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Portrait of the Soul-Jacker

Police call Bernard Temple the meanest hit man ever to roam the gang-infested streets of Bayview-Hunters Point. Temple calls himself a soul-jacker -- someone who kills to steal the spiritual power of his victims.

By George Cothran

Published: March 26, 1997

Robert Nash stares at 12 grand jurors who are hearing evidence in a gang murder investigation. Nash has been called to the grand jury room as the prosecution's "star witness" this August day in...

News

Blindsided by Color

Mission High's prize-winning journalists tangle over ridiculous race quotas

By Jeff Stark

Published: March 26, 1997

Over the past two years, the student journalists of Mission High School's West Wing newspaper have rattled more than their share of cages (see "Journalistic Principals," Feb. 12). On March 3, the...

Letters

Letters

Published: March 26, 1997

Cheesed Off I was pleased to see Phyllis Orrick and Susan Rasky skewer Bozell Inc. for its laughable "calcium crisis" campaign, aimed at keeping college students weaned on cow's milk ("Say...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: March 26, 1997

Idiot Flesh They didn't play music and (through some ridiculous oversight) weren't even nominated for an award at last year's WAMMIES extravaganza. But that didn't stop Idiot Flesh from...

Music

Get Your Bearings

Crabby asides from the South by Southwest Music Festival

By Jeff Stark, Michael Batty

Published: March 26, 1997

With more than 700 bands and 5,000 registrants for the four-day South by Southwest (SXSW) music conference March 13-16, the airplanes shuttled between Dallas and Austin, Texas, like water buckets...

Music

Luv Story

The Mr. T Experience play their one song well

By Andi Zeisler

Published: March 26, 1997

To paraphrase Dwight Okita, a poet I'm fond of, an artist's greatest responsibility is to constantly diversify, branch out, and evolve. But now that we're in the latter half of the '90s, I wonder...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: March 26, 1997

One summer, when I was a child, my favorite cousin's passion turned, for a time, from classic literature to roller-skating. I don't know if it was the sunlight and wild parrots in Golden Gate Park...

Music

Recordings

By Curtis Bonney, Michael Batty, Martin Johnson

Published: March 26, 1997

Ednaswap Wacko Magneto (Island) Here're some Ednaswap "factoids" to help you come to a purchase decision: 1) The name comes from a dream lead singer Anne Preven had in which she played,...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: March 26, 1997

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Oswald" is the title of the gloriously tacky Photoshop manipulation seen below, which has bum-rushed every soft corner of e-space since illustrator George E. Mahlberg put it out on...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: March 26, 1997

Down south, in the sprawling mall where A&R; is king, mentioning your favorite country band still requires a 20-word disclaimer and a complimentary white wine spritzer if you are to avoid the...

Eat

Living Large

By Naomi Wise

Published: March 26, 1997

Jumbo Seafood Restaurant 1532 Noriega. Open daily from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Credit cards are accepted; it is wheelchair accessible. Call 681-1800. As Hong Kong gets the shaft, we get the...

Film

Second Time Around

By Michael Sragow

Published: March 26, 1997

"Robert Ryan: King of Noir" The first Hollywood release about anti-Semitism -- Crossfire -- was based on Richard Brooks' novel The Brick Foxhole, which involves the murder of a homosexual. The...

Film

Ouch!

By Michael Sragow

Published: March 26, 1997

Crash Directed and written by David Cronenberg, from the novel by J.G. Ballard. Starring James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, and Rosanna Arquette. At the Metro in San...

Film

Second Time Around

By Michael Sragow

Published: March 26, 1997

Christ Stopped at Eboli Francesco Rosi's adaptation of Carlo Levi's famous memoir is a secular miracle -- the director's masterpiece and a stunning introduction to his body of work (it's an...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gary Morris

Published: March 26, 1997

Ordet A resurrection is usually the stuff of vampire movies and Christian fantasies, but Carl Dreyer's masterful Ordet (1955), which pivots on this logic-defying event, is neither. In fact,...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: March 26, 1997

Film An old man shuffles along a broken brick wall, hurriedly, left to right. Although it is sunny he wears a heavy black overcoat and also a handkerchief, tucked in his hat and covering most...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: March 26, 1997

wednesday march 26 Tunes for 'Toons You can almost picture the light bulb clicking on above Nik Phelps' head. The composer, whose score for the CBS TV series The Twisted Tales of Felix the...

Halloween

Mulch

By Chuck Finnie, Phyllis Orrick

Published: March 26, 1997

Cruz's Curse At the height of the Tuesday morning commuter crush into downtown San Francisco, a stalled 18-wheeler blocked two lanes on Third Street, a little below Market Street. Traffic...

Halloween

Unspun

By Phyllis Orrick

Published: March 26, 1997

"The column wasn't killed," Finefrock said. "We chose not to run it." Stephanie Salter's column for the Sunday, March 16, Examiner would have been headlined "A Showcase for Twisted Values," if...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: March 26, 1997

Hey, Faggot: Usually your info is right on the mark, but your reply to Jane -- who's in love with her cousin Bill -- contained errors [Feb. 19]. First, and most importantly, first cousins are...