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  1. Feature

    Asphalt Field of Dreams
    Located just blocks from downtown, the San Francisco Recreational Vehicle Park is home to tales of wonder and redemption. It will close in the fall.
    Published: April 16, 1997

    The most urbane RV park in the world sits just eight blocks south of Union Square and a short walk from San Francisco Bay. This park doesn't offer much in the way of amenities. Its two blocks of...

  2. Letters

    Letters
    Published: April 16, 1997

    How About Those Yak Fritters While your review of Lhasa Moon ("Himalayan Rhapsodies," Eat, April 2) was well-researched and full of interesting details, it gave the impression that...

  3. Music

    Hear This
    Published: April 16, 1997

    Vinny Golia and Bertram Turetzky Vinny Golia is a virtuosic improviser on more than 40 types of aerophone, including saxes, clarinets, ethnic flutes, and even the sheng, a Chinese mouth organ....

  4. Music

    The House of Tudor
    Published: April 16, 1997

    Anyone who has traveled through Europe or Great Britain -- or even to Portland, Ore. -- knows that to properly watch a movie, you must have a full pint and a cigarette firmly in hand. This way,...

  5. Music

    Night Crawler
    Published: April 16, 1997

    From the street, the long, steep stairway leading up into the Broadway Studio (formerly Studio 435) reveals nothing. Like so many stairways in North Beach, it is alluring in its antiquity; it could...

  6. Music

    Racket
    Published: April 16, 1997

    With the trends of at least three recent decades being revived simultaneously in music, fashion, and pop culture in general, it would seem that we're fast running out of viable time periods to...

  7. Music

    Recordings
    Published: April 16, 1997

    Frank Zappa Have I Offended Someone? (Rykodisc) Have I Offended Someone? probably won't offend anyone. In fact, it is hard to imagine this album offending anyone even back in 1973 when...

  8. Music

    Riff Raff
    Published: April 16, 1997

    Must Be One of Those Nine-Digit Jobbies "From the first explosive I-got-you-in-my-sights delivery of charismatic frontman Stephan Jenkins, to the rolling rhythm section of bassist Arion Salazar and...

  9. Music

    Bowel Story
    Published: April 16, 1997

    Patient By Ben Watt Grove Press 178 pages; $21 One of the charms of Patient, an autobiography by pop star Ben Watt (of the English dance-rock duo Everything But the Girl) is that it...

  10. Eat

    Feet, Fins, and Heads
    Published: April 16, 1997

    Hung Tho Seafood Restaurant 1556 Noriega (at 22nd Avenue). Open daily from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5 to 10 p.m. Credit cards are accepted; street floor is wheelchair accessible. Call 661-8860....

  11. Film

    The Naked and the Dead
    Published: April 16, 1997

    Kissed Directed by Lynne Stopkewich. Written by Stopkewich and Angus Fraser, from a story by Barbara Gowdy. Starring Molly Parker, Peter Outerbridge, Jay Brazeau, and Natasha Morley. Opens...

  12. Night&Day;

    Night+Day
    Published: April 16, 1997

    wednesday april 16 The Art of Eating Out Our Japanese sister city Osaka emphasizes the fun in functional art with "Joy Under the Blossoms: Lacquer Picnic Sets From the Osaka Municipal...

  13. Halloween

    Unspun
    Published: April 16, 1997

    The 49ers Story, or Bad Newspapers Make Good PR Early last week, 49er flack Michael Colbruno alerted local press outlets that the football team would be "rolling out Roberta Achtenberg" at a...

  14. Halloween

    Slap Shots
    Published: April 16, 1997

    Cows From the Wild Blue Yonder With the closing of Alameda Naval Air Station this April 25 and an already deserted Presidio and Treasure Island, as well as the decommissioning of Fort Ord...

  15. Halloween

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World
    Published: April 16, 1997

    Aries (March 21-April 19): As a self-taught rebel with no formal credentials, I probably sound hypocritical when I urge you to get yourself better certified and licensed and sanctioned. And believe...

  16. Halloween

    The Grid
    Published: April 16, 1997

    U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) The Capitol Washington, D.C. Dear Sen. Shelby: As chairman for the Senate subcommittee responsible for doling out federal tax dollars for commuter...

  17. Stage

    Stage
    Published: April 16, 1997

    Maps and Legends Lonely Planet. By Steven Dietz. Directed by Arturo Catricala. Starring Greg Hoffman and John Hogan. Presented by the New Conservatory Theater, 25 Van Ness (at Market), through...

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