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The Art of the Steal

Harcourts Gallery was at the center of S.F.'s serious art scene for decades. Now, with serious money missing, the gallery's at the center of a criminal investigation.

By Chuck Finnie

Published: March 12, 1997

In 1994, Paul Villierme had the chance to demonstrate gratitude of the type few sons are able to show. He had met a curator for a prominent San Francisco art dealer, Harcourts Gallery, and signed...

Letters

Letters

Published: March 12, 1997

Plugging Baths That a 23-line Mulch item ("Sex Takes a Bath") is advertised on the cover of the Feb. 26 SF Weekly is surprising, but its equating of gay bathhouses with Russian roulette...

News

Rural Renewal

Will paving one of S.F.'s last dirt streets improve or ruin east Bernal Heights?

By Matt Smith

Published: March 12, 1997

Retired cemetery maintenance man Ray Balcioni cherishes life on the rustic eastern slope of Bernal Heights, where he has lived for 60 years. Of course, that life might not please those with urbane...

Music

Hear This

By Jesse "Chuy" Varela

Published: March 12, 1997

Tijuana No, Psychosomatic, Lodo y Asfalto Since its emergence in the early '80s, Spanish-language rock 'n' roll has fought its way from the streets of Mexico, Latin America, and Spain onto the...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: March 12, 1997

The warmth of a Tuesday night in spring and the promise of never-before-seen "sexploitation" has brought all the would-be hooligans out of hiding. A group of six or seven gathers outside the...

Music

Nooner

By Michael Batty

Published: March 12, 1997

Noise Pop '97: Fluf, PeeChees, Decal, Frogpond Bottom of the Hill Saturday, March 1 Dismiss, if you like, the whole idea of going to a rock show indoors at noon on a Saturday. I'm all for...

Music

Recordings

By Michael Batty, Martin Johnson, Curtis Bonney

Published: March 12, 1997

Starfish Frustrated (Trance Syndicate) Frustrated, by Austin hardcore/post-punk/ditty-pop range finders Starfish, offers a preponderance of great tracks and flaunts many of the finest...

Music

Du Me

By Jeff Stark

Published: March 12, 1997

Noise Pop '97: Archers of Loaf, Knapsack, Engine 88, Spoon, Peppercorn Bimbo's 365 Club Thursday, Feb. 27 On the opening night of Noise Pop '97 four teen-age girls from planet Alternia --...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: March 12, 1997

Spanish Fly Sly and savvy, NYC trio Spanish Fly combines "high art" virtuosity with goofball aesthetics. Steven Bernstein (trumpet), Marcus Rojas (tuba), and Tronzo (guitar) each have a...

Music

Riff Raff

By Robert Arriaga, Michael Batty, Johnny DiPaola, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Bill Wyman

Published: March 12, 1997

Stick It to the Man The world keeps getting better for the band whose name cannot be spoken. Last week, bicoastal slo-fiers Fuck watched the ink dry on a four-album deal with Matador Records. The...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: March 12, 1997

Since Night Crawler went tiki (Feb. 26), Hawaiian-shirt enthusiasts have been pounding away at my little thatched door. It has been a colorful experience, but not always an aurally satisfying one....

Eat

Fish for All Seasons

Waiting for the yabbie at Yabbies Coastal Kitchen

By Paul Reidinger

Published: March 12, 1997

A yabbie is an Australian crawfish that resembles a small blue lobster. So I learned from a brief conversation with the host at Yabbies Coastal Kitchen on Russian Hill, a glorious new seafood...

Film

Ewok Don't Run

By Michael Sragow

Published: March 12, 1997

Return of the Jedi Directed by Richard Marquand. Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas, from a story by George Lucas. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Gregg Rickman

Published: March 12, 1997

"Comedy, Monicelli Style" The Pacific Film Archive this week commences a two-week series of films by Mario Monicelli, an Italian director who has specialized in deceptively light comedies since...

Film

Second Time Around

By Michael Sragow

Published: March 12, 1997

The Unbearable Lightness of Being The social drama was the easiest part to grasp, yet it was also the least celebrated aspect of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Philip Kaufman's thrillingly...

Film

Second Time Around

By Michael Sragow

Published: March 12, 1997

The Killers Burt Lancaster made a staggeringly potent film debut as "the big Swede" who refuses to dodge fate in the 1946 expansion of Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Killers." In the...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: March 12, 1997

wednesday march 12 Robots, Roots, and Real Life From scavenged industrial scraps, sculptor Kenji Yanobe creates interactive mechanical contraptions inspired by the Japanese animation...

Halloween

Mulch

By Lisa Davis, Bill Wyman, Jeff Stark

Published: March 12, 1997

What Price Justice? Try $300,000 and Up... The Nov. 15 murder of reputed gang leader Cuong Tran -- killed outside a San Francisco nightclub an eerie eight minutes after and one mile away from...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: March 12, 1997

Hey, Faggot: I read in a book of sex facts that a male will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen during his lifetime. How much of this do you think ends up in Kleenex? RM Hey, RM: It...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: March 12, 1997

Comedy Woodstock A long, long time ago, before irony was enshrined as a proven advertising marketing tool, there was a nightly improvisational satire revue in North Beach called the Committee,...