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Un-Welcome to Mr. Roberts' Neighborhood

The Chans were set to build a nice, simple home on their own property. Then Chronicle honcho Jerry Roberts and his relentless wife moved next door. Suddenly, everything became very complicated and very nasty.

By Chuck Finnie

Published: April 9, 1997

Five years ago, Sandra and Anthony Chan decided to do something nice for their eldest son, Gary. He would soon graduate with an economics degree from the University of California at Davis. His...

News

What's Best -- Pistol or Pit Bull?

SF Weekly's consumer guide to smooth and speedy acquisition of effective self-defense

By Lisa Davis

Published: April 9, 1997

San Francisco has become a city of waiting. For the Central Freeway to reopen. For Rob Morse to be interesting. For the big one to happen, already, and rid us of South Beach. But nothing can be as...

Letters

Letters

Published: April 9, 1997

Face Off Just last week I was commenting to some associates on my perception that the Bay Area weeklies rarely, if ever, feature black/brown/red/yellow people on their covers. I must admit I...

Music

Hear This

By Robert Arriaga

Published: April 9, 1997

The Dwarves The Dwarves are kind of like the monotonous PB and J's that Mom would pack in lunches for weeks on end. They were enjoyable enough -- never really bad, never really great, either --...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: April 9, 1997

Beneath the tumultuous, sweat-drenched percussion and the inspirational vocals of a powerful and beautiful chanteuse named Hanitra lies the true message behind Tarika. Their second album, Son Egal,...

Music

Lose and Draw

By Jeff Stark

Published: April 9, 1997

Deus Warfield Monday, March 31 Hotel Utah Tuesday, April 1 "Hi, we're Deus," announced lead singer Tom Barman at the front of his opening gig at the Warfield. "We're from Belgium,...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: April 9, 1997

Bobby Bradford Even though L.A. trumpeter Bobby Bradford swings with his own brand of lyrical fire, his connection to Ornette Coleman cannot be overstated. In fact, along with Don Cherry,...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: April 9, 1997

Ciao Catino After nearly a decade of promoting shows for Bill Graham Presents and its subsidiary club branch, AKG (responsible for the Fillmore and the Warfield), Jean Catino has resigned from her...

Music

Recordings

By Curtis Bonney, Martin Johnson, Michael Batty

Published: April 9, 1997

Tarnation Mirador (Reprise) Local western crooner (and archaeologist) Paula Frazer has taken her pet "project" Tarnation to some interesting places. A couple of years back we visited an...

Music

Racket

By Andi Zeisler

Published: April 9, 1997

Those who don't get MTV might have believed they were safe. But those five perky, cartoonish faces were gleaming out from the pages of every magazine (with the exception of The Nation, and that's...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: April 9, 1997

A friend recently wrote that April 1 marks the beginning of the Cruelest Month of the Year Week. I have to disagree. In San Francisco, at least, April 1 marks the beginning of the Most Absurd Month...

Eat

Crazy Like a Fox

By Naomi Wise

Published: April 9, 1997

Pazzia Caffe 337 Third St. Open daily for lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., for dinner 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., until 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Closed Sundays. Credit cards accepted; the...

Film

Female Trouble

By Peter Rainer

Published: April 9, 1997

Chasing Amy Written and directed by Kevin Smith. Starring Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, Joey Lauren Adams, Dwight Ewell, Jason Mewes, and Kevin Smith. Opens Friday, April 11, at the Embarcadero...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Gary Morris

Published: April 9, 1997

The Osher Marin Jewish Film Festival The Bay Area has become the nation's center for independent film exhibition, and April begins the season of bloated, ennui-inducing film festivals. With a...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: April 9, 1997

wednesday april 9 Cell Hell As with Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues," the solitary figure in When the World Was Green (A Chef's Fable) has been imprisoned for homicide, and longs for the...

Halloween

Mulch

By Lisa Davis, Matt Smith

Published: April 9, 1997

Kaiser Gets Messed With ... in Texas Kaiser Permanente, already under attack from regulators in the Bay Area, is waging another fierce battle in Texas. Dan Morales, attorney general of the Lone...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: April 9, 1997

Aries (March 21-April 19): Compared with all you have going for you right now, your problem is very small. You're like a painter who's pregnant with the vision of a great work of art but who...

Halloween

Unspun

By Phyllis Orrick

Published: April 9, 1997

Execrable Behavior Shame on Jane Ganahl and the editors at the Examiner Sunday magazine for the toe-sucking cover story on former Supe Angela Alioto that ran in the March 30 issue. The occasion...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: April 9, 1997

A Star Is Born Last year, a small local theater company named Pipedream Productions visited a fringe festival in Chicago and saw the Annoyance Theater's Co-Ed Prison Sluts, that town's...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: April 9, 1997

Hey, Faggot: I'm satisfied with my marriage, but for the last year I've worked with someone who has become a good friend. She's married too. In the last two months, I found myself thinking about...