

On Dangerous Ground / In a Lonely Place Contemporary neo-noirs usually feature butter-soft young actors (John Cusack, Drew Barrymore) posing their way through film-school exercises in lighting...

Film

Second Time Around

By Tod Booth

Published: February 19, 1997

Actress "Gossip is a fearful thing." So wrote silent film star Ruan Ling-Yu in the spring of 1935, and she ought to know -- it was her suicide note. More than 60 years after her death at age...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: February 19, 1997

Semi-Tough No word yet if Attorney General Dan Lungren will call out the dogs on the Caviar Buyers Club (aka the Edward J. DeBartolo Corp.), but perhaps he should: There's a lot of evidence the...

Film

Full Force

By Michael Sragow

Published: February 19, 1997

The Empire Strikes Back Special Edition Directed by Irvin Kershner. Written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, from a story by George Lucas. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: February 19, 1997

wednesday february 19 Maybe She's Born With It ... Maybe It's Snap-On Gender, beauty, power, and place are considered in the Davies Forum lecture series and the exhibit "Big Tools and the...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: February 19, 1997

Hey, Faggot: Guess you've heard it all, so maybe this won't sound too weird: I've been married for a long time, and my husband and I have accumulated our share of unsolved problems. Sex was...

Halloween

Unspun

By Phyllis Orrick, Susan Rasky

Published: February 19, 1997

The Crack-Up The Feb. 17 protest by Media Alliance against the New York Times for its coverage of the San Jose Mercury News' crack-CIA-Contra series was a pretty thin exercise, though it did...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: February 19, 1997

The Funeral That Won't Die It's approximately 2 p.m. on Herb Caen Day, the afternoon of his much-publicized memorial service at Grace Cathedral. Standing in front of the overflowing Moose's,...